I'll repeat this like I seem to have to every Kickstarter thread.
Personally, I've backed 19 projects.
- 5 were not funded, and thus cost me nothing.
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Obos are a series of cardboard desktop figures. I backed a set of all 6 Obos.
Here is a photo of the Obos sitting on my desk.
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Pixel Sand was a small independent game. There have been regular demos and betas, and the most recent version looks orders of magnitude better, like something visually closer to Sword and Sworcery.
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On Begley Street I backed a web TV series. Filming has gone well, and it looks like PBS is going to simulcast it going forward.
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Farmageddon - it's a board/card game.
Here's my copy of Farmageddon, on my desk.
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L'Chaim! I backed a documentary about a professional chess player who quit working to take care of his elderly, Holocaust-survivor mother. They're doing additional final shooting, and they've since been awarded a bunch of outside funding for reshoots and editing. In the mean time, I've seen a 5 minute segment, and the short, rough version of the film has competed in film festivals.
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Manifold Clock. I backed a 3D, math-inspired clock. It's very cool, the intersection between math and art.
Here's a photo of the box the clock came in, at my house.
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Outreach: Dex's Odyssey. I funded this pixel art game which was pretty neat. They sent me a copy on PC.
Here's the link to the game on sale on the iTunes store. Here's the Steam Greenlight campaign to get it on Steam.
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Nubuwo Indie Music Bundle. I backed an Indie Music bundle so I can get the soundtrack to ilomilo.
I now have the soundtrack to ilomilo.
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Americana Dawn. I backed a 16-bit RPG about early America / the American revolution.
Using the funding, the art has been massively improved and the game continues to be developed. It'll be released for free, so you can also thank me for making that possible.
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Spike I backed this weird game. It's very weird.
New screenshots are being released all the time. There's an early gameplay demo available.
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Sira I backed this adventure/puzzle game. There's been a beta of the game.
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Jason Rohrer's Diamond Trust of London for DS. Here's a photo of my physical copy. One of the rarest DS games ever printed.
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Knock Knock, the latest game by Ice-Pick Lodge. Since being Kickstartered, they've made the game multiplatform, and it's slated to release Q1 2013. They've shown development info and screenshots since the KS.
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Project Eternity. Obsidian has done frequent updates, and right now they're doing a Q&A on GAF about the project.
So, here's the thing. We all know that Kickstarter is a giant scam, that people are going to take my money and run, that it's impossible to know if projects are going to just randomly fold or fail, etc. So why is it that I haven't been scammed? Or have I been scammed? Who scammed me? You can see my whole successful backing history above. Who is it that's rode off into the sunset with my donation?