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Crowdfund Bookie: $23 million raised in six months
The Crowdfund Bookie crunches data from select successful Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns that ended during the month and produces pretty charts for you to look at. The past six months have proven fruitful for crowdfunded games. In total, 186 different Indiegogo and Kickstarter video game projects earned $23,914,666 from the months of June through November. Those numbers are courtesy of 500,467 backers in the six-month period, who raised $13,173,182 beyond the combined goals of the projects to reach stretch goals that will bring games to additional platforms and grant players more content. On average, crowdfunding projects raised $128,573 in the last six months, but as we examined in our last quarterly report, these mean averages can be quite misleading. By comparison, the median, or middle number in the data set for the amount of money raised by each of the 186 projects, is $25,188. Given that only six of the projects raised at least one million dollars, and just seven more raised at least $500,000 during that time frame, we can conclude that the average amount of money raised by crowdfunding projects in the last six months is positively skewed. Similarly, the median number of backers per project was 542 (a sharp contrast to a mean average of 2,691). Future project creators should take note, then: Your average Kickstarter or Indiegogo gaming project earns closer to $25,188, not $128,573. Additionally, the data shows that strategy games like Hex and Warmachine: Tactics led the genre to the top of the list, as they earned the most money of the group ($6,901,527). Conversely, the adventure genre had the most successful projects, as 46 adventurous or narrative-driven games were funded in the last six months, such as Obduction and Armikrog. Action games had the highest number of backers (145,316), thanks especially to the highest-earning game of the group, Keiji Inafune's Mighty No. 9, which hauled in $3,845,170 thanks to 67,226 people. Head past the break to see the top-earning games and breakdown by genre for the six-month period.
Crowdfund Bookie August 2013: Extreme samples
The Crowdfund Bookie crunches data from select successful Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns that ended during the week and produces pretty charts for you to look at. Crowdfunding is full of extreme samples. For every handful of projects that earn a few thousand dollars, games like Hex, Massive Chalice and Torment: Tides of Numenera count their earnings in the millions. These games are rare, and not only can they color our perception of crowdfunding, but can also have a major impact on the numbers behind it. Last month's data compiled for successfully-funded projects says as much. August's 29 successful projects raised $2,976,550, but after taking away the month's biggest earner in turn-based strategy game Warmachine: Tactics, the other 28 projects that ended during the month hauled in just $1,397,600. Warmachine: Tactics received $1,028,950 over its funding goal as well. While the month's total amount raised is 53.19 percent over the projects' combined goals, the rate is just 39.66 percent without the top earner. Additionally, the month's average pledge per person drops from $46.57 to $31.70 without Warmachine. Warmachine: Tactics was the only strategy game that was successfully funded among the group in August. While July saw a boost in RPGs, with 11 games in the genre getting funded, August had 12 successful adventure game projects, the most of any genre. Adventure games earned a total of $286,098 thanks to 10,425 people. By comparison, the two shooters funded during the month earned $508,767 from 13,926 backers. While there's no way to discern whether the release of popular retail games like Saints Row 4 or funders' tendency to gravitate to a few extreme samples such as Warmachine had a bigger an impact on crowdfunding for the month, the latter seems pretty clear in August's data. You'll find the month's breakdown by genre after the break, as well as a list of August's top five projects.
Crowdfund Bookie, August 4 - 10: Warmachine Tactics, Organic Panic
The Crowdfund Bookie crunches data from select successful Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns that ended during the week and produces pretty charts for you to look at. This week in crowdfunding, the Kickstarter campaigns for Warmachine: Tactics, Organic Panic, Gettysburg: The Tide Turns, Lioness, Adventurezator: When Pigs Fly, Deus Ex Machina 2: Reboot, Yargis and Ghost Encounters: Deadwood ended. Warmachine: Tactics, a turn-based tactics game for PC and Mac based on the Warmachines tabletop game, earned the most money this week ($1,578,950), and had the most funders of the group, as 19,829 people backed the game. Space arcade game Yargis had the highest average pledge per person, with each funder averaging $275.05, thanks to one brave backer in particular that ponied up over $5,000. Check out the week's results and our fancy charts after the break.
