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Crowdfund Bookie, July 28 - August 3: Satellite Reign, Liege, Lacuna Passage
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 was a busy week in crowdfunding, as the Kickstarter campaigns for Satellite Reign, Liege, Lacuna Passage, Dungeonmans, Eterium, Project Maiden, Colonisation: Moonbase, Saintly, Salvage Trader and KR-17 ended. Real-time strategy and Syndicate Wars-inspired Satellite Reign hauled in the most money this week ($705,194), and also had the most backers of the campaigns, with 15,029 people funding the game. Salvage Trader, a 2D space adventure game for PC and Mac, boasted the highest average pledge per person, with each funder averaging a $113.20. Check out the results and our fancy charts after the break.
Liege lays siege on Kickstarter and where the money goes
With Kickstarter projects, it's important to know where your money is going. Liege creator John Rhee attacks this issue for his own campaign with an in-depth gameplay video featuring seven minutes of commentary and gameplay. Liege is a turn- and party-based RPG for PC, Mac, iOS and Android, due out in early 2014. It tells the story of a violent civil war that engulfs an entire kingdom, following the mysterious deaths of the royal family. Liege features eight playable characters from disparate backgrounds, but whose destinies eventually align. Gameplay doesn't include "jarring transitions," Rhee says. "As war erupts across the land, we track the converging paths of characters aligned across various factions, from the noble houses vying for the throne, to the orphaned Royal Army, to an underground movement of outlaws with plans to incite revolution amidst the chaos," the Kickstarter page reads. Liege is already funded on Kickstarter – it hit its target of $15,000 in less than one week – and it still has 27 days to go. It's also up for a spot on Steam Greenlight.
