{"id":49198,"date":"2013-01-10T09:53:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T07:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=49198"},"modified":"2013-01-10T13:12:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T11:12:35","slug":"kickstarter-sees-groundbreaking-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/49198-kickstarter-sees-groundbreaking-2012","title":{"rendered":"Kickstarter and gaming fell in love during 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The phenomenon that is Kickstarter emerged as a crowdfunding source for prospective projects, and has now turned into a fully-fledged platform for launching everything from games, movies, and music projects to a banana piano and other crazy inventions.<\/p>\n<p>To wrap up the events of 2012, Kickstarter put together a bunch of facts and stats regarding what happened on the dream-building website.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of gaming, its been an incredibly successful year on Kickstarter. Video games had the most money pledged out of any category, ranking up US$83 million throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>The gaming category had 561,574 backers, who pledged towards 2,796 projects.<\/p>\n<p>One of the stand-out Kickstarter performances was Tim Schafer\u2019s Double Fine Adventure.<\/p>\n<p>Shafer\u2019s project aimed to score $400,000 in funding, and ended up with a little more \u2013 over $3.3 million.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some other interesting numbers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over 2.2 million people pledged a total of $319,786,629 and funded 18,109 projects in 2012.<\/li>\n<li>90% of the countries of the world backed Kickstarter campaigns.<\/li>\n<li>Music had the most funded projects with 5,067 successful campaigns.<\/li>\n<li>17 projects raised more than $1 million in 2012.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/year\/2012#overall_stats\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarter\u00a0<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Other\u00a0Kickstarter projects<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/48871-gamestick-smashes-kickstarter-goal.html\">GameStick smashes Kickstarter goal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/48831-usb-sized-android-console-hits-kickstarter.html\">USB-sized Android console hits Kickstarter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/48671-godus-kickstarter-bypasses-objective.html\">Godus\u2019 Kickstarter bypasses objective<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/48155-gay-and-lesbian-dating-sim-gets-momentum-on-kickstarter.html\">Gay and Lesbian dating sim gets momentum on Kickstarter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaming becomes Kickstarter\u2019s sugar daddy in 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":49203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,2366,8389,8390],"class_list":["post-49198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-kickstarter","tag-kickstarter-2012","tag-kickstarter-crowdfunding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49201,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49198\/revisions\/49201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}