{"id":85327,"date":"2016-01-15T17:30:47","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T15:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=85327"},"modified":"2016-01-15T17:32:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T15:32:01","slug":"kickstarter-games-raised-46-million-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/85327-kickstarter-games-raised-46-million-in-2015","title":{"rendered":"Kickstarter games raised $46 million in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

The only thing gamers love more than the games they\u2019re playing right now is the games they\u2019ll be playing tomorrow \u2013 we\u2019re imaginative; we can\u2019t help it.<\/p>\n

Kickstarter<\/a> gives us, the gamers, the opportunity to have a say in what we play next, so is it any surprise to find that video game Kickstarter projects raised a helluva lot of dough throughout 2015?<\/p>\n

According to a Kickstarter blog<\/a> that went up yesterday, video games raised a mind boggling $46, 177, 705<\/strong> \u2013 that\u2019s R773, 712, 065.05<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

While no video game managed to garner the internet breaking $8 million plus the card game Exploding Kittens<\/a> managed, the likes of Torment: Tides of Numenara<\/a><\/em> and Shenmue 3<\/a><\/em> did manage $4.2 million and $6.3 million respectively.<\/p>\n

\"Kickstarter<\/a><\/p>\n

Did you fund any video game projects in 2015, Kickstarter or not?<\/p>\n

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Kickstarter gives gamers the opportunity to have a say in what we play next, so is it any surprise that video game Kickstarter projects raised more than $46 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":85331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5205,2366,1969,14396,9178],"class_list":["post-85327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-crowd-funding","tag-kickstarter","tag-news-2","tag-shenmue-3","tag-torment-tides-of-numenera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85327","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\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}