kickstarter and games - september 2012
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September 2012 – data analysis
KICKSTARTER FOR VIDEO GAMES
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METHODOLOGY
Data Analyzed :
Only video games projects (we excluded hardware like Ouya)
Only funded projects
Only projects that raised more than $10,000
Only projects funded before the 1st of September 2012
Limited by manual data collection method
You can find the raw data here: https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=1tO8U__v4_oATOq6uo9dl-rPyg-dga3rnkZSbw9M
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Funded projects stats
# of projects Total money
raised Total backers Av. # of backers Av. Pledge
Over $250k 19 $ 16,301,994 359,548 18,924 $ 45.34
$100k to $249k 10 $ 1,633,219 47,968 4,797 $ 34.05
$50k to $99k 15 $ 993,436 25,410 1,694 $ 39.10
$25k to $49k 30 $ 1,063,335 32,424 1,081 $ 32.79
$10k to $24k 63 $ 959,642 25,436 404 $ 37.73
TOTAL 137 $ 20,951,626 490,786 3,941 $ 42.69
MEDIAN $ 28,739
Average goal Average raised Average %tage Goal median %tage reached
median
Funded projects $ 70,147.63 $ 152,931.58 218% $ 16,000.00 143%
GENERAL DATA
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Over $250k 14%
$100k to $249k
7%
$50k to $99k 11%
$25k to $49k 22%
$10k to $24k 46%
Over $250k 78%
$100k to $249k
8%
$50k to $99k 5%
$25k to $49k 5%
$10k to $24k 4%
GENERAL DATA - Visualization
# of projects Total money raised
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Over $250k $100k to $249k $50k to $99k $25k to $49k $10k to $24k
Av. Pledge
GENERAL DATA - Visualization
Av. Pledge
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* All signs platform gaining maturity.
SINCE JUNE 2012
Projects median went up from $19k to $28.7k
The average amount raised went down from $165k to $153k
Successful projects went from 87 to 137. 36% of the projects happened the last 3 months
Projects raising more than $25k went from being 40% of all projects, to 54% of all projects
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DATA OVER TIME
* Note – the time scale is NOT linear in this graph!
# successful projects
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# projects
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DATA OVER TIME
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# projects
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DATA OVER TIME
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$10k to $24k
$25k to $49k
$50k to $99k
$100k to $249k
Over $250k
DATA OVER TIME
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SINCE JUNE 2012
Signs of fatigue are showing. Stability point might be approaching.
There is little room for projects of a certain size. You either raise more than $250k or you raise less than $100k.
Summer might be responsible for the drop too. Timing is important there too?
Still low volumes overall. Big projects will still have big impacts.
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Categories Adventure Puzzle Action RPG Platform Strategy FPS Simulation Others
# of projects 21 11 14 34 15 17 7 9 48
Total Raised $ 6,264,648.00 $ 664,712.00 $ 2,816,620.00 $ 8,279,478.00 $ 347,592.00 $ 429,242.00 $ 645,336.00 $ 543,470.00 $5,262,748.00
Av. Per project $ 298,316.57 $ 60,428.36 $ 201,187.14 $ 243,514.06 $ 23,172.80 $ 25,249.53 $ 92,190.86 $ 60,385.56 $ 109,640.58
Categories PC MAC iOS Android Linux PSN XBLA Browser
Based Other
# of projects 101 55 52 31 20 8 12 14 10
Total Raised $ 19,900,670.00 $ 8,574,806.00 $ 3,120,457.00 $ 2,217,289.00 $ 2,353,620.00 $ 1,184,479.00 $1,461,806.00 $ 559,663.00 $ 1,492,688.00
Av. Per project $ 197,036.34 $ 155,905.56 $ 60,008.79 $ 71,525.45 $ 117,681.00 $ 148,059.88 $ 121,817.17 $ 39,975.93 $ 149,268.80
Median $ 35,496.00 $ 43,054.00 $ 17,427.00 $ 24,813.00 $ 35,544.00 $ 65,311.00 $ 18,092.00 $ 11,325.00 $ 50,541.00
DATA PER CATEGORY
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3%
11%
33%
1% 2%
2%
2%
21%
Adventure
Puzzle
Action
RPG
Platform
Strategy
FPS
Simulation
Others
DATA PER CATEGORY - Visualization
Total Raised
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Adventure Puzzle Action RPG Platform Strategy FPS Simulation Others
Total Raised
# of projects
DATA PER CATEGORY - Visualization
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SINCE JUNE 2012
The biggest change is the rise of the “Other” category. It does fit with Kickstarter’s profile as a test bed for new things.
RPGs and Adventure games are still very much dominating.
* I removed the platforms analysis as the methodology was annoying me in drawing proper conclusions on this.
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CLOSING WORDS
Kickstarter is still going very strong. The end of the summer has seen quite a few new high profile campaigns launched (Planet Annihilation; Broken Sword; Project: Eternity) that will likely make the numbers bounce back.
Overall, it feels like the platform is on the path to maturity (for video games) and is getting there quite fast.
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