Crowdfunding has become an increasingly popular tool to finance games made by smaller developers, from the surreal Kentucky Route Zero to the politically-charged Riot . But the process does come with tradeoffs. "I see crowdfunding as a double-edged sword," explains Simeon Saëns, from developer Two Lives Left. "Once your project is successfully backed, you are locked-in to working on that project from start to finish. People can get impatient if deadlines slip and you don't have the option of dropping a project if you feel it isn't working." So when the studio released its iPad game Crabitron , it decided to do something a bit different, and launch a "reverse Kickstarter" campaign so that players can support it the old-fashioned way — by...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/25/4262934/crabitron-reverse-kickstarter
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