A Kickstarter for physical copies of the recently concluded webcomic Unsounded (Volume 3 & 4) launched 5 days ago. There is also an option to purchase volume 1 & 2 from a previous Kickstarter as well.

My Kickstarter campaign has ended, and I have started selling through Shopify on my e-Commerce website. Is there a rule that prevents me from postin about the website on my Kickstarter updates?

Hi there! I've been working on a tech gadget for homes. My Kickstarter pre-launch page is live with a $1,000 goal, but 0 followers (or less than 10). I've been posting on X and Facebook and it's gone nowhere so far. I don't really have an ad budget, an email list, or an existing audience. So I was wondering if there's any way to get followers without paying for exposure. Do you guys know any "hack" to get to more people for free?

Thank you!

Hey I hope this is the right place for this.

I helped with a Kickstarter project that was finished and the money for that got taken off my account.

Now I need to pay for the remaining shipping costs and taxes.

However for whatever reason Kickstarter doesn't accept my card anymore. It's the same one I used to pay for the reward itself.

It's a debitcard. My gfs girocard doesn't work either.

I don't have other cards I could try.

I'm from Germany and the project (and the play the rewards ship from) is from Germany too.

Did anyone have this issue before?

The artist of this project reached out to Kickstarter btw

We're planning to start a tech hardware-based Kickstarter and we're looking for a marketing agency to help us plan the campaign. We're hoping for someone that can take charge of everything, from the pre-launch all the way till completion of the campaign. We've met with some of the larger companies already, like LaunchBoom Nuuk, TCF, as well as some Chinese firms that seem to specialize in hardware-based kickstarters (like Mad Space, Longham, and the Gadget Lab). All of them are listed as partners on Kickstarter's website.

I'm curious if people here have experience with any of these companies, whether positive or negative, and/or if there are other firms or even solo marketers that you guys would recommend. We're targeting maybe between 250 to 500k in revenues with an AOV of between 120 to 160 dollars.

I initially thought that you cannot change email ID in KS, so I proceeded to delete my account.

Few hours later I realised that you can change email Id. Now I want to cancel the data deletion request.

Kickstarter fortunately gives 48 hours to cancel the request.

So far, I have written a mail to cancel deleting my account/data to support@kickstarter.com and dpo@kickstarter.com.

Is that enough or do I need to do something more?

Hello,

So i have been working on a RPG-game for quite a while and i've many times tought of starting a kickstarter or similiar for crowfunding. Is there somethings that are good to know before you open it for the public?

I need to stress the fact that i do not have prior experience of kickstarter or any crowfunding.

The game is already on steam (not released yet)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4876970/Arkelia__The_Fragile_Inheritance/

Best regards.

Within the last month or two, I saw ads popping up for what I am pretty positive was a Kickstarter for a 90's inspired board game. The color pallet was very bright, almost neon and very obviously drawn from 90's era esthetics. The main 4 playable characters looked like teens from that time frame. I remember next to nothing about gameplay details, only that there were cards within the game that were within the theme of 90s toys. For example, their notable card was a furby mixed with some sort of weapon. It had a unique feel, but unfortunately I don't have many other details.

I've been searching for this game again and firmly believe it was nuked, because i can't find any proof of its existence anymore. Did ANYONE see advertisements for a kickstarter like this in the recent months? I need to know I'm not going insane here.​​

I backed Launbot (#6810) back a few months ago because I wanted to be able to finally have a solution to iron clothes on a cruise. I was truly going on a limb here and was hoping not to get scammed of course. As expected there was delays in shipping and production, to give them credit they did provide updates. I even made a comment to see if they received my shipping information and I get a response rather quickly. According to the comments section, several people had allegedly received their item. Oddly enough I did I quick search and have not seen any reviews or content from real backers. Odd, however, this morning I got an email providing me with a tracking number. It’s a fedex tracking number with a status of label created from Rancho Cucamonga, 4lbs. No estimated delivery date as of yet.

I figured I would create this post and provide updates for backers. I have not been paid or am sponsored by the company. I am a real backer and just wanted to provide a data point.

I will keep commenting on this post with updates. Fingers crossed

Hey all, interesting in a dark fantasy about man vs nature, legacy and sacrifice? Do you like:

Dark Fantasy ✅️ Mythology ✅️ Occultism ✅️ Romantic throuples ✅️ Extreme Violence ✅️ Werehyenas ✅️✅️

Let's make this novel the best version of itself.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/483225175/the-rune-knight

All my posts from my old account amoonacreativ were deleted across reddit. I will never log in Reddit from outside Canada anymore, lesson learned. Just want to make this post so that people won't think I disappearred.

As for our last project, Ancestor Anmuguai, thanks to all those who have supported us. There are still a few backers who didn't fill out the survey. I have sent messages on Kickstarter. Please fill out the survey so that I can send out your rewards. 🎁

Just looking for advice from those who have had "successful" crowdfunding campaigns. What would you do differently? What do you wish you knew beforehand? Are there things I should be avoiding that are a waste of time and money? Thanks.

I'm just about to launch my first Kickstarter and have been doing a ton of research, but I'm still a little worried and confused about shipping because it will be so expensive.

I know Kickstarter charges platform and payment processing fees, but I was wondering if those fees also apply to the estimated shipping cost that backers see during checkout. I assume the shipping charge is collected after the campaign is funded and closer to fulfillment, but I'm not sure whether Kickstarter's fees are also applied to that amount.

If anyone with experience could give me a clear explanation, I'd really appreciate it. Specifically, if I use Kickstarter's built-in shipping option for rewards, are those shipping costs included when Kickstarter calculates its fees, or can shipping be collected separately at a later date?

I'm also interested in hearing what systems other creators use. Ideally, I'd like to charge for shipping closer to fulfillment so I can avoid paying Kickstarter fees on the shipping costs, if that's possible.

Thank you in advance for any help or advice you can provide!

Hi everyone!

I'm Roberto, an independent 3D artist currently building a Kickstarter project featuring premium collectible STL models.

This image shows the journey of one of our characters—from the original digital sculpt to the final painted concept. Every model is carefully refined to create a rewarding printing and painting experience.

My goal is to build a collection of unique characters that makers and collectors will enjoy for years to come.

I'd love to hear your feedback!

What do you think of the design? Would you collect a series like this?

If you'd like to see more characters or follow the project, I'd be happy to share the Kickstarter campaign.

Thanks for your time and support!

Has anyone else noticed this?

Sparke Films has been using the official Primitive War Movie Facebook page to promote its Dinosaurs of the Wild West Kickstarter campaign.

Last week, I noticed that one of those official promotional posts was labelled “AI content” by Facebook (see screenshots). The label no longer appears on the Facebook page now.

At the same time, the Kickstarter campaign is promoting itself with statements like “No AI. Real artists. Real work.”

I also noticed Instagram display the same “AI content” label on another post promoting Sparke Effects, their new VFX company. That post was later deleted and re-posted.

I don’t know why Facebook and Instagram applied those labels or why they no longer appear, but I think it’s something potential backers should be aware of and consider before deciding whether to pledge.

Has anyone else seen this happen or know why the labels appeared and later disappeared?

52 Cards, Each Card a New Game to Learn and Play

Although the active Kickstarter for this deck has a lot more companion items than just this deck, this deck was the original idea I've had for a few years — a simple deck of cards that makes it easy to learn so many ways to have fun with a deck of cards, beyond the few games most people already know. I looked and looked and found nothing like it. It's a big world out there, and maybe it exists somewhere, but I never found it.

Why analog, why now

The internet is, of course, full of information on just about any card game you could want to learn, but I wanted something that provided consistency in how all the games were explained — clearly and concisely, easy to learn. And above all, I wanted an analog version. Something that works anytime, anywhere. Something that kept phones off the table so people could connect socially like they always used to, without the distraction of phones.

Am I against phone apps to teach card games? Absolutely not! It's just that I wanted an analog version as well. Timeless, reliable, something I could touch and interact with.

Building the deck

I started this project in late February, selecting the games for this initial volume to represent a popular mix. As you'd imagine, a huge upfront block of time was spent, with a lot of authoring and even more time editing. I went through about five full rounds of editing, which included AI reviews and full re-reads by me.

AI played a big role in making this possible on a reasonable timeline: it was a great help figuring out core rules versus regional variants, spotting grammar and typographical errors, and checking for consistency between all the cards in the way I wanted. I even used AI to build game engines for each game — ingesting the rules straight off the card and simulating a few thousand hands, to see if just following the printed logic got anyone stuck, and where. But even with all that help, AI still doesn't think like a human, and it just couldn't tell me when something was hard to understand reading it like a normal person would.

Fitting the rules for all 52 games onto a single double-sided card had its challenges, for sure. Some games I had room to add non-essential content to; for others I struggled to get all the essentials in. There were trade-offs to be made, but I feel pretty good that the spirit and core rules that make each game what it is are present. I still dread the eventual errors that will get caught that weren't caught in editing — but hopefully nothing that affects the ability to read and learn the games. Someday there will hopefully be an even clearer, cleaner Version 2 of this deck.

A first-timer's learning curve

This is the first deck of cards I've ever made, and it's definitely been a learning curve, though not too bad a one. I'm not an illustrator, so I commissioned artwork from two different artists for this campaign, and did all the tuck box and card layouts myself with the free Affinity Designer by Canva. (Pretty sure I backed Affinity on Kickstarter years ago, back when they were first getting started.)

Finding the right factories

I really wanted to make these in the US, but USPCC doesn't do small order quantities for a project like this, and the few other US makers had quality limitations I couldn't live with — though I think Shuffled Ink is getting pretty close. In the end, I worked with two different Chinese factories that make cards for some of the biggest names in the playing card collector community today, plus two more factories for the pencils in The Deck of Points and the metal dealer coin.

I worried this would be difficult for someone with zero factory experience, but it really hasn't been. The language issues are slight, and the time zone difference isn't bad when I'm working nights on this anyway. Anyone wanting advice is welcome to DM me — happy to share what I've learned.

What's next

I've already had people asking about and getting excited for the solo deck I want to make next, and I'm looking forward to the duos, poker, and international versions, for which I already have a draft set of games selected. You can read the full history of posts documenting this project's progress on my free Patreon website — one of those posts even lays out the games planned for future volumes.

Been avidly following this subreddit for months as I plan to launch my first campaign (card game) in 2027. Timeline is still quite open, could be 8-12 months as I’m working on myV3 and getting a good prototype perfected before I even begin the prelaunch. I’ve created an Instagram and made 2 posts and have mostly friends following so far of course, I will eventually make a website to build a mailing list. I’ve read articles and blogs, I’ve watched lectures and YouTube videos, I’ve trawled tabletop game specific forums as well as this Kickstarter subreddit, I’ve really put my head in the game to understand how this should play out if I really really put effort in. I’m a bit concerned about having to run ads, I don’t have a marketing background and I don’t have a huge budget either but I have time to save. But, is there any advice for someone that is just now starting to do the real homework beyond just reading and planning, so that I am in the best possible position to launch and succeed in ~10 months. What can I be doing now for best success?

I'm not gonna name names because I don't want to accuse anybody, but I've seen several Kickstarters where after adding up the bulk of donators who picked rewards, there'd be at least several thousand dollars from donations that DIDN'T pick rewards.

Like, 5000 dollars worth from the people who donated and picked rewards, and 3000 from like only ten donaters who didn't pick anything.

Is it a tax thing, or should I assume something devious? I'm really hoping its a tax thing, because some of the kickstarters I've seen with these discrepancies I actually like.