Why aren’t more game developers using Kickstarter?

About this episode

The episode explores why more game developers are not using Kickstarter for crowd-funding and discusses strategies for studios.

Video games are growing again on Kickstarter. But why aren't more developers doing it? And how should studios approach crowd-funding... if at all?In this episode of The Game Business Show, Chris speaks with Kickstarter games boss Asher McClennahan and Ico Partners' Thomas Bidaux (a well known Kickstarter expert) to find out what's going on in the world of video game crowd-funding. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thegamebusiness.com/subscribe

People in this episode

Host: Christopher Dring

Guests: Asher McClennahan, Thomas Bidaux

Topics covered

• crowd-funding
• video games
• Kickstarter
• game development
• business strategy

Keywords

• Kickstarter
• game developers
• crowd-funding
• video games
• business

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Kickstarter, Ico Partners

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