The recent release of the UKIEpedia initiative in the UK made me realise that I haven’t shared data specific to the country in quite some time. This a very good opportunity to do so, using the same dataset that we collected for the yearly state of the game for Kickstarter. Money pledged and money raised […] The post Kickstarter and Video Games in the UK appeared first on ICO ..read more

A year has passed and it is time again to look at how the Kickstarter landscape for games has evolved over the past 12 months. The post Kickstarter and Games in 2019 appeared first on ICO ..read more

The first half of 2019's numbers for tabletop games on Kickstarter The post Crowdfunding and Tabletop Games: 2019 Mid-Year Update appeared first on ICO ..read more

An overview of the performance of the video games category on Kickstarter in the first half of 2019. The post Crowdfunding and Video Games: 2019 Mid-Year Update appeared first on ICO ..read more

Welcome to my yearly blog post on crowdfunding and games, looking at how well games have performed on Kickstarter (and Fig) for the past year. As usual, I have shared a lot of graphs here to go through, alongside my own comments in regards to the trends that can be observed. Kickstarter overall Kickstarter is […] The post Games and Crowdfunding in 2018 appeared first on ICO ..read more

As an addition to the traditional mid-year crowdfunding check, for video games, I have decided to give tabletop games their own blog post this year. There is a dedicated interest for these numbers, and they are quite fascinating to follow. As a quick catch-up, you might want to have a look at the post on […] The post Kickstarter and Tabletop Games: 2018 Mid-Year Update appeared first on ICO ..read more

It has already been six months since my last check on the crowdfunding trends for video games. With everyone taking it slow because the summer is coming (I am joking, everyone is rabidly preparing for gamescom), here is the latest data and what I make of it. This is part one, as I will do […] The post Crowdfunding and Video Games: 2018 Mid-Year Update appeared first on ICO ..read more

The annual deep dive into the performance of games projects on the Kickstarter platform. The post Kickstarter in 2017 – In depth look at the Games category appeared first on ICO ..read more

Before January is out, here is the annual look at Kickstarter for the year 2017. Where is Kickstarter going? Overall funding bounces back After its very first year of decline in funding of projects in 2016, Kickstarter sees a bounce back in the overall money actually raised. That bounce is very timid though, even if […] The post Kickstarter in 2017 – Year in review appeared first on ICO ..read more

Like last year, I did a mini-research on games on Kickstarter at the mid-year point. It allows me to keep an eye on the trend, and check properly hard data a bit more often. On top looking at the Games category and the video games and tabletop games sub-categories, I am also throwing in a few numbers on Kickstarter overall. The post Kickstarter and Games – 2017 mid-year status update appeared first on ICO ..read more