A staff member leaves, sometimes running away with the creator’s money and the need to find someone else or complete the job themselves. You will have to pay for them from your own pockets. The project becomes bigger, but not the creator’s wallet: you want to add more characters, more illustrations, more scenes to your game after you received the funds. The amount you see is never the amount the creator will receive in their pocket. Say you reach $10 000, after the 10% and 30% taxes, plus the backers whose payment was canceled (it happens), you’re left with a little more than $6000 for the whole deal. Add to that your country taxes and if you’re unfortunate enough to NOT live in the USA, where Kickstarter is based, and live in a country with no tax treaty, add 30% on top of that. Taxes, taxes and more taxes: Kickstarter takes 10% from the total reached. Whether because the creator is afraid to ask too much and not reach the goal, not taking into account unforeseen costs like their PC breaking and needing replacement or only realising months after the campaign that actually, they need to pay for a proofreader, whatever crowfunding goal reached will only be a fraction, and oftentimes not even half of the final cost of the game. Underestimating a project’s cost: this happens on almost every crowdfunding campaign, even those made by industry veterans. This is the creator’s first ever game and they don’t know what they are doing, which leads to…. Did you know that in a few months you’ll finally be able to play the game legally? You’re welcome.įollowing the success of DMMd and the discovery of the wonderful world of visual novel, a number of artists, writers and other creators want to try their hand at the VN medium for their own story, with varying success.Īt the same period, the emergence of Kickstarter and IndieGogo as a crowdfunding platform and successful campaigns of LGBT-themed games like Coming Out on Top, ambitious creators launch their own campaign to an audience that is quite literally craving for more of those BL game and seeking an experience hopefully as good as DMMd or its predecessor Togainu no Chi was.īut soon, both creators and enthusiastic backers realize that making a game AND promising to deliver it at a set date is not all that easy and as glorious as it seemed. You know, the high where the game was being illegally downloaded, streamed and memed en-masse. 
Tumblr is enjoying its final years of glory before the Great Purge and the internet is just starting to get down from its DRAMAtical Murder high.
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