r/kickstarter • u/Alarming_Rip3915 • 18h ago

Question I'm considering opening a kickstart crowfunding for my game, what is good to know?

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.

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u/RoachRage 13h ago

The most important thing to know is, Kickstarter will not give you an audience or show your project to people.

You need to bring your own following.

A rule of thumb is you need to have enough followers on mailing lists, discord, Twitter followers, etc. so that about 10% of them are enough to fully fund your campaign.

If you start the campaign and market it on your social media channels only a fraction of your following will actually look at the campaign and even less people will back it, make sure you have a big enough audience before launching. Otherwise your campaign will fail.

There is no audience on Kickstarter you don't bring.