Here are 7 projects that have killed it on Kickstarter over the last week, for all you Kickstarter enthusiasts out there. These projects have all quickly met their goals and managed to get backers excited about the great products they have to offer. This week we have two tabletop games projects, two comics projects, as well as campaigns in the drinks, hardware, and gadgets categories. My favorite is #4!
#1. Ghostbusters™: The Board Game
Creators: Cryptozoic Entertainment
Amount Funded: $270K+
Number of Backers: 1,858+
Average Pledge per Backer: $145
Duration: February 10 to March 12 (30 days)
A Ghostbusters’ board game has hit Kickstarter and is our biggest new project this week. In just two days this campaign has already raised over $270K, and the team at Cryptozoic Entertainment says that there are a few exciting stretch goals to come.
The game is for 1 to 4 players, comes with a range of miniatures, 10 double-sided game board tiles, and more. Ghostbusters fans who have tried this game love it, since it is very interactive and they get to bust ghosts and seal the gates to the Spirit World!
#2. KegSmarts: The Worlds Smartest Kegerator
Creators: PicoBrew LLC
Amount Funded: $110K+
Number of Backers: 168+
Average Pledge per Backer: $659
Duration: February 9 to March 11 (30 days)
This Kickstarter Staff Pick is “an advanced microprocessor-controlled kegerator with a bright OLED display that makes information about your beer available anytime at your kegerator.” KegSmarts can tell you what types of beer are in your kegs, and information about the beer like how many servings are left and how long you’ve had it.
With any Wi-Fi enabled device you can use your account on their websites to find your favorite craft beers, search for new ones, plus share information and reviews with your friends and other beer lovers!
#3. PLAYBULB garden – Smart Color LED Solar Garden Light
Creators: MIPOW USA
Amount Funded: $45K+
Number of Backers: 435+
Average Pledge per Backer: $104
Duration: February 10 to March 27 (45 days)
PLAYBULB garden is the 4th Kickstarter project for a series of colorful light products by MIPOW USA. These lights, like their previous ones, can be controlled by smartphone.
PLAYBULB garden was made to be green by using solar power, is waterproof, and the battery life lasts up to 20 hours when fully charged. PLAYBULB garden is available on Kickstarter in packs of 1, 3, 5, and 10!
#4. DAGON by H.P. Lovecraft & Ben Templesmith
Creators: Ben Templesmith
Amount Funded: $58K+
Number of Backers: 697+
Average Pledge per Backer: $84
Duration: February 10 to March 12 (30 days)
DAGON is an adaptation of a short story by H.P. Lovecraft being drawn by New York Times best-selling comic book artist Ben Templesmith. The story features, “a tortured, morphine-addicted man who plans to commit suicide over an incident that occurred early on in World War I when he was a merchant marine officer.” The finished product will be a 72 page hard cover graphic novel with many fun reward options available to backers.
#5. Voltera: Your Circuit Board Prototyping Machine
Creators: Voltera
Amount Funded: $219K+
Number of Backers: 333+
Average Pledge per Backer: $662
Duration: February 10 to March 12 (30 days)
This second Kickstarter Staff Pick aims to make life simpler for hardware creators. Voltera’s Kickstarter page says, “Print your circuit boards, dispense solder paste, and reflow!
The Voltera V-One lets you go from concept to creation in minutes.” This prototyping tool allows you to create circuit boards in about an hour and a half, compared to receiving them between 5 to 21 days later when dealing with international or domestic shops.
#6. Floating Market – A Game of Diced Fruit!
Creators: Matthew D Riddle
Amount Funded: $21K+
Number of Backers: 493+
Average Pledge per Backer: $43
Duration: February 9 to March 11 (30 days)
Floating Market is a game based on a floating market in Thailand. The game, “utilizes polyhedral dice, worker placement, and dice speculation to create a unique and accessible experience for gamers of all levels.”
The goal of the game is to collect 5 different kinds of fruit and bring them back to Ama (grandmother) for the first bowl of fruit salad! The makers of this game also Kickstarted Eggs and Empires and Fleet: Artic Bounty. They are printing a limited 2,000 copies of this game for backers of their Kickstarter project, being offered at the low price of $29!
#7. Broodhollow Book 2: Angleworm
Creators: Kris Straub
Amount Funded: $70K+
Number of Backers: 856+
Average Pledge per Backer: $82
Duration: February 8 to March 11 (31 days)
Boodhollow Book 2 is our third Kickstarter Staff Pick in this week’s list and also the second comic book project. Kris Straub is raising funds to print full color, 128+ page copies of the second chapter of his horror adventure series.
BroodHollow is set in the 1930s and is, “about Wadsworth Zane, an unlucky encyclopedia salesman who travels to the peculiar town of Broodhollow to collect a mysterious inheritance. But a series of supernatural encounters leaves Zane wondering how much of what he sees in Broodhollow is real, or just in his mind.”
Conclusion
From week to week new projects pop up on Kickstarter, some that don’t get much notice and others that do very well very quickly. We like to take a look at some of the projects that get fully funded in a matter of days on the platform to see what categories tend to do well, and what types of crowdfunding efforts pay off. From this list we can see that backers love creative projects, and also products that make their lives easier or that stand out.
