Right now, crowdfunding is all the rage in the gaming industry, and with good reason. Projects like Kingdom Death: Monster, War for the Overworld, and Torment: Tides of Numenera have captured the public’s imagination as to what is possible on crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and RocketHub.
Now, GameLaunched, an international crowdfunding site for gaming, joins Gambitious, Gamesplanet Lab, and LookAtMyGame in providing a community where producers, developers, and designers can come together and make awesome products.
The theory is that interest-centered crowdfunding platforms that get together a group of like-minded passionate supporters will be better for creators than sites like Kickstarter, which feature a variety of project types ranging from design to music.
However, GameLaunched adds a new element.
GameLaunched.com has created an eXperience Points (XP) Leaderboard where every user gets credit for contributing to projects and sharing projects on their own social media sites. When users obtain enough XP, those points can be traded in for some GameLaunched.com swag through the Marketplace on the site.
The Marketplace allows developers who successfully funded their games on GameLaunched.com a platform to sell their final product commission free. Now, not only will developers have a chance to fund a project, but they will also be able to sell it on the same site. It also helps eliminate the confusion for contributors on where to purchase the game once it has been developed.
Although Kickstarter has seen enormous growth in the gaming category, many developers have been dissatisfied, as you must be a US or UK resident to create a project on the website. GameLaunched is open to projects from around the globe and allows developers to submit platform games, mobile applications, tabletop games, PC games, and gaming hardware or accessories.
GameLaunched is similar to Kickststarter in that is has an all-or-nothing fundraising model. The company takes 6% of the total funding amount, and a 2.9% PayPal fee. For more information, check out the company website here.
