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Top 10 Most-Viewed Kickstarter Lesson Posts of 2015

First and foremost, thank you so much for reading the Stonemaier Games Kickstarter Lessons blog. I write this blog to share my crowdfunding mistakes, insights, and ideas with other creators in the hopes of leveling up the crowdfunding ecosystem as a whole, but it wouldn’t continue exist without a readership. The website has received over […]

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An Open Letter to Game Designers

Today I read two articles that really moved me. The first is by Sam Coster, a St. Louis-based video game developer (Butterscotch Shenanigans). The Polygon article, “Making a Game While Recovering from Cancer,” is about what the title suggests: Sam actually suffered through multiple bouts of life-threatening cancer, and he designed his company’s newest game, […]

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Kickstarter Lesson #168: How Kickstarter Refunds Work and the Results of the Between Two Cities/Treasure Chest Money-Back Guarantee

Recently I engaged in several discussions on the Facebook Kickstarter Best Practices group about refunding individual backers. I’m going to combine a few quick thoughts on this topic before I update our money-back guarantee stats as I’ve done for our previous projects. How Refunds Work on Kickstarter I contacted Kickstarter last week to figure out […]

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The ROI on a For-Profit Business to Support Charities

Yesterday I launched Stonemaier Games’ annual charity auction, which is on pace to raise about $4,000 for 10 different charities. On the same day, I turned down two requests from very nice bloggers who asked me to contribute something to their charity giveaway. Why give to some and not to others? Why should a for-profit business like […]

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Third Time’s the Charm: Lessons Learned from Failing Twice on Kickstarter (a guest post)

One of the hardest questions a creator must answer during a struggling or failing crowdfunding campaign is: Do people simply not want this, or do people want it, but my presentation isn’t good enough? On this blog I talk a lot about successful crowdfunding campaigns. Today I have something different: A guest post from a creator […]

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What Defamation Means to Kickstarter Creators

You’re in the middle of running a crowdfunding project. Things are going well–you haven’t quite reached your funding goal, but you’re getting close. Then, out of nowhere, someone says some truly horrible things about you on the main comments thread. You refute the claims, but the damage has been done, and you lose some backers […]

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