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Op Ed

[Dec 23, 2012, 1:32 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Gamasutra - Black Isle is a great case study in how to NOT crowdfund your game.
Even if you decide to look past all of this shadiness, it's pretty impossible not to raise a critical eyelid at the crowdfunding scheme itself.

Where it has become common practice to offer backer rewards for those putting funding toward your game, Black Isle has decided this isn't necessary. If you pledge $10, you'll be granted access to a special Black Isle forum. If you put down $20, they'll even let you post on the forum.

There is no way to receive a copy of the game by pledging -- even if you decide to put down $10,000 -- because the money isn't actually going towards a game at all. In fact, the money will be used to build a prototype, which Black Isle will then show to investors in the hope of gathering up moolah elsewhere.

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Re: Op Ed

Dec 23, 2012, 16:55

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nin wrote on Dec 23, 2012, 16:39: ASeven wrote on Dec 23, 2012, 16:36: This screams scam so clearly and loudly I'll be surprised if anyone at all will give them money. I'd love to see a tally of number of people/amount pledged. I suspect they won't through, for obvious reasons. I did a little more digging, they are using a crowdfunding site called invested.in to process the payments. Which actually does have stats. http://invested.in/projects/find Type v13, or black isle into that search box. 94 Contributors Raised $3,075 More info on the site: http://invested.in/help They are very skimpy on any details. Looks like very little in the way of controls or rules. Edit: 17566 Views not sure if those are views on the black isle site, or the invested.in site. But that means that half a percent of viewers are investing into it. Ugh. This comment was edited on Dec 23, 2012, 17:02.

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