The Indie Game Magazine September 2015 | Issue 53 | Page 4

editorial
Kickstarter: Welcome to the Wasteland

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n 2009, Kickstarter emerged from the ether as a crowdfunding site intended to assist independent creators in bringing
their projects to life. Since then, the service has raised over $1.9 billion to fund over 90k projects. The diversity of these
projects is quite admirable, with crowdfunding allowing everyone from artists and writers to engineers and programmers
the chance to bring their passion projects to life through support from interested backers.
Over the years, a number of independent video game developers have brought their game d W6