Posted October 17, 2015
Recently, the game Nosebound ran a kickstarter and failed to reach its goal. I encountered it when it had about 80 minutes to go, and $3,000 left to raise.
Today, I was thinking about this, and realized that $3,000 wouldn't be an unrealistic sum of money for one person to contribute to a Kickstarter, if they wanted to. And I started wondering about the viability of donating larger sums of money to Kickstarter campaigns, and in return asking for a percentage of the finished game's earnings. That's basically what investors and publishers do, is it not? If I had extra money I wanted to invest, it might not be a bad way of investing it, and it would let me help other indie devs out.
I was wondering if the more legal/business savvy of you guys have any advice about this. Whether or not it's a good idea, what I'd need to know legally to make u[p a contract template (I assume I'd want to consult with a lawyer to do this?), etc.
Today, I was thinking about this, and realized that $3,000 wouldn't be an unrealistic sum of money for one person to contribute to a Kickstarter, if they wanted to. And I started wondering about the viability of donating larger sums of money to Kickstarter campaigns, and in return asking for a percentage of the finished game's earnings. That's basically what investors and publishers do, is it not? If I had extra money I wanted to invest, it might not be a bad way of investing it, and it would let me help other indie devs out.
I was wondering if the more legal/business savvy of you guys have any advice about this. Whether or not it's a good idea, what I'd need to know legally to make u[p a contract template (I assume I'd want to consult with a lawyer to do this?), etc.