A fake adress is all you need. I'm currently residing in a Taco Bell, I think....

Yeah, pretty much, virtually all my income is disposable right now, but I'm needing to save money for travel and for when I return to the US. I shouldn't have any trouble getting a job, but the jobs I'd be putting in for don't pay particularly well.

I put in on Spate and Dark Meridian knowing that they're likely to not get funded, but hoping that they will. Because they look like really cool projects. I may put a symbolic dollar in for Pinkerton road, but I don't have the money to buy in properly, and having a long list of KS supporters is something when she needs more money for something else. Being able to say this is how many people supported the project before it was released is useful.

Thanks for pointing that out. Whats the point of having a goal, and if its not reached, they get the funds anyway? kind of silly...

For Kickstarter you need more than that. In order to start a project you need to be a permanent US resident with a social security number, a goverment-issued ID, a US bank account and a US credit card.

Added Skyjacker, thanks to DreadMoth's thread. The space combat video looks solid but nothing special, but it has a nice feature list. I'm really hoping they'll have Newtonian physics.

Grrr...I got bit by that Ogre bug (international shipping has a real sting there!) so I really need to lay off Kickstarter - but just to share the misery...

Defenders of the Realm (anything featuring Larry Elmore's artwork has *got* to be worth a look)
Dark Eon Assassin (solo boardgames are rare making this of interest but Mongoose have a mixed reputation on quality releases)
Modest Magic's Modular Terrain (quite reasonably priced 3D accessory for tabletop RPGs)
Cityographer - City Generator & Mapping Software (another tabletop RPG accessory - probably too specialised to list)

As some consolation for those whose fave projects failed recently, take a look at:

37 Saddest Failed Kickstarters

Thanks Astral. I've come across those projects before but forgot to add them. I've added all 4.

EnigmaticT has also helped me change the thread title since I've included Indiegogo projects in the list. Thanks a lot bro!

Geee whats with all the tabletop rpg's? (was never into them).

Dont really like indiegogo for some reason....

Donor the horror story has been cancelled.

Do you mean pen and paper (PnP) often called RPGs? Or do you mean table top (which are typically war games of some kind)?

If you've never played OGRE or Car Wars I am very sad for you and I highly recommend you find a way to play them.

Well, I'll put mine in here :P

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/940529766/nurf-nerfus-and-the-great-dungeon-shootout-3d

yeah, I realize that I spend a lot of time plugging my own stuff... :(

You're only 22? You look so young! (and I'm not saying this in a pedophilic way). Btw check OP for a surprise ;)

Looks awful, the guy doing it sounds like he has no idea whatsoever how to code computer games.

From those screenshots I'm betting it was made in RPG Maker.

Indiegogo is not "same as kickstarter" or an "international version of kickstarter".

Indiegogo is to kickstarter as Your World is to WoW. This is why they have "flexible funding" - because COs were asking for it. If people were fully rational, it would have been impossible to get a single pledge for a flexible funding campaign.

Kickstarter is project-oriented. The site is built to attract pledges. The mechanism is geared for people who want to do something but lack the starting funds: "give me money to buy a laser cutter and I'll cut something awesome for each one of you". So if the cutter costs $5000 but the campaign collects only $2000, the cutter isn't getting bought (after all, if the creator had the remaining $3000, he should have asked for $2000).

But viral crowdfunding in general and Kickstarter in particular are highly attractive. So people started putting projects there as a means of advertising, asking not for the money they need to kickstart production (which is frequently $0) but simply the money they want to get from the campaign, as a psychological tool of dubious effectiveness*. Sometimes those projects fail and creators regret they cannot get the pledges they got - because they can actually deliver what they promised with less money.

*On one hand, you'd think people might be less incentivized to pledge to projects that met their goals - on the other hand, there's seriously a class of people who pledge only after the goal is met. On the third hand (I have three hands), reaching your (substantial) goal faster can get you to the promo pages. So the goal should be higher than the bare minimum, but not too high to discourage the last-chancers and slow the % progress.

Indiegogo is extremely campaign-organizer-oriented. The main page of Indiegogo is built exclusively to attract COs - especially COs that are pissed at Kickstarter (pay my bills folks, charity drives, COs who think they should be given money solely for their promotional efforts regardless of the goals). They really do not give a flying gentle caress about the success of your campaign.

The most important difference is that on Indiegogo MONEY GETS TAKEN IMMEDIATELY. I can't allcaps this enough. This is the reason for their internationality: Kickstarter's pledge mechanism is based on Amazon Payments' subscription system, and Amazon Payments is US-only. Paypal is more "international", but it takes your money right away.

Then, if the project was set to "fixed funding" and the funding fails, you get your money back, MINUS THE FEES.

If the project was set to "flexible funding", you do NOTget your money back AT ALL. So if you're donating to a "flexible funding" with a, say, $20000 goal, and they get only $2000, it's obvious that the project won't be moving forward in any fashion, and your money is LOST. Neither Indiegogo nor the project creator are obliged to return it. Gone is gone. You clicked a button to fund someone's dream, and look, they are X bucks closer to the dream. Sucker.

Kickstarter projects have this peculiar trait when there's an influx of pledges once the goal is reached. This is purely psychological. On the other hand, with flexible funding on Indiegogo, you are highly incentivized to only donate once the goal is met, unless the project is effectively a sales offer (e.g. "I will paint you a picture for $200").

Which basically means Indiegogo (and obviously the project initiater)makes money regardless whether the project succeeds or fails. And the donator is left out of pocket.
Not something i want to donate to i think. Way to go :/.