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Jake Elliott

Chicago, IL

I'm an artist, game developer & musician. I make games under the banner Cardboard Computer. Some other games I've made recently are: A House in California, Hummingbird Mind, and I Can Hold My Breath Forever. I like to make games about friendship, p... view more

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    Arcade Brewery by Arcade Brewery

    Arcade Brewery connects the public to their beers from conception to consumption, letting you create labels and our beer recipes.

    • 109% funded $32,760 pledged
    • 529 backers
    • Funded May 24, 2012
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    19th Annual Chicago Underground Film Festival by Bryan Wendorf

    The longest running underground film festival in the world, CUFF exists to showcase the defiantly independent filmmaker.

    • 102% funded $5,140 pledged
    • 155 backers
    • Funded May 12, 2012
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    Help Cross Record make a full length album! by Emily

    Cross Record is the musical project of Emily Cross. Help her make a full-length album!

    • 101% funded $8,618 pledged
    • 99 backers
    • Funded Feb 18, 2012
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    Organ Trail: Director's Cut by The Men Who Wear Many Hats

    Organ Trail: Directors Cut. The popular edutainment game about the impending zombie apocalypse, for iOS, Android, PC & Mac.

    • 544% funded $16,339 pledged
    • 495 backers
    • Funded Jan 19, 2012
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    Against the Wall by Michael P. Consoli

    Journey through a dangerous and strange world where everything exists on the side of an infinite brick wall.

    • 129% funded $8,416 pledged
    • 348 backers
    • Funded Dec 04, 2011
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    VENUS PATROL: charting a new course for videogame culture by Brandon Boyer

    Venus Patrol is a new videogame website in search of beautiful things, from former Offworld.com editor and IGF Chairman Brandon Boyer.

    • 210% funded $105,398 pledged
    • 1,785 backers
    • Funded Oct 07, 2011
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    GLI.TC/H 20111!?▐▐▐▀▀▀▀▀▀▄▄▀▀▌▌▌▐▐▐DIT▀▀▀▀▀Do▄it▄2gather▀▀▀▀ by GLI.TC/H

    GLI.TC/H is a festival celebrating the glitch! Artists, thinkers, performers, makers && breakers gather to intentionally F▒C◀SH▓┐UP↕

    • 173% funded $5,543 pledged
    • 146 backers
    • Funded Sep 27, 2011
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    Octodad 2 by Octodad

    A computer game about the life of an octopus trying to pass himself off as a [human] suburban father.

    • 121% funded $24,320 pledged
    • 608 backers
    • Funded Aug 10, 2011
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    DIYLILCNC 2.0 - Open-source plans for a low-cost CNC mill. by DIYLILCNC

    We're preparing to release version 2.0 of our free, open-source plans for a robotic cutting machine that you can build yourself.

    • 106% funded $7,421 pledged
    • 92 backers
    • Funded Aug 23, 2011
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    Skybrawler: An Epic-Scale RPG Platformer (PC Game) by Seth Coster

    Skybrawler is a massive 2D RPG platformer that takes place on an exotic alien world, complete with rocket boots and rocket gloves.

    • 103% funded $3,800 pledged
    • 52 backers
    • Funded Feb 22, 2011
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    You Meet the Nicest People Making Videogames (Part 1) by spinach

    You Meet the Nicest People Making Videogames is to be a documentary about everyday people who express themselves by making videogames.

    • 102% funded $2,880 pledged
    • 45 backers
    • Funded Mar 01, 2011
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    Babycastles & Showpaper: New Indie Games Arcade in Manhattan by babycastles

    Babycastles is an effort to provide a social home for the game development culture that has long been part of New York City.

    • 150% funded $9,008 pledged
    • 223 backers
    • Funded Oct 04, 2010
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    Game Trekking: computer games inspired by world travel by Jordan Magnuson

    I want to travel the world and make computer games about the things I see and experience; to use computer games as a form of travel writing.

    • 105% funded $5,266 pledged
    • 83 backers
    • Funded Oct 01, 2010
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    @party: Keep the demoscene spirit alive in North America! by Val Grimm

    @party is a computer art event. We are raising funds for our 2011 site reservation, 501(c)(3) registration, with $90 more to cover Kickstarter's 5%.

    • 101% funded $1,915 pledged
    • 37 backers
    • Funded Aug 01, 2010
  15. You Meet the Nicest People Making Videogames (relaunch) by spinach

    You Meet the Nicest People Making Videogames will be a documentary about everyday people who express themselves by making videogames.

    Funding Unsuccessful (07/10/2010)
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    EXP. Video Game Art & Culture magazine: mass production & second book: The Controller by Cory Schmitz

    Mass production of my Video Game Art & Culture book, EXP = lower price, higher availability. This would also fund a second book, The Controller.

    • 171% funded $5,488 pledged
    • 142 backers
    • Funded Jul 05, 2010
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    osloom: an open source jacquard loom (DIY electromechanical thread-controlled loom) by Margarita Benitez

    OSLOOM (short for OPEN SOURCE LOOM) is a project creating an open source electromechanical thread-controlled loom that will be computer controlled.

    • 105% funded $10,565 pledged
    • 197 backers
    • Funded May 02, 2010
  18. You Meet The Nicest People Making Videogames by spinach

    I want to travel across the country to shoot a documentary on highly expressive videogames and the people who make them.

    Funding Unsuccessful (05/31/2010)
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    ACID MARSHMALLOW by Matt Kimmel

    ACID MARSHMALLOW is a live music video archive. It collects complete sets from underground bands & musicians.

    • 100% funded $1,005 pledged
    • 39 backers
    • Funded Dec 30, 2009