Denis Michel on January 15, 2016

Tabletop Games Total Backers: 522,061
Video Games Total Backers: 480,382
Total Backers: 1.002,443

Your graphic says 978,189

Thomas Fintzel on January 15, 2016

@Denis Michel: Those 24,000 may have pledged in both categories...

Josef Caruthers on January 16, 2016

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Rowanty on January 17, 2016

You show a total number of launched projects, but it might be helpful to show a breakdown of those total launched projects by category: tabletop vs. video games. Did tabletop do so (relatively) well because there is more interest in tabletop games, or because there simply isn't enough supply of video game projects on kickstarter? The total number of backers suggests the latter, but I can't be sure without seeing the breakdown of total launched projects.

Looking at the stats we do have available though, supports my theory:

Money per successful project (total pledged/successful project)
Tabletop = 63,693.44
Video Games = 123,467.79

Money per Backer (total pledged/number of backers)
Tabletop = 170.32
Video Games = 96.13

Backers per successful project (total backers/projects successful)
Tabletop = 373.97
Video Games = 1,284.44

In two out of the three statistics I provided, video games more than doubles tabletop game in value. The third could be showing that video gamers are less likely to spend a lot on a given kickstarter, but I would venture a guess that it is due to a difference in the way the kickstarter campaigns themselves are run. Many video game (including Shenmue III, and Bloodstained, last years big players) have many tier levels, with few (if any) add ons. Gamers in general, tend to be collectors, or "completionists" but in order to access a lot of the goodies in video game campaigns, you have to be willing to put down hundreds if not thousands of dollars. The price tag for entry is too high because of the tiered entry system that video game kickstarters employ. A lot of tabletop games I've seen do the opposite. Fewer tiers, with lower price points, and lots of add-ons to allow backers to pick-and-choose their experience. This allows players an easy entrance to the kickstarter and eases them into spending more as more add-ons are unlocked and made available.

What I'm saying is, I expect video games are going to be getting more attention in crowdfunding and I think kickstarter needs to do some work to show that crowdfunding for video games as a genre is not being overshadowed by board games as this article suggests:

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2016/01/14/tabletop-games-raised-twice-as-much-as-video-games-on-kickstarter-in-2015/…

But rather, video game projects are being undersupplied, and the campaign system currently in use could be tweaked to result in larger campaigns. This results in more value for the creator, the backer, and Kickstarter itself.

Pixel Media Arts | David Clayton on January 29, 2016

The math isn't adding up...

Successful projects is wrong: 1396 + 374 does not equal 2,259
Please provide a more accurate and detailed report. This is useless.

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