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Old 04-30-2012, 12:56 PM   #92
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Originally Posted by After a brisk nap View Post
Who would have invested $10K in, e.g. Resonance at an early stage of development, and on what terms? You have a guy who's made a couple of solo freeware games, but never led a team before (not counting working with a composer). He's working on the game during his lunch breaks. The team, consisting of essentially freelancers, is spread all around the world and have never met in person. There's a schedule, but it starts slipping early on in production. Investors don't love that.
His goal was a mere $150 and he got over $2000. Beats me why anybody would go to all the trouble of preparing a Kickstarter project for just 150 dollars. In this particular case I agree with Siddhi. He could have found that kind of money just about anywhere.
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