Kickstarter folk donations site is now at the peak of popularity. However, as a former employee believes Double Fine Justin Bailey (Justin Bailey), for games you can create a separate platform that will give gamers (and developers) much more interesting opportunities.
So Fig appeared – a new service https://lucky-spins.co.uk/games/ for collecting money. It differs from Kickstarter with two indigenous changes: firstly, exclusively video games are financed here; Secondly, fans who support developers will become not just generous philanthropists, but with real investors, that is, they will receive a certain percentage of the profit of the final product. However, at the moment, the owners of FIG set up all sorts of formalities with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, so so far only those who are registered as an “accredited investor” can be full -fledged depositors and is ready to give at least $ 1,000. Everyone else is offered to support the favorites according to the classical scheme – pay now, and then get the game with gratitude from the authors.
In addition, FIG campaigns will go one at a time – the creators of the site want to pay due attention to each project that appears on their platform. Consultants of developers, by the way, will be famous and successful creators: Tim Shaifer (TIM SCHAFER) from Double Fine, Fergus Urkhart (Feargus URKHART) from Obsidian And Brian Fargo (Brian Fargo) from inxile. Now FIG is collecting money for Outer Wilds, which took the main award at the IGF 2015 indie festival.