Do you like playing fantastic independent video games? We sure do! It can be tricky to make an indie game, though; you need to find enough time to make the actual game without cutting into the time required to pay rent and buy groceries/beer. It’s a tricky problem!

Kickstarter

Several indies are turning to Kickstarter, a website that allows creators to directly ask the public to financially support the creation of their ideas. It works like this: A creator posts a project, some dollar amount they’re asking for, and a timeframe in which they need the money secured. If you want to support the project, you pledge some cash. If they reach their goal, your money goes to them. If not, your money stays in your pocket. Simple and beautiful.

We Did This; You Should Too!

It’s one thing to say, “oh cool, other people should totally do this“, and quite another thing altogether to say “we did this and so should you“.  So Blurst threw down $250 each on Flywrench and Liferaft Episode 1.  You should do the same to help them out.  Support indie game development!

This great IndieGames.com post mentions a number of other projects trying out Kickstarter:

- Flywrench (Remake): Messhof – $3220 of $5000
- Thunder Blunders: Nini White – $100 of $25000
- Liferaft Episode 1: Greg Wohlwend (aeiowu) – $1587 of $5000
- Video Game Set in Iran: Borut – $1712 of $15000
- FREEQ: The Singularity – $260 of $12300
- Saturated Dreamers: Paul Eres – $525 of $195
- Resonance: VinceTwelve – $576 of $150
- Home Base: Gerson Luca – $0 of $100
- Remainder: Gerson Luca – $0 of $1000
- The Zombie Game Experiment William Weaver – $20 of $14700
- Kingdom Death: Adam Poots – $0 of $10,000
- Dadaists Gone Wild 2: Alec Stamos – $0 of $200

Marian Donations

Our good friend Alec Holowka is also funding one of his game projects, Marian, through public donations. Go check out the Marian teaser post for more details!

(Flickr photo by comedy_nose).