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#CrowdPleasers #003 – CHIKARA: Action Arcade Wrestling on IndieGoGo

#CrowdPleasersBy nuclearconvoyOctober 31, 2016

Admittedly this campaign almost slipped by me entirely. Thankfully it came back into my focus with enough time left for us to break down the campaign and see what it’s doing right and, just maybe, what it is doing wrong. At the time of writing this article CHIKARA: Action Arcade Wrestling (a terribly generic name)…

#CrowdPleasers #002 – Code: HARDCORE on KickStarter

#CrowdPleasersBy nuclearconvoySeptember 25, 20161 Comment

I’m going to start this off by revealing my bias: Little in life gets me as excited as Giant Robots. Mecha just reach deep down inside of me and flip a switch that fills me with childlike exuberance. I grew up, and still am, enamoured with Transformers and easily found that love of heavy  mechanical…

#CrowdPleasers #001 – Long Gone Days on IndieGoGo

#CrowdPleasersBy nuclearconvoyAugust 6, 20161 Comment

My passion for crowd-funding was kindled during the time I spent as part of the nascent Indivisible fan community as we campaigned to help Lab Zero Games reach their oft scoffed at funding goal. I grew to appreciate, through my efforts as well as through observation, the work that goes into setting up a campaign…

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