Hurricane Paisley first appeared on Kickstarter earlier this year, using one of the RPG Maker programs. It didn’t meet its funding goal. The current version is being created with Novelty Maker. With only five days left, it’s at only 36% funding, with just under AUS $2000 left. I commented early in June, and recommended that the creators should politely promote their work. Unfortunately, I think that two reasons why it’s not getting funded are 1) lack of updates, and 2) only a moderate amount of promotion on relevant forums.
Sekai Project is having a lot of success using Kickstarter to fund official translations. Fault Milestone One is currently 171%, and the last two parts of World End Economica are at 261%. Both are worksafe.
Some fan-made visual novel projects on Kickstarter have failed to meet their goals, or were quietly cancelled. Hopefully there won’t be problems with funded projects that never get released… On a somewhat related note, I searched the site for “manga” today and found a variety of projects, ranging from 0% funded to successes, as well as both translations and comics written in English. Making commercially viable visual novels and comics requires a group of talented people and at least some investment. Animation takes much more investment. Searching Kickstarter for “anime” and then “animation,” I found only a few recent successful projects.
