Here’s the deal. We're doing crowdfunding on IndieGoGo and our own website.
The great news that project will be released in any case, but it's size depends on you! We need your support to make it best - the money raised on our site and on IndieGoGo are combined to determine which of the main stretch goals we’ve met.
We're fans of our action and you can see a twinkle in our eyes when we're speaking about ships and ocean :) But today we're very small team and we need your support to release the project.
People who sponsored SeaCraft we call Founders, as these people stand at the origins of the project. You as the customer get the ultimate vote in whether we make this game. Your dollars are your votes and the better we do the more resources we’ll have to bring you a great game.
Feel free to say what you think about us and the game! We have a Russian soul and happy to communicate with you :)
Why not Kickstarter? I would think that Kickstarter is a more popular site to crowdfund from
Very true. However, the developers may not be based in the US or UK - meaning they can't use Kickstarter.
KickStarter is all-or-nothing. If a project doesn't meet its goal, then it gets nothing, even if it was just 20 dollars short.
Indiegogo allows for partial funding.
There are two main reasons:
A. It's really hard to create a project on Kickstarter for non-US developers. They make rules stricter and stricter and today it's not enougth to have a subsidiary company in US :(
B. KS - as TerranAmbassador said alreay - is all-or-nothing. To make contribution process easier we started the campaign on own own website too and in result it would be very sad if a project doesn't meet its goal on KS because of contributions on our website - for today it splited about 50/50.