u/RemanomJen

/insert gif here of the "I don't know what I'm doing" dog, lolzzz

Never done a Kickstarter before, so we're both super stoked and super nervous.

For fans of stuff like Inside, Limbo and Little Nightmares!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/remanomgames/unhappening-a-25d-dark-narrative-side-scroller

So I've seen some other posts in the past about whether the $600 MIX fee was worth it. In our case for our game, Unhappening, it was. I opted to do the in-person event, so we were only featured on the Steam event sale page, and at the Grammy Museum rooftop event this past weekend.

The in-person event was pretty small, but packed to the gills with folks, and reached capacity fairly quickly. Some of our team had to wait an hour to get in, based on the number of people leaving (one in, one out rule). Would I do the in-person again? Honestly, probably. I met a handful of cool connections, some with links to funding, and it was nice to see people playing our game in real time. Some loved it, some didn't get it, and that was okay. All feedback is valuable for us to further fine-tune the demo.

The Steam event page is where the magic really happened for us, as we scored roughly 1200 wishlists over the course of the week. Chart for ref, you can see the huge spike once the event started: https://imgur.com/a/tzektrP

Doing the math that's about $.50 a wishlist; on the lower end of average. It remains to be seen if the momentum continues at all post-event, but so far today there have been roughly 50 adds (for comparison, our prior daily was around 5 before any sort of promotions etc).

YMMV on all of this, but wanted to offer another perspective in case anyone is considering. It should be noted, though, that the Summer event coincides with Summer Games Fest, so there was likely more eyeballs than usual.

I’m about to dress up as our main character and make a bunch of ridiculous videos. Definitely no stranger to making an ass out of myself for a cause 🤣

What about y’all?