What's Your Experience with Indie GoGo?

[CleanWater]

Hi there!

Anyone here used Indie GoGo to crowdfund your game? How was your experience there overall?

 

[Canini]

I have not used it myself but I have a online friend who has. After asking her I have condensed the answer into a few key points. Take it with a grain of salt as I have no personal experience of indiegogo.
- The service is badly moderated, meaning obvious scams are not deleted. This gives the site a bad name.
- Very hard both for uploaders and funders to get hold of support
- The website is very easy to navigate, design your page and link to social media.
- Sometimes uploading a picture or video is buggy and you have to do it many times for your page to get updated.
- Funders seem more open to new/potentially riskier ideas than on kickstarter
- the "featured" page is not curated but updated by a metric, so you are more likely to get featured by uploading a video/picture/posts a day instead of making quality updates to your page

A few good points but the overall impression seems negative.

 

[CleanWater]

A few good points but the overall impression seems negative.

That's what I noticed.

I'm running a campaign in Brazilian Portuguese there, but it seems that the Brazilians are ver wary of backing there (we only heard of Kickstarter here so far, but Kickstarter don't accept campaigns from South America countries ).