2015 for kickstarter and games

FOR GAMES

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2015 ACROSS ALL CATEGORIES ON FOR GAMES

DATA ANALYZED

Data is collected automatically from kickstarter.comData mining provided by Potion of WitInclude projects that ended after 1st of Jan 2015Include projects that ended before 1st of Jan 2016Non-USD figures are converted using a flat rate:

1 GBP = 1.60 USD1 CAD = 0.85 USD1 AUD = 0.80 USD1 NZD = 0.74 USD1 EUR = 1.20 USD1 DKK = 0.15 USD1 NOK = 0.13 USD1 SEK = 0.12 USD1 CHF = 0.98 USD

METHODOLOGY

DISCLAIMER

The data collection method is not perfect.

Kickstarter regularly improves its website. The modifications are always susceptible to break the data collection tool processes.

Take all those numbers with caution and consider them as (good) estimates rather than actual values.

METHODOLOGY

Kickstarter launched in EUR in Germany on 28/04/2015

Kickstarter launched in EUR in France on 11/05/2015

Kickstarter launched in EUR in Spain on 19/05/2015

Kickstarter launched in EUR in Austria, Belgium, Italy and Luxemburg on 16/06/2015

Kickstarter launched in CHF in Switzerland on 16/06/2015

KICKSTARTER PLATFORMS LAUNCH DATES

KEY INFORMATION

In April 2014, Kickstarter introduced many new subcategories on the platform. For Games, those new subcategories were Gaming Hardware, Live Games, Mobile games and Playing Cards.They also changed a few old projects to those new subcategories in the process, but clearly not all of them as that would have been a cumbersome undertaking.

The data presented here is using the subcategories as they are now on the platform. For most of them, it doesn’t have much impact, but the Gaming Hardware, where the OUYA and Oculus Rift are now in, shows a massive bias in the dataset due to the size of some projects.

I have edited some graphs to avoid this bias to affect too mcuh the information presented. It is not a perfect decision, but it is necessary to avoid aberrant trends to show as many other projects should have been edited then that would have balanced the dataset.

KICKSTARTER GAMES SUBCATEGORIES CHANGES

KEY INFORMATION

You can find another analysis across all the categories on Kickstarter on our blog and SlideShare:

MORE DATA ACROSS ALL OF KICKSTARTER

KEY INFORMATION

2015 across all subcategories on Kickstarter

* Gaming Hardware has a very low sample data that’s biased by a few historical projects like Oculus Rift. The average number is more misleading than

useful and we decided to remove it.

ALL SUBCATEGORIESGAMES

ALL SUBCATEGORIESGAMING HARDWARE

Projects before 2014 were retroactively set to this subcategory.

The numbers are biased by those few, successful projects. I would recommend to ignore them when looking for trends.

GAMING HARDWARE

ALL SUBCATEGORIES2015 across all subcategories on Kickstarter

LIVE GAMES

Projects before 2014 were retroactively set to this subcategory.

The numbers are biased by those few, successful projects. I would recommend to ignore them when looking for trends.

LIVE GAMES

MOBILE GAMES

PLAYING CARDS

PUZZLES

TABLETOP GAMES

VIDEO GAMES

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