While I am not sure if it is Kickstarter OR the developers faults on two separate occasions I have NOT received the rewards that I have paid for... It appears that Kickstarter might not make it that easy for developers to monitor who is donating what. HOWEVER I am NOT sure this is the case, I am only basing this statement on the fact that two different developers have sent out emails - that I saw after the fact - that they needed you to do a survey to "figure out" who gets what.

Probably like most of you my time is very very valuable and limited. Once I pay money to initiate something such as this, I don't have the time to babysit and track who needs me to jump through which hoop and what time.

Example I paid money to Sears for a replacement dishwasher (less $$$ I have donated to some Kickstarter projects). I rely on Sears to fulfill their end of the deal and deliver on time and if they are unable I expect them to make every effort to contact me to make it easy for me rather than sending out an email in a sea of emails about filling out some survey.

Given my experience my recommendation is this... don't fund more than ONE project at a time if you truly care for your rewards and track every email they send. I personally have become disenchanted with the process and while I will probably fund more projects in the future it will be at a much more limited scale. Nothing ventured, nothing gained but using that as a base line of expectation rather than a motivator.

Mainly, this is a Thank You to a couple of people that help get this Topic going for me.

First - the whole point of GameDemo.com - is to allow gamers to play games before they buy them. Our origins date back to when shareware was on 3.5 disks in Wawa (where are we from?) and other stores. Back when a little gaming company called ID Software created a game called Castle Wolfenstein and inventively came across wasting time in CompUSA and it forever changed my life.

The Idea of GameDemo.com was born from that game as a way to "get demos" before they were released to the public, so we could play them first, review them and help distribute them via this NEW thing called the internet. (which no one at CompUSA at the time had a CLUE how to get on.)

Blah Blah Blah - here we are today.

I LOVE the idea of gamers being able to help fund game developers directly.

I had heard of www.kickstarter.com first from funding Freddie Wong's ---- Video Game High School project. ([tear] he didn't call me before I could pitch / cast my daughters and I, in a aging gamers quest to get his children to play & review videos games, when all they want to do is read and play sports (WTF... I Know, RIGHT? Every video console/add-on - high-end PCs and they aren’t interested. Oh the irony) Anyway, became familiar with KickStarter there.

Then this morning while looking at Dark Acre Games facebook updates.

(I learned of Dark Acre as he was the first “non-Asian female asking me to look at her webcam” to follow me on Twitter. No offense to Twitter or the Tweater(that right?) but I want to twit, like I want to take more time out of my day updating another site... The good news is the new GameDemo.com that I am working on makes keeping all the stuff in check much easier).

So Dark Acre Games was kind enough to follow GameDemo.com and while I was looking at his facebook page this morning, I came across a post about Wasteland 2 funding project.

Hince building this Category to help me (and others) promote Game Developers projects directly.

Ok time to go non-geek things with rocks, hydraulics and hopefully limited blood and no lower back pain.

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Yogventures is going to be an open world sandbox game designed first and foremost as a multiplayer experience. The game will allow you to create and shape worlds, then easily share them and play with friends! We're going to take the idea of "build your own adventure" to the extreme. Yogventures will provide simple-to-use tools to design worlds that match your imagination and are packed with thrilling stories and epic treasures.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/winterkewlgames/yogventures

Home Grown Games...

OK couple of reasons, I like this project... just say anyones name with (old school) Sierra games and I am fan.

Then add the fact that this is a gaming company actually located in PA and I am all in. Although they are in Lunkcaster and not the lovely Poconos... we'll let that slide.

Also maybe this will get my daughters off their book reading / piano playing / basketball / soccer playing butts and start to actually play some good old fashion video games.

Here is the project:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1005365109/jane-jensens-pinkerton-road-2012-2013-csg

I LOVED some of the games InterPlay created... I was thrilled to help fund this project. Here are details if you are interested.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2