I'm shocked that only 44% of developers want free money with the only string attached being that they have to actually make the game they want to.

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I think saying that Kickstarter is "high risk" is a bit of an exaggeration. I think it is fair to say that to stand any chance of getting funded a developer needs to put a lot of effort into the campaign so it can't be considered to be "free money" either. But whether it counts as a risk depends on whether the developer invests money, time and effort, in something which only benefits them if the campaign bares fruit. Usually I think that it's possible to re-use a lot of the preproduction material which would need to be get created for a game anyway in the campaign, with the exception of the ridiculously involved movies which everyone has to make these days, even those are probably re-usable, at least in part, as PR material for the final product. In my case I've never seriously considered kickstarter because I'd rather put effort into actually making games and seeing as the games I want to make need effort rather than money it makes no sense to divert effort into a kickstarter campaign which probably won't pay any money anyway.

There is no such thing as a free lunch...