Funding The Dream On Kickstarter

David Brin has been writing about crowds and their impact on society for decades. He is a prolific author of hard science fiction and non-fiction. He joins me on Funding the Dream to talk about the battle going on in our society of the idea that crowds can make smart decisions for society. A perfect topic that ties into Kickstarter and its impact on the markets it touches.

Bill Trammel and Nate Veldcamp had a crazy idea around 1am early morning after playing a long game of Settlers of Catan. The creation of a Catan board to take your Catan game anywhere. Bill and Nate join me to discuss how they struck gold with their idea to create an official Settlers of Catan gaming board and how it became a success on Kickstarter

Starlit Citadel Reviews is an IndieGoGo project by Kaja Sadowski and Joanna Gaskell. Their show is a great gamer resource for anyone in the world. They are located in Vancouver BC Canada and talk about IndieGoGo and their ongoing success using the platform

Monte Cook has literally written the book on Role Playing Games. It wasn't a surprise to anyone that his latest RPG project did well on Kickstarter. The fact that it did more than a $500,000 for a unreleased RPG was a surprise.Monte joins me on the show to talk about RPGs, Kickstarter, and the energy that is happening in the RPG market.

Jonathan Liu has the dream job. He writes for Geek Dad covering the board gaming space. How cool is that? Jonathan joins me on the show to talk about resisting the Kickstarter urge to back all the great game projects.

Learn 3 new techniques for finding more backers for your Kickstarter campaign. Adam Danielski joins me to discuss three strategies for marketing your Kickstarter campaign to get more backers.

Paco Garcia Jaen, the creative mind behind GMS Magazine, sits down to discuss his recent project on IndieGoGo. There are important differences between IndieGoGo and Kickstarter, and Paco shares with us how IndieGoGo worked well for his raising funds for Spiel in Essen.

Kickstarter gives you up to 60 days to fund your project. Common sense would seem to say that taking the full 60 days, giving you as much time as possible to fund, is the smart move. Adam Danielski is here to tell you why that belief is wrong and can end up demoralizing you and your project.Listen in as he shares four key takeaways from his successful but painful Kickstarter project. Longer isn't always better

Three weeks after launching their Kickstarter project, we check in with my two favorite Brits to see how things are going and to get a sense of how nerve-racking it can be to have a project creeping up on the funding goal. Their project is down to less than 40 hours and less than $300. We see if they are going to make it.

Break from Reality Games just released Disaster Looms. Eric Slayers, president of Break from Reality Games sits down to discuss the challenges of printing in the USA for board games. Their are pros and their are cons and he touches on each.

Sue Shanahon is a talented author and illustrator. Her appearance on Oprah was recognition for those talents and her ability to capture the likeness of a person in her work. Sue speaks with us as she goes from zero knowledge to launching a Kickstarter project to bring one of her books to the iPad.

Alex Wilson's Time of Reflection Illustrated story won the prestigious Eagle Award at London Comic-con this year. His project, to print his illustrated book here in the US funded and he shares with us some of the challenges of getting a project printed.

Kim Vandenbroucke is a professional blogger and game inventor. No, I'm serious, she does this for a living...and she is very good at it. She joins me to talk about the Toy and Game Inventors conference in Chicago. www.tandgcon.com is the perfect place to make all the contacts you need if you want to get your game into the market.

Kickstarter is having an impact in the Graphic Novel space. Tim Kenyon discusses the journey necessary to get your Graphic Novel up on Kickstarter and published.

Meet Cengiz Dervis, a real life Martial-Arts Expert and Weapons Master who has written a gritty Graphic Novel. Laurence O'Brien, the London Whisperer joins me as we discuss how to launch a Kickstarter campaign if you are British and how Cengiz Dervis has a very cool Kickstarter project.

Tom Vasal and I don't see eye to eye on everything. But especially on Kickstarter. We both see the Kickstarter impact from different sides and have a healthy discussion about that. Join Tom Vasal and myself as we discuss the impact of Kickstarter in the board game space

Steve Snoey has created a Kickstarter campaign that crosses games and film. Take a lesson as we discuss the impact of Kickstarter on these two industries

Nearly every board game project on Kickstarter has to address the issue of how to get their board game into game stores and how many copies to print. Aldo Ghiozzi, CEO of Impessions, sits down to talk the numbers and how many copies does an average board game sell.

Story Realms game co-designer Angie Hickman shares with us how she and her business partner, Julian Leiberan-Titus, used social media and specifically Twitter, to grow their fan base from nearly zero to a size able to successfully fund a new board game. Angie's insights into how to manage your social networking and how it is about participating in the community that is much more important than simply trying to sell a product.

Seven years is a long time to do anything, but it is a very long time to host a show about board games. The Spiel has become The Show...Audio, Video, and Film...for the board game community. I sit down with Stephen Conway, creator and co-host of The Spiel to talk about the industry and their Kickstarter campaign.