🔥 Feed the Scorchpot: A Roguelike About Dice and Dragons Roll dice, cook chaos, and feed your dragon in this cozy-chaotic tabletop roguelike. Build your island and survive 20 years.

Our campaign for reference: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ind...

(8/8) It will cost you money to make money. Hundreds of great campaigns are live right now. Paying for visibility is often the only way through. We're still mid-campaign, but wanted to write this while it's fresh. Good luck out there!

(7/8) Kickstarter doesn't fund games. You do. You need to bring the audience from day one. "Winging it" is not a strategy. Don't set a launch date until you know you can rally people behind it.

The advice we got: don't launch until your community is ready. Take that advice.

(6/8) Meta ads (FB/IG) were our best pre-campaign tool by far. Test multiple creative options. Budget for someone who knows what they're doing. Reddit ads drove wishlists and Discord joins but didn't convert to backers as well.

(5/8) Content creators won't save you. They're good for awareness, but their audience is theirs, not yours. Don't build your launch strategy around someone else's community.

(4/8) Research every festival, every site, every press outlet that might cover indie games. Then do outreach. Manual, personalised outreach. We spent MONTHS on this. It's "boring" work, but needs to be done.

(3/8) Physical rewards are highly recommended. Digital-only is great, but many backers want the option of something they can touch.

(2/8) Custom art isn't optional. Stock assets don't cut it. People back campaigns that look like they're already real. If your page looks generic... you're done before you start.

We launched our Kickstarter just over 24 hours ago. Fully funded in 3 hours.

November: 10 people in Discord, no demo, no assets.

Today: 200+ Discord members, public demo, funded campaign. This is what happened. 🧵

And we accidentally love you for it 🙏

Go check out the live campaign → www.kickstarter.com/projects/ind...

Somebody pinch me!

Coming soon: 🔥 Feed the Scorchpot: A Roguelike About Dice and Dragons Roll dice, cook chaos, and feed your dragon in this cozy-chaotic tabletop roguelike. Build your island and survive 20 years.

All the goodness is here → www.kickstarter.com/projects/ind...

LIVE. WE ARE LIVE.

We got here, launched a thing. And people are helping bring the project to life.

Great to see all of this work come together, and people resonate 🙌

Coming soon: 🔥 Feed the Scorchpot: A Roguelike About Dice and Dragons Roll dice, cook chaos, and feed your dragon in this cozy-chaotic tabletop roguelike. Build your island and survive 20 years.

We're gonna cook with dragons in 24 hours!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ind...

This is nerve-wracking.

First Kickstarter campaign we've ever run. About 24 hours till we launch.

Been working on this campaign since November last year. Wish me luck!

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Check it out here: store.steampowered.com/app/3249380/...

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