Funding the Dream

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&a...

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 tha...

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.

Crowdfund your Indie film into your local theater. Create virtual film festivals through your local cinema. Learn how Nicolas Gonda has created a process to crowdfund movies and films screenings.

Chris and Cherilyn Kirkman discuss how to be successful on Kickstarter. The secret is a lot of hard work and good product. They discuss their success with their three Kickstarter projects and the changes happening on Kickstarter

Imagine having a Star Trek Replicator in your own home. Okay, maybe we aren't that far, but 3D printers have come a long way to being a household item. Matt Strong sits down to discuss 3D Printers and Open Source and his project called Tangi-Bot. A 3D printer in every home.

Michael Laine wants to use Kickstarter to reach the stars. His project is the initial phase of a process to build a space elevator on the moon and then on Earth. His project is fascinating and electrifying.

Matt Forbeck is making a living on Kickstarter. In 2012 he has launched 4 Kickstarter projects to write 12 novels. And as his fourth project wraps up, he has demonstrated that Kickstarter can be a solid part of a business plan to make a living.

Our first stop of the road trip across America was in Ontario California as we spoke with Ta-Te Wu and his project Battle of Red Cliffs

Jason Kotarski, a Pastor in Flint, MI, decided to create a game he could enjoy with his wife. His process of finding a publishers proved to be a more daunting task than he anticipated.

If you have run a Kickstarter project, you are probably aware of the point when you realize that you have offered a reward that is costing you more than the pledge level...and it usually involves Dice. I sit down with Tracy Barnett to discuss the planning and preparation of a project and how Dice can come back to bite you if you don't pay attention.

Kickstarter is changing nearly every category it touches. Tyler James, from Comix Tribe, discusses how Kickstarter is affecting the Comic Book industry and how his organizations is working with the new market dynamics.

Every project experiences the same thing; After the initial launch and enthusiasm the mid project blues set in. Things seem to drag on slowly. We sit down with Robert Harrington to discuss his project and the ways he has found to overcome this mid project downturn.