Lets quickly add that all up. Roughly 24 million dollars in total have been raised for crowdfunded games (just the kickstarter projects mentioned in the article).
For how long have we been doing that? Is crowdfunding games a 2012 thing?
Things changed dramatically after Tim Schaefer managed to raise 3 Mil $ for double fine adventure in Feb 2012. Since then, many games managed to raise above 1 Mil $, 9 actually per Kickstarter stats. Star Citizen, a flight sim, raised the most , 6 Mil $ just as of two weeks ago. Before that Project eternity was the record holder with 4.2 Mil $. Yeah, it's definitely a 2012 thing & if anything, it's acelerating.
For how long have we been doing that? Is crowdfunding games a 2012 thing?