I have been looking forward to today’s interview for SO long. Last fall, we funded a Kickstarter that was WILDLY successful for a little game called Wanderhome, and I actually did a blog interview with the two people spearheading the project. I’ll link that blog post in the show notes, and if you want to learn more about Wanderhome, I highly recommend you go check that post out.
Check out the blog interview here!
But today, I got to talk to those same two wonder people, Jay Dragon and Ruby Lavin about so many things. We talked about all the logistics of running a successful Kickstarter, everything they’ve been doing since the campaign ended like setting up Possum Creek Games as a LLC, all of the logistics they’ve had to manage with artists, layout, printers, merch fulfillment, setting up on online store–y’all there is a gold mine of information in this episode, and also, they are just SO FUN. I know that y’all are going to love learning from the two of them. I know this episode is a bit longer than what I normally strive for, but again, it was just such a good conversation, I couldn’t cut it off early.
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Alright, let’s go talk to two of my favorite people.
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Time Stamps
- 00:00:00 Introduction
- 00:04:23 Jay & Ruby Introduction
- 00:12:49 How did you get into creating games?
- 00:14:47 Taking the idea for your game & launching a Kickstarter
- 00:17:11 Project Budgets
- 00:21:44 How did you find your art team?
- 00:24:15 Planning for stretch goals
- 00:26:28 Factors for beating your funding goal on day one
- 00:31:15 What did you do the day the Kickstarter ended?
- 00:36:03 Establishing a business with Kickstarter funds
- 00:43:11 Learning various administrative tasks through trial & error
- 00:44:35 Pros & cons of itch.io
- 00:52:57 3rd party fulfillment
- 00:59:23 Plans for Wanderhome after the Kickstarter
- 01:01:36 What has been the most challenging part?
- 01:07:04 What has been the most rewarding part?
- 01:11:03 Upcoming projects
- 01:14:36 Where can people find you?
- 01:16:07 Wrap-up
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