James Portnow, Seattle-based game designer and co-creator of Extra Credits, a web series on pro-social game design.
Raised over $125,000 from over 4,000 people.
James and Extra Credits were featured at SXSW, Gamasutra, and the homepage of Reddit.
Meghan Sebold, Brooklyn-based social entrepreneur and designer.
Raised $5,000 for a sustainable clothing line that uses the textiles and talent of Ghana, West Africa.
Her fashion line, AFIA was featured in EcoSalon, TreeHugger, Refinery29, and is now available in boutiques across NYC.
Aram Bajakian, NYC-based avant-garde guitar player.
Raised $4,000 from fans and strangers to fund his album.
Lou Reed heard Aram and chose him as his new guitarist while Aram's album is now released by John Zorn's Tzadik record label.
Darko Lungulov, Serbia-based award winning international filmmaker.
Raised $9,000 from movie buffs for feature film project Here and There.
Film won "Best New York Narrative" at Tribeca Film Festival, featured in Variety, L.A. Times, New York Times, and was a top-10 indie box office theatrical release.
When Last We Flew, NYC-based Off-Broadway theatrical production team.
Raised $7,000 from theatre fans for the premiere Off-Broadway run.
Show sold-out at NYC Fringe Festival, won a GLAAD Media Award, and was featured in New York Times, Bloomberg, and American Theatre Magazine.
Regan Wann, Kentucky-based small business owner.
Raised $5,000 to expand her tea shop business.
RocketHub campaign featured in the Wall Street Journal exposing her business to millions.
Laura Boyd, NYC-based portrait and landscape photographer.
Raised $6,000 architectural photography project on location in Paris.
Photos featured in Artsicle Photography Show in the heart of Chelsea, NYC via LaunchPad.
Joshua Reuben Lewis, NYC-based singer-songwriter.
Raised $7,500 to record his first album.
Showcased at The Gibson Showroom and made A&R connections at Sony, Warner Music Group, and EMI via LaunchPad.
Paul Davis, Berlin-based fashion designer.
Raised $8,000 from fans and strangers for a new fashion line.
Clothing line featured at Berlin Fashion Week.
Caira Conner, Tennessee based NYU Master of Science.
Raised $2,000 to study Brazilian land and infrastructure development.
Featured in Americas Quarterly, completed innovative research, and submitted successful academic thesis.
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Any contribution of $1 receives: Every little bit helps, and as a thank-you gift for contributing, everyone gets a copy of my line-drawing code (as used in Captain Stretchy-Arms). Works on all of the platforms ExEn supports, plus XNA. 11 Fuelers!
Any contribution of $20 receives: Get yourself recognised as someone who made this possible – have your name immortalized in the ExEn source code. 24 Fuelers!
Any contribution of $50 receives: Early Access: Get access to the live source repository and bug tracker one month before the official release date. 9 Fuelers!
Any contribution of $100 receives: Immediate Access: Get access to the live source repository and bug tracker as soon as this project is funded! An excellent opportunity to help influence the project during development. 24 Fuelers!
Any contribution of $200 receives: I will personally provide email support for ExEn to you for one year. (limit: 6 support incidents – bugs fixed, questions answered, problems solved, etc)
Any contribution of $500 receives: Get the source code* to my Light Blocks game. A great example of how to make a game that runs on iPhone, Silverlight and XNA. 4 Fuelers!
Any contribution of $1,000 receives: I will personally work with you via email for up to three months to help you port your SpriteBatch-based XNA game to all of the platforms ExEn supports. (valid for 1 year) 1 Fueler!
Any contribution of $2,000 receives: I will personally implement a reasonable feature request of yours into the ExEn library for you. Ask me in advance, or hang onto it in case you need something later (valid for 1 year). 2 Fuelers!
Started by Andrew Russell December 21st, 2010
Hi my name is Andrew Russell, and I’m an indie game developer.
My website is AndrewRussell.net, where you can play some of my games. There’s Dark, which was my entry in the 2009 Dream Build Play competition. And there’s Light Blocks, an iPhone game. There’s also Captain Stretchy-Arms, which is currently in development (latest playable version).
I have a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Software Engineering from the University of Queensland. My thesis topic was the application of level-of-detail principles to crowd simulations, particularly for use in games.
What all these games and my thesis have in common is that they run on XNA. I have been using Microsoft’s XNA Framework for a few years now and have become a bit of an expert at it. I’m the all time top answerer of XNA questions over on Stack Overflow as well as the new Game Development site on Stack Exchange.
Before I used XNA, I used OpenGL and C++. My knowledge of OpenGL has been really useful for doing iPhone development. And my experience with C++ has given me a deep understanding of the performance-issues surrounding game development.
All this has come together as the basis for ExEn, a high-performance implementation of XNA that runs on Silverlight and the iPhone. It’s what I used to make Light Blocks and I’m also using it in Captain Stretchy-Arms.
I am currently crowd-sourcing funding on RocketHub that will enable me to release ExEn as open source software (and do an Android port as well).