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That's no exactly a lot of information to go on but I would suggest looking at every Kickstarter in the same category as yours. Look at the failed ones and the successful ones and most importantly understand why each one failed or succeeded. There are multiple interviews with the companies that do this discussing their plan and how they implemented it and why it worked or didn't.
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I have to keep some things secret. I can do most of the art (hurray for spending 4 years in perfecting DAZ Studio renders!) and the Layout as well as the writing. I have to hire a 3D modeler to model Kobolds for me, since the perfect replacement for the kobold in the 3D world -- the Raptorian from Sixus Studios -- is really, really hard to get now. I constantly swear at myself for not buying it earlier.
I can do goblins, I can do orcs, I can do elves, I can do medieval villages, I can do elven villages, I can put people dressed in a variety of outfits and animals in them, but some monsters out of the Bestiary needs to be modeled.
The Kickstarter will pay for the making of certain models and cartography and other costs.
You still haven't even said what type of kickstart. What is it for? A rules suplement? If so, what type? You talk about 3D - are you saying that will be for the art you put into a book or are you refering to a video game?
Successful projects are clear in what they want to do. We can't really tell you it would be a good idea if you can't tell us what you want to do.
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You still haven't even said what type of kickstart. What is it for? A rules suplement? If so, what type? You talk about 3D - are you saying that will be for the art you put into a book or are you refering to a video game?
Successful projects are clear in what they want to do. We can't really tell you it would be a good idea if you can't tell us what you want to do.
Oh, sorry. I didn't know you wanted to know that particular detail.
It's an Adventure set in an creatively anachronized version of America. What happened? During the reign of King Henry the Third, England had colonized North America. After the reign of Henry the Fifth, part of the Colonies -- New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland -- split off and formed the United States of America, with a government based off of the Roman Republic.
The Southern Colonies are known as Crown Colonies, and they are governed by a king. Texas split off the Southern Colonies and went their own way because the current king is a muslim.
America has also been colonized by the Sidhe. New England is colonized by Elves, Dwarves, and Halflings. Indigenous to America are kobolds, Native Americans, Goblins, Hobgoblins, gnolls,bugbears, and other beast men. There are dragons, cockatrices, minotaurs, and monsters in America (here be dragons). Orcs from Eastern Europe had also come over and colonized parts of the land.
The Adventure is set in the valley I know best, the Salt Lake Valley. The scenario is a human village and an elven village who are growing into one town is assaulted by a Kobold Army from the mountains seeking recompense for treasure stolen by a group of elven adventurers twenty years before -- and also revenge for the killing of their king.
The Adventure will come packaged as a PDF with a Creative Commons License to overcome provision 1 of the OGL because I can't afford to have it printed on matter as an exclusive rivalrous good yet. And I want direct competition. :)
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Sounds like you have some similarities to the Crown Colonies books by Michael Stackpole. Different but similar. Also check out this Kickstarter it may give you a good idea of the level of funding you could expect. The key with this kind of thing is getting your idea out there and making sure a lot of people are willing to support it.
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Yes. I understand.
I recently got a quote on having my kobold figure made. Looks like I'll be spending $4,200 on have the base naked kobold modeled and textured along with it rigged for Poser ($2,100) and the clothes -- leather harness, plate mail, and robes modeled and textured for poser ($2,100). So I'm looking at a base of $5,000.
That includes transfer of Copyright.
So having the models done yourself is expensive. But like I said, the key word there is meaning that the models can be sold for poser users at a lower price. Although I'm planning on having a reward for the Computer Graphics Society folks -- the ones that get mad at Poser users.
I've teamed up with Ann McCallum and Joan Waites to do a Kickstarter; Day of the Mantid .
This one is a kid's book, but if this goes well then I will do a gaming music set.
In service,
