Tuesday, April 9, 2013

The Family Vacation Kickstarter Postmortem

With less than 24 hours to go and just over 100 backers, the Family Vacation Kickstarter is on track to come up short of our $12,000 goal. As Jim Dietz mentioned in the latest project update, we are looking for some advice on our upcoming relaunch.

Let me just say this right here: Thanks so much to all those who have backed this project, even when things started looking down. The support of so many family and friends, not to mention quite a few complete strangers, feels really great and makes me want to keep fighting for this game.

As we look at our options going forward, we need to face some hard truths. Certainly, a number of factors contributed to this outcome. We've got a pretty big list going and another list of more things to do better next time, but we'd like to hear from you. If you backed Family Vacation, or even (especially?) if you didn't, how do you think we can be more effective?

In service of this goal, please take a moment and participate in the four short survey questions to the right. Also, please add details or other ideas in the comments. Thank you so much for your investment in this project!