Making games is harder than you think. Particularly if you work in the games industry.

[andrewducker]

Kickstarters Backed for Games:

Game	Estimated Delivery Date	Status
Carmageddon	Feb 2013	Beta
Clang	Feb 2013	Abandoned (after they announced that they basically lied about how much money they needed)
Defense Grid 2	Dec 2012	Original deliverable shipped, complete game still being worked on
Planetary Annihilation	Jul 2013	Beta
Project Eternity	April 2014	Beta-ish
Maia	June 2013	Alpha
Sui Generis	May 2014	Alpha
Godus	September 2013	Beta.  Undergoing a massive revamp to make it less shit
War for the Overworld	August 2013	Beta
Scale	December 2014	In development
Frog Fraction 2	September 2015	Froggy. Fractionated

So, yes. It seems that nobody in the games industry has a grasp on project estimation.

Comments

[dalglir]

I'd add Drifter by CGS to that list.following a successful crowd funding campaign, it's been scheduled for release for the last two years and is now slated for 'when it's ready'...

[andrewducker]

Oh, there are hundreds of other games that haven't made it yet.

These are just the ones I've backed!

[dalglir]

Ah. Of course. I remember sifting through the videogames section on Kickstarter... Freaking thousands of games on Kickstarter alone...

I've so far only backed 2 crowd funded projects:

Give Joe the Bird (in which the FARK community aimed to give Joe Biden a replacement Firebird for the car he gave up and, in the event of overfunding or shortfall, to donate the money to Joe's favourite charities), which failed but gave the money to Charities.

Squishy Forts, which appears to be getting there, though suffering some teething problems with production and logistics.

It's a fascinating way of investing in ideas.

[cyprinella]

I've given up on kickstarter for pretty much everything. Too many things not delivered.