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Mission Control: The changing boundaries of control and ownership in the world’s biggest crowd funding success.

Mission Control: The changing boundaries of control and ownership in the world’s biggest crowd funding success.

The latest controversy surrounding the in development game Star Citizen, struck me as illustrative of the pitfalls and complexities of new forms of financing, and how they manifest the sunk cost fallacy in new, unexpected ways. It isn’t just...
By Tim Groot on 09/24/18 Comments Off on Mission Control: The changing boundaries of control and ownership in the world’s biggest crowd funding success.

SCiO: the Star Trek tricorder in real life

One of the most emblematic and authentic motifs from the American sci-fi television series Star Trek involves the medical officer Leonard McCoy using a tricorder in order to scan and analyse living beings and environments. He records data with a small...
By Josip Batinic on 09/16/14 Comments Off on SCiO: the Star Trek tricorder in real life
Crowdfunding indie games, catering the long tail.

Crowdfunding indie games, catering the long tail.

The latest trend in gaming is definitely the abundant supply of indie games releasing across all platforms. Indie Games are games created by small studios who usually consist of only a few people. They are generally released on digital platforms...
By Wannes Sanderse on 09/16/13 1

Kickstarting the crowdfunding trends

  For those who might not yet be familiar with Kickstarter, this is a U.S. based funding platform for creative projects launched on April 2009 and working on the principle of crowdfunding : people (“backers”) can pledge to fund...
By Ana Crisostomo on 10/05/12 Comments Off on Kickstarting the crowdfunding trends