It's good to see different options and game titles, not saying its going to be good or bad at this stage, until you actually play the game, as how can you tell..

doesn't kickstarter only pay when you hit your goal? What % cut do kickstarter get?

I admire what you have done so far, with your personal effort and money, not to mention balancing it with real life, work & relationships, as I know how destructive a bad balance can be.

I don't see a reason not to use kickstarter as "a" method used to get the funding. But hopefully not as a "sole" method of investment and backing in the interim. "Don't leave it in someone else's hands, forge your destiny". Which I am sure you know.

I don't agree with millions being spent on some projects, where this could have been spent on something more constructive for peoples "life or death" situations. But that is a bigger global picture of uneven wealth distribution.

Hard to get the backing from investors, when the concept is there, but the proof is in the pudding for most companies, i.e. track record. So to get to that stage or marketability, since you are straining / draining the resource pool & the cash flow. Perhaps alternative methods of cash generation are needed. (and I'm not talking about UV lamps and vegetation :P)

The post I deleted re alternative cash flow management, might be an alternative in the mean time, of getting some cash flow. Or use creative financial generating methods for cash flow. Not just kick-starter future money. But I am sure you know what you are doing.

Its a hard balance you have to manage, and yes, that sort of personal / required money is sole destroying, if you are unable to maximise your dreams and vision of the goal, without it (money). (been there done that)

I hope it succeeds, just for the hours guys that have been put in.

ps. some people have been saying that this is so much better than reload, then changing their opinions when they hear someone else backing reload, and vice versa. swing, swing, swing, schwing, Just generally swinging with the consensus to be popular :) Fingers crossed you can get to the stage of competing 1v1 titlevtitle or titlesvtitles in the marketplace :).