Twin Portals - S3E02 - How We've Funded Our Projects

Matías is part of a successful Kickstarter campaign, and I've written myself into a seven-year long term of service with the residents of Minnesota. We get into the financial weeds a little bit, discussing a few different ways to get funding for small projects.  More Twin Portals video content (including this episode) will be up on YouTube very shortly! --- "Twin Portals" is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC. --- The title song, "Avernum," used with permission, and thanks to Leeland Campana of Star Wolf. --- Join the SWOJ crew on Discord here! --- Scott Hebert is a fiscal year 2025 recipient of a Creative Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature; and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. --- Content Inquiries: [email protected] Business Inquiries: [email protected] From Scott:  D&D and Politics with Brennan Lee Mulligan - The 90 minute conversation we reference at the start. Arrowhead Regional Arts Council | Artist and Arts Organization Grants - The arts council serving northeast Minnesota. Minnesota State Arts Board - The arts board serving all of Minnesota. Springboard For The Arts - A Minnesota non-profit dedicated to improving the lives of artists. ExcaliburCon 2025 - August 16th-17th ---  From Matías: here it is, in the form of a large-ish text dump: Resources for people interested in crowdfunding: Kicktraq - https://kicktraq.com/ - Look up every crowdfunding campaign ever and its stats/progress: The Crowdfunding Nerds podcast: https://crowdfundingnerds.com/episodes/ The Game Design Roundtable podcast: https://thegamedesignroundtable.com/ The Think Like a Game Designer podcast: https://www.thinklikeagamedesigner.com/podcast Reddit! Some subreddits in particular: r/DestroyMyGame r/gameassets r/gamedev r/INAT r/IndieDev Many social media groups, small and large, across all of the platform, dedicated to networking and sharing your work. Free and inexpensive/useful tools: Canva, GIMP, Free Stock/Creative Commons image websites, DaVinci Resolve, OBS, Tabletop Simulator Outsourcing for small tasks: Fiverr, Upwork, r/INAT Free assets and resource packs for creators: Lots of them on itch.io. OpenGameArt.org. DMs Guild. The Custom Commands discord bot, for supplementing a community server - easy and flexible scripting. Essentially, identify where your target backers might hang out, and announce your project in any acceptable forum where those people would hang out. Leading up to and during a crowdfunding campaign, look for other upcoming/active campaigns with a similar vibe or audience, and contact their people directly to see if they're interested in cross-promotion. We met many friendly fellow developers this way. Build up an email mailing list as soon as possible, along with your community server.