Kickstarter Gets its First 2 - $1 Million Projects on the Same Day

Things are looking up for Kickstarter, a small company dedicated to crowd-sourcing interesting projects and products. On the very same day two projects crossed the $1 million line in funding, which had never been crossed before.

The first project to cross the line is an interesting iPhone 4 dock that doesn’t suffer from the shoddy design that the official one does. Not only does it look nicer, when you pick the phone up out of the dock, you don’t have to hold the dock down.

The other project to cross the line did it with a bit more fanfare, despite being the second one to do so. It was an unnamed point and click adventure game by point and click adventure game phenom Tim Schafer, the head behind such enduring sleeper hits as Grim Fandango, Psychonauts, and Day of the Tentacle. His studio had decided that, rather than seek funding for a small, experimental project in a mostly dead market, he would put it to his fans. and his fans came out in droves, passing the $400,000 development budget in 8 hours, and, once that went viral, passing the $1 million mark in a total of less than 24 hours.

Another note: if you happen to be a fan of Double Fine entertainment, Schafer’s studio, they will be making a sequel to Psychonauts. Apparently, Marsus Persson, AKA Notch of Minecraft fame, liked the game and is willing to put up the money for financing. So that’s good.

Kickstarter has been on quite the roll lately, with project after project getting fully funded. We reported earlier that they managed to seed $100 million in 2011, and that 46% of all its projects were successfully funded. So if you’ve had a crazy idea you’ve been meaning to build into a product, now is the time.

The Verge Photo by : Double Fine Adventure