{"id":425,"date":"2012-12-24T16:59:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T21:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/?p=425"},"modified":"2012-12-24T17:00:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T22:00:30","slug":"425","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/2012\/12\/24\/425\/","title":{"rendered":"A new Kickstarter fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently contributed to C. Aaron Kreader&#8217;s Kickstarter project <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1230703246\/dungeoncraft-hero-versus-guardian\" target=\"_blank\">DungeonCraft <\/a>(and encouraged my contacts to do so as well).\u00c2\u00a0 Based on one of Aaron&#8217;s alerts, I proceeded to support a second project, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1615043334\/arcana-agency-the-thief-of-memories-a-full-color-g\" target=\"_blank\">Arcana Agency<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Both have exceeded their funding goals and apparently are on their way to manufacturing.\u00c2\u00a0 In the process, I discovered something interesting, but perhaps not surprising, about the Kickstarter process: I feel invested (literally) in the success of these projects in a way that I don&#8217;t when I just purchase a product that&#8217;s already been created.\u00c2\u00a0 Knowing that my funds will help make the difference in whether or not it comes out, and waiting to find out what the outcome will be, provides an additional level of connection.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, I&#8217;ve been inspired to try Kickstarter myself&#8230;the project I&#8217;m toying with has to wait its place in the queue, but I hope to have something to announce in late spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently contributed to C. Aaron Kreader&#8217;s Kickstarter project DungeonCraft (and encouraged my contacts to do so as well).\u00c2\u00a0 Based on one of Aaron&#8217;s alerts, I proceeded to support a second project, Arcana Agency.\u00c2\u00a0 Both have exceeded their funding goals and apparently are on their way to manufacturing.\u00c2\u00a0 In the process, I discovered something interesting, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[91],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}