So I'm not sure who all remembers The Longest Journey, or Dreamfall. But they were single player games developed by Funcom the makers of Anarchy Online, Age of Conan and The Secret World. Basically they told the story of a main character trying to figure out what is going on while traveling through alternate realities. Well Funcom agreed to allow Red Thread Games, a startup created by Ragnar Tournquist the creator of both TLJ and Dreamfall, to license the TLJ universe and create the next Chapter in the series called Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey. To fund this project Red Thread Games put up a kickstarter project. With the Kickstarter project Red Thread Games asked for people to pledge $850,000 to help fund the development of the game. They said that on top of the Kickstarter project they were also receiving funding from the Norwegian government to create the game.
Within a week of the Kickstarter project being put out onto the Internet Red Thread Games had already amassed the requested funds of $850,000. They started adding Stretch goals up to $2,000,000 which would allow them to also wrap up the original game, The Longest Journey, and tell us what happened to April Ryan the protagonist in The Longest Journey.
900,000 - Would Add Apple and Linux Support.
950,000 - An Ingame Library
1,000,000 - Added Locations and characters
1,050,000 - Another location
1,100,000 - A graphic Novel
and so on
As of this writing Red Thread Games has achieved far more than they expected gaining a Pledge of more than $1,500,000. I have to say I am impressed. Good Luck Red Thread Games, I can't wait to see the final product.