GameLaunched Launches - It's Like Kickstarter for Gamers Except Not

[Shawn Zipay]

About a week ago, a new service was launched that is kind of like Kickstarter for gamers but not really. It's called GameLaunched and it is a new crowd funded based website that is exclusive to gaming. See, while Kickstarter does have some game ideas on it, there are a lot of non-game projects on there.

GameLaunched is all gaming all the time, but don't take my word for it, let this excerpt from a press release show you the light.

The team at GameLaunched wanted to create a platform that catered to gaming designers and developers, while adding feedback from past and present campaign creators that failed to raise funds on other sites.

GameLaunched created a Launch Crew, a panel of industry experts and gaming personalities will help select featured projects each month and maybe even provide some mentoring. Crowdfunding can be challenging, but a little guidance and mentoring can go a long way.

After games are successfully funded and developed, campaign creators can use GameLaunched as a marketplace to help sell and promote their games. We believe in continuing to support the efforts of the designers and developers who utilize GameLaunched to fund their game.

As a bit of a small incentive to be active in the service, the site also includes a little XP system. You can gain XP by backing campaigns and offering up social media shares for projects on things like Twitter and Facebook. Users can then trade in their XP for various merchandise from the GameLaunched marketplace.

Submissions began to be accepted on December 12, with the campaigns going live and opening to funding on January 1, 2013. For more information, feel free to check out GameLaunched now and again at the start of the new year. You know, this is assuming we make it past the 21st...

[Linux]

The concept seems cool but I really hope they overhaul the web-site look, after about 30 seconds of it was making me gag with the color scheme and just layout -_-.