How do you distribute your games via crowdfunding?

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How do you distribute your games via crowdfunding?

#1 Post by numituwi »

Apologies if this is the incorrect place for this question! But I'm interested in knowing how people who reward their games on crowdfunding sites send them off?

I think some people use steam keys, but what do you do when steam isn't an option? Dropbox?

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Humble widgets:
https://www.humblebundle.com/developer/widget

Even if you don't plan to sell your game via the widget, you can create it as a product on the widget and upload a list of email addresses who will receive the game. What is delivered can be any combination of Steam key(s) and DRM-free downloads.

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Re: How do you distribute your games via crowdfunding?

#3 Post by Katy133 »

itch.io also allows you to distribute Kickstarter digital rewards.

I'm using itch.io to showcase some of my games, and I highly recommend itch.io, but I've never used it for distributing crowdfunding rewards (so I don't have any experience on that), but the article I've linked above has step-by-step instructions on how to do it.
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I sent my Kickstarter backers to bmtmicro.com for a commercial game, which I also sold afterwards through their site (being that they allowed NSFW content.) Backers were given a discount code that allowed them to redeem the game for free.
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