Creator Tips
How to Fund Your Idea: A Complete Guide for Creators
Every creative project starts with the same question: How am I going to pay for this?
Kickstarter
For Backers
How to Back a Crowdfunding Project on Kickstarter
Everything you need to know before and after supporting your first creative project.
Comics
Kickstarter Heads to San Diego Comic-Con 2026 to Celebrate the Future of Comics
Join Kickstarter at San Diego Comic-Con for conversations with legendary comics creators, practical crowdfunding insights, and a weekend celebrating the stories, creators, and community shaping the future of comics.
Comics
What To Do If Your Comic Book Printer Suddenly Closes
Don't let an unexpected printing disruption derail your campaign. Here's how to find a new comic book printer, communicate with backers, and keep your project moving. Also: a special deal for Kickstarter Comics Creators from Mixam Printing.
Games
Meet SideQuest: A Community Effort to Bring Tabletop Crowdfunding Back to Basics
SideQuest is proving that successful Kickstarter campaigns can be small, affordable, and easy to deliver.
Product Updates
What's New on Kickstarter This Summer: Better Discovery and Fulfillment Flexibility
We've been hard at work, rolling out updates designed to make fulfillment more flexible, improve project discovery, and strengthen creator and backer trust.
Case Studies
Community Is Everything: The Story Behind the Most Funded Tabletop Role Playing Game in Crowdfunding History
How did Legends of Avantris' Neon Odyssey raises more than $16 million? It might have had something to do with their 49,116 backers.
Creator Spotlights
20 Years of Radical DIY Publishing, Brick-by-Brick
The independent publisher PM Press, founded in 2007 by Ramsey Kanaan and Craig O'Hara, looks to continue for another 20 years.
Next Wave
Meet the First Recipients of the Google Next Wave Fund
From robotic hands and AI translation to respiratory health and digital scent, these creators are turning ambitious ideas into reality with support from the Kickstarter X Google Next Wave Fund.
Creator Spotlights
Eight Kickstarter Campaigns Later, Here's What FLYOS Would Tell New Creators
The Montreal-based studio, FLYOS, is known for immersive narrative experiences like Vampire: The Masquerade — CHAPTERS and Rayman: The Board Game. What's next?
Creator Spotlights
Creator Spotlight: Restoration Games Brings The King's Gambit to Middle-earth
From a long-simmering dream project to an unlikely collaboration with Space Cowboys, Restoration Games co-founder Justin Jacobson shares the story behind The King's Gambit, the evolution of his studio, and why community remains at the heart of every Kickstarter campaign.
Newsroom
More Than 1 Million Jobs Created: Kickstarter’s Growing Impact on the Global Economy
New research shows how Kickstarter continues to fuel job creation and long-term economic activity across the creative economy.
