Kickstarter Basics: Building Your Budget

Time and time again is see people struggling with KS budget and cost planning. I've created many videos related to the topic, but I decided the best thing to do would be to do a full walkthrough of an example budget. Watch the video for full details. I hope this helps!!

[misaandcoart]

This is a godsend. As a newbie-ish person to Excel and non-math human I found this immeasurably informative.

[imppoweredgames]

Another eye opening video. Thanks Edo!

[colinpurchase]

Awesome video, this has really helped me preparing for my first Kickstarter campaign, thank you Edo!

[NubbyBob]

As someone who's currently making a game which I plan to kickstart in a few months this is amazing!

[thertower]

Interesting approach. Thanks for sharing Ed!

[ChrisCypher]

This video was great! (as are all I've watched of your KS series). This is quite a service to the community!

[boardgamecloset]

Great video! I don’t have a Kickstarter campaign but found this super interesting.

[ofir-tzvierlich]

More than the tool itself, I like the consolidated list of possible expenses. It helps me think about those issues beforehand.
According to the numbers you get, what should be your Kickstarter goal?

[Drakkkan]

thanks for sharing the basics. For first timer this is definitely valuable even if I do not know all the numbers yet (like shiping etc.)

[mageKnightz]

Good lord Edo, thank you so much. This is a godsend. Thanks for such a great resource for the community!

[JeffCBeck]

Great video as usual, Ed - thanks for being so transparent with it. It's so important to point out the real risks in this industry, so potential creators can be aware, and work to minimize them. Keep up the great work!

[TheTerrainWizard]

Thank you for making this youtube and for sharing it.

I thought tabletop gaming distributors paid 70%-80% of MSRP to publishers, which on a $50 game would put the sale price to a distributor in the $10-$15 range.

[jaycormier]

Thanks Edo - this was super interesting and valuable! Appreciate your time making this video!

[rabardy]

Thank you... very helpful and informative... and thank you for the xsl sheet... much appreciated!

[paulinek]

This is an amazing educational video! thank you for sharing again! this is very resourceful!

[matheusrevez]

Thanks for this content, this is gold!

[CMPerry]

Thank you for sharing some of the nuts & bolts type information about this process! I imagine this will help many creators not make as many mistakes the first time through. Great content!

[Oepogean]

Ed, great video. I've been going through all of your Kickstarter League videos. I am wondering, do you have a League video about international fulfillment and being "UK-friendly", "Canada-friendly", "EU-friendly", etc.?

[StuffByBez]

Thanks for sharing!

What I don't understand is: after doing this, what's the point?

I understand that it's important to double-check you're making money, but other than deciding to launch, or not bother with a given game, does this actually tell you to do/not do anything?

Thanks for the help.