# playing kickstarter for indie developers aka "i'm going to make a garme" to consider kickstarter as a digital art experience for indie garme developers price for this concept considered as a virtual art experience (insert here) example artist statement robert what: "to consider "indie garmes" as the pursuit of a computational dream - and funding the imaginative fuel which runs them your new helpful indie developer mantra: the phrase "i'm going to make a garme maybe on a computer or phone.." an wonderfully odd little phrase - a neat summary of the unique fuzzy set of intense feelings often involved in and experienced behind the default e-gold rush of modern indie development - **+** the often solitary contemplative quietude **+** the sense of being part of the 'avant garage' **+** the tingly excitement / 'refreshing-unicorn' naivety **+** the cloudy dreamy hopefulness **+** that cool #fakedev style you find all kinds of approaches to kickstarter funding - and the developers display a surprising number of complex psychological motives for starting them the particular campaign page shown here has been slightly modified for artistic emphasis - names changed a few zeros added and other numbers removed the page features what appears to be a sweet microcontroller running a garme of othello on a bds c compiler ("brain damage software") also note that / how the proto-developer stands in the bright summer sunshine with hair commonly viewed as fashionable an even tan designer shades and professionally trimmed beard looking for all the world someone on permanent holiday on ir own private island paradise the strength of this potential developer is clearly shown by ir prominent use of exclamation marks. you must understand: ey wants to make garmes! help ir make garmes!" bonus content for early backers notice the tiny woollen sheep standing beneath the monitor. bet you didn't! well there you go - that's the bonus reigning cash on my dreams non paradoxically it's for these very qualities that this kind of subtle refreshingly wide-eyed and unsophisticated (/eyeless unicorn) campaign should be funded in full heck if i had £x handy i'd drop some on this guy's pipe-dreams in an instant - just to see what an 'even better personalized garme of guess the number' by ir would look and play like. and i'd be doing so while being effortless amused by a video of ir cat going crazy in another window robert what wishes such wild untameable project creators every success - with a tiny dollop of potato salad on top for luck // republic of bob