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I’d like to know what he plans to do with $200,000. Is he staffing up a company?

It'll take more than just me. It'll be a team effort.

$200k feels like a pretty random number -- and maybe even a bit high. Draw people into your story and elaborate on where the $200k will go. What kind of a team are you going to put together? A team of 8? A team of 2? Water-front office space? Time share private helicopter?

This is the moment to really create momentum for the project -- if I were in your shoes, I'd spend a bunch of time today really refining the project details on Kickstarter. (Other successful Kickstarter projects might provide some great ideas.)

Cool, I have no doubt it’ll require a team. Offer a few more specifics on the Kickstarter page. How many people? Time frame?

I say this to help your efforts – more specifics mean more likely support, imho.

The goal for this one was 400k :

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1613260297/shadowrun-ret...

The point being, that you should lower the goal and the main milestone. Esp. as long as you don't have a team to show... if there's interest it can go up many times over your goal anyway. People would ignore the goals if they can get something compelling from their individual deals.

$200k would be a good start, IMHO. I have developed simpler apps that have cost far more than that. I am guessing this is probably going to be at least 2 years of effort if its just one man, and if a bigger team then he will definitely need the funds, especially to hire quality devs.

I'd like to know too, but I'm not skeptical of the 200k figure. If this is going to work then it's not going to be a solo effort, so let's say one or two more devs and someone to do QA or support or design or whatever and this budget is looking pretty tight.

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