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Minecraft: The Story of Mojang

February 23, 2011September 26, 2012 Doug Groves Kickstarter, Minecraft, Minecraft The Story of Mojang, PC gaming2 Comments

When Markus “Notch” Persson first launched Minecraft, I don’t think he expected to see the indie game grow as popular as it did. Not only has the game well surprassed 1,000,000 copies sold at this point, but it’s getting its own movie. 2 Player Productions, the people behind Reformat the Planet, have launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise the funds to make Minecraft: The Story of Mojang, and with a month to go have already raised almost a third of the $150,000 budget.

Crowd sourced funding and distribution brings Pioneer One TV series to life

June 17, 2010June 17, 2010 Doug Groves bit torrent, crowd sourcing, Kickstarter, P2P, Pioneer One, torrent, VODO, vodo.net4 Comments

It was just yesterday at NXNEi that we were talking with Perry Chen, one of the founders of Kickstarter about how the site has really helped facilitate crowd sourcing funding for creative projects, and how it can really help independent creators off the ground. Even as we were talking to him, a Kickstarter funded TV project called Pioneer One saw the premiere of it’s pilot episode (includes .torrent link), via crowd sourced distribution network VODO.net. Pioneer One, which is political thriller with a science fiction element as it’s jumping off…

NXNE – fairly interactive

June 16, 2010June 16, 2010 Doug Groves Evan Ratliff, Interaxon, Kickstarter, NXNE, NXNE 2010, NXNEi, Perry Chen, Vanished, Ze Frank, zefrank5 Comments

As the inaugural year for NXNE interactive (NXNEi), the annual festival played it fairly small, with the focus being on a number of panels and conferences leading into the much larger music and film component. With a number of fascinating panels, from brain-computer-interfaces by Interaxon to established internet artists such as zefrank and a presentation from Kickstarter, which crowd sources funding for art projects across many disciplines, NXNEi was definitely about establishing online connections, not just in the business sense, but on a more personal and human level. Sometimes it…