Today, crowdfunding is mostly synonymous with Kickstarter. It's the biggest crowdfunding platform there is. It's also got a bunch of metrics that are happy to sing its praises. Kickstarter campaigns have already raised over $7.109 billion.

Kickstarter is an all-or-nothing platform, meaning that if the project doesn't reach its fundraising goal, the project creator doesn't receive any of the money.

There are others crowdfunding platforms which runs similar to Kickstarter, such as Patreon, StartEngine MicroVentures, Indiegogo, Crowdfunder, EquityNet, Fundable, DemoHour, ZhongChou, but its main rival is Gamefound.

Gamefound is a platform derived from the tabletop industry made for board game fans and makers, it's a crowdfunding platform similar to Kickstarter with the differentiation being that it can only be used to host board gaming related projects. For years, it was known as a pledge manager platform.

Kickstarter and Gamefound is not a store, they do not issue refunds for failed projects. When you join a game project, you're supporting a creator's right to try to make something new, and agreeing to go along for the ride, it's all-or-nothing. This means that if game project does not reach the funding goal, money paid will be lost. When joining a game project, you automatically accepted this agreement.

*Kickstarter/gamefound屬於眾籌平台, 報名者可在兩個方案中選一:

(1) 當遊戲公司收取費用時, 就會要求報名者遞交$$, 之後承擔相關風險(例如公司賴帳唔派game),
(2) 放棄政府資助金, 之後繳付50%訂金, 遊戲到之後再繳付其餘50%, 假如沉船了(收不到遊戲), 就會退回50%訂金, 達至零損失