Launch With Kickforge

Strategy Call

If you need help with a specific question or want to pressure-test your plans, the Strategy Call is the simplest place to start. If you decide to work with KickForge afterward, the cost of your consultation can be put toward one of our services, so you won’t end up paying twice.

Beginner’s Blueprint

For creators who want to run their campaign themselves but don’t know where to start. You’ll get a structured framework, relevant resources, and guidance to help you understand what needs to be done and build your campaign with a clear plan.

Forged in Full

For creators who want KickForge directly involved in their campaign. We’ll work with you throughout the process, from planning and building your campaign through marketing, outreach, and campaign management

The sooner, the better. How much time you need depends on where your project is, how much awareness you already have, the size of your audience, and what you’re hoping to accomplish with the campaign.

A strong Kickstarter takes time to prepare. That can mean building your audience, developing your campaign page, preparing marketing and outreach, finding the right creators and press, and making sure everything is ready before you launch. Starting early gives you more room to do that properly instead of trying to build everything around a deadline.

Absolutely. You don’t need to have everything figured out before you start.

The Beginner’s Blueprint is specifically designed to help you get an early start, understand what actually goes into running a video game Kickstarter, and know what you should be working on next. Instead of piecing together advice from outdated guides, dead links, and generic Kickstarter resources that aren’t relevant to games, you’ll have a structured roadmap and resources built around the process you’re actually trying to navigate.

Starting early also gives you time to identify what’s missing, fix problems before they become urgent, and build toward your campaign with a much clearer plan.

You don’t need to have your campaign figured out before reaching out. In fact, getting started early can save you a lot of time and help you avoid building things in the wrong order.

If you’re still figuring out your audience, rewards, campaign structure, marketing, or what you need to have ready for launch, the Beginner’s Blueprint can help you work through those pieces and understand what needs to happen next.

If you’re further along and have the core materials and audience needed to start preparing for launch, Forged in Full can take a more hands-on role in getting the campaign ready and managing it through launch.

Yes. You don’t need to be starting from scratch.

Whether you’ve already started building your Kickstarter page, planning rewards, growing your audience, or preparing your marketing, we can look at where you are and determine what still needs to be done.

No one can guarantee that a Kickstarter will reach its funding goal. There are too many factors involved, and ultimately the audience and community decides whether a campaign gets funded.

The overwhelming majority of campaigns supported by KickForge have reached their funding goal. That comes from careful preparation, realistic campaign planning, and adapting the strategy when needed.

Your team’s involvement matters too. Kickstarter works best when we’re able to communicate openly, follow through on the work, and make changes when the campaign calls for them

KickForge primarily works with indie game developers. The strategies, resources, and campaign process are built around the specific challenges of running a Kickstarter for a game, from building an audience to working with creators and press, planning rewards, and preparing for launch.

We’ll start by looking at your project, where you are in the process, and what needs to happen next. From there, the process depends on the service you’ve chosen.

For the Beginner’s Blueprint, you’ll get access to the resources, framework, and guidance you need to start working through the campaign yourself.

For Forged in Full, we’ll establish the campaign plan and begin working through the areas KickForge is handling with you.