In the last few years, Kickstarter has given a chance to indie game makers to create products. But what about medium-sized companies with a slew of releases already? Why did Cheapass Games and Days of Wonder seek funding from the crowd?

The crowd-funding site Kickstarter has been instrumental in indie game makers in finding a way to launch a product–one need only look at Cards Against Humanity for the perfect example. But now known game companies are seeking the same success from fans willing to finance a game before it is made.

Days of Wonder, makers of the Small World and Ticket to Ride games, have been unique in that they develop digital versions of their board games themselves, rather than licensing it out to other companies. They launched a Kickstarter to fund new digital version of Small World.

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