It was a consideration. Yes we wouldn’t get anything and no one gets charged anything if we don’t reach our goal.
Multiple crowd funding campaigns may be the way to go in the end, it’s hard to say. Especially since Kickstarter games section seems to have become more about ensuring larger names get funded, not because they need it, but because it’s good advertising. KS is ok with this obviously since funded projects keeps them alive.
But it could also be that if you’d like 500,000 and you run 5 different campaigns for 100K. You might find less people aren interested in funding the smaller campaigns knowing that you still need to successfully fund 4 others afterwards, but you’re going to keep their money regardless from the first one. IF you can’t make the game on 100K its a larger risk to the backers knowing that they lose the money regardless and if you don’t get the other campaigns funded you can’t make the game, at least not in the time frame that makes sense.
There are many factors overall. Right now our biggest problem is simply getting people to KS and making the masses aware of the game. There is still plenty of time left in our campaign and whichever way it goes we’ll proceed. And we can try and raise money with a different strategy after this one if we need to.