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Cipher Prime hits Kickstarter funding goal for Auditorium Duet, while IH8Zombies Kickstarter lags

This is a tale of two Philadelphia-based game developers who are experimenting with Kickstarter to fund the video games of their dreams.

Cipher Prime, the Old City-based game development shop of Auditorium and Fractal fame, crushed its funding goal for Auditorium Duet late in the month, closing out with $71,061. The money, Cipher Prime told Technically Philly when we covered the Kickstarter, signifies the necessary validation the company needs to build a complex sequel to its original hit, Auditorium.

The effort caught attention from Joystiq and saw a last minute surge in support.

Seth Perkin’s iH8Zombies Kickstarter is just under two weeks into its 45-day funding window, so there is still time for a comeback. Still, that effort is struggling to reach even 10 percent of it’s $35,000 funding goal, lingering below $1,400 as of time of publishing. Perkins has been developing the game for nearly three years and is trying to raise money to hire some help and finish the game, as Technically Philly reported.


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myDunkTank.com makes a cowboy out of Blake Jennelle

Blake Jennelle, receiving the oath of his 'urban cowboy' office from City Councilman Bill Green in front of a City Hall that is, by our best estimation, entirely unrelated to Philadelphia. Screenshot via a video from Revzilla

No one can be sure about the accuracy of Blake Jennelle‘s stereotype of a cowboy. Or how authentically the Philly Startup Leaders co-founder says ‘howdy.’

But what Jennelle has done is made a pledge, donned a Western hat and begun a month of wandering Philadelphia as an urban cowboy, the pledge he made as part of myDunkTank, the new experimental fundraising website launched last month by Jennelle and partner Chap Ambrose.


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