Game development Kickstarter

It is a noble cause ... but to be honest if you want to learn anything these days ( at least the fundamentals) go to youtube.( have a look for BurgZerg Arcade) The problem that I see is that the questions people have would be so diverse that it is impossible to serve them all e.g. Engines ( Cocos2D, Corona, Unity 3D, Unreal Engine 3.0, CryEngine 3.0, Game Maker), Scripting Languages ( C#, Java Script, Lua, Objective C#, Game Maker Language, HTML5), Programming Languages( C, C++), Modelling Tools ( Blender, Maya, Max, Zbrush, Mudbox, Cinema 4D, MilkShape 3D), Textureing Tools (Photoshop, Corel Draw, Gimp), Revison Control( Perforce, GitHub), Audio Software, Plannin Software ... please continue the examples yourself. This is a lot of things to gather and compile. Most of the stuff is already done in the respective fields, you just need to have the determination and the money to get it all. Let's put this all aside: who is going to supervise the compilation? The next thing is that there are constantly new trends, so how do you keep it up to date? This might sound a little disheartening

Now the next bit is only my personal view and I'm not trying to step on anyones toes: but do we want everyone to make games? Don't get me wrong. I support people wanting to get into game development! Hell I spend the last 11 years of my life to finally get close to where I want to be. But you have to work really hard. And unfortunately most games that are developed by hobby devs are far below average in regards to quality. Have you looked into the App Stores larely? All a result because game development is more accessible than ever. And I'm not even going to start to speak about what people motivates to make games.

My job right now makes me work on games, that make my heart bleed when I fix, debug and somewhere down the line publish them. Seriously if it was my company I wouldn't have published any of those games because the quality is so far below from what I was trained to do.

To bring this to an end: Yes live your dream, do it. I don't regret anything. Not the time spend, the hardship, the (bloody) expensive school I went to, the disillusion after finishing the education in regards to the job market and getting a job after spending an entire year next to my 7am - 5pm job to build up a portfolio that finally got me a job in games. But to be honest everyone will have to deal with the reality of making games. So if you want to make awesome high quality games ( models, story, level design, game design, sound, textures) go for it it's all out there! And maybe a kickstarter is a good Idea to help people who cannot afford the education at private specialised schools but don't do it if you think you can make games by sitting down for 1/2h every day.

Ok. Please feel free to take my statement apart I welcome the discussion

Bumping this thread up to see if anyone has some fresh insights or things they'd like to add.

Okay so there are people who obviously don't like the idea such as arondc and Dawnreaver. But I do recall people mentioning that they backed Godus because they were hoping to learn some intimate knowledge of developing a game like that. So are you saying that you wouldn't ever back a project like I described?

Would anyone be willing to back a project like this for say the price of what you'd normally pay for a game? (you'd get the game at the end of the project I would imagine)