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5th Cell to crowdfund for original game on Kickstarter-alternative Fig

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Scribblenauts developer 5th Cell announced today it will raise money on the Fig crowdfunding site in a campaign that begins on Oct. 21.

The new campaign is another endorsement for Fig, which just launched its alternative game funding business in competition with Kickstarter. 5th Cell said it will use the money to create a new original intellectual property. Fig was founded by Justin Bailey, Freeman White, and Bob Ippolito and was established from a coalition of independent game developers including Tim Schafer (Double Fine), Feargus Urquhart (Obsidian), and Brian Fargo (InExile), all of whom plan to use it in the future.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.