Shadowrun: Hong Kong studio finds Kickstarter is a viable business model

The “power of the crowd” brought Shadowrun back from the video game graveyard in 2013. And thanks to Kickstarter (and, well, themselves), fans of the venerable cyberpunk role-playing franchise have more than one game to enjoy.

Shadowrun: Hong Kong’s campaign on the crowdfunding site ends tomorrow, and the only question isn’t if it will make it but how much it’ll bring in. The effort has already tallied almost $1.1 million, breaking the $1 million mark Sunday and blasting its initial goal of $100,000 in less than two hours after it debuted Jan. 14. It also makes Shadowrun the first video game franchise to fund itself as a series on Kickstarter.