Freddie Wong and Felicia Day at Dice Awards in 2014.
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Freddie Wong’s Video Game High School hits crowdfunding target — and sets a record

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Freddie Wong has a record-setting budget that he can use to finish his Video Game High School webseries for his third and last season.

Wong’s company RocketJump has completed a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo with more than $900,907 raised during a month-long campaign. The goal was to hit $750,000 to gather enough money to finish the sci-fi series about competitive gamers who attend a high school all about video games. In fact, the campaign set a record for a crowdfunded web series on Indiegogo.

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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.