Game Monument lets players contribute to games and get credited in the game.
Game Monument lets players contribute to games and get credited in the game.
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Game Monument will let players fund titles by giving them credit inside games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
  • Updated
  • 3 min

Nate Pacyga had a big thought inside a cathedral, where he saw donors credited by their support of the Bath Abbey in the United Kingdom. He wondered why that can’t happen in video games.

As game developers build their monumental creations, Pacyga thought that players could also get credit for their contributions inside the game. And so Minneapolis-based Game Monument was born.

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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.