Kickstarter game funding is on the rise — but most of the money is still going to a few big names

Crowdfunding isn’t dead. But it’s also probably not for you.

Kickstarter is back on the rise when it comes to funding games, according to a report from data firm RJMetrics. And the crowdfunding site, which enables anyone to ask for contributions from the public to help ideas get made, owes its resurgence in this space to what made it such a big deal in the first place: big-name developers. After a number of massive campaigns raised nearly $25 million in Q3 of 2012, Kickstarter had seen a steady decline in the money contributed to game ideas.