If you said Kickstarter you would be correct.

Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler has been on a bit of a conference and press run lately. Just a few weeks ago he was in Charleston South Carolina for the Dig South festival, sharing a stage with TechCrunch East Coast Editor, John Biggs. Monday, he was also with Biggs, but this time Biggs was delivering the questions in a fire side chat at TechCrunch Disrupt NY.

Of course they talked about all things crowdfunding, but one of the most interesting parts of their discussion was about board games.

While everyone is constantly thinking about apps and mobile games, board games have made a comeback of sorts. While on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY Strickler told Biggs that Kickstarter has been credited with being the first thing to shake up the board game industry since the 1970’s.  That’s when role playing games were just starting to break into the mainstream,

There is actually a large group of board gaming enthusiasts out there who’ve had ideas for board games but never had the resources to get them created. Kickstarter has significantly changed that of course with the biggest example being Cards Against Humanity.

But how much of a dent could Kickstarter, an online platform filled with tech innovation, actually have to do to the bottom line of the board game industry? Well so far there’s been over $100 million dollars committed on Kickstarter for board game projects. Strickler was also quick to point out that in 2013 more dollars were pledged to board games than video games.

“Projects are funded because people think they are cool, because of that you get all kinds of crazy things funded” Strickler told Biggs during their chat.

After the talk moved away from board games, Biggs asked Strickler the big questions everyone was expecting to here. No Kickstarter doesn’t plan on going public Strickler said.

Biggs also asked Strickler about crowdfunding for equity. Strickler said they are going to sit that one out. They like the model where people fund things they think are cool and get cool prizes in return.

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