Polygon:
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, the next game from former Castlevania producer Koji Igarashi, topped $1,750,000 in its Kickstarter this morning nearing the game's final stretch goal.
It took less than a day for the game to hit its $500,000 goal, which is meant to fund just 10 percent of the game and prove to the investors backing the other 90 percent that there is interest from gamers. The game hit $1 million the day after the Kickstarter went live.
The funding has brought with it a slew of stretch goals including a new boss, new playable character, nightmare mode, local co-op and, this morning at $1,750,000, a speed run mode. The final stretch goal, achieved at $2 million, is a boss rush mode.
it took less than 24hrs for the game to hit the million+ mark. by mid day yesterday it was over the $1.5mil mark and as of this morning its passed the $1.75mil mark.
Most projects seem to slow down on the influx of $$ when people see its reached it's goals. I hope that the next 30 days it keeps raking it in.
I'm guessing people are interested in another game by Koji, which would never have been made if he had still been imprisoned at Konami.
This is just one of many possible kS projects from known developers.
His video did surly help it .
And this is just the funding to prove to investors that people are interested. You can definitely add the investments on top of that, because holy crap, did he ever show them some interest. The whole campaign's quite brilliant, with achievements related to social metrics you'd present at a venture capital meeting. And it's out there for everyone to see at all times in a fun way.