[joshuaheard]

You violated my number one rule of business: never, ever, give a contractor your money unless and until they have earned it. I learned this the hard way as well. I own several rental properties, and I don't let the property managers collect the rent; I collect it myself (using ViewPost email invoicing).

You don't explain, but I don't understand why you couldn't open a bank account. Citizenship is not required. There are online agencies as well, such as Paypal. Was the problem on Kickstarter's side? It seems to me they would have provisions for international clients.

I wish you luck, and am glad you are able to warn people. Out of state lawsuits against out of business corporations (I assume they are out of business, or are about to be) are difficult to collect, but hiring a lawyer is a necessary first step.

[earlyriser]

I have some experience on this: If you want your KS campaign to be in USD, you need to have a US bank account and, if I remember, a member of the team living in USA. Paypal is not a solution on their system. There's a deal between KS & Stripe's Atlas to let you create a US company and bank account to solve this issue, but for a gameboard that's going to maybe collect 10K is a lot of complexity for not enough gains.