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I get your point, but I think you're identifying the wrong problem. Kickstarter backers being averse to "here's my idea, give me money" pitches is rational. Most professional game developers are pretty bad at estimation, pretty bad at risk forecasting, and just generally aren't great at bringing stuff to market on time and on budget. Kickstarters with a bunch of people with no real personal credibility or track record (individually or as a group) are serious risks and it's perfectly understandable that they'd be treated as such by potential backers.

As I noted upthread, I have a Kickstarter coming up sooner rather than later (like, May-ish) and a lot of my time right now is building out my engine to have a workable hands-on demo for people to play with. It won't be designed to be "fun" yet, but rather a synthetic demo where I can go "these features will be used for X, Y, and Z, and you can see them already basically done". I need money to pay my artists to build assets more than I need money to write the damn game.