PGbiz reported that $989m has been pledged to games on crowdfunding platform Kickstarter.
That is said to split across 1.6 million backers for tabletop games and 1.6 million for video games.
16 million people backed projects with 52 million pledges in total.
What is more, 5.2 million people have donated to more than one campaign.
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