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When we look for partners to recommend to creators, we look at one thing first: results.

That's why we're proud to announce that Vala Marketing is now an official BackerKit Partner.

Here's what Vala Marketing has helped creators achieve on BackerKit in just the past year:

🏆 Dungeon Crawler Carl RPG + Unstoppable — $13.2M+ raised. #1 highest-funded Renegade Game Studios campaign ever.

🏆 The Primal Hunter: Collector's Box Set — $1.2M raised. #1 highest-funded Aethon Books campaign ever.

🏆 Nail House — $1M+ raised. #1 highest-funded film of 2025, #1 action film of all time, #1 highest-funded RocketJump campaign ever.

🏆 World's Largest Dungeon — $1M+ raised. #1 highest-funded World's Largest RPGs campaign ever.

Vala is a full-service crowdfunding agency built for TTRPG, tabletop, fandom, and film creators.

If you're planning a BackerKit campaign and want a team that knows our platform inside and out, Vala is one of our most trusted recommendations.

👉 Learn more and connect with Vala: https://www.backerkit.com/partners/vala-marketing

UK Games Expo is right around the corner! 🎲🃏

Our team will be there May 29–31, and we’d love to meet you. Curious about crowdfunding? Planning a campaign? Or just want to say hey? Book a time and let's make it happen.

📅 Grab a slot here 👉 https://cal.frontapp.com/diaspora-backerkit/martyn_poole/912d431c

The new rules of board game crowdfunding are here! Tortugas Games, the creators behind “Red Tides: A Tale of New Caribbea” are here to break them all down. 🎲🏴‍☠️

On their very first campaign, Nick Raynor and Micah Tyson raised over $130K from 700+ backers on BackerKit — 3X their expected raise. Now they're going live to share exactly how they did it.

Join our live webinar and learn:
🌊 How to build an audience and turn interest into commitment
🏴‍☠️ What makes the right crowdfunding platform partner
⚓ The tools and strategies that drive campaign success
⚔️ The biggest mistakes creators make and how to avoid them

Whether you're launching your first game or ready to scale, walk away with strategies that you can put to work immediately.

📅 Save your spot now: https://www.crowdcast.io/c/tortugas-games-red-tides

🎲 Grab your dice, Pocketopia is LIVE on BackerKit!

Explore 50+ portable, easy-to-learn tabletop games from an exciting lineup of creators all launching together in one place! Board games, card games, TTRPGs, solo games, family games & more! 🙌

And the best part? The more you back, the more freebies you earn:

🎁Cross-Collab Freebies: Look for projects marked as Cross-Collab. Back both projects in a pair at a physical pledge level and earn a limited freebie! (dice, pins, stickers, patches!)

🎁Pocketopia Banners: This year, 5 unique thematic groups have teamed up to offer exclusive freebies to backers who support 3+ projects within each banner. How many freebies can YOU collect? 👀

Last year's Pocketopia was a huge success featuring 60+ creators, raising over $1M, & had many creators hit their best crowdfunding project ever. We're back and ready to roll again! 🚀

Explore all projects now! 👇
https://www.backerkit.com/c/collections/pocketopia-2026

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Ready to launch your own campaign?
Pocketopia is powered by BackerKit Collab-Funding — where independent creators launch together, cross-promote, and amplify each other's reach. More fans. More funds. And way more fun. 🙌
🔗https://backerkit.com/collab-funding

🔥 Old School Essentials Month is LIVE on BackerKit (5/6 - 6/5) — and the theme is DEMONS! 😈

Led by Exalted Funeral and Necrotic Gnome, this exclusive Collab-Funding event brings together some of the best creators in the Old-School Essentials community! Also featured is the Demonic Grimoire, a 176-page rules supplement, plus sister projects from renowned OSE creators.

Get ready for hordes of new monsters, adventures set in the realms of hell, fiendish new character options, and lashings of blood-dripping art.

Endless adventure awaits you. Join in now! 🔗https://www.backerkit.com/c/collections/ose-month

Want in on the next Collab-Funding event or looking to launch your own? Learn more here 👇 https://www.backerkit.com/collab-funding

📚✨ Crowdfunding a book just got a whole lot easier!

We've partnered with BookFunnel, the go-to platform for indie authors and publishers, to bring you the BackerKit x BookFunnel Integration. 🙌

Now you can:
✅ Instantly deliver digital content when readers pledge, follow, or reserve
✅ Build pre-launch followers and reservations with digital rewards
✅ Boost early conversion and maximize launch-day funding
✅ Drive higher-tier pledges with digital exclusives
✅ Automate digital reward fulfillment - for good

No more manual headaches. Just more time doing what you love: writing!

Creators like Bonkers Romance are already seeing the impact: “We can’t emphasize how game-changing this is for authors. It’s really big - and it will really impact the reader experience.” — Jenny Nordbak, Co-founder of Bonkers Romance

Read the full release to see it in action: 🔗 https://www.backerkit.com/blog/backerkit-bookfunnel-integration

🚨WE'RE LIVE! 🚨

Join us right now as Bonkers Romance founders Katee Robert and Jenny Nordbak discuss how they’ve sold over 2 million copies and raised over $2M through crowdfunding. Their most recent BackerKit campaign, Dark Olympus Special Editions, brought in over $485K—and now they’re sharing the details on exactly how they did it.

Join our live webinar right now and learn how to:
🔶 Expand your readership and foster stronger relationships with your current supporters.
🔶 Finance a premium print run while maintaining complete creative autonomy.
🔶 Add crowdfunding to your indie publishing toolkit.
🔶 Crowdfund solo and collaboratively, and the benefits of doing both.
Whether you're an established author or just starting to explore indie publishing — this one is for you!

👉 Join us now! 🔗 https://www.crowdcast.io/c/bonkers-romance

🐾🌿 Beast & Botanicals is now LIVE! A first-of-its-kind Collab-Funding event, exclusively on BackerKit.

Dozens of creators celebrating the natural world through art, pins, apparel, homeware, and more. From the world's largest mammals to microscopic algae — every corner of nature, explored.

✨ Back 2+ campaigns and get a free digital zine packed with fun facts, art, and puzzles.

🔗https://www.backerkit.com/c/collections/beasts-and-botanicals
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🤔Thinking about launching your own campaign?

Beast & Botanicals is powered by BackerKit Collab-Funding — where independent creators launch together, cross-promote, and amplify each other's reach. More fans. More funds. And way more fun. 🙌
🔗https://backerkit.com/collab-funding

Windborne shattered their own crowdfunding record! Their To Warm the Winter Hearth album & book:

🎶 Raised over $400K with over 8,000 backers on BackerKit — nearly 5x more than their 2017 campaign!
🎶 #1 most-funded music campaign on BackerKit
🎶 #2 most-funded music campaign across major crowdfunding platforms in the past 3 years

Musicians are having their best projects ever on BackerKit. Learn how you can have yours — 🔗

Weighted Wonders - Weighted & Warmable Dragon Plush project by Roamin' Bison Workshop became the #1 most-funded crowdfunded plushie campaign across ALL platforms by 2x, raising over $1.2M from 8K+ backers.

But they're not done—Roamin' Bison is dropping another crowdfunding project on BackerKit this summer! Stay tuned! 🧸🐉

Dreaming of becoming a pro plushie creator? Discover how any creator can go pro with BackerKit.
🔗 https://www.backerkit.com/for-creators