Eternal Grace Project on Wujudkan Missed Funding Target

Eternal Grace, the first crowdfunded game project on Wujudkan failed to be funded. Up unitl the deadline of 9 August the game only received Rp 6 million out of the Rp 50 million required to launch the project.

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Proyek Eternal Grace di Wujudkan Gagal Didanai

Eternal Grace, proyek crowdfunding game pertama di Wujudkan, gagal mendapatkan pendanaan. Sampai dengan batas akhir pendaaan 9 Agustus yang lalu, Eternal Grace hanya dapat mengumpulkan sekitar enam juta Rupiah dari total 50 juta Rupiah yang dibutuhkan untuk menjalankan proyek tersebut. Continue reading Proyek Eternal Grace di Wujudkan Gagal Didanai

Crowdfunding, Wujudkan and Their Future in Indonesia

Collective fund raising for a project – be it for creative or social related, can take a lot of time to do in Indonesia. Bringing it online is a whole different matter. Crowdfunding, as it commonly known as, is a new way to collect fund to meet the goal. The fund needed for a project can be announced on this kind of website along with the deadline of the fundraising. As a reward, donator is promised something from the product of the project after it’s finished or something related to the project’s result.

Crowdfunding scheme in the United States is already legal. Crowdfunding Act is realized in this era of Barack Obama to allow businessmen raising fund up to USD1 million each year through crowdfunding portal registered on the SEC (U.S Securities and Exchange Commission). How about crowdfunding and its future in Indonesia?

We talk to Mandy Marahimin, co-founder of Wujudkan which is one of Jakarta Founder Institute’s alumni, via email. Wujudkan is one of the leading crowdfunding sites, widely known because of its success in raising fund for “Atambua 39° Celsius” movie project which required more than IDR300 million. The movie is a project of famous movie makers, Riri Riza and Mira Lesmana. 102 donators were needed to achieve this goal.

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Crowdfunding, Wujudkan dan Masa Depannya di Indonesia

Penggalangan dana bersama untuk suatu proyek, apakah itu berhubungan dengan hal kreatif maupun sosial, bisa jadi cukup lama dilakukan di Indonesia. Membawanya ke ranah online adalah hal yang berbeda. Crowdfunding, begitu istilah populernya, merupakan cara baru untuk menggalang dana untuk mencapai tujuan. Melalui situs-situs tertentu, suatu proyek bisa diumumkan kebutuhannya dan jangka waktu penggalangan dananya. Sebagai imbalannya, pihak donatur dijanjikan sejumlah imbalan, dari mendapat produk setelah selesai ataupun iming-iming lain terkait hasil proyek.

Skema crowdfunding di Amerika Serikat sendiri bahkan sudah legal. Undang-undang Crowdfunding (Crowdfunding Act) digolkan di jaman Barack Obama untuk membolehkan pengusaha menggalang dana hingga $1 juta per tahun melalui portal crowdfunding yang terdaftar di SEC (semacam Bappepam LK-nya Amerika Serikat). Bagaimana dengan crowdfunding dan masa depannya di Indonesia?

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Mira Lesmana’s Project Became the Second Project Realized at Wujudkan

Aulia, through a post on Dailylicious sometime ago, asked about the formula of crowdfunding project that could be successful in Indonesia. I have two clues for that: social project and a project that can make someone looks cool to be involved in the project.

Last evening, Mira Lesmana’s Atambua 39^o Celcius project managed to break funding target through Wujudkan.com. Until this article was written, on the last day of fund raising, the project managed to raise IDR311.837.000 or around 104% of the IDR300.000.000 target. When I checked on the project yesterday morning, the project still lacked IDR8.000.000 to meet the target. A couple hours after that, the project nailed it.

This project becomes the second project that managed to meet funding target on Wujudkan. Prior, the first project that met its target is the Papan untuk Semua: Atap untuk Rumah Uay – Board for All: A Roof for Uay’s House project. This project gained 192% or around IDR4.780.000 from the intended IDR2.500.000. The project is a social prokect by the architect Yu Sing to make a house for ojek rider named Uay and his family.

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Proyek Mira Lesmana Menjadi Proyek Kedua yang Terwujud di Wujudkan

Aulia, melalui posting di Dailylicious beberapa waktu yang lalu, menanyakan tentang formula proyek crowdfunding yang bisa sukses di Indonesia. Saya punya dua clue untuk itu, proyek sosial atau proyek yang membuat orang tampak keren untuk terlibat dalam proyek tersebut.

Kemarin sore, proyek Atambua 39^o Celcius milik Mira Lesmana berhasil menembus target pendanaan yang diharapkan lewat layanan Wujudkan.com. Sampai saat artikel ini ditulis, pada hari terakhir pengumpulan dana, proyek tersebut mengumpulkan Rp 311.837.000 atau sekitar 104% dari target Rp 300.000.000. Padahal, saat saya mengecek proyek tersebut pada kemarin pagi, proyek tersebut masih kurang sekitar 8 juta Rupiah untuk memenuhi target. Beberapa jam setelah itu, proyek tersebut telah melampaui target pendanaannya. Continue reading Proyek Mira Lesmana Menjadi Proyek Kedua yang Terwujud di Wujudkan

Eternal Grace, Proyek Game Pertama di Wujudkan

Di Kickstarter, sebuah proyek game berjudul “Double Fine Adventure” pernah memecahkan rekor mendapatkan pendanaan terbanyak. Double Fine Adventure mendapatkan dukungan dari 87.142 orang dan mendapatkan dana sebesar 3.336.371 dollar Amerika (sekitar 834% dari jumlah yang sebenarnya yang dibutuhkan, 400.000 dollar Amerika).

Banyak juga proyek game lain yang berhasil mendapatkan pendanaan dari Kickstarter. Bagaimana jika sebuah proyek game berharap mendapatkan pendanaan yang dibutuhkan (dengan crowdfunding) di Indonesia?

Hal ini dicoba oleh Enthrean Guardian, yang men-submit sebuah proyek game di Wujudkan. Proyek game berjudul Eternal Grace tersebut membutuhkan dana sebanyak 50 juta Rupiah yang ditunggu sampai dengan 9 Agustus 2012. Continue reading Eternal Grace, Proyek Game Pertama di Wujudkan

Eternal Grace, The First Game Project in Wujudkan

On Kickstarter, a game project titled “Double Fine Adventure” broke a record for getting the largest funding. Double Fine Adventure gained support from 87.142 people and got a fund of US$2.226.371 (approximately 834% of the actual amount needed, US$400.000).

There are many other game projects that managed to get funding from Kickstarter. What if a game project hopes to get required funding (with crowdfunding) in Indonesia?

This was attempted by Enthrean Guardian, which submitted a game project to Wujudkan. The game project that titled Eternal Grace requires funding of 50 million Rupiah and expected until August 9, 2012.

According to the description given by Enthrean Guardian team on Wujudkan’s page, Eternal Grace is a PC based J-RPG game which combined Dragon Quest like classic gameplay with action fighting system popularized by the Tales series. This game is also referred to include elements of Indonesia which is wrapped in a unique and interesting storytelling style.

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[Music Monday] Tunggu, Internet Dapat Menghasilkan Uang untuk Musik?

Industri (rekaman) musik ada di masa gelap akhir-akhir ini, terutama di Indonesia – saya telah menuliskan beberapa tulisan tentang situasi ini jadi saya tidak akan mengulangnya. Tetapi keambrukannya bisa dirangkum seperti ini: saat ini tidak ada cara nyata bagi industri (rekaman) musik untuk bisa menghasilkan uang dari karya mereka. Penjualan CD menurun, musik melalui perangkat bergerak akan menghadapi krisis, dan tidak ada layanan musik online di pasar lokal yang benar-benar layak untuk disebutkan. Tapi ini bukan berarti internet tidak bisa menghasilkan uang buat Anda, musisi atau label musik.

Saya mengakui bahwa pernyataan saya agak meluas tentang hal ini – saya tidak akan mengatakan bahwa ada jutaan cara untuk mendapatkan uang bagi musik langsung dari internet, tetapi jelas ada banyak cara untuk menjamin internet bekerja untuk Anda dan bisa mendatangkan uang yang Anda butuhkan. Musik mungkin secara sudah pada dasarnya gratis untuk sebagian pendengar musik, tetapi itu tidak berarti membuat musik yang Anda inginkan tidak membutuhkan uang. Bahkan mengunduh Audacity atau Gamelan butuh biaya untuk akses internet.

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[Music Monday] Wait, You Can Make Money For Music From The Internet?

The [recorded] music industry has been in very dark days lately, especially in Indonesia – I’ve frequently written about the current situation so I won’t revisit it. But the breakdown is this: there is currently no real way the [recorded] music industry can make money from their work. CD sales are diminishing, music through mobile is going through a crisis, and there’s not really an online music store worth mentioning for the local market. But this does not mean that the Internet cannot make money for you, the musician or music label.

I’ll admittedly be broad about this – I won’t say there are a million ways to make money for music directly from the Internet, but there are definitely a lot of ways to make sure the Internet works for you and gets you that much-needed money. Music may be virtually free for most music listeners, but it doesn’t mean making the music you want does not cost money. Even downloading Audacity or Gamelan will take some money off your Internet bill.

Trying to pitch to a music magazine to cover your band may not cost money but bringing along coffee for the journalists goes a long way. And so on. Even if you’re a self-proclaimed indie artist that does not want to spend money, eventually you’d need money for food, right?

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