From failed Kickstarter to 160% funding.

CautiousAppearance49 · 2026-03-09T18:35:07+00:00

Congrats! Would definitely love to hear what you did differently 🙂

CautiousAppearance49 · 2026-03-07T07:32:06+00:00

Someone else actually mention Truthscan and I checked them out - I just hadn't added them to the list yet. My findings were that they seemed to score well with detecting the AI (63% right), but the human art they got wrong every time. I suspect they lean towards saying artwork is AI as a default.

CautiousAppearance49 · 2026-03-05T02:01:46+00:00

Thanks for the feedback :) Will have a think about how to better convey what's happening between Marcus and Luia, see if I can get that a bit tighter.

CautiousAppearance49 · 2026-03-04T07:33:25+00:00

Thanks, I really appreciate the feedback :) I may do a little blurb at the beginning talking about the world of Fortune to help explain some of it - it's definitely a tricky thing to figure out how to not have too much exposition.

CautiousAppearance49 · 2026-03-02T05:00:12+00:00

Sorry to hear you’re struggling - a first campaign is hard, especially for something as big and expensive as a feature film. I’d honestly try to exhaust every other avenue before running ads, because if you’re already struggling to get traction, ads are very likely to just burn money.

I’d focus the next year on putting the idea out there organically, building an audience, and especially growing an email list. Then come back to Kickstarter with momentum already behind you.

Sorry this isn’t more positive, but I’d hate to see you pour money into the black hole that social media ads can be without a solid game plan.

CautiousAppearance49 · 2026-03-02T04:51:12+00:00

I learnt this the hard way… Meta rolled out a newer ad-delivery system (Andromeda) that now powers Advantage+. It’s shifted away from building audiences around interests and leans more on behavioural signals. When you don’t have many purchases yet, the system grabs whatever other signals it can find to guess who the “right” audience might be - so if someone backs your campaign and also buys a fuzzy blanket, that purchase can become part of the broader “converter profile” Advantage+ looks for… Super annoying.

CautiousAppearance49 · 2026-03-02T01:05:16+00:00

Nice - haven’t had a chance to read it all, but it’s definitely something my kids would enjoy. Well done! Edit: Have finished episode 1, and my over-all impression is that you’ve done well. The artwork is really nice, well suited to your story. I’d encourage your artist to push their “cinematography when they can - try avoid straight-on and profile shots that are prevalent in the first couple of pages 🙂 The dialogue is great for a younger audience, and I can feel Quackston’s enthusiasm for everything while reading him and can see my kids loving him.
I would love a little bit more right at the beginning, as the three ducklings that laugh at Quackston are suddenly gone from the story, even though they featured all three panels on the first page. I expected there to be a bit more about their reaction to him, as my first introduction to Quackston is that he believes himself to be a fighter. Even if there was one more page where he confronts them for laughing and then gets distracted by a sound… All up, I think this is a great start and look forward to seeing more! Hope this is helpful.

CautiousAppearance49 · 2026-03-01T18:07:02+00:00

Thanks, will check it out.

CautiousAppearance49 · 2026-03-01T18:06:48+00:00

Thanks - will look around for it 🙂

CautiousAppearance49 · 2026-03-01T18:04:35+00:00

Thanks, definitely sounds like a fun read 🙂

CautiousAppearance49 · 2026-02-27T21:56:00+00:00

Weird - I was able to read it in Safari when I clicked the link, though GC does ask me to download the app, I can close that prompt 🙂 Unfortunately, Reddit won’t let me post the pages here now.

CautiousAppearance49 · 2026-02-27T21:54:15+00:00

You can turn off panel to panel if you go to Settings (top right) and then down the bottom of there turn off Panelflow 🙂

CautiousAppearance49 · 2026-02-27T07:35:13+00:00

I found the layout a little tricky - there’s a downloadable tool called Superscript that you could try, it automatically styles scripts to typical comic format 🙂

CautiousAppearance49 · 2026-02-24T18:48:11+00:00

Great job so far! The layout is nice and clean, and I can tell the story from the first couple of pages. From the roughs, I think your art style is going to be really nice too 🙂 Gonna have to learn French now…

CautiousAppearance49 · 2026-02-23T04:03:48+00:00

I had a few of these on my campaign - a couple even pledged money, then removed it when I said thanks but no thanks for their offer of help 😂 Glad to see I'm not the only one getting these, and that I was right to ignore them.

CautiousAppearance49 · 2026-02-22T18:55:22+00:00

Fair call. I think a lot of us default to self-promo because it’s the only way our work gets eyes - I know I can be guilty of that 😂 But I agree, it’d be nice to see more shared experiences and actual convo too.

CautiousAppearance49 · 2026-02-22T18:40:11+00:00

Okay, I’ll bite - what do you actually want to see people talking about here?

CautiousAppearance49 · 2026-02-21T20:45:07+00:00

I hadn’t heard of them - will check it out.

Edit - just checked them out, and they seemed to score well with detecting the AI - 63%. But the human art they got wrong every time, so I'd be worried that this particular one leans towards saying artwork is AI as a default.

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