Neverending Nightmares Kickstarter wakes from funding nightmare to funding success

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Image/> Neverending Nightmares, the semi-autobiographical horror game about depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder from Retro/Grade creator Matt Gilgenbach, has been funded on Kickstarter, but not before a financial mishap caused a fan to pledge $9,000 more than he intended.

During the campaign's final hours, Gabriel Pinto, a backer from Brazil, wanted to raise his pledge. Brazil denotes cents with a comma instead of a decimal point, so when Pinto raised his pledge to "$95,00," the Kickstarter system interpreted it as "$9,500."

This boosted Neverending Nightmares across its $99,000 goal, but Pinto would not have been able to pay off his contribution. Unfortunately for Pinto, Kickstarter rules stipulated that he could not withdraw funds if doing so would reduce the campaign below its goal. Pinto reduced his contribution by what he could, but was still several thousand dollars above what he had intended.

"I felt terrible," Pinto told Joystiq. "Moments later I was on the project comments crying and breathing heavily."
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Neverending Nightmares Kickstarter wakes from funding nightmare to funding success originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 29 Sep 2013 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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