Offbeatr Featured on Mashable
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Source: Mashable
Press Release: Offbeatr Crowdfunds Over $280,000 for Adult “Porn” Projects
Los Angeles, California - Offbeatr.com, the only crowdfunding website that allows people to raise money for sex and adult creative projects (“porn projects”), has raised over $280,000 in 9 months for its adult project creators.
Since launch in August 2012 Offbeatr has seen more than:
- 100 adult project created
- 4000 pledges for rewards with an average pledge amount of $61
- 10,000 registered users with over 2.5M page views
12 projects have been successful including:
- Flesh Cult - a web-based RPG where you play as a succubus or incubus
- Grace Alley Mural Project - a public art project on the exterior of the Center for Sex & Culture that highlights San Francisco’s sexual history and culture
- Jurassic Beauties Collection - a DVD-Rom based portfolio showcasing Cherri Topps, one of the sexy dinosaurs in the Jurassic Beauties lineup of characters.
- Venus Rising - a MMORPG which features ancient bordellos, private orgies, and barbaric battles.
“When we tell people we built a crowdfunding platform for adult projects they immediately think, just as we did when we started, that our projects would be all porn movies,” said Offbeatr.com CEO, Ben Tao. “While we do have film projects, what’s been surprising is many of the successful projects don’t feature live humans as the main subject. Instead we have sexy succubi, thoughtful dragons, and Jurassic beauties. Projects that are art related and in the form of adult games, comic books, and murals.”
A big part of the success of Offbeatr has come from the hard work and perseverance from its project creators. Creators who not only have to overcome the challenge of gathering support, but also overcome rejection from “mainstream” service providers because adult content is prohibited.
“We work hard to bring a quality product to our customers, and that’s made more difficult by printing companies who refuse to print adult material.” Said, Seppel, the creator of the Furoticon Online project. “Our campaign centered around bringing our card game to an online format for a reason — online, people will be able to play with friends around the world. Sex is a part of most adults’ lives, and the celebration of sex through images is just as natural as that through text — but 50 Shades of Grey is in your local library; Furoticon will be difficult to get into your local gaming store.”
“Our goal when we created Offbeatr was to give project creators a chance to make their adult projects into a reality through crowdfunding,” said Tao. “These are project creators who have devoted fans and interesting projects. The only problem is they’re not welcomed on other crowdfunding sites only because their creative projects involve sex. Is it fair? No. That’s why we’re here to help, and so far it’s working.”
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About Offbeatr.com:
Offbeatr.com, a non-equity based crowdfunding platform for sex and adult related creative projects. In addition to offering rewards in exchange for support, project creators can sell digital content to raise money for their projects.
About Extra Lunch Money:
Extra Lunch Money is the company behind extralunchmoney.com, a social marketplace for models to market and sell custom and pre-made digital content, and offbeatr.com, a platform to allow people to crowdfund adult creative projects. Extra Lunch Money is dedicated to creating innovative and safe platforms to allow people to explore sexuality in positive ways.
Offbeatr Interviewed by Flayrah: Furry porn sweeps Offbeatr
The kind folks over at Flayrah (one of the premier news sites for all things furry) interviewed us recently about the success of furry projects on Offbeatr. They asked some great questions including:
- Why do furry projects do so well on Offbeatr, compared to others?
- Does Offbeatr see [the success of furry projects] as a good thing, or a potential problem?
- Has Offbeatr done anything to attract furries? Do you plan to?
Check Out the Full Interview
Source: flayrah.com
Press Release: Offbeatr.com Adult-Only Crowdfunding Site Raises Over $60,000 for Projects
Los Angeles, California - Offbeatr.com, the only crowdfunding website dedicated to sex and adult related projects, celebrated it’s 5 month anniversary by raising over $60,000 for its project creators. Thanks to Offbeatr’s unique voting phase, whereby only projects who receive a minimum number of votes can go on to raise money, projects have had an 80% success rate compared to 40% on other popular crowdfunding sites.
Since launch in August 2012 Offbeatr has:
- Raised over $60,000 in contributions ranging from $5 to $2000 for 5 projects
- Raised over $10,000 in one day for the project Fantasy Sex Game: Furoticon Online, which went on to raise $39,000 in total exceeding its goal of $25,000
- 600 financial supporters who pledged on average of $100 each
- Received over 4000 votes for over 70 projects. Projects like Bipartisan Slash (political porn comic), Venus Rising (World of Warcraft with sex), Needle Play Video (BDSM educational video), Football Parody (gay parody film), and the Grace Alley Mural Project (erotic mural painted in San Francisco)
- An 80% success rate for projects who met their vote goal
- Received over 200 project pitches including ideas like Virtual Reality Porn Glasses, Sexy Hipster Girls, and Oppan Gangbang Style (porn parody of Oppa Gangnam Style)
- Over 4000 registered users and over 1,000,000 page views
“What’s been amazing is seeing how passionate people are about supporting projects they care about even if they happen to be adult,” said Offbeatr.com and ExtraLunchMoney.com CEO, Ben Tao. “Supporters care just as much about bringing Furoticon online as the people who wait hours in line to get an iPhone 5.”
A big part of the success of Offbeatr has come from the hard work and perseverance from its project creators.
“We work hard to bring a quality product to our customers, and that’s made more difficult by printing companies who refuse to print adult material. Our campaign centered around bringing our card game to an online format for a reason — online, people will be able to play with friends around the world! “ Said Seppel. “Sex is a part of most adults’ lives, and the celebration of sex through images is just as natural as that through text — but 50 Shades of Grey is in your local library; Furoticon (TM) will be difficult to get into your local gaming store.”
“Our goal when we created Offbeatr was to give project creators a chance to make their adult projects into a reality through crowdfunding,” said Tao. “We’re thrilled we’ve been able to follow through.”
To pitch a project idea or explore projects visit: http://offbeatr.com/
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About Offbeatr.com:
Offbeatr.com, a non-equity based crowdfunding platform for sex and adult related creative projects. In addition to offering rewards in exchange for support, project creators can sell digital content to raise money for their projects.
About Extra Lunch Money:
Extra Lunch Money is the company behind extralunchmoney.com, a social marketplace for models to market and sell custom and pre-made digital content, and offbeatr.com, a platform to allow people to crowdfund adult creative projects. Extra Lunch Money is dedicated to creating innovative and safe platforms to allow people to explore sexuality in positive ways.
Rejected Pitch: Oppa Gang Bang Style
We’ve decided to start posting some of the interesting pitches we receive that we’ve rejected. This one sounds like a great idea, but we rejected because the project creator wasn’t really qualified to make the project happen (he said even said so himself). But it was topical so we’re sharing his pitch.
Pitch Title
Oppa Gang Bang Style!
Project Idea
The Korean sensation PSY has swept the United States and many other countries with his famous song and dance titled gangnam style. My mind was wandering and I came up with the Idea of a great adult film “Oppan Gang Bang Style”
“Oppan Gang Bang Style” would be the working title and you can easily work PSY’s cheesy clothing and dance into an adult film. Female actress’s can even moan OOP OOP OOP OOP like the song.
The storyline could be something like, An up and coming artist (Based solely on PSY’s cheesy get up) is performing a concert and he picks a girl out of the crowd to go back stage. When the girls get back stage she is waiting for the Singer to come back stage. When the door swings open there is singe along with his Posse of poorly dressed back up dancers and stage crew.
This is just a rough idea and a great way to cash in on this one hit wonder that is sweeping the nation.
Why are You Qualified to Do This Project?
I am not qualified or have any means of making this project come to life. However I came up with the Idea and hope someone out there can see where I am going with this and would like to take the Idea and run with it.
If you do decide to take my idea all I ask is please list me in the credits and compensate me fairly if it becomes a success.
Keep in mind if you do happen to create a Psy porn parody to credit our user appropriately. You’ve been warned.
Tips for Creating a Successful Offbeatr Projects E-Guide
There are already many great resources only for how to run a successful crowdfunding project on sites like Kickstarter or IndieGoGo. Many of the information written in those guides apply directly to Offbeatr. However, some of you may not have all the time to track down all the information that’s out there. For those we created a simple guide that distills the information that we have found. We’ve embedded it below and if you want to download it you can do so by clicking through to Scribbed and downloading it there.
Successful Offbeatr Project Tips
Good luck!
Feature Updates: Embeddable Project Widgets & New Progress Bars
We’re happy to announce today 2 new features and updates to Offbeatr. The first one is an update to the visual look of project progress bars. The second one is the ability to embed a project widget on any website or blog.
Meet the Project: Fantasy Sex Game - Furoticon Online
Today we sat down with Seppel the founder and creator of Furoticon a popular “furry” card game. Seppel shares how the game got started, what it takes to be a furry card character, and his hopes for the card game by bringing it online by raising funds for his Offbeatr project, Fantasy Sex Game - Furoticon Online.
How would you describe your project in 2 sentences?
Furoticon, the adult-rated card game, is ready to make the transition to an interactive online experience. People from all over the globe will be able to connect online to play and have fun!
So Furoticon started out as a card game. Where did you get the idea or inspiration to make such a game? How did you know people would be interested in the game?
I’ve been thinking up games my whole life. When I started writing down a new game system, I knew it would need a unique niche and hook if it were to be successful. I also love the artwork and talents of “furry” artists, and I wanted to see them gain popularity. One day, it just hit me — combine the game with the artwork! I didn’t want to make the game violent, either, so I established early on that the game should be about good, clean, sexy fun.
It’s amazing to see how the game has grown in popularity, but in the beginning it must have been difficult to get the word out. How did you grow Furoticon?
We initially grew through word of mouth, followed by advertising on the internet and attending conventions. During the first year that Furoticon was out, I personally attended seven conventions across the United States. Furries are a tight-knit group, and word spread fast that we surpassed simple porn, and had actually created a fun game that was extremely playable.
What determines what characters will be made into cards? Does it always have to be a real animal or are mythical creatures or made up beings OK as well? Is there a rule or guideline in the furry community that specifies what is OK or not OK?
Variety is key. Canines and felines easily make up the majority of the fandom. But people also want to see crocodiles and squirrels — and yes, mythical creatures, like minotaurs, nagas, and satyrs have also shown up. We even have our own brand of animal-type robots: “constructs.” As long as a character embodies some animal aspects, it can qualify as furry. The only exceptions are characters based on any trademarked species designs, such as Pokémon.
What is it about Furoticon that fans and players like? Are there any other similiar kinds of games? And if not why don’t game makers focus on producing games for the furry community?
Fans and players love the gameplay and the art. There’s also our ability to poke fun at our product, and our desire to bring the community in and make the development interactive. We get it, we’re a furry porn card game — but we’re damn good at what we do, and our fans know it.
There are a few other products that are furry-focused — but they’re also almost exclusively furry-produced. I feel like this market is where the anime/manga market was 10 years ago; it’s a force to be reckoned with, but no one really knows it’s there. That’s fine, though; we know what our fans want, and we have no problem doing our best to deliver a quality product.
If your project succeeds what do you hope will happen?
If Furoticon Online succeeds, We will be able to reach a larger audience. Not everyone wants to invest in a game that they can’t easily try out — we’re hoping that Furoticon Online not only puts those people in a position to play it and sign up online, but that it puts them in a position to want to invest in the physical product as well so they can play with their local friends.
Beyond that, we hope we will be successful enough to release more quality games, both adult and G-rated!
Source: offbeatr.com
Furoticon Project Live…Check Out the Project Video
The Furoticon Project has not only collected over 1000 votes to transition from the voting stage to the live funding stage, but it has a really well done project video. Congrats and best of luck.
Source: offbeatr.com
Meet the Project: Mirror/Mirror comic starring Tabitha Stevens … and YOU!
Today we sat down and talked with Andrew Zar, the founder and owner of Darkbrain.com. Darkbrain.com is an independent studio which produces comics with no restrictions on content (ie censored). We get the inside scoop on their Offbeatr project, Mirror/Mirror.
How would you describe your project in 2 sentences?
Mirror/Mirror is an adult graphic horror novel starring adult film star Tabitha Stevens. Our Offbeatr campaign is an unique opportunity to put yourself IN the comic as a main or side character.
How did you get started doing XXX comics? What was the inspiration?
I wanted to tell some dark and sexy stories that have been haunting my brain for years… but not be limited by the mainstream, heavily censored comic industry or fall into the trap of “lightweight porn comics” either. There just is not much comic material out there for adults who like both sexy and deep stories - we aim to change that.
What makes your comics different from other comics out there?
Unlike many other adult comics, DarkBrain comics are focused on the story itself - each comic series is a complete novel written by experienced writers and editors. DarkBrain also utilizes talented people of many races and genders for a deeper experience. For example, it opens some people’s eyes (or challenges their sexist thoughts) to realize that female writers can get into the “dirt” and kick as much ass as the male writers do. DarkBrain is also a fully independent studio and shoves the middle finger up to the prevailing censored comic book industry.
How long does it take to make one of your comics? How many people are normally involved?
The process is intense and takes years for each story. Typically a dozen people are part of each comic series from writers, editors, pencillers, inkers, colorists, letterists, assemblers and in some comics also voice, sfx, and music.
How are you able to attract well known adult actresses to collaborate on your projects?
This campaign will allow us to create up to 12 additional short stories to flesh out some of Brenna’s (our cursed dominatrix) past. There are many juicy and interesting experiences to showcase here, also influenced by the reward winners in the campaign itself.
