Kickstarter funding drive

With the Kickstarter funding drive, Sandswept Studios attempted to raise enough money to sustain development of The Dead Linger before the alpha version could be released. Using the crowfunding website Kickstarter, Sandswept pitched the game to people who could donate money towards development, and offered rewards for pledging particular amounts of money. The funding drive ran from March 31st to April 29th 2012 and raised $154,968 from 4,218 backers, 258% of the original 60,000 dollar goal. An alternative option to donate through PayPal was added on April 10th and remained open until May 9th; backers had access to the same rewards.

Reward tiers
Throughout the running time of the funding drive, several new reward tiers were added to complement existing ones, and existing tiers had new rewards added to them. This table shows all of the rewards available to backers.