“Ouya had the biggest first day ever,” Kickstarter wrote on Twitter. It’s now the eighth project to earn over $1 million on the site, a list that includes gaming icon Tim Schafer’s Double Fine Adventure and comic project The Order of the Stick.
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The console, designed by Jambox creator Yves Béhar (a speaker at our MobileBeat conference this morning), targets the indie gaming community. Anyone who’s pledged $699 or more will get access to Ouya’s software development kit, and the San Francisco-based company will even help developers by promoting their games for one year.
Right now, over 24,000 people have pledged more than $3 million to the Ouya project. In a Kickstarter update, the company says it’s now working on figuring out what to do with all the extra money it’s received.