One Day Left to Help Mobile App Developers Reach Kickstarter Goal

Happy Badger Studio is trying to raise $18,000 to move forward their their project, "Something Fragile," a poetic puzzle game.

Mobile App Developers Creating Game, With Kickstarter Help

Happy Badger Studio is trying to raise $18,000 to move forward their their project, "Something Fragile," a poetic puzzle game.

Updated: April 23, 10 a.m. Happy Badger Studio, a group of mobile app developers, hopes to raise $18,000 through Kickstarter to help them design a poetic game puzzle called “Something Fragile.” What's it about? "In Something Fragile, you are a creature created for the sole purpose of protecting the heart that you were given. As this creature, you must progress through the levels and overcome the puzzles in order to carry the heart past the obstacles and through the environmental threats. The challenge of the game is to keep the heart safe throughout all of the puzzles, which will require the heart to be placed in harm's way in order to get it through each level safely. The moment the heart is placed on the ground, it is immediately …

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Strange Donuts Meets Kickstarter Goal

Backers helped the soon-to-open Maplewood donut shop raise $10,000 toward new kitchen equipment. With one challenge out of the way, now the shop's owners can focus on a sweet 'craft donut and beer tasting' event next week.

Corey Smale and his partners, Tyler Fenwick and Sweet Will, are getting ready to offer Maplewood residents "classic" flavored donuts in addition to a few of their own "creations" at their new shop, Strange Donuts, on Sutton Avenue. Thursday the trio successfully reached the goal of their $10,000 Kickstarter campaign toward the purchase of kitchen equipment, including a fryer and hood, oven, proofing box, donut cutter, mixer and glazing tables. The fundraising effort took just over two weeks. Three of the backers pledged more than $500, and will be able to collaborate with chef Sweet Will on a donut to be featured in the shop. Prior to their May opening, the business partners are hard at work introducing themselves to the community--and …

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Ryan Martin

1:51 pm on Friday, March 29, 2013

Hey, now that's a neat idea.   more ›

Update: Two Weeks Left to Contribute Kickstarter Funds for Katie Lee's New Restaurant

Lee, of Katie's Pizzeria in Clayton, is hoping to launch an artisan pizza and pasta spot in Rock Hill.

Katie’s Pizzeria owner Katie Lee is looking for the community's help to expand her artisan cooking to Rock Hill, and support for the new restaurant is quickly growing. Lee launched a Kickstarter campaign in late January in hopes of opening Katie's Pizza and Pasta, and is a little more than $12,000 away from her $40,000 goal. Interested backers have just over two weeks left to contribute funds.  Read previous story: Clayton Pizzeria to Expand to Rock Hill With Kickstarter Help Support to the Kickstarter began rapidly. The restaurant was approximately 25 percent of the way to their goal prior to a KSDK report on Feb. 7; by the end of that weekend, $22,556 had been pledged. However, the full $40,000 must be pledged by March 15 to receive the …

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Local Music Spotlight: My Molly Raises Money for Full-Length Album

The indie folk duo from Maplewood has already raised more than $1,000.

Ask the management of Stone Spiral Coffee and Curios to name an up-and-coming local band, and they will offer two words: My Molly. A pair of 21-year-olds comprises the band from Maplewood. Rebecca Hanneken plays guitar and tambourine (with her feet) while Mallory Barnes holds down the floor tom, glockenspiel and other hand percussion. After becoming known for their trademark two-part harmony at Stone Spiral's weekly open mic nights, the two have wowed their way into an album—their first—with an indie label founded in St. Louis and currently operating out of Denver.  “We’re part of Morning Bird Records, and they’ve been pushing us to do an album,” Hanneken said. As for their specific musical genre? It's not so cut and dry. "We don't …

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