Crowd-funding burst onto the video game scene several years ago, and has seen its share of peaks and valleys ever since. Recently, a few notable projects have signaled a shift in how we perceive crowd-funded projects. Bloodstained and Yooka-Laylee banked on that nostalgic spark, but set their goals well under the actual development cost and used the public support to drum up publishers. Shenmue 3 was promoted on-stage at Sony's E3 conference, blurring its stake as an independent project. And Red Ash, which just closed, essentially bailed on its Kickstarter and found a publisher before it had even failed.

This week, the Chattycast takes a hard look at crowd-funded game projects in a time of transition. What does the future hold for this development model? Do big projects that undershoot their real dev cost undermine the true indie scene? Is it okay for a publisher like Sony to promote a crowd-funded effort on-stage? Should Kickstarter and others revise policies to prevent last-minute goalpost-changing?

Plus we have Newsybits, another round of Beat the Doc, and more!

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