Case Study: ROCKFISH Games achieves accelerated engagement and a 10% backer pledge increase with Higher Logic Vanilla

ROCKFISH Games Accelerates Engagement and Revenue with Their Player Forum

ROCKFISH Games, the indie studio behind the Kickstarter-backed EVERSPACE, needed a way to engage backers and support a growing community without diverting resources from game development. After raising €448,000 from over 11,700 backers, the team chose Higher Logic Vanilla’s forum platform (Vanilla Forums) to host a dedicated player forum and avoid the burden of deploying and managing forum infrastructure themselves.

Higher Logic Vanilla launched a branded player community that made it easy for players to share, give feedback, and get real-time answers; within one week 10% of forum users increased their Kickstarter pledges, demonstrating immediate uplift in backer support. By using Higher Logic Vanilla, ROCKFISH accelerated engagement and revenue while staying focused on building the game.

ROCKFISH Games

Michael Schade

Co-founder & CEO