Hako Games is a Saudi Arabian development studio founded by graphic designer Ahmad Alhaddad and programmer Abdullah Konash. They have a third member now, Maan Ashgar, and together they are working on finishing Shout of Survival, a 2v2 multiplayer game about monsters trying to find their human prey before the humans find each other. It's currently in early access for Windows and Mac after being the first Saudi Arabian game to successfully crowdfund development.
As a Saudi Arabian studio, Hako Games doesn't have the option of using Kickstarter for crowdfunding game development. Instead, they turned to Indiegogo to fund the development of Shout of Survival, raising over $13,000 USD.

Haddad cites two main reasons for wanting to crowdfund development of Shout of Survival. "The first is a marketing stunt, because we wanted to be the first successfully crowdfunded Saudi game, and we did [that]," he says. The second is a financial goal, since we're a team of three, two of which have left their jobs to dedicate their time to work on the game. We've saved enough money to pay ourselves, but financing the game from our pockets is going to burn our savings. So we relied on our core fans to help us finance the game, and they did not disappoint."
Indiegogo has a couple of disadvantages that Konash pointed out. The first is that Indiegogo doesn't get as much traffic as Kickstarter. In addition to that, though, they found that backers had trouble understanding Indi...