Ignition: A Social Retro Gaming OS for the Raspberry Pi

A project in Atlanta, GA by Alex Stubbs
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Ignition is a Social Retro Gaming "OS" for the Pi with features such as Gaming Achievements, Gamer Profiles, Online Play, more..
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Backers: 523
Average Pledge Per Backer: $20

Funded: $10,360 of $4,500
Dates: Jul 23rd -> Aug 22nd (30 days)
Project By: Alex Stubbs
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August 20th - via: kickstarter.com
The Final Stretch First of all, I want to thank every single one of you who has backed this project. You have provided great feedback, wonderful ideas, and a lot of support. Now with only 24 hours to go and all previous stretch goals met, I have... (Read More)

Ignition will have XBMC integration.

August 15th - via: kickstarter.com
We did it! We have hit stretch goal #2 with 6 days left in the campaign. XBMC integration has been the most popular requested additional feature for Ignition and now we're going to make it happen. More specifics and details coming soon.   (Read More)

Stretch Goal #1 Reached!

August 11th - via: kickstarter.com
This may be a day late but we have reached the first stretch goal! Ignition will have custom official ports for the BeagleBone Black, Hummingboard, and the Banana Pi which will be tailored to the specific advantages of each of these boards. These... (Read More)

New Short Interface Video and U.I. Sheet

August 5th - via: kickstarter.com
Hey everybody, Just a quick update with a short video showing off a little more of the User Interface of the ignition dashboard. I would urge you to click the link for the higher quality video as kickstarters video encoding diminishes the quality.... (Read More)

We did it! Stretch Goals Announced!

July 29th - via: kickstarter.com
First off, I want to thank everyone who has backed this project. I have talked to many of you and there has been a lot of great feedback from everyone. A lot of this feedback included new ideas for new features as well as feedback on what features... (Read More)

More Raspberry Pi Bundles and SD Cards Available!

July 27th - via: kickstarter.com
I have gotten quite a lot of e-mails and requests to make more of the top two reward tiers available. I have secured more stock and have made more slots available!  (Read More)

Make this project yours...

July 26th - via: kickstarter.com
First of all, I would like to thank everyone who has backed this project. We are definitely on track to making this project a reality and the time has come to start thinking about possible stretch goals. I wanted to reach out to all of you to hear... (Read More)

Thank you!

July 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
This campaign has gotten off to a great and promising start! In only 24 hours, 25% of the project has been funded, and at the time of this update, we are heading towards the 40% mark with nearly 65 backers. I wanted to thank every single one of you.... (Read More)

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