An American-based, globally-available crowdshare service, Kickstarter offers independent creators the chance to fundraise from their audiences. If a work is tagged "Kickstarter", it likely has run or is currently running a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter's platform to help pay for its development costs.
An otome game is a story based video game that is targeted towards the female market. Generally one of the goals, besides the main plot goal, is to develop a romantic relationship between the female player character and one of several male or female characters.
