mitDebo wrote:The main thing that stops me from just firing up a Kickstarter is I have NO CLUE as to what my Tiers would be. Does anyone have any suggestions?
This is challenging without knowing more about your ultimate goals and relative skill at creating games, but what the hell, I'm in a helpful and creative mood. I think a structure resembling this would give backers a semi-tangible thing in the game to encourage support while still leaving a free release a possibility, and you wouldn't even have to resort to swag:
$1 - PEDESTRIAN: Your feet may never leave the ground, but you remain curious about the phenomenon of human flight. You will receive Kickstarter updates, a mention on the game's homepage, and a hearty thanks from the people you help launch into the stratosphere, but don't expect them to wave back - it's led to more than one serious accident!
$5 - LEVITATOR: You occasionally find yourself floating under your own power, but have yet to take to the skies. Your name will be inscribed on a monument within walking (or floating) distance from the castle along with all others who look at birds with longing but hesitate to join them.
$10 - FLEDGLING: You've long known flight was possible, and your time has finally come. Take one last look around the castle as a groundbound, view the customized plaque featuring your name and brief message to other aviators, climb to the roof, and kiss the clouds! It's easier than it sounds - but you may want to avoid looking down for a while!
$20 - AERIALIST: The sky is your home now, and you want only to show others how blissful life among the clouds can be. Your feather medallion can send you back to the castle with a thought, but you prefer to spend your time exploring the air - somewhere up there is your own personal skyjewel, a floating crystal marked with your name and any instructions you wish to share with those who can find it.
$50 - BARNSTORMER: Your skill in flying is unmatched; you pledge a mighty sum to allow others flight merely in hopes one of them will finally present you a challenge. A skyshrine displays your name to any who can fly high enough to see it, a message passes your wisdom down, and a custom image shines out from it, honoring you. As part of this hallowed order, you may travel among all the skyshrines with a touch of the cloud token you wear on your leg. May all praise your name!
$100 - SUPERPERSON: Not the sort to unleash your eye lasers on the mortal realm, your greatness is nevertheless apparent from the custom cape you wear, emblazoned with a decal of your own design. All previous rewards are likewise yours to claim - the monument, castle, a unique skyjewel, and your very own skyshrine bear your name and words, and your medallion and token grant you easy travel throughout the realm. Go now, do-gooder - somewhere, a life probably needs saving!
Adding in a bunch of names and text wouldn't seem to be terribly time consuming, and some kind of achievement system to encourage finding all the various stuff in the sky could be a neat way to encourage something resembling gameplay. I can't say how easy it would be to give travel tokens and custom capes
only to people who bought into the appropriate tiers, but hey, you're the programmer.
As for stretch goals and the overall structure of the Kickstarter, $1500 explicitly for the Unity Pro license would seem to be a sound goal, perhaps additional player models or more terrain to explore for more money, and definitely multiplayer as a lowish stretch goal at whatever level you felt you could tackle it for.
Feel free to use any part of this or none of it; I offer these ideas in lieu of the $10 I really shouldn't be spending on your game.
I still think you can figure out a way to release this as a more casual project if the pressures of Kickstarter seem a little daunting (I know the feeling), but if you've already got half of everything finished and can't scrape $1500 together for the license, it's something to consider.
very nice though so far! so cant wait to try out all the cool 3d demos im sure people will make 
