My son’s RPG - Age of Aether. He made his goal handily. Book is expected to come out this year. I decided not to donate until he had met his goal. Then, by giving at a certain level, I was able to have a photo of myself used as an NPC. I’m the Elven Judge! 
Numerous board games – some may not have been as good as I imagined, and some (most?) delivered late, but so far no scams
I also backed Veronica Mars (at the lowest level that came with a reward – a PDF of the script)
A bicycle light. This is a no contact generator: magnets create an eddy current in the rim and that spins the generator. Works reasonably well, but was quite late
Brian
A friend’s music project;
Packed Pixels (their 2nd go round; their first appears to have been a big success), a small portable 2nd monitor that clips onto the side of laptops – haven’t received it yet (expected later this year).
I backed the Bug A Salt on either Kick Starter or Indigo. Don’t remember which one. Now they are in many stores, so it was successful.
I backed a thing called Polygons that were flat measuring spoons. The concept was great and there were regular updates. Then out of the blue there was an email from Kickstarter saying they were in violation of something and money would be refunded. I got the money back but I really wanted the flat measuring spoons.
I’m a sucker for indie MMORPGs.
City of Titans is a “spiritual” successor of City of Heroes. It’s still in development. They had a major hardware crash last year, but it looks like they’ll have Issue 0 (with character creation, movement powers, and exploration) out later this year. Fingers crossed, I have high hopes for this one. They’re building in a huge amount of customization, both in appearance and powers.
Crowfall is a player-vs-player crafting game. It’s making steady progress and has been publicly testing for a while.
That sounded like a good idea, so I looked it up. It seems they are still stringing some people along years later? Some of the comments are pretty funny.
Aside from some small ticket item books and computer games, my only risky larger backing was for ZeTime, a smart watch with mechanical hands. Aside from some minor delays with shipping, this turned out to be fantastic and I’m very happy with it.
Some enamel pins - I collect oddball ones - and a host of graphic novels of the non-superhero variety. Encourage creators! We need them.
I backed a video game made by the creators of an online comic I enjoyed. I didn’t care that much about the game, but I loved the comic and thought it would be a nice way to support them.
The game did come out, but I’m counting the process as a total failure because
- I didn’t really like the game.
- The creators apparently found video game making more lucrative, since the comic hasn’t been updated for a few years.
So my lesson is that you shouldn’t back random projects that people you like are doing. You should back projects that you want them to do more of.
I wanted so hard to back Wasteland 2, but I was broke as a joke at the time.
The only other thing I’ve backed is the reboot of System Shock. It was supposed to be out 2 or so years ago if I recall, but there were…issues.
I am patiently waiting. I don’t remember what I chipped in, but I had plenty of dough at the time and if I recall I should be due some cool merch.
If it ever makes it out. I quit looking at the backer update e-mails. Just give me a frikkin’ release date already. Or a beta.