The team behind Whale Hammer Games - which operates out of a Downer home - passed their $68,000 funding target with three hours to spare earlier this month.

A frantic final week of campaigning by Peter Castle, Tom Cox and Peter Simpson paid off, with $28,000 raised through 1283 backers.

"There was a little bit of stunned silence and then some very tired celebrating," Mr Castle said.

"It's pretty special, it validates deciding to go down that path."

The successful fundraising for their Tahira - Echoes of the Astral Empire turn-based tactics game was the highest amount raised by a Canberra team using the popular Kickstarter all-or-nothing funding model, and the sixth highest by any Australian gaming team on the platform.

Mr Castle said the money, due to be received within days, meant they could focus on releasing the first episode by January as planned.

"Apart from financially being more stable and not having to work a second job, it gives us a group of people to make it for," he said.

International Game Developers Association Canberra branch chairman Matt Stimson said the funding success was the third independent ACT game funded through Kickstarter since July.

"Of course the community is absolutely buzzing with this, it's a capstone for an absolutely fantastic year for games in Canberra," he said.

While the majority of backers came from overseas, the single most generous supporter - whose $5000 gift entitled them to an executive producer credit - came from Mr Cox's mother, Kerry Sargent.