How did you find the game?

[Nao]

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=88632.0

Bay12Games the source of !!FUN!!, +socks+ and drunken dorfs.

[Loocas]

I was buzzing around the internet about a year ago for a new simulator when I saw a sim that was rated 5 of 5 stars.

[Alfondoo]

I was playing DayZ a lot over winter and whilst watching a community dev blog about the up and coming standalone one of the questions presented in the Q&A session for Dean Hall (DayZ creator) was "what games are you playing right now". He mentioned that he'd been getting a lot of enjoyment out of a game called Kerbal Space Program. As I was a big fan of his work in Arma 2 and convinced that he liked intelligent, creative games I took a leap and seeked out a demo, the rest is history.

[Caelib]

The creator of DayZ (Dean Hall) mentioned it in his tweets that he was nearly obsessed with this game ... so i figured it was worth trying. His obsession is now mine as well

[Spartwo]

5 months ago...(mind you I only had the demo until the steam version)

[Doctor Lag]

It was mentioned on the Blockade Runner forums back when KSP was at 13.x... BR turned out to be a total waste but it was almost worth paying them to get the KSP tip.

[Pachi3080]

i found it at steam, i saw three cute little green guys with astronaut suits...

rockets, explosions, cute little green men... then i played the demo so...

"SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!"

[Ryan7183]

I found it through Kurtjmac.

[Noticeably FAT]

Someone on Fark mentioned how much time it was killing for them. I looked into it, and now I'm the guy mentioning how much of my time it is killing.

[rryy]

One day last year, I was bored, so I decided to watch some of the space videos from kurtjmac. Then, I saw some of his KSP videos and loved it, so I got the demo, and eventually, I got my parents to buy the game for me, and here I am over a year later.

[KD3]

A friend of mine showed it to me. I didn't like the look of it. A few months later I decided to look at it again. I played the demo, liked it, bought 0.15 the next day. And here we are.

[SuperWeegee4000]

Markiplier. 'Nuff said.

[baal70]

thanks to One F Jef on good old youtube, I got into launching kerbals. In more or less safe objects aimed at the sky. So a big thanks to Jef, for making me stay up far too long on many a night

[CCKinnison]

I don't know when I FIRST heard of it...

But someone on a completely unrelated forum showed up around the turn of the year talking about "Kerbals" and rockets and deaths... eventually, I realized he was talking about an actual game, not just his imagination.

Later, I saw it on Steam, recalled the name, found the demo, started watching Youtube videos, and put it on my wishlist, waiting for a sale... which just happened. SO now I'm planning giant space stations, Geosynch satellites, permanent ExtraKerbin bases, and so on...

[Mode7]

A friend of mine got me to try it out back in the 0.13 days. We messed around with it for a few afternoons trying to get into orbit and mostly just competing to see who could go higher. I didn't mess with it much after that until Giantbomb did a quick look of it. That reminded me of how much fun I had with it in the past. I came back to see the game much improved and decided to buy so I could really follow the development. Haven't played much else since.

[Free Trader Beowulf]

Scotto Manley. His videos kept coming up as suggestions on youtube. Eventually, like an idiot, I clicked on one and that was it.

[boxman]

I came across some archived twitch stream of jefmajor playing this game and immediately wanted to play KSP.

[Wayfare]

Through EVE Online. I've played that quite a bit on-and-off over the past few years (currently off, will probably be back on again soon once I feel like ruining someone's day again) and got exposed to TheMitanni.com. And they kept showing little green men. So I went to see what all the fuss was about. And now I have a basic understanding of rocket science. Life is like a box of chocolates indeed

[Teto]

Friend showed me watched robbaz nerd3 and markipilier. Then then tried the tutorial raged a little bit. Got better got to the mun then bought the game.

[RocketPilot573]

I came across it while looking through ChickenKeeper's video list. Kurtjmac's videos got me to buy it though.

[undercoveryankee]

Started seeing references to it in places like xkcd. Looked it up on tvtropes to get an overview of what it was so I could understand the references. Tvtropes has links to Scott Manley. Rest is history.

[dnugroho]

XKCD brought me to KSP! I downloaded the 0.18 demo, I was hooked and did not sleep that night due to sheer enjoyment. The next day I bought the game.

[Madrias]

Kurtjmac of YouTube. I think it was mentioned on an episode of Far Lands or Bust, and I googled it, tried the demo, and then promptly picked up 0.17.

[JebNeedsHelp]

Another XKCD reader here. Had to see what they were talking about. Played the demo for a while, and then finally got .23, then .23.5. I haven't got .24 yet, because I don't think I'm good enough at the game yet, but one of these days!

[Wanderfound]

Started seeing references to it in places like xkcd. Looked it up on tvtropes to get an overview of what it was so I could understand the references. Tvtropes has links to Scott Manley. Rest is history.

Pretty much the same here. The celebrity-geek fanbase of KSP does a lot to promote the game.