600% Funded! Stretch Goals, Monster Stories and Layered Boards
about 6 years ago
– Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 09:07:43 PM
Hi everyone,
Thank you so much for keeping the amazing progress up! Towards the end of the second day, Unbroken surpassed 600% funding mark and we are knocking down Stretch Goals left and right! You are the reason this campaign is going so well - my sincere thanks!
Stretch Goals
You would have seen that we now have the most requested component upgrade in our crosshairs - dual-layered tracker boards at $95,000! Given that we are only $10,000 away and this campaign has a healthy momentum - I am confident we can unlock it tomorrow or within a couple of days!
A few words about other upgrades you have unlocked:
The winner of the $34,000 backer-voted upgrade were the custom-shaped resource tokens. (32% wanted it vs. 25% for the plastic tray). That means that now instead of cubes we'll have little fists, blades and logs to move around on our layered boards!
We have also unlocked some additional illustrations - I am getting in touch with our illustrator to arrange the alternate gender character portraits. We will also be able to put more unique art on our encounter cards! For the fun of it - please vote below for which character you'd like to see the alternate art for first!
The digital tracker we unlocked at $60,000 will help you keep track of your win rate, high scores, success with different characters and against different monsters. It will also allow you to compare how you're doing vs. the community. Crucially, it will give me the invaluable source of data to ensure the game is balanced based on actual reported games.
Finally - we have unlocked a few card upgrades - always nice to be able to put premium components in a game - way to go! A couple of those still await down the Stretch Goal image :).
Podcasts!
Want to hear a couple of interesting conversations with awesome people featuring insights about design intentions for Unbroken? Check out these two podcasts that I recorded :
- Every Night is Game Night - special because it features a reviewer who contributes her own perspective and experience as a player of the game.
- We're Not Wizards - special because the conversation ranges from Scottish accents to nerdy maps to what makes Unbroken special to why people play solo games.
Monster Stories!
Thanks for your votes on the Monster stories! The next five monsters to get stories, based on your votes are :
- Shrieking Fungus (Kenley Brown from Lord of Tabletop must be very pleased)
- Dark Elf
- Crazed Survivor
- Wyvern
- Vampire
Also - the second Monster story is now available for your reading pleasure!
Art Selection
Something cool I wanted to share from early in Unbroken development. When we were just starting to look for the artist - here are the three finalist trial pieces that we reviewed based on the descriptions we provided. What do you say - did we make the right call with our artist? :)
Looking ahead
As the campaign settles into a pace - expect to see updates every 2-4 days, certainly not daily. Just wanted to say thanks for all the passion and support that got us to this point! Please continue sharing the project - the more backers we have the more cool stuff we'll unlock through Stretch Goals!
Get your ideas ready - next update I will announce the call for submissions for Backer Created Skill and Encounter cards!