Celebrate the launch of Moonbeam by backing participating projects on BackerKit
On Moonbeam, you don't start a mere channel; you create a Realm—a community hub where you can chat via text and enjoy live streams or other video content together.
The five other projects joining Moonbeam are the first five Realms to launch on Moonbeam! Each project is offering exclusive rewards tailor-made for their Realm and community on Moonbeam.
Back more campaigns, get FREE rewards! Here's how:
- When you back a participating project, you get early access to Moonbeam.
- When you back Moonbeam and any Moonbeam Collection project, you'll unlock an exclusive Premium Badge, earn 100 moonstones, and gain two additional months of Moonbeam+. You can earn these rewards each time you back a Moonbeam Collection project!
If you want to learn more about Moonbeam, check out their project page for details about this revolutionary new live streaming platform.
Join Moonbeam's live streaming revolution today by backing a Moonbeam Collection project and spreading the word! The moment is now—be part of the change!
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backers backed both projectsI look forward to reading your comments and chatting with you all about your dreams and aspirations. We're making Moonbeam for you, and the future is bright if we stick together.
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Project Update: Voidstream: February Update
Apologies for the delay in updates, I've been recovering from a gnarly bout of unexpected illness.
That said, neither time nor tide can hold back the signal.
🛠️ What are we up to?
đź“ą Audio + Video
Without spoiling too many of the surprises, here are the main project categories:
- 🧑‍🏠MARCUS IN THE VENTS: A humble teamster tech discovers more than they expected on a routine maintenance crawl in a claustrophobic setting. Is that a body?! Is somebody sabotaging the oxygen scrubbers? Is Marcus alright!?
- 🤖 ANDROID AUTOPSY: This harrowing POV account serves as a chilling reminder how critical it is to ensure any synthetic humanoid is decommissioned *prior* to conducting an autopsy.
- 🪖 FIELD TRIP: We recognize this one. A field team is inserted into a hostile alien environment to check on the welfare of a company asset gone silent. A birthday party is involved?
- 💼 PRODUCT RECALL: A series of in-universe commercials - first detailing the latest tech innovation from Blastex-Wilson®... and subsequent sub-par instructional videos and public safety warnings.
- 📡 FAREWELL TRANSMISSIONS: Unlike the other offerings, this set will be a series of unrelated distress calls from independent contractors, military personnel, and ambushed androids- fabulous fodder for ominous omens and intergalactic adventure hooks.
We're also getting into gear with Clawhammer Games, Elliot "More Blueberries" Davis, Gnome Anne, and several other horrifying personages as we pull together the plans for the stretch goal scripts/audio/performances. Excited to share what we cook up once the cookin's done.
🎹 Music from the Void
đź““ SOS- Source of Signal
Thanks for your patience as we spin up the gears of this grisly machine. We're certain it'll be worth the wait. We aim to be sending the booklets to print at mid-March, and wrapping up on post-production for the audio by the end of March. We'll follow up with some fun production stills and a more solid idea of shipping timelines in the weeks ahead.
Until then xx
Cameron
Project Update: Tomorrow at 9am Pacific: Tips & Tricks for running Blades in the Dark!
Ash McCallan, Sean Foer, and Sharang Biswas share their insights on such topics as:
- Helping players and GMs shift gears from traditional games to the Blades mindset
- Brining Doskvol to life
- Giving Flashback scenes real potency
- Hacking the game
And more!
It all starts at 9am Pacific Time tomorrow, February 8th. Join us then on Moonbeam!
Project Update: Monster of the Week GM Panel this Saturday!
Apollo Pierce, Brandon "Rev" Wentz, and Sarah Harrison will share their insights and expertise for running a terrific game (or campaign) of Monster of the Week!
Once again we'll be streaming live on Moonbeam so if you have not registered, please do so. The invite link is in your BackerKit rewards and we want to make sure you're good to go before the stream starts so you can dive right in on Saturday.
While you're over on Moonbeam you can preview a few of the topics the panel will be covering and check out the VOD of the Thirsty Sword Lesbians panel!
(You can also find that session using the link contained in this update.)
We'll see you Saturday!
Project Update: VOD of the TSL GM panel, next up: Monster of the Week!
We had a great time talking Thirsty Sword Lesbians with Lily, Alexis, and Nomo this weekend. For those of you who missed it, we have a link below.
If you're a Backstage Pass/VIP backer, you can head over to Moonbeam to find a link to the post-panel campfire chat. Lots on insightful commentary all around.
Next up: Mark your calendars for 9am Pacific, Saturday January 25th!
Apollo Pierce, Brandon "Rev" Wentz, and Sarah Harrison join us to share their sharpest tips on GMing Monster of the Week!
Project Update: TSL panel THIS Saturday, Register for Moonbeam!
If you wait until the last minute, we won't have time to troubleshoot any tech issues if one pop ups creating your account.
As an added bonus you can preview some of the agenda for Saturday's Thirsty Sword Lesbians panel in the General Admission channel as well as get a State of the Hat project update from Sean Nittner on the main page of our Realm.
So get registered for our Moonbeam Realm and we'll see you Saturday!
Project Update: One week til our first GM Panel. Make sure you're signed up!!
All the surveys for Dice Pool have been sent out. If you haven't received yours, head to https://dice-pool.backerkit.com/ to retrieve the link and activate your Moonbeam account.
This is where we're hosting the streams so you need to create your account and join the Evil Hat Realm in order to take part in our panels. Instructions for that are in your BackerKit survey.
Our first panel is one week from tomorrow! Lily Eisner, Anthony Nomo, and Alexis Sara will share their insights on running Thirsty Sword Lesbians. Topics we currently have on the agenda include:
- How conditions work
- Creating characters the players want to engage with
- Developing compelling villains
And more!
Our Thirsty Sword Lesbians panel will be Saturday, January 11th at 9am PDT. We hope you're as excited as we are.
We'll see you over on Moonbeam!
Project Update: Moonbeam alpha AMA on Thursday and a quick update from Anthony!
Join us for the AMA on Thursday @ 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 7pm MT / 6pm PT / (Friday @2am GMT)
Moonbeam Revolutionary
Project Update: Smoke Test, Moonbeam, and Seminar Dates!
1) We're sending out the smoke test today. This is an initial launch that only goes to a small percentage of backers. We use it to test the configuration of our BackerKit fulfillment pages. If you are part of the test, you will get a very brief survey to fill out and once you complete it you'll receive your personal link to join our Moonbeam community. If you're a VIP backer you'll also get your selected PDF/Roll20 rewards. If the smoke test is successful we will send everyone their fulfillment survey next week.
2) Moonbeam is our new community space to help support and celebrate playing the games we publish at Evil Hat. There are channels for discussion, dedicated space just for all our Dice Pool backers, and we'll be using the space to livestream the Dice Pool GM panels. You will get a link to join when you complete your BackerKit survey. Moonbeam is a new initiative and it's currently in alpha so some features you may expect from other community platforms might not be there yet. For what we're looking to do with Dice Pool, we're confident Moonbeam will work and we have a tight relationship with the developers if bugs do pop up. We're looking forward to meeting you all there!
3) Our GM Panels are scheduled! In order to accommodate the widest number of participants across a variety of timezones, we've set our GM panels for Saturday mornings starting at 9 am Pacific Time. Specifically, the four panels will be:
Jan. 11, 2025 - Thirsty Sword Lesbians GM panel
Jan. 25, 2025 - Monster of the Week Keeper panel
Feb. 8, 2025 - Blades in the Dark GM panel
Feb. 22, 2025 - Fate GM panel
For our Backstage Pass & VIP backers, the "campfire chat" portion of the panel will happen a few minutes after the main panel wraps up.
If you have a conflict and can't attend the live stream of a given panel, don't panic. We will be posting links to the VOD in the Dice Pool channel on Moonbeam so you can catch up with them at your leisure.
That's the buzz! Thanks again for your support. We really appreciate your patience and look forward to kicking this all off in the new year!
Project Update: Moonbeam Mobile App Launch (Alpha Phase)
So, without further ado, we present the Moonbeam App (Alpha) for iOS and Android! The is in alpha, so it’s a VERY early version. However, it will improve your mobile experience ASAP!
Note: The app will only work if you have an account in Moonbeam's alpha phase. If you backed Moonbeam for beta access, but want to access our alpha phase, we can upgrade your account if you email us at [email protected].
Download the app below:
What does the app do?
- Improved chatting in Realms and streams
- Improved stream viewing experience on mobile
- Picture-in-picture streaming, so you can chat in Realms while you watch your favorite Moonbeam streamer
- You can create posts in Realms (if a Realm Owner gives you that access)
- You can reply to posts in Realms
- This app will have bugs, so please report them in the Moonbeam Realm’s customer service section or via a bug report on the web-based version of Moonbeam
What can’t it do right now?
- There is no “homepage”—yet, so you can only view Realms you’re a member of and streams within those Realms
- You can’t buy or send Moonstones
- And a bunch of other stuff you’d expect a full-blown app to do
What is next, and how can you help?
- Continue to report bugs
- Continue to provide feedback and recommendations
- If you’re a Realm Owner, use your invites to grow your Realm
- Direct folks to our BackerKit store where they can purchase alpha or beta access
- Take a moment to say hello to someone when they are streaming
- Post about Moonbeam on social media
- Thank Pat and our team (Arya, Brandon, Jarques, JD, Joanne, and Taylor) for their hard work and for putting up with me this week (LOL)
- Anthony
Moonbeam Revolutionary
Project Update: Launch Update
I decided to give the engineers two more hours as we migrate over pre-alpha accounts and begin to send yours out via email.
Here is why: we are increasing our servers to ensure a quality streaming experience. We discovered the servers we were using were giving some pre-alpha creator issues as we migrated those accounts over, so we decided to bump things up on our end to enhance streaming quality.
Here is what we've validated and have ready to go:
- Moonstone purchases on Moonbeam
- Using Moonstone to tip and pay creators
- Creators accumulating earnings works
- Creators can build teams and assign revenue splits
I appreciate your patience and want to ensure, even though this is Alpha, that the experience is a good one!
So, we are hoping this is the last bump tonight—new times we are aiming to send invites out:
9:30pm EST / 8:30pm CST / 6:30pm PST / 2:30am GMT
I want to establish transparency upfront and ensure our team has the tools they need to make sure your experience on Moonbeam is epic—after today we will be here to stay. Stay tuned!
- Anthony
Moonbeam Revolutionary