I have marked off the orders that have shipped and set them to fulfilled, so if your order has been marked off expect it to arrive in the next few weeks (hopefully sooner!)
This is only for physical orders, so if you have unfulfilled digital orders do not fret if it has been marked as shipped. It will not be forgotten! I'm back from my 3 month long stay in Sweden in less than a week so ill be livestreaming once again! I plan to do some weekly livestreams to start work on the Barnaby grave reward tiers, so you can potentially see your name be added to his cemetery during a livestream. I'll schedule these so you can try and hop in if you'd like to see it happen live :D
Making good progress! Things are getting faster with practice, my sister is coming to help pack soon too, and we will be back home to also help pack, feel free to share photos online if you get your goodies, im excited to see!
What's up ghouls! We did it! The campaign has come to a close and we are starting the production process for all of our sweet sweet backer rewards! We will be crafting and perfecting the magic, in dimly lit halls and laboratories for the next few months. Pre-Orders roll on in the meantime! Check out our new webstore to for add-ons or last minute orders, and lookout for new shirts and merch being added to the store soon, including the 'GT x Bog Lung' long sleeve shirt!
As of this update we have only 25 collectors edition copies left and fewer than 30 first run comics! Make sure to reserve them before they are gone!
Thanks again for supporting our humble project.
Yours in Sorrow and Satisfaction, Magic Quest Media
Happy Thanksgiving to those celebrating, and Happy Weekend to those who do not! Since I'm a bit ahead of my schedule, I have sent out the surveys to fill in to finalize all your orders.
The deadline for surveys is: December 15th A good amount of people still have failed payments which have to be fixed up by December 15th to avoid any cancellations and to not put us behind our reached stretch goals. By the same deadline, if you have ordered an exclusive Pixyls woodland sticker, you should fill in and pay the shipping to ensure your order goes through.
If you haven't had the chance to back up the main fundraiser, you can still do with late pledges! https://tailside.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders P.S. Did you see the newest NPC reveal? 🐺💙 A new Devlog for Oct-Nov summary and game progress will be up next week!
Hey! Thanks so much to everyone who’s already backed 868-BACK, and we’ve already met the minimum target so this game is definitely getting finished. (Of course I have to mention - any more would help, so if you’re on the fence there’s still time to support the project.)
I’m going to go into a little bit of detail about how the server map works. It’s not going to be a lot, but if you’re one of the people who really like to keep everything under wraps until you’re actually playing, feel free to stop reading here.
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If you’ve played 868-HACK, you’ll remember there was never any choice about who or what you were hacking. You’d just start the game and straight away you’re hacking something, and then if you succeeded then you’re hacking something else after that, with more and more countermeasures opposing you, escalating until you inevitably crash and burn.
In contrast, as soon as you start a game of 868-BACK, you’re faced with a choice: which server am I going to hack?
Here’s a typical opening: a choice between two relatively undefended servers on opposite sides of the map. The main reason to choose at this point is that each one offers a different device. There’s also some other information: starting programs and other resources, their connectivity in the network, which corporations have influence over them.. but for a start there’s devices.
Devices are your long-term build - if you’ve played Cinco Paus they fill a comparable role to the magic artifacts (being an inventory that you build up over multiple rounds), but how they operate is completely different. In the screen above you can see the tooltip for /exorcism, one of the devices I’m choosing between: it makes Daemon enemies explode when killed, damaging other enemies next to them. Again if you’ve played 868-HACK you’ll recognise this is related to the .D-BOM prog: lots of effects from the original show up in a new and different form.
I played through that round and got 34 points.. you see that server’s three neighbours are now accessible. These will be more difficult rounds: each of them has a powerup protecting it, and one even has two. And of course each of them has a different device - we’re starting to build up our inventory.
In 868-HACK, as you reached increasingly difficult servers, of course it became more difficult to score so you would shift to focusing on survival. Your score adds up across rounds, and the majority of your points would be scored in the easier rounds with just a few here and there in the harder rounds. In coming back to it I felt there’s something a little strange in how that means your final score doesn’t exactly reflect the most difficult challenges you faced! And as I was developing the server selection map, I needed answers for why you would ever pick a riskier server: the first answer is more highly protected data is more valuable. Servers now have a score multiplier based on how many powerups they have, deepening 868’s risk/reward gameplay by tempting you to connect to the most dangerous servers you can find.
I hope this helps you to see the direction I’m taking things!
I got my Barnaby keychain last Friday! Thanks so much to the entire BBU team for these with SUPER fast shipping since you said mass shipping was up. Super high quality, and great packaging. Thanks and happy holidays! :D
Thanks to everyone participating, we have managed to close the fundraiser at 40K milestone! This means we went from a simple 5K EA version to a much more immersive Tailside experience with all the stretch goals unlocked along the way:
Surveys: I will now start preparing the surveys for each pledge tier that is estimated to be sent out on December 1st (or 2nd at latest). Through the survey you will be able to add your Discord usernames for the Discord role, name for the in-game credits and any other questions related to other rewards such as custom items.
Meanwhile: Within the next 24 hours your cards should be charged for your pledge amounts and if there is any issues you should be notified as well. be sure to fix all the payment issues by December 8th to secure your tiers!
...And what about all the other stretch goals that were not unlocked? Well, don't get your head down if you were looking forward Tea addition and others, keep an eye out for updates related to that! 👀
Thank you for helping reach one more stretch goal - Soundtrack DLC It has now been added as a reward to ALL PLEDGE TIERS for FREE (there's never too much of goodies!)
What's next? Well, now we are finalizing and trying to get in all the last backers as there's only 20 hours left, and who knows, we might get lucky and sprint to the Twitch integration milestone, I know a lot of my audience consists of streamers so I wanted to try to get it developed for Tailside too! Let's hope for it! (Maybe you know any streamer that might help with reaching it? 🌼
Next milestone: 40.000€! With this milestone Twitch integration will be developed and added. This feature allows players streaming on Twitch to interact directly with their viewers. Fullfil orders of the viewers, get extra coins, rewards and more.
Goal: €40,000 reached! — We did it! This project reached this goal!
