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After an incredible 30 days, the Ink Ribbon crowdfunding campaign ends this Thursday — so come celebrate with us at the livestream wrap party! Designer Emmet Byrne will be joined by our editor Ben Doherty, along with two of our amazing guest writers, Elaine Lithgow (Heart: Ways and Means, Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound, Children of Time RPG) and Colin Le Sueur (Midnight of the Century, Runecairn, We Deal in Lead), live on the Old Oak YouTube channel. The crew will share their excitement for Ink Ribbon, talk about what to expect from the full release, and give some sneak peeks into the adventure scenarios they're writing.

Join us Thursday, October 22nd at 7:30pm GMT+1 | 11:30am PST | 2:20pm EST on the Old Oak Games YouTube channel. Click here to set a reminder!

Hello survivors! To misquote Dr Ian Malcolm: You did it. You crazy backers did it. We have just smashed through our €200k stretch goal, which means we get to create a dedicated dinosaur-themed supplement for Ink Ribbon! In my wildest dreams, I didn’t think we’d hit €200k. I am completely overwhelmed by the support and the excitement the community has shown for Ink Ribbon. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart.

We are now out of stretch goals — for the second time! However, we have decided not to add any more stretch goals. I know this might be disappointing, but since we are already creating two more books than we originally planned, I am very conscious of scope creep — I don’t want the temptation of shiny new things to impact our delivery of the core product. The good news is that any extra funds we raise will give us the freedom to push the existing books as far as they can go, with extra pages, new art, and just more stuff. 

Thank you all once again for your amazing support. We’re closing in on the end of the campaign, and we’ll have a new update tomorrow with details about our celebratory end-of-campaign stream. So stay tuned!

Greetings survivors! We have just one week to go on the campaign, and we’ve just hit our €175k Stretch Goal! That means we’ll be doing some Mad Science, and we’ll work with all of you fine folks to create a brand-new (and likely utterly grotesque) abomination! This will increase the number of Nemesis-type enemies in the Research Dossier to four — plus almost every scenario will add another Nemesis-type enemy, so the GMs out there will have a plethora of options for how to torment and torture their players. 

With Mad Science unlocked, we're down to our last stretch goal: if we reach €200k, we’ll unlock a new supplement that adds dinosaurs to Ink Ribbon! If we unlock this goal, all digital tiers will get the PDF for free, and all physical tiers will get both PDF and the printed version added to their pledge. As with the Dead Mall scenario we unlocked, the dinosaur supplement will be free exclusively for those who pledge during the campaign. Both supplements will only be available as paid add-ons for late pledges and pre-orders. So if you have any friends you think would like Ink Ribbon, let them know to back now! The campaign ends on the 22nd of October at 8pm GMT+1 (so 12pm PST and 3pm EST), so spread the word.

Until next time, stay safe survivors!

Hello survivors! We’ve had a few folks ask if there is a Pay Over Time option available, so we wanted to send out this quick update to let everyone know that yes, Pay Over Time is available for Ink Ribbon! However, because of how the system works, the Pay Over Time option only becomes available when your pledge exceeds €150. So it’s available at the Megabundle tier, but also becomes available if you back at a lower tier and then add extra add-ons that bring your pledge past the €150 threshold. We wish we could offer this at lower tiers, but unfortunately it’s out of our hands.

If you choose Pay Over Time, you may see a notification that you won’t get access to your rewards until you have paid in full. However, since we won’t be fulfilling until next year, this won’t affect you. If we do send out PDFs or digital content before the Pay Over Time payments have all been taken, we’ll be sending the rewards out to all backers regardless of whether they have paid in full or are still paying off their pledge. 

In other news, we’re closing in on the €175k stretch goal, and it looks like we’ll hit it in the next few days! We’ll be back soon with another update when that happens, plus a special Halloween treat (or is it “threat”?) to use in your games this spooky season.

Hello survivors, we hope you’re having a good week. We just hit our €150k stretch goal, which means we’ll be releasing a third-party creator licence along with a pack of assets to help creators make Ink Ribbon scenarios and supplements. This is incredibly exciting and something I’ve always wanted to do, so I’m delighted that we get to do this. We don’t have details on the licence yet, but you can take a look at the Arcane Library’s Shadowdark licence and MCDM's Draw Steel licence to give you an idea of what to expect.

If you’re a creator and planning on making stuff for Ink Ribbon, we want to hear from you! We can’t wait to see what the community creates.

Our next stretch goal is MAD SCIENCE, and it will let all of you wonderful backers create a terrifying abomination that will be added to Ink Ribbon. This should be a really fun goal, so hopefully we can get it unlocked (and more!)