Can you believe it, we’re half way through the crowdfunding campaign already! Let's take a moment to celebrate everything we’ve accomplished so far and see what’s coming down the track.
Heart is Bigger Than Ever
There’s always a sense of trepidation whenever you put together a new crowdfunding campaign. You put everything together, spend months tweaking numbers, visuals, text, and video. You run predictions and try to assure yourself that it’s a good idea. But until you finally go live, you can’t be certain how the community will respond to your project – if the hunger for your game still exists.
I’m glad to say that Ways and Means has smashed our expectations. This time last year we ran the Dagger in the Heart campaign which raised a total of £174,000. We went into Ways and Means expecting something similar, but we’re only half way through the campaign and we’ve already crossed the £160,000 mark!
It’s clear that the community is eager for more Heart and I wanted to pass on a huge thanks from the whole team for your overwhelming support. This kind of crazy response gives us the confidence (and funds) we need to keep making these games we love.
Stretch Goals
With such a wild flood of backers, we’ve managed to unlock a staggering amount of stretch goals since launching two weeks ago.
All the stretch goals so far have focused on bringing you MORE HEART! More gear, more hirelings, more bounties, and a whole new calling and class! With all these stretch goals unlocked we’ve added over twenty new pages of content to Ways and Means and we’re fast approaching our £165,000 stretch goal which will let us dump a bucket of gorgeous new illustrations into the book too.
The only downside, if you can even call it that, is we’re almost out of stretch goals to unlock! We honestly didn’t think we’d have such a great response, so we’ve been bashing our heads together behind the scenes to put together some exciting new stretch goals to aim for. Keep an eye out.
Real Art By Real Humans
Speaking of art, our good friend Felix Miall has been hard at work developing the visual identity for the new class you all unlocked. This one has come together at a blistering pace, thanks largely to Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan’s ability to write Heart content at a blistering pace. Seriously, we unlocked the class stretch goal and inside of a week we workshopped ideas and Gareth had a first draft for his new class faster than you can say “It does what?!”
We’re holding off on revealing the specifics of the new class until we’ve had more time to develop the mechanics, but for now you can take a gander at this lovely video of Felix sketching out some initial concepts for how this new delver might look.
The Dev Blogs Will Continue Until Morale Improves
Our behind the scenes developer blog series has continued apace throughout the last couple of weeks, so here’s a quick list of the posts so far in case you’ve missed any so far:
If you want to join in on the speculation and hype about Ways and Means, why not join the Rowan Rook and Decard Community Discord? There you can find a host of like minded Heart lovers milling about with the RRD devs to talk everything Heart and more.
That’s all for now, folks! If you haven’t already, remember to back the crowdfunding campaign and keep an eye out for more stretch goals and developer blogs as we tear into the second half of the campaign.
