The late-pledge campaign is over as Book of Travels now is in Early Access on Steam. You can still support the game at www.TMORPG.com. Thanks you! Might and Delight!
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Today we’re really excited to begin our fortnightly programme of updates with this video of gameplay clips. For many of you, this will be a first glimpse of the fully functioning game world - we hope you like it!
These clips were recorded on a single player server, so they give a sense of the game world without the presence of other players. We hope they give you a glimpse of some of the areas, environments and features that we're currently working on. Book of Travels is a TMO and we're looking forward to sharing more about how you'll interact in those occasional player meetings at some point in the future. Our next video update comes in November, when we'll be sharing longer, uninterrupted gameplay footage.
As always we would love to hear your thoughts, and the team will be checking in to answer your questions, so please ask away! And if you have something about the game that you want us to talk about or show, let us know right here in the comments section.
Best Wishes,
Helen & the Dev Team
We hope this update finds you well! It’s been a strange summer for us all, and during its course the team realised they needed to make a new schedule for Book of Travels. We’re sure you've heard how other studios have suffered the same setback owing to the various constraints of life under lockdown. Here at Might and Delight, we managed the reconfiguration quite quickly, relocating team members and their kit to their homes and keeping our workflow systems as tight as possible.
But while playing-together-apart has saved us this summer, working together apart doesn't make for ideal coding collaboration. We were glad to have delivered the closed beta in June, but it was a smaller version than we'd have liked and it revealed to us the extent of the work ahead. We also have Shelter 3 in production and a happily thriving world of Meadow to maintain, so in the end we had to take stock and revise deadlines - early access is now scheduled for Q2 of 2021.
As you can see in the graphic above, we’ve scheduled a gameplay video along with a major update in November. We’re REALLY looking forward to this and we think you’re going to love seeing the progress that we’ve made!
We know that you’ve been waiting patiently, and your enthusiasm and anticipation really have been like soul food for us through these trying times. The good news is that we'll be more present in the coming months. With our new schedule in place we’ve been able to make space for a new series of regular, fortnightly updates that will tell you where development is at and how the game is shaping up. They’ll start on October 2nd.
We’ll continue to talk and listen to you here and through our social channels as well as in more focused ways – backers of Nomad and above will be able to join us at one of our Discord Dev Parties in September and we’re hoping to hold another, shorter beta with a bigger slice of Braided Shore at some point in the new year.
Later in the year we’ll be continuing our series of insights into different aspects of the development process in our Ask the Devs videos. We’ve enjoyed meeting many of you in Meadow and we hope that those backers who haven't used their key yet can hop in and say hi, not just in Meadow with emotes but to chat in words on Discord.
We’ve also heard your desire for merchandise and will soon have an Art Station store. We’ll be adding to this store as artwork gets finished and polished (and we’ll send an update to let you know when that’s live).
Finally, we've added our notoriously tricky and hypnotically ambient Pid to every backer’s account as a free extra, just log in to Backerkit to get your key. Can you beat it?! Let us know how you get on! (If you've lost your survey link you can get a new link here.)
Once again, a huge thanks for your encouragement and kind words these last months. Do stay in touch!
Best Wishes,
Helen and the team at Might and Delight
We're super excited to reveal the dates for our backer-only Discord Dev Parties!
Amongst the rewards you selected last winter was an invitation to chat with the team about their work on Book of Travels. Now we've scheduled two slots (with European and US time zones in mind) and we can't wait to see you there! They are Wednesday 7th October at 3pm CEST and Thursday 8th October at 11am CEST.
There will be four developers attending each session answering your questions in a live stream. You'll be able to ask questions by posting them into the dedicated channel, #discord-dev-party. Only backers with @DevParty roles will be able to join, so if you haven't joined us on Discord yet, hop in to get roled.
Each party will be hosted by four team members selected to represent a cross section of roles and skills. Here they are in full:
From left to right: Lead Programmer Jens Berglind, 2D Artist Charlotte Bernard, Game Designer Thiago Beto Alves and Lead Audio Designer Josef Tuulse.
From left to right: Programmer & Game Designer Arvid Edström, Lead Narrative Designer Andreas Wangler, Lead Technical Artist Peter Stråhle, 2D Artist Marcus Lindgren.
We're really looking forward to talking with you!
Best Wishes,
Helen and the team at Might and Delight
Hello! We hope you are well! This is just a short update to let you know that we're still here and are busy putting something nice together for the next update - it won't be long before it's in your inbox - around week four of this month. And in the meantime, if you backed to attend a Discord Dev Party, we'll be announcing those dates very soon.
We're also working on a new content plan and workflow that will help us to maintain a more frequent output of updates and content, sharing where the development journey with regular screenshots and development news. Since spring, we've had to reconfigure our work (haven't we all) but also to expand a little, hire some additional team members and take a good look at our processes in order to better engage with backers.
We're still here - we're still working hard on Book of Travels and we'll be in touch with an update in a few weeks. Thanks so much for your patience! We're looking forward to communicating with you more in the coming months.
Best Wishes and more soon!
Helen and the team at Might and Delight