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!
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Thank You for Transformational Campaign
over 6 years ago
– Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 02:32:49 AM
Thank you for a transformational 30 days
When we planned this campaign back in March we were an introverted studio with very little public profile and a game world we'd been keeping close to our chest for two years. Today we're talking to 7000 plus people across many platforms and collaborating with you to make a game that's richer and deeper than the one that existed before we began.
That's a conversation that we will keep going, and though we will be posting updates here on Kickstarter, we hope you'll continue to talk to one another and suggest your ideas on the dedicated channels we've created on Discord and Steam. We'll also be posting updates from the dev team and we'll continue to send behind-the-scenes updates from our Travellers' Newsletter.
We're so grateful for everything you've done - to those of you who joined us so early as Travellers on our newsletter, to those who've chatted on Discord and kept the flag flying and helped one another with questions while we slept and to those who gave us valuable feedback about the campaign. We've had first time backers (20%!) and first time Discorders and shy people in the shadows coming out to talk about all kinds of things games, animal and art. We've had people who say they aren't confident at drawing send wonderful island pictures. We've had people new to RPGs get connected and creative and excited about the possibilities of role play. And we've had people who are new to or shy of social media push themselves into the light to make the campaign a success.Transformational.
Next things
This is not all. We will be back soon with an update and to announce the island winner. And we'll send you a survey to complete so that we get your info correct for delivery. Backers who pledged for rewards with Meadow or Tiny Echo will be sent Steam keys soon (we just need to tie-up some campaign ends and we'll get to it!) and Secret Cultist and Backer roles for Discord will be allocated in the coming weeks. A 'Welcome to Meadow' group play session will happen in early December and the team are looking forward to seeing you there to play together. Details on this and more after a short break to catch our breath.
Your meadow
Before we check out for a short time we'd like to show you one last thing. Travellers' Meadow. There are exactly as many Night Flowers here as there are backers.
I hope that makes you feel as overawed with pride and love as it does us! A true transformation has taken place! Together we've made a place you to rest, meet and and play music together.
Goodbye for now, and once again, thank you for an incredible journey together.
Best Wishes,
Helen and the team at Might & Delight
Just more than a day left! Do you know about our enhanced rewards?
over 6 years ago
– Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 02:36:43 AM
Dear Backers,
We're scarily close to our 24 hour countdown, and we've very few updates left to go before it's time to say goodbye (from here at least, we'll be on Steam and Discord!). Right now we want to talk about rewards and islands.
A clearer picture of rewards bundles!
It's been a crazy campaign and we've flown a little bit by the seat of our pants, which included adding some extra free things to the rewards bundles. Since Kickstarter don't allow us to adjust text in the pledges we thought we'd make it a bit easier for you. If you want to adjust your pledge, now is the time!
Additional rewards for Travellers and Settlers
Island competition closing with campaign
We're really enjoying looking at your islands and we'll be giving your backstories some solid attention when the campaign is over. After that comes the really very tough part - choosing a winner. We'll announce the winner and follow up on other campaign and game developments here and on Steam in the next few weeks.
Final days updates heading your way soon!
Best Wishes,
Helen and the team at Might & Delight
Say hello to Flik, a new in-game feature (miaow).
over 6 years ago
– Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 12:49:59 AM
Dear Backers,
Did you know we have one member of the team who is not quite human? She is Flik, our visiting cat. To celebrate the end of the campaign, and to honour the calm and chaos she brings to the studio we're going to add her into the game as a rare event, try to spot her on your travels!
We took a little time out to make a video so you can get to know her a little better!
5,000 backers and $200k! Now TWO new stretch goals: a portal and a travel journal!
over 6 years ago
– Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 12:40:30 AM
Dear Backers,
TWO days left and we've TWO new stretch goals for you!
A portal to Travellers’ Meadow
Travellers' Meadow is a sweep of land at the water’s edge where the sky is aglow with Night Flowers. There'll be exactly as many Night Flowers as backers of this short campaign, and they will be there forever! This is your special place in Braided Shore – a commemoration of this world-building adventure we've enjoyed together. With 6,000 backers we'll make a portal to take you to Travellers' Meadow whenever you wish. All players will be able to use the portal and you’ll still need to gather the regeants to tie the required knot, but once the portal is open, all the non-backers in your group can step through too!
Travel Journal
From the moment the trailer was released in September we’ve heard your yearnings for a book in which to write your tales. We love that idea too! What better way to collect your thoughts and document your exploration of Braided Shore? If we get 6,500 backers we’ll add a Bookof Travels Journal to all pledge tiers Traveller and above. (We're really squeezing this one in, so we don't have an image to show you right now but we're sure you have an idea of what you can expect!)
Keep sharing – not long to go!
You might have guessed that our team is pretty small so we aren’t able to be as active and far reaching as we’d like to be, but with your help we just might make it, so If you can help us unlock our next stretch goal (or even smash it!) by sharing the campaign on any forums you’re active on, or on social media, we’ll be so grateful!
Thank you for reading, caring, backing and taking any part at all! We’ll be in touch with one last campaign treat very soon – so stay with us!
Best Wishes,
Helen and the team at Might & Delight
Over 5,000 Night Flowers now bloom in Travellers’ Meadow
5 Days left – A free game for all Travellers and above!
over 6 years ago
– Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 01:44:22 AM
Dearest Backers,
With only FIVE days left, we can’t have asked for a better start to our final week. We’ve really come a long way! We’ve unlocked islands, dreams, music, accessories and added a new Map Book, and lots more.
We’ve met with more new Travellers than we ever expected and heard a lot of really useful feedback about Book of Travels, not to mention a wealth of new ideas to add to the game.
But while we’ve had the pleasure of the company of a fair few Might and Delight fans (hello!), most of us are newly acquainted, so we thought a great way to get to know each other better would be to add two of our landmark games into all rewards Settler and above – say hello to Tiny Echo and Meadow!
MEADOWis free for all Travellers and above and TINY ECHO is free for all Settlers and above! So if you've been thinking of pledging up, now is the time! And we might get even closer to our $200,00 unlock for PETS.
Tiny Echo and Meadow: our road to Book of Travels
Tiny Echo came about after artists Emma and Marcus joined the studio in 2016. Until then, we simply didn’t have enough artists for the time-consuming job of making a 2D hand-drawn game world. With more 2D artists in the studio it became possible to build a large and detailed game world with hand-painted artwork, and so Book of Travels came to be.
This goes to show just how much the people that comprise the team – in terms of who we are and what we can do – have an impact on the decisions we take and the kinds of games we make.
Our first networked game was Meadow, and it was our intention to keep it fairly small – mainly because we were on a learning curve and needed to know that we were going to be able to deliver! We didn’t expect Meadow to be doing so well after three years, but it’s still very popular and we continue to work on updates.
In many ways Meadow is quite a small game – it’s the players and fans who have made it the success it is, and the forums (and an unofficial Discord server) are still alive with chat, fan art and stories.
Another contribution that Meadow makes to Book of Travels is emotes. When it came to player-to-player communication we wanted to retain some of the purity of the animal experience and avoid adding conventional language - this is how we came to design the system of symbols that we call emotes.
As you probably know, Book of Travels will have its own emotes, allowing you to collect them and develop your communications skills as you play (see the section titled Wordless communication for richer roleplay on the project page for more info). Meadow is the game where we tested and developed this kind of in-game communication and the players were more positive about this than we could have imagined. And beyond the game experience, it seemed that in-game relationships built on wordless communication had unintentionally laid foundations for a creative, supportive and inclusive forum culture. We hope that when you play both Meadow and Book of Travels you’ll find that it's a language that enhances the magic of the gameplay experience.
Our initial idea was to launch a new tier for these games, but we decided we wanted to make them part of existing reward tiers so that more people can enjoy them and know a bit about the journey that our small studio is on. (As you can probably tell by now, we tend to do things quite organically!)
We hope that you enjoy delivering mail with Emi in Tiny Echo and that you run wild in Meadow! Of course we’ll send you the Steam key for these games soon after the campaign so you don’t have to wait till the release of Book of Travels to play! (And if you already own one or both, you can of course give your key to a friend.)
Thanks again for your attention, your support and your backing. For anyone who’s new to us, see our update index below for lots on the game along with Travellers' Meadow which is now looking brighter than ever!
Please don’t forget to share the campaign so we can hit our big $200,000 and unlockin-game pets!
