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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Amazing, we're not yet 24 hours in and we've already been joined by 1,000 backers - thank you! It's great to have you! Together, your number unlocks the third earlybird and all earlybirds will be able to summon the fabulous Bird of Umber Yu. That's ALL THREE earlybirds unlocked and acheived in less than 24 hours!
This is just the begining and we'll be sharing lots more about the game in our updates and stretch goals in these next days and beyond.
Travellers' Meadow has now been planted with 1,000 glowing Night Flowers and we will continue to plant one for each backer - it's really coming to life.
The whole team here in the studio are super excited at having your support - in numbers but also in the words you have written here and on Discord and beyond. It's so great to hear you like what you've read about Book of Travels, we are really on the same page with this! It's so heart warming to hear, and means so much to us all.
Your shares also count heaps, so please keep it going! Next up, our first stretch goal - we're still making a few last minute changes, but it won't be long now!
From Helen and the team here at Might & Delight
Phew that was a fun 12 hours! Now that the first day is done, the team here is taking a look at what's working and what might be going a little bit sideways... we sure are learning :) But first, it’s time for our very first stretch goal!
“The strands of rope writhed in his hands, sending a bitter heat through his wrists and along his arms. He shuddered, smiling. Something unusual must be trapped within it! He’d unravelled many a knotspell since he was a boy, but never felt heat like this. He wrestled the rope loose impatiently, marvelling at the luminous glow that grew between its tattered, muddy thread. They’ll never forgive me, he thought, but there’s no going back now.”
We promised you that this was going to be a campaign about asking you to get involved with the game, and for our first stretch goal we'll make four new magic knots for Braided Shore. Our target is 1,500 backers, which we are optomistic about! But we need your help not just in sharing to get those backers but to decide what spells they new knots will unleash! We will read any suggestions you make here, comments section of this update... let your imagination run wild!
And if you haven't heard of knot magic before, you can find out more in the lore that's in the Braided Shore section of the project page. We'll be posting more in the next couple of days! Now for some... adjustments.
We want to let you know that the exclusivity of the Secret Cult was no mistake! We didn't design the pledge tiers to ascend in a hierarchy, some are just a bit different (A Settler would own more maps, right?). The Secret Cultist was always going to be a bit controversial and we took that risk. But now that so many of you want to be Cultists, we're going to open the cult up to all backers pledging above that level. We can't change this in the rewards text, but we'll make it happen on delivery!
Some of you pointed out that there was a typo in the shipping cost - an extra zero appeared and made this memento reward a lot less appealing! We've created a new pledge with correct shipping, so for those who’d like to pledge for it, or change their original pledge from the old to the new one, please check it out!
We've had a great first couple of days and already over 1000 of you are backers now. Thank you and welcome! There's a lot more fun to come!
We hope you like our stretch goal challenge, thanks so much for being here in our first few days! And do ask any questions in the comments section.
From Helen and all the team at Might & Delight
Day five, and already we are so pleased with all your input, your comments and your ideas! And just look at Travellers’ Meadow... here we have over 2,000 Night Flowers...
After taking some time to reflect on the stunning amount of support we've had so far, we've put together a set of four new stretch goals, all centered around collaboration. Some are features we've been considering for some time (and maybe you recognise some which have come from Travellers on Discord pre-campaign!), so we have a good idea how to fit them into the game. But we've also added some fresh ideas that we hope we can bring to life with your help!
This is a minigame that players can challenge another player to when in Braided Shore. It's a simplistic version of the ancient game of Go and will be easy to learn but hard to master. A game of Go’bad is activated using a skill that creates a “challenge” icon available for another player to accept. (The player who accepts does not need to have the skill, but only players who do can initiate a Go’Bad session.) It's a game played by two, but nearby players can press a small eye-icon to sit down and observe the game. Besides unlocking the feature for the game, this stretch goal also gives all backers the Go’Bad skill (that is needed to initiate a play session).
There are many old, overgrown and unused train tracks in Braided Shore, and many speak of a time when another civilisation was master of the region. In this stretch goal we will put some of them to use, by creating a small draisine that two players can operate together, carrying their friends as passengers.
This is a feature that we've been hearing a lot of you asking for in the last few weeks and days! We are so excited to make it possible!
With this goal unlocked you'll be able to learn tunes from one another when you play them in Braided Shore. When you play a tune, others can learn it just by listening - and vice versa. They are then able to play along, either with an instrument they are carrying, or by using voice or hand claps. On top of this we'll create a unique melody that all backers will get from the start and can share with new players as they join.
There are many soothing and calming brews in the world of Book of Travels. What makes this tea stand out is that it amplifies its potency with each other traveller that is close by during the time of the effect. This tea skill will be sold by specialised tea merchants in Braided Shore, but backers will have it from start should the stretch goal be reached.
We hope you like these new stretch goals! Over the next few days we’ll be planning some more ways for you to get involved in building the game, we can’t wait to let you know what that will be...
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Thank you for everything you have done for us so far! We are having a great time reading your comments and suggestions! Please help us to these stretch goals by using these buttons to share...
Best Wishes,
Helen and the team at Might & Delight
Thank you so much for a great start to our very first Kickstarter - you have helped us get funded in just four hours - and we've been chosen as a featured project. Even better, we’ve filled Travellers’ Meadow with 500 Night Flowers… here they all hand planted (or clicked) by Jakob. THANK YOU!
You've also helped unlock the second earlybird reward, the Ring of Cycles. This is an in-game item that will come in very useful in Braided Shore, where darkness and light and days and nights don’t have any predictable length. ALL earlybirds will now get the ring as well The Lantern of Early Light. And should we get 1,000 backers before our deadline of 48 hours, earlybirds will also get a very rare in-game skill, the Call of Umber Yu.
We are super pleased with how things are going so far, thank you for all of your comments and feedback! And please know, we will get back to you in the comments section very soon - I’m sure you can imagine how busy it is here right now.
We're working on our stretch goal plans right now and we're really excited to share our first stretch goal one with you very soon!
Thank you! Do keep sharing us so that we can reach 1,000!
Helen and the team at Might & Delight