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Project Update - Month One
Knights,
It is hard to believe it has already been a month since the campaign ended. The Kickstarter may be over, but the updates will keep coming. We plan to post news about the state of our game and our current progress every month. Together we raised $226,709 on Kickstarter and $1,355 on PayPal for a campaign total of $228,064. After the end of the campaign, pledge manager add-ons and late pledges have added $13,135 which brings the final funding total for Cyber Knights: Flashpoint to $241,199 before chargebacks, manufacturing for physical rewards and fees.
Here at Trese Brothers HQ, we are busy finalizing the saved game format, putting the finishing touches on the dynamic story node system and reinforcing the foundation of the all-important battle map for missions.
Survey Update
Please understand that we are a bit obsessed with survey completion. If you don’t complete your survey, you can’t get any rewards. So, we are excited to have now achieved a 90% completion rate for backer surveys! Nearly everyone has voted in the cybercat poll and selected the campaign add-ons they wanted. If you have not received a survey email from Backerkit (support@s.backerkit.com OR no-reply@s.backerkit.com) if you have not completed the survey and picked any final add-ons now is the time!
If you have not received a survey or had any issues filling it out, please email me at andrew@tresebrothers.com or message me here on Kickstarter. We are here to help.
Poll Results!
We have wrapped up 3 polls from the Kickstarter -- the New Cat Breed, Favorite Profession from Cyber Knights classic and the Survivor Poll from Cyber Knights classic. The results are below!
Snow Leopard Wins Cat Breed Poll
The votes have been tallied and the winner is Snow Leopard. This majestic cat will be integrated into the Assassin cyber-job as the second companion type. Thank you for all your support -- you made this happen. Our backers, Patreons, Twitch subscribers all pitched in and we’ve begun funding the animation, model and texturing work to bring this beauty to life. Meow!
The voting was extremely close in the first two weeks but then Snow Leopard took the lead and never looked back. We thank everyone who voted -- no matter which cat you fancied we’re all winning here. Each cat had a lot of votes and we’re very excited to be expanding the feline variety in the game!
Gunslinger Wins Profession Poll
In the poll for which profession would have the honor of being the first template in the new game list, Gunslinger beat Hacker out by a hair. We appreciate everyone voting on this poll during and after the campaign, it was a fun one. Very clearly -- Gunslinger, Hacker and Cybersword broke away from the other professions as the favorites.
Eliza Krofter Wins Survivor Poll
By a landslide, Eliza Krofter the young Cyber Knight featured in the “Made, Not Born” storyline of Cyber Knights classic was voted as the Survivor. She beat out both Clive Zep and Side-Arm Gerrin at a rate of 5 to 1. We’re excited to see a seminal character’s story continue and to find out what Krofter has been up to for the last 14 years.
To those who campaigned for the other survivors, we have seen the #CliveLives hashtag and even heard rumors of CliveLives appear in graffiti in the game.
Stretch Goal Update - Soundtrack Expansion
We are making progress on the Skyrise and Safehouse OST projects with our music and sound team at Studio Viking. For Skyrise, we’ll be expanding the OST with 2 unique compositions and 4 thematic remixes.
The Safehouse expansion will include 4 unique songs performed in-game by artists like Seven Banners Burning or LTS. We are working with Studio Viking to develop these artist’s personas around the voice talent -- all while juggling studio recording in the age of coronavirus.
If you’re getting the Digital Soundtrack Reward as part of your pledge tier, you will automatically get these additional tracks. All players will be able to hear them in-game when they’re raiding the high-style Skyrise towers or laying low in their Safehouse.
Reward Update: 3D Faces
In order for the art project to continue smoothly, we need to start gathering all of the details for the backer’s character faces that will get rendered into the game. We have finished preparing an in-take process to gather images, references and the other details needed to make this as smooth as possible. Once we have all the input for each face, we will create a concept art shot of the newly designed head and hair. From there, the 3D team will be ready to take over!
If you pledged at the Backstory Edition or higher ($500+), you will receive an invitation to a Google Form from atrese@gmail.com within the hour.
Wishlist / Follow on Steam
This month we worked with our video team to cut a pre-alpha teaser trailer for Steam. The more wishlists we can accumulate for the game’s eventual launch the better. If you can, please visit the Cyber Knights: Flashpoint page on Steam and click ‘Add to Wishlist’ and ‘Follow’ the game. This will help the game build momentum for the inevitable Early Access Release.
Trese Brothers on Reddit
We’re are online at the Trese Brothers Discord server but we’re also active on our Reddits, /r/TreseBrothers, /r/StarTradersFrontiers and newly minted /r/CyberKnightsGame so come, post a meme or a guide.
Final Hours of Kickstarter Livestream
We streamed the last five hours of the Kickstarter on Twitch, and if you missed it the video is archived on YouTube: Twitch Stream - Final 5 Hours of Cyber Knights: Flashpoint Kickstarter
Streaming on Twitch
You can find Cory (and sometimes Andrew) on the Trese Brothers Twitch where we are streaming game development, answering questions and talking about the studio Tuesdays and Thursdays at 4PM EST.
Many thanks for your support!
Cory and Andrew Trese
Trese Brothers Games
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