KickStarter Serpent in the Staglands Pre-Release Thread

[Angthoron]

you could more or less do the thing you planned with the budget and time frame intended?

SitS's scope for the story intended was finite and carefully designed for the KS pitch, if millions came from the KS they would have been a lot of pre-orders (and better coffee funds). Though extendable by the few stretch bonuses, the scope and deadline were built simultaneously. We knew what our limits were and what we could accomplish if we kept our heads low and dug in into development with a small budget, and could shoot for release sales if we got on Steam and GOG for profit and (hopefully) future development. We didn't need to hire anyone and didn't want to spend the backer money on trips to conferences, and living/working together obviously leaves room for an optimized budget.

So while we were certainly using it for marketing, our main intention was to simulate a publishers funding directly through backers, because a traditional publisher would be an inane route to take for this type of game. Surprisingly we were contacted during/post KS, but have remained on our own ship. In that regard KS worked wonderfully, we didn't bloat the project and we got the funds needed to develop it full time with only needing a minimal amount out of our own pockets and side work (future testing delays aside).

Obviously it's been tight, we haven't had a weekend for a better part of a year and have consistently weird work hours, but working with such a limited budget has kept the game focused. We love this work. And in working grow strong.

I do miss good coffee though.

Thanks! Yeah, that's the feeling I got from the original KS pitch, and it makes perfect sense. Higher budget would definitely mean that things would have to be quite different - although strangely enough, and, in a way, frustrating, there's KSes with 300k mark-ups that seem to offer a lot less than SitS, and yet they get fairly high amounts of funding. Can't name them off the top of my head, but there was some roguelike, at least, that looked extremely generic, and had a very small dev team as well. Would've quite preferred that you two'd have gotten 100k or so for developing, and kept the team size and scope the same.

Oh well! Hopefully what you didn't get on KS (and then some) you'll get with the actual sales

 

[garren]

Whalenought_Joe

I noticed you aren't greenlighted on Steam yet. Can you share any data how the greenlighting process is going? Does it look like you're going to make it before the game releases?

Also go vote for the game if you haven't already faggots:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=247758542

 

[Crooked Bee]

We should do a new fundraiser to buy you some good coffee.

No one should be forced to go without good coffee, that's just inhumane.

 

[Whalenought_Joe]

Whalenought_Joe

I noticed you aren't greenlighted on Steam yet. Can you share any data how the greenlighting process is going? Does it look like you're going to make it before the game releases?

We plan on submitting beta v.2 to GOG for submission approval, which is what we're really hoping to land on, and Steam is at 86% (approval? vote aggregation? they make it vague what that number really means) and over 4160 yes votes for the 6 months we've been on there. I thought at one point Steam was going to be dropping the Greenlight process, so we'll see, but it seems like we'll make it in time for release. We'll be sending beta v.2 copies to some youtube folks as well, so hopefully that helps with recognition, votes, and continued Paypal preorders.

Always appreciate the prestigious Codex shoutout.

No one should be forced to go without good coffee, that's just inhumane.

I think we've lost a little of our humanity with the coffee we've been drinking.

 

[Shadowfang]

Whalenought_Joe you guys deserve nothing less than the sweet bean juice comming from an italian espresso machine.

 

[Agesilaus]

Drinking coffee is inhumane, drink tea.

 

[dukeofwhales]

Whalenought_Joe, have you and Hannah got a brand preference (something that can be ordered online and shipped direct to you)?. I can sort you out something.

 

[garren]

In before espresso machines sent through mail..

 

[dukeofwhales]

I haven't got the spare money for a coffee machine, but I can definitely get some beans sent Whalenought's way. Gotta have something to get you through the crunch.

 

[agris]

I can vouch for Anderson's Coffee. The Costa Rican beans and Mocha Java are my favorites. They roast their beans every mon/tues and thursday, so that shit is fresh. Gotta go whole-bean though, none of that pre-ground crap.

 

[Ninjerk]

I thought this was the coffee snob thread for a moment.

 

[Doctor Sbaitso]

Let's send them some of those cat shit beans.

 

[agris]

People appreciate good coffee

 

[Whalenought_Joe]

Whalenought_Joe, have you and Hannah got a brand preference (something that can be ordered online and shipped direct to you)?. I can sort you out something.

That's amazing. We don't have a preference. Whalenought will return a generous deed with what it can.

cat shit beans.

We get enough from the two we have at home.

 

[dukeofwhales]

That's amazing. We don't have a preference. Whalenought will return a generous deed with what it can.

No probs - I've sent you a message via Kickstarter to get your deets

 

[Whalenought_Joe]

That's amazing. We don't have a preference. Whalenought will return a generous deed with what it can.

No probs - I've sent you a message via Kickstarter to get your deets

Ridiculous, you're awesome. Codex coffee shall be treasured, and dukeofwhales toasted to in the Whalenought Kingdom.

 

[Doctor Sbaitso]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak

I had read about these before but I see now information about the force-feeding of the civets to make this coffee so screw that.

Best coffee I ever had was while in Barbados.. it was delivered weekly to the hotel from Trinidad. Unbelievable.

 

[Angthoron]

Whalenought_Joe, have you and Hannah got a brand preference (something that can be ordered online and shipped direct to you)?. I can sort you out something.

A benevolent version of pizza-sending to a game dev? This isn't the Codex I used to know.

Awesome of you though, dude.

 

[Whalenought_Joe]

Wow that was fast. Paws of the cheetah boots fast. We haven't had good coffee in what seems like ages, but this might stand as some of the best I've had. Really, really good stuff. A TREAT OF TREATS. Thanks dukeofwhales!
:D:D

We'll go check out their shop downtown after we release. With humanity slowly returning to us, this will gloriously fuel us through the night. Big update should be out in soon!

Cheers!

 

[Sam Ecorners]

You release this game and first two rounds at Hopleaf are on me(I'm that A-ville guy that upgraded pledge)

 

[dukeofwhales]

I'm glad you like it guys! If you're going to be working long days you should at least have good coffee.

 

[Whalenought_Joe]

You release this game and first two rounds at Hopleaf are on me(I'm that A-ville guy that upgraded pledge)

I'm glad you like it guys! If you're going to be working long days you should at least have good coffee.

We'll be there. Wonderful support light has been photosynthesized into Whalenought fuel.

 

[Doctor Sbaitso]

Very cool.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Damn you guys really need that coffee huh.

 

[Gozma]

should have asked for gold bars instead of coffee, your one codex wish wasted