Yeah, this is how it should be done. Good job, and congratulations!
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KickStarter Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones - a Lovecraftian Computer RPG
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Scrawled
Cultic Games
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Greetings fellow heretics!
It seems we have reached our funding goal! We'll see what the last week will bring but you should know one thing: We've achieved this together! Your support and enthusiasm always motivates us to do the best. Thank you!
Now, does this mean the updates will stop? Of course not! Let's continue with our portrait and concept artist Ege Bilgen and what he'd like to share about his work on Stygian:
A previous work of Ege Bilgen
"Greetings worshippers and fanatics!
Perhaps some of you have noticed that a magnificent twilight is upon us.
Yes, it is indeed the sign of our encroaching doom; a beautiful storm of sweet, all-encompassing sorrow. As the maddening end draws ever nearer, let me express dear fans and supporters, what an honour and pleasure it's been for me, your humble portrait artist Ege Bilgen, to have taken part in this dark journey thus far.
All of our portraits are hand drawn by pencil before being scanned for the digital coloring process
That's right, I have been... innocently requested, shall we say, to create character portraits for Stygian (There wasn't any form of dark ritual involved of course, let me assure you). Now you might inquire, how does one exactly proceed with such a task? What kind of process goes into capturing the tragedy of a burdened and afflicted soul?
Final Version
Well, it all starts with an idea, a conceptual insight for a character. "An honorable yet beaten man, at the end of his ropes." the dark voices whisper. "A woman, proud and wise, yet she underestimates." Now the voices cackle gleefully. "This one's a naughty one. He's a natural. " The voices hang heavy in my mind.
I receive many such depictions. After a slight moment of feeling sorry for what the Old Ones might have in store for them, I immediately begin to imagine. I imagine these souls first at their best. I see a heroic nod of assuring stoicism, or a euphoric smile of untainted joy perhaps. Then...well, then I take it all away.
The innocence fades, their dreams vanish, and dwindling hopes of absolution become ash in agonizing cries. Now in my mind's eye I look at these characters again. I carefullly look to see what's left of them, and what precisely made them to go on. Sometimes the answer is quite reassuring, and sometimes... not so much. With a heavy heart then I try to make you witness as well, as far as my humble talents allow me to do so.
A strange and hopeless twilight of madness is upon the world of Stygian, and as the characters there somehow keep fighting on, I tried to imagine them staring right into it. Some of them endured many grave losses which cannot be easily compensated. Some of them found new strengths of frightening darkness and intensity. As the portrait artist of Stygian, I hope I was able to capture and reflect all of this adequately, and you will enjoy what I have created for you, dear supporters."
It's a privilege to have talented Mr. Bilgen on board
It seems we have reached our funding goal! We'll see what the last week will bring but you should know one thing: We've achieved this together! Your support and enthusiasm always motivates us to do the best. Thank you!
Now, does this mean the updates will stop? Of course not! Let's continue with our portrait and concept artist Ege Bilgen and what he'd like to share about his work on Stygian:
A previous work of Ege Bilgen
"Greetings worshippers and fanatics!
Perhaps some of you have noticed that a magnificent twilight is upon us.
Yes, it is indeed the sign of our encroaching doom; a beautiful storm of sweet, all-encompassing sorrow. As the maddening end draws ever nearer, let me express dear fans and supporters, what an honour and pleasure it's been for me, your humble portrait artist Ege Bilgen, to have taken part in this dark journey thus far.
All of our portraits are hand drawn by pencil before being scanned for the digital coloring process
That's right, I have been... innocently requested, shall we say, to create character portraits for Stygian (There wasn't any form of dark ritual involved of course, let me assure you). Now you might inquire, how does one exactly proceed with such a task? What kind of process goes into capturing the tragedy of a burdened and afflicted soul?
Final Version
Well, it all starts with an idea, a conceptual insight for a character. "An honorable yet beaten man, at the end of his ropes." the dark voices whisper. "A woman, proud and wise, yet she underestimates." Now the voices cackle gleefully. "This one's a naughty one. He's a natural. " The voices hang heavy in my mind.
I receive many such depictions. After a slight moment of feeling sorry for what the Old Ones might have in store for them, I immediately begin to imagine. I imagine these souls first at their best. I see a heroic nod of assuring stoicism, or a euphoric smile of untainted joy perhaps. Then...well, then I take it all away.
The innocence fades, their dreams vanish, and dwindling hopes of absolution become ash in agonizing cries. Now in my mind's eye I look at these characters again. I carefullly look to see what's left of them, and what precisely made them to go on. Sometimes the answer is quite reassuring, and sometimes... not so much. With a heavy heart then I try to make you witness as well, as far as my humble talents allow me to do so.
A strange and hopeless twilight of madness is upon the world of Stygian, and as the characters there somehow keep fighting on, I tried to imagine them staring right into it. Some of them endured many grave losses which cannot be easily compensated. Some of them found new strengths of frightening darkness and intensity. As the portrait artist of Stygian, I hope I was able to capture and reflect all of this adequately, and you will enjoy what I have created for you, dear supporters."
It's a privilege to have talented Mr. Bilgen on board
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Although I backed Stygian on the first day, I just watched the entirety of the gameplay video for the first time and have to say that your UI-related graphics and sound effects are really good. There's something about the simplicity and stark contrast in palette (UI graphics)/tone (SFX) that really seem fitting, yet distinct enough to let the gamer know what's going on without taking him/her out of the mood. Really good job there 
Scrawled
Cultic Games
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Greetings Denizens of the Doomed Earth!
In this update we'd like to share more information on the advantages and side effects ofMental Conditions in Stygian's challenging combat scenarios.
As we emphasized before, sometimes it helps to be mad in a world gone mad!
Mania
Increases Action Points but gives the character a small chance to lose control and attack the nearest enemy unit in combat.
Paranoia
Increases Reaction but gives the character a small chance to attack an ally in combat.
Schizophrenia
Increases Mental Resistance but gives the character a small chance to enter a catatonic state and lose a combat round.
Psychopathy
Increases Critical Chance but gives the character a small chance to lose a certain amount ofSanity after killing a foe.
Depression
Increases Supernatural Defense but gives the character a small chance to lose his Physical Defense bonus entirely for a turn.
Obsession
Slightly increases the success chance of a repeated combat action but gives the character a small chance to automatically repeat a failed combat action until getting a success or passing a High Difficulty Will check.
Please note that all these effects are subject to change and are still being tested.
In this update we'd like to share more information on the advantages and side effects ofMental Conditions in Stygian's challenging combat scenarios.
As we emphasized before, sometimes it helps to be mad in a world gone mad!
Mania
Increases Action Points but gives the character a small chance to lose control and attack the nearest enemy unit in combat.
Paranoia
Increases Reaction but gives the character a small chance to attack an ally in combat.
Schizophrenia
Increases Mental Resistance but gives the character a small chance to enter a catatonic state and lose a combat round.
Psychopathy
Increases Critical Chance but gives the character a small chance to lose a certain amount ofSanity after killing a foe.
Depression
Increases Supernatural Defense but gives the character a small chance to lose his Physical Defense bonus entirely for a turn.
Obsession
Slightly increases the success chance of a repeated combat action but gives the character a small chance to automatically repeat a failed combat action until getting a success or passing a High Difficulty Will check.
Please note that all these effects are subject to change and are still being tested.
The extra systems Dreamlands would promise scream "8 extra months of development" to me. Glad there doesn't seem much danger in hitting it.
tormund
Arcane
I'm not so sure about that. It is possible that they had Dreamlands on their mind from the begging, given how party members include both cat from Ulthar and a ghoul (outsider). First one downright begs for Dreamlands specific content, and I imagine latter also including content and story threads related to ghouls from Dreamlands.
That, and the fact that screeg is working on this, and he already has a Dreamlands novel under his belt.
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Prime Junta
Guest
Make Dreamland an expansion.
Edit: also
about Atatürk airport, hang in there guys
Edit: also
about Atatürk airport, hang in there guys
Forest Dweller
Smoking Dicks
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I thought it had hit the Dreamlands goal already, then I remembered that the goals are in Euros and it's showing me US dollars.
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Bit over €3000 to Dreamlands stretch goal with 5 hours to go.
Musaab
Unwanted
Ya Allah! Bismillah! Allahu Akbar!
Space Insect
Arcane
Fixed for topic
vonAchdorf
Arcane
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Not 75k, but nearly. Maybe they'll open PayPal donations now.
Prime Junta
Guest
Grats Cultic. Hope you'll still consider Dreamlands, but perhaps as an expansion/Director's Cut rather than as part of the base game.
They'll do what everybody else does and open up for slacker backers and do the stretch goal anyway, more's the pity. Another year of waiting.
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Maybe Cultic should take a look at how HBS handles things. Limited and concise stretch goals and a structured roadmap towards a fixed (sort of) release date. These guys DO seem to have a plan but as Zombra noted increasing the scope of the project x-fold since elaborate stretch goals are added is something many KS have underestimated. Anyway congrats on achieving funding. Crunchtime starts now.
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