Kickstarter

We've just posted our latest dev update to the website. Check it out!

Note that due to Kickstarter's restrictions on content formatting (which was making writing updates way too time consuming) we've stopped duplicating the posts in the body of the updates here. However, we will always duplicate backer specific information in update posts to make sure everyone gets the information they need. We hope this compromise works the best for everyone, as it allows us to spend more time working on the game but still keeps everyone up to date.

As the dev update on the website goes into, we are getting ready to start integrating faces into the game for all backers that chose the "People on the Horizon" reward. We've already done our own faces as a test, and we're pretty happy with the results. We're especially excited since our strategy allows backers to show up as rival clan leaders (a genuinely cool role), but doesn't degrade the experience for normal players. Having full, articulated faces for tribal leaders allows us to communicate a wide range of emotional feedback to the player in diplomacy mini-games. As such, we're getting great gameplay, interesting aesthetics, and a broad palette to re-imagine each face in the context of our world.

Be sure to click through to read about the process. It has been an interesting journey. If you're a "People on the Horizon" backer keep an eye out for an email on how to send in your photo.

As always, thank you all so much for your continued support!

Roxlou Games

April was a solid month for development of Unwritten Passage, introducing a new contributor to the project and loads of new progress.

Check out the full development update over at our website!

Unwritten Passage: Dev Update April 2013

The end of March closes out the first month of production on Unwritten Passage, the weird procedural strategy game made possible by our many crowd-funding supporters. It's an exciting time, but also one of hard work. It was mainly a month of framework building, where we put down a foundation that will allow us to make rapid progress later on in the project. However, there were some points of rewarding exploration too, like when we started designing the third playable "story teller" (previously called "clan leaders"). She isn't ready to be shown just yet, but we're excited about how this character (one that leverages wind, kites, and the ability to change the very fabric of a story itself) will expand and diversify our roster of story tellers.

But probably the most rewarding moment of the month came when we were able to hold the printed posters and screen prints in our hands and get them packaged up for our Kickstarter backers.

We did all our printing locally, so Austin’s massive SXSW festival delayed getting our prints until the very end of the month. However, we feel the wait was worth it. The prints turned out stellar across the board, and as we were getting everything signed, tubed, and ready to ship, we were extremely proud.

Although working on Unwritten Passage is rewarding in and of itself, this is the first time on this project that we get to see the cycle of creation through to the end. We had a concept, we iterated to create print designs, we made commitments to our backers, and we are now delivering them as a product. It’s a special feeling, and even though some of us have been doing this kind of thing for years, that feeling doesn’t really wear off.

For those that are getting a physical reward like a poster or screen print, we’ll be dropping those in the mail in the coming week after the Easter rush. “Digital Poster” downloads will be going out by email before the weekend is out, and everyone that got a physical poster will also be getting a digital copy of the poster art. Note that as the screen prints are a limited run there will be no digital file for those.

If you had a digital poster (either as an add-on or as part of your printed reward) be sure to contact us if you haven’t gotten your email by Monday, April 1st. “April Fools Day” jokes are punishable by death.

A huge thanks to all our backers and to our families for their continued support. More to follow!

Roxlou Games

Hey All,

We're coming to the end of our first week of full production, and it feels great! We'll keep you updated as we get stuff that's worth showing, but in the meantime we have a few bits of project news and business.

Reward Surveys

If you're a backer be sure to respond to the survey Kickstarter sent to you. We've gotten many responses, but there are also hundreds left untouched. The quicker we get all your information, the quicker you can get your rewards!

That Which is now "Unwritten Passage"

So the game is now called Unwritten Passage: That Which Happened.

A big thanks to all our backers and new friends that helped make a stressful situation (the renaming of the game due to a trademark conflict) into a fun affair. Voting and discussion was lively, and we feel the new title is a good compromise. And special thanks goes to wonderboy2402 (as he or possibly she is known on our website) for first suggesting the title that eventually won.

Poster/Screen Print Progress

Once the naming issue was finally sorted, we were finally free to update the poster designs with the new title and get started on printing.

Printers now have the files and we're expecting to get prints back within the next two weeks, at which point we'll be signing, shipping, and most likely drinking. Stay tuned for pictures then, but in the meantime... shipping tubes!

Roxlou Games

Thanks to the suggestions of a handful of helpful backers, we've finally put up many of the Kickstarter rewards from the campaign on our website. These are the same rewards and add-ons we offered during our campaign, minus a few we couldn't continue to maintain for logistical reasons.

If you have friends that missed out on the campaign but still want to help, this is the place to do it. The money raised on the site goes directly to the development of the game, eventually garnering more platforms, localized languages, sound effects, music, and experimental features. A few Kickstarter backers have also asked if they can get new add-ons to their original rewards from the website, and yes this is the place to do that too.

Check it out!