You did it! Holy cats!
Wow, that was incredible.
From the bottom of our hearts, we'd like to say THANK YOU to everyone who has backed us so far. If we weren't working our butts off on our new game, we'd be dancing around the Closet (our tiny office) with tears of joy streaming down our faces. Instead, the team is heads-down at their computers, sniffling loudly and wiping their eyes with their shirt-sleeves.
To everyone asking about a Mac version of the game, we've been saying that if we hit the $425,000 level, we'd add it. Linux support is definitely on the table too! (After all, who'd be a better Decker?)
In Jordan's video update below, he talks about things we could add to the game if we hit higher funding milestones. We're working on clarifying those milestones and will have an update for you before the weekend (in Seattle).
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A Digital Downloadable copy of the game, DRM free on PC, Mac, or Linux + one totally sweet, exclusive desktop WALLPAPER for your PC, Mac, or mobile tablet.
Estimated delivery: Jan 2013Pledge $30 or more
8478 backers
Previous reward + your character will start the game with a SPECIAL ABILITY only available to backers + a PDF version of the Shadowrun Returns Anthology, an ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF SHORT STORIES written for the game and edited by Jordan Weisman, the creator of Shadowrun. + NEW You will also get the IN-GAME DocWagon benefit of a fully-armed emergency ambulance or chopper to save your team of runners when the drek hits the fan.
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THE ALL-DIGITAL REWARD BUNDLE This reward bundle is completely independent of all other reward levels, does not include any previous rewards, and is not added to reward levels above. A Digital Downloadable COPY OF THE GAME, DRM free on PC, Mac, or Linux + one totally sweet, exclusive desktop WALLPAPER for your PC, Mac, or mobile tablet + your character will start the game with a SPECIAL ABILITY only available to backers + a PDF version of the Shadowrun Returns Anthology, an ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF SHORT STORIES written for the game and edited by Jordan Weisman, the creator of Shadowrun + you will also get the IN-GAME DocWagon benefit of a fully-armed emergency ambulance or chopper to save your team of runners when the drek hits the fan + a DRM-free digital version of the GAME SOUNDTRACK. This bundle includes no physical goods and helps with VAT, duty and shipping costs for our international backers.
Estimated delivery: Feb 2013Pledge $60 or more
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Previous rewards + a DRM-free digital version of the GAME SOUNDTRACK + a Shadowrun Returns "BACKER" T-SHIRT + a PERSONALIZED DOC WAGON CARD will be sent to your home + you will also get the IN-GAME DocWagon benefit of a fully-armed emergency ambulance or chopper to save your team of runners when the drek hits the fan. Note: This is an in-game service only. No armed medical extraction team will actually arrive at your home. More details in the FAQ. (Please add $5 for international shipping) Note: This is an in-game service only. No armed medical extraction team will actually arrive at your home. More details in the FAQ. (Please add $5 for international shipping)
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Previous rewards + A HARDCOVER EDITION of the Shadowrun Returns Anthology + your NAME IN THE CREDITS of the game AND the anthology book + a GOLD Doc Wagon card sent to your home. (Please add $15 for international shipping)
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Previous rewards + a DELUXE BOX EDITION including the game disc, soundtrack disc, a mini-poster, and—check this—a Shadowrun Returns USB Dog Tag set, containing DRM-free versions of the game (PC/Mac/Linux) and soundtrack (and maybe one or two other surprises, too). (Please add $15.00 for international shipping.)
Estimated delivery: Jan 2013Pledge $175 or more
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Previous rewards (excluding the All-Digital Bundle) + ALL 3 Shadowrun Returns "BACKER" T-SHIRTS. These 3 shirts are NOT in addition to the shirt you get at the $60 level. At this level you get 3 shirts total. (Please add $15 for international shipping)
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Previous rewards + A SPECIAL EDITION, SIGNED & NUMBERED HARDCOVER of the Shadowrun Returns Anthology (this replaces the edition you get at $100) + EARLY ACCESS to the LEVEL EDITOR so that your shadowruns can be the first into the game (date for editor TBD). (Please add $15 for international shipping)
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Previous rewards + the shadowruns you design will be MARKED with a special GLYPH so they'll be highlighted and easy to identify + a PLATINUM Doc Wagon card sent to your home. (Please add $15 for international shipping)
Estimated delivery: Jan 2013Pledge $1,000 or more
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Previous rewards + we'll use YOUR IMAGE to CREATE AN NPC CHARACTER for the game. It's our choice what NPC you'll be but if you have a suggestion, we'll listen.
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Previous rewards + we'll create the art for one EXCLUSIVE CUSTOM PLAYER CHARACTER based upon your description and/or sketches. When your friends hire your character, they'll get to see it too! (Limit 2 revisions.)
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Previous rewards + 1 Large or 2 Small custom art assets created for you to be used EXCLUSIVELY in your missions (Limit 2 revisions) + a CONSULTATION with our Art director and Level Designer to help tune one of your shadowruns.
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Previous rewards + spend the AFTERNOON AND EVENING at Harebrained Schemes World Headquarters. You’ll have LUNCH WITH JORDAN AND THE DEVELOPMENT TEAM and then PLAY SHADOWRUN WITH JORDAN. Your Game Master will be Mike Mulvihill, who led Shadowrun game development at FASA Corp. (You must be able to travel to Redmond, WA).
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Previous rewards + Mike Mulvihill, who led Shadowrun game development at FASA Corp., will COME TO YOUR TOWN TO RUN A TABLETOP GAME OF SHADOWRUN FOR YOU AND FIVE OF YOUR FRIENDS. (He'll even buy some snacks.)
Estimated delivery: Feb 2013
Comments
Creator Michael Krell on April 15, 2012
As a fan of the pen-and-paper Shadowrun, I support Shadowrun Returns for the purely awesomeness that is Shadowrun. But I never played the SNES or Genesis versions of the game. If Shadowrun Returns included versions of those games as missions, I would support more strongly the stretch goal of making a campaign to tie Shadowrun Returns into those games. I don't like the idea of this being Backer-only, though - it just feels like DLC. I've already reaped the incentives of being a Backer, IMHO, and would rather see the stretch goals be extended to all.
Creator Scelous on April 14, 2012
I really don't care one way or the other too much, but I do think you should make the 1.5 mil missions available to everyone. Just my opinion, though.
Creator catfanatic1979v1 on April 8, 2012
I just want to be able to play as Dwarves, Evles, Orcs, Trolls, etc as I don't want to only play as a human. I'd also like to see a few NPC's who are a little more offbeat in the their racial make-up. Maybe toss in a Centaur, Pixie or Cyclops NPC just for the sake of variety.
Creator G. M. Morgan on April 7, 2012
Thanks for the update, fellas, and for rededicating yourselves to the single-player experience; I feel very strongly that's the right move. Denver would indeed be interesting, as would New Tokyo. San Francisco is relatively close (geographically speaking) and has all sorts of promise as well (occupied as it is by Imperial Japan, I believe). Another great option would be to flesh out a city or area in the NAN.
Creator Craig Crowe on April 7, 2012
the ability to run tabletop style games would be awesome.
Creator Ryan Mitchell on April 6, 2012
Here’s another yet unmentioned request (I think):
Dedicated servers to facilitate the exchange of player-created content between people, and enhancements to the level-editor tools that would allow for easier collaborative projects. Everyone wants their favorite city in the game – imagine groups from the same city putting their heads together and building their city for everyone across the world to enjoy!
I’d rather have fleshed-out city building tools with my level-editor than another city. Give us a small, fictional sample city with demos and tutorials on how it was built up from scratch. Some people will just play through it, while others can go the extra mile or more with it.
If we can’t have co-op in this iteration, then let’s try for the next best thing. ...And if these cities were backward compatible with the next iteration of Shadowrun *with* co-op, then that’d basically result in an instant, international Shadowrun world.
(Oh, and good luck getting an office with running water! I hope this game acts as the springboard that lets you expand your company, and people realize they need to, and do support you and your team now for making even bigger and better games in the future.)
Creator Jason P. Mesisco on April 6, 2012
I would personally enjoy co-op play as well.. In my mind, such a feature would really put it over the top and make me jump up and down like a giddy little school kid. I also hope down the line if you find this game successful you conciser making a sandbox style mmo of Shadowrun.
(Something to think about:) The "hero" engine, as "'eh" as i think it is, would be great for a kickstarter funded mmo. ;) They even host the game, do the billing aspect, but they do take a 30% cut of your revenue once it goes live. They let you have a server to develop on for free (i have my own and I'm a nobody. lol) All you need in Maya or 3D Studio Max and you can get started.. ..So it may be worth checkin' out since you have a team already. *nudge* *nudge* :)
Anyways,I'm glad i could have the opportunity to back you guys. You have had me hooked ever since the Sega Genesis game. I conciser myself a pretty dedicated gamer and of all the games I've played from then to now, that's still one of my faves. I'm hoping to see the same kind of "spark" in this.
Creator William Hochella on April 6, 2012
Not that that means I expect a 1:1 match between actual tabletop play possibilities and the video game, but by all the dragons and mentor spirits, it'd be nicer to work a run on that than over text chat with my internationally-scattered tabletop group.
That also means I'd support adding riggers _first_.
Creator William Hochella on April 6, 2012
I'm increasing my pledge specifically for the possibility of Co-op. Combined with the level editor, if the game's mechanics support the character options from the RPG richly enough, we could move from "Shadowrun video game" to "Shadowrun virtual tabletop".
Creator Stan Adams on April 6, 2012
I agree that co-op would be needed to truly have this see its full potential. I would suggest a "put me in NPC" mode that would allow you to still play as part of a team in coop. It would allow for a team of four to schedule not only gaming together, but play based on scheduling. e.g. "2 of us are out of pocket this week. How about we flip to NPC mode and you make the run on objective A. We'll team up again on Saturday as a group to pick up from there."
Creator Marked One on April 6, 2012
How much to add co-op? Also, I don't see why adding co-op would affect the game negatively. The game is turn based, so you just have some humans taking turns. People who go afk could simply click a button that triggers an idle mode where an ar ai takes over temporarily and act as a support character (so many things you could do here). Missions/Quests can be done similarly to the many co-op games out there (d2, borderlands, saints row, etc). Co-op would simply be SP with more people and the game would scale accordingly. Me and my brother played this game a lot as kids and a 2 player co-op would be amazing. However, if co-op is to be implemented as a side game kind of deal then I would agree that it's a bad idea, just look at Rage, the co-op is boring and you have to play it to understand the legend behind it (that doesn't make any sense).
Creator commodorejohn on April 6, 2012
I agree; co-op would be a nifty feature, but only as long as it doesn't impinge on the single-player experience.
Creator William Arndt on April 6, 2012
Co-op is a great idea.. pvp I agree isn't what I would be looking for in an ShadowRun game.. I just want a strong rewarding RPG experience, and if we hit a milestone that allows for really letting our gaming friends get together and playing ShadowRun together Co-Op ... then you'll be bringing the table together again.. and this will allow friends across thousands of miles and years get back together and do runs in the shadows..
Creator Wizfall on April 6, 2012
Stay focus on the single player RPG experience like stated in your original kickstart speech please.
Creator Scott Hardin on April 6, 2012
Coop would be sweet, even just a two player. BUT yes not if it takes away from anything. The rocket this took off in is SWEET! Spend some of the money erasing that microsoft game from history. :)
Creator Sidney Chatfield on April 6, 2012
Shadowrunner is WAY better multiplayer. But do co-op/team play. pvp is silly
Creator Luke Neese on April 6, 2012
I would LOVE coop, I'm sure I could bring a few more people into this for that. But PVP is not my deal at all, and we have seen other turn based coop titles work.
Creator Patricia - Knightmare of ObsidianOrder on April 6, 2012
Yehp - dont waste your resources on multiplayer. Rather give us phys adepts instead! ;)
Creator numsei on April 6, 2012
I bet that 90% of the funding people of this project dont care about multiplayer, so please dont waste resources for this. Just focus on a great single player.
Creator Rick on April 6, 2012
@Josh Chestnut - The game that Jordan's pitching has nothing to do with recreating a tabletop game experience. That's something that all of us who played PnPs know simply cannot be recreated without a Game Master reacting on the fly to the insane things PCs do. There are hundreds of messages on the Wasteland 2 KS page and forums debating this back and forth. In the end, WL2 will be a single player game. Shadowrun Returns should also be limited to single player.
Creator Grove12345 on April 6, 2012
Just remember what shadowrun players love. Last time i checked FPS arcade fanboys didnt help support the SR franchise.
Also i like old school cyber punk. We all know that through todays modern technology and upcoming tech and medicine that 70% of SR is outdated. But to me old school cyber punk has so much more style.
Creator redeicarciofi on April 6, 2012
Please NO MULTIPLAYER! I want a great SINGLE PLAYER game with LOTS of customization!
Creator Josh Chestnut on April 6, 2012
@Gerard
You say multiplayer is fluff, but want a re-creation of the tabletop experience? The tabletop experience is inherently multiplayer and including this feature is essential if they hope to simulate running the shadows with your chummers.
Creator Gerard Sombroek on April 6, 2012
I totally agree with Rick. Fans of the original Shadowrun RPG want the roleplay system the know and love and a great story in a single player campaign. Also, if I understand correctly, this title will be more aimed at the 'old school' gamer who played videogames before it was 'cool'. (turn based and 2D graphics is oldschool (which is good, don't get me wrong :) ). PvP and online multiplayer is like Rick said 'fluff'. A campaign editor so people can make their own story which other players can play is a more interesting extra so please focus on that.
What also might be interesting is a special sandbox mode in which you are totally free where to place enemies in any kind of environment and what kind of characters are there. In that case you can use Shadowrun Returns as a Tool for gamemasters to play out their battles in the tabletop Shadowrun game without the use of miniatures. Think of it.... Playing out your prepared battle on the iPad of Android Tablet which is in the middle of the table. I'm getting all warm inside thinking about that. :)
Creator Rick on April 6, 2012
Assuming that it wasn't already part of the scope of the original plans, a FULL port of the Shadowrun character system would be the first thing I'd put on the table to pour resources into. All the races. All the archetypes, skills, equipment. And PLEASE pour as much resource as you can into making the magic and decking systems as true to the tabletop game as possible. All of my Shadowrun experience is from pre-4th edition, so would much prefer that version, but even making a 4th-edition faithful framework for all of these elements in the single player game would be of FAR greater priority than fluff like multiplayer or PvP.
Creator Balder Lingegård on April 6, 2012
I would easily up my pledge further if there is a linux client. Considering kickstarter enables game developers to avoid the thrall of publishers it should also enable gamers to escape their evil corporate overlords (i.e. Apple and Microsoft)...
Creator Erik Hornebrant on April 6, 2012
+1 for Daves comment. Story is more important.
Creator Sven T Sexgore on April 6, 2012
You are certainly not alone Dave. Multiplayer might be cool but more and better single player is even better
Creator Lars Westergren on April 6, 2012
I'm 100% with Dave Talbert here.
Creator That One Guy on April 6, 2012
Just for the sake of completeness, let me go the other way and say that I would really prefer that multiplayer be accorded a lower priority than fleshing out the story in greater depth and complexity. Story/World > Multiplayer, in my opinion.
Creator jusalilpanda on April 6, 2012
I agree with Poppy. I see a lot of people requesting multiplayer or co-op. I think that would be an essential part of extending the pen-n-paper to the tablets. Not only is sharing stories by giving your scripts and campaigns to your friends important - my best memories are not the stories themselves but the experience of sharing it with friends playing through it together! I would love to see some LAN and internet multiplayer support. Maybe Game Master powers?!
Creator Poppy on April 5, 2012
I should add that if you do co op, we really would not need player voices; if anything they would be detrimental. We can do those all by ourselves via voip and have all the fun we used to inserting our own personalities into our characters:)
Creator Poppy on April 5, 2012
I loved this game from my old pen and paper days (and I was pledging before the video even finished playing) so I am particularly interested in being able to play co op with friends. If you do add co op, you can add another pledge from my husband along with any of my old gaming friends I can find. It would be damn good to be able to pick up where we left off 20 years ago!
Creator Devon on April 5, 2012
I am with the others on the no need for voice acting. I find it often gets in the way and if limits options for little benefit.
Creator Drew Simms on April 5, 2012
Co-op would be GREAT!
Creator Patrick Glascoe on April 5, 2012
<3
Creator russell on April 5, 2012
So at a million are we getting some sweet voice acting? 700 maybe Bug City exspansion added? 800 and maybe Tokyo? 900 maybe add in Germany, Tir, and England, even the Desert Wars??
Creator Ghislain Michaud on April 5, 2012
I agree people (WANT THIS) ! BEST GAME EVER
Creator Joey D. on April 5, 2012
You're welcome.
Creator Adam Wratten on April 5, 2012
Definitely loving the idea of co-op stuff. Especially on a tablet. With the right sort of set up, though could take the place of the traditional PnP setup for the lazier of us out there in the world. Good luck!
Creator David Radszuweit on April 5, 2012
You guys need to do a longer roadmap as funding now is over 500.000 - Have a think about all the way to 3 million. Or even 5. Seriously.
<3
Creator Lloyd McKenzie on April 5, 2012
Would love to see something at the $150 price-point.
If you're able to incorporate news-feeds or matrix feeds into the background, it'd be sweet to be able to submit 50 words or so to show up at random as supplemental content with the "real" posts. Just enough to make a reference to a favourite character or job from times past (whether one that went well, or one that went horribly wrong). Or maybe even a hook for an adventure sitting at the back of the GM's mind for future play.
Obviously you guys would need final creative control and wouldn't want to spend a lot of time back-and-forth on edits, so maybe "submit 5, we'll pick one and edit as necessary to fit with feel & story-line". And if you wanted to use more than one of them for some reason, you'd have the IP rights to do so. It would give you lots of free flavour-filler, and maybe even a few plot ideas. And hopefully more cash. I know I'd pitch in an extra $50.
Creator Lloyd McKenzie on April 5, 2012
Have at least some of the scenarios set up to require stealth and strategy.
In most of my PnP games, if you go up against a corp with guns blazing, you're going to get hosed. The guns were for threatening and if (when?) things went south. So please don't make this a pure combat exercise. A game where, at least on occasion, a skilled team with a bit of karma on their side can pull off the run without spilling blood would be much more in keeping with the spirit of the game than scenarios that always degenerate into slinging bullets and manabolts. (Not saying there's anything wrong with bullets and manabolts, just don't want them to be the only option all the time.)
Creator BillD4 on April 5, 2012
Would it be possible for the game to include the SNES and Genesis Shadowrun games as well, as Easter Eggs or something?
Creator Mark Paul on April 5, 2012
getting close to 500k.
Creator Mark Florentino on April 5, 2012
Whoo hooo!!!
Creator Striker2054 on April 5, 2012
Boom, Baby!
Never had a doubt.
Creator Gabriel Divine on April 5, 2012
Co-op play would be great!
Creator Darryl Mott Jr. on April 5, 2012
Shadowrun was my introduction to roleplaying games (well, technically BattleTech...but I never actually played the Mechwarrior RPG). I was 12 years old back in 1992 when I bought Shadowrun 2nd Edition. I wish I still had that book, but I re-re-re-re-read it so many times it literally fell apart. As did my second copy. And my copy of 3rd Edition is looking pretty ragged too. But I did a tally of all my RPG books. I have 6 D&D books, 1 Pathfinder book, 3 Battletech/Mechwarrior books, and 64 Shadowrun books (not counting the novels). I'm trilled to have been part of bringing the original creators back to the original universe I fell in love with and can't wait to see what you do with it.
Creator Shaun Farley on April 5, 2012
Now comes the hard part...waiting patiently for the awesome final product I know you folks are going to produce. Can't wait to play this!