We've launched an exciting new project of our own! Introducing the Kickstarter app for iPhone!

Funded! This project successfully raised its funding goal on April 29, 2012.

"We really shook the pillars of heaven, didn't we Wang?"

Update #14 · Apr 29, 2012 · 135 comments

Including PayPal, our final total is $1,895,772!!!

A-freaking-mazing!  Wowsers! Bibbidy-bobbidy-boo!

We are so happy to be associated with such a wonderful community. 

Backers, we'll hold our Second City Survey soon and contact you for your Swag info!

For now, we're heading over to Shadowrun.com and our new forums!

See you on the other side!

Love,

HBS

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      Creator Jakub 'Devean' Radzimiński on April 29, 2012

      \o/

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      Creator Dan Cordell on April 29, 2012

      New city should be Prague, Czech Republic.

      Or Shanghai, China.

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      Creator Erick on April 29, 2012

      I like the official shadowrun puppy.

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      Creator Sean Jordan on April 29, 2012

      HOORAY! See you on the forums, guys!

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      Creator JamesInDigital on April 29, 2012

      Awesome! Love the Big Trouble in Little China reference too.

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      Creator William T Cat on April 29, 2012

      Woo! HBS can haz burger of cheese! Now make SR:R right or we'll track you down and slap you silly!

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      Creator Fredric Roth V on April 29, 2012

      Hooray, SR. SO glad I helped make this happen. Now, go make this happen!!!

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      Creator Benjamin Baxter on April 29, 2012

      Yes to Dunkelzahn's will!

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      Creator Pawel on April 29, 2012

      http://www.youtube.com/watch…

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      Creator static0verdrive on April 29, 2012

      EPIC. Long live SR.

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      Creator Nic Jenzen-Jones on April 29, 2012

      Full version of Dunkelzahn's will, anyone...

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      Creator Sylvain Daraiche on April 29, 2012

      @sebastien jean: Better be 9 months for an awesome creation than 5 months for an average soon-to-be-forgotten product, IMHO. HBS, I trust you'll make that almost-2 millions worth it! : )

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      Creator Leaf Runner on April 29, 2012

      Well, I for one am very excited about this project. It's a shame this out of work programmer lives in the boonies with friends that don't dig Shadowrun.

      Makes me want to do something crazy like set my beard on fire!

      Hope the game you make is epic!

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      Creator Anna Rohwedder on April 29, 2012

      I am so happy this worked out so well! Shadowrun is one of the favorite tabletop games and I hope Returns ends up being as nice :)
      Thank you and all backers as well!

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      Creator sebastien 007 on April 29, 2012

      Now I can't wait to see this project becoming reality!!! Shadowrun on the SNES is one of my favorite game of all time! I'm wondering how much time they will put in the development cycle for this baby with a budget of nearly 2 million dollars? Is it still 9 months, like it was supposed to be with a budget of $400,000 ?

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      Creator Nicholas Russell on April 29, 2012

      @Gabriel Gentile
      Moral of the story? Never trust anyone who uses the word "chummers". As death has never been what gaming, be it online or otherwise, is about your argument has a fatal flaw in its logic. I know you'll be ignoring this in all likelihood but games are indeed about moving within a system as skillfully as you possibly can. Sometimes that means shooting a target and other times that means being the target yourself but those who play all seek a level of perfection within a system. As murder and death are all about going outside the boundaries of a system without any goal for perfection, a state which cannot exist in a rule-less situation, it simply doesn't meet up with what your own definition proposes.
      --
      Still I am surprised by this as you have been typically positive up until this point and correct about the nature of this project. What changed to alter your views in such an illogical and incorrect way?

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      Creator Phil Jefferson on April 29, 2012

      Nice dog!

      Congrats guys, loking forward to seeing what you come up with!

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      Creator Shoelip on April 29, 2012

      Good grief Gabe. I'm sure there are several legitimate concerns one could have for the project, but somehow you managed to pick one that's objectively wrong... Oh well. Good luck guys. I haven't gotten to play much Shadowrun but the little I have was quite enjoyable.

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      Creator Gabriel Gentile on April 29, 2012

      I am human. I am subject to flashes of excitability and foolish idealism.
      Hindsight, however, is always 20/20.

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      Creator Michael Abi Daoud on April 29, 2012

      Gabriel - You say this is doomed to fail and yet you pledged? Someone's a hypocrite...

      This isn't going to fail. It hasn't even begun yet. I won't even begin to say how wrong you are on so many levels of whatever it is you're going on about.

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      Creator johnny on April 29, 2012

      Have you just pledged to post this? I'm impressed. Maybe you have not realised, that SR:R ist not an online game?

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      Creator Gabriel Gentile on April 29, 2012

      I hope you all realize this is doomed to fail.
      You seem to forget that while Shadowrun was originally designed as a means for friends to get together and interact on a social level when it first came out, time has passed, technology has overrun our society and as a result, the once wonderful form of merrymaking that was known as "gaming" has been taken over by adolescent* sociopaths-in-training who know not the meaning of the word "friend".
      In summary, "Shadowrun Returns" will be ruined by that infernal bane which ruins all online gaming... The players.
      Sweet dreams, chummers. That's all you've got left.

      *Or those who's development as human beings froze at that particular stage of their lives.

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      Creator Ivan Rasic on April 29, 2012

      We did it!

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      Creator Jason Mockler on April 29, 2012

      Shadowrun.com is down...ok...who spilled the champagne on the server? Congrats guys!!

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      Creator Jazz on April 29, 2012

      Congrats, guys! I can't wait to see what amazing yarns you have in store for us. I'm chipped and chromed, and prime to run!

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      Creator Skyler Edwards on April 29, 2012

      ya shadowrun.com is kinda down...

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      Creator Florian Meinke on April 29, 2012

      *trying to get on shadowrun.com* ....I guess, in the name of all backers, sorry for breaking your website. ... :D

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      Creator Neil Day on April 29, 2012

      Just seeing the genuine passion & thankfulness in your vlogs, only reassures me I made the right choice in backing this game. Congratulations! I can't wait to play it. :-)

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      Creator Jan Drabner on April 29, 2012

      Hehe, shadowrun.com couldn't take the success :D

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      Creator Scott on April 29, 2012

      Is the site working for anyone else?!

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      Creator Thorsten Fietzek on April 29, 2012

      Well done guys!
      It also reminded me of that awesome time about 15 years ago, when I had to write a short story for german-class (german here). Of course it was a 5 page story about the inner monologe about some decker who was trapped in a corner by gunfire. Good times.
      Can't wait for it!
      Also it seems we kinda broke shadowrun.com :D

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      Creator RC on April 29, 2012

      Bryce if you didn't select the $125 pledge level,and only pledges $125 you should follow up. They may assume... but you don't want to rely on that.

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      Creator Bernhard Tischler on April 29, 2012

      Am I the only one, that thinks the cute dog stole the show :-D ?

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      Creator Ross Levine on April 29, 2012

      Oh my god, Big Trouble In Little China? Really? I am now automatically tons happier I contributed ;) . My money is in good hands with people with good taste in films. It's my most watched and coveted movie of all time for me, so yay for the most awesomest quote to end a Kickstarter campaign ever. Now, if you don't mind, have you paid your dues Jack? Yes sire the check is in the mail.

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      Creator Coaxmetal on April 29, 2012

      No horseshit, Harebrained Schemes! (Love the Big Trouble in Little China reference, my favorite movie of all time).

      I have all the faith in you guys! Good luck with the game, can't wait to play it!

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      Creator Michael Matzat on April 29, 2012

      Yay!
      I need to micromanage all the game boards i kickstarted into!

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      Creator Bryce Ady on April 29, 2012

      I pledged $125 before there was a $125 option and I want the dog tags, they'd be so cool! Is that automatic or do I need to contact somebody? Congrats on the goal and x4.5!

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      Creator Christopher Bates on April 29, 2012

      I wonder how long after posting it took for the servers at Shadowrun.com to get smashed. ^^ Totally looking forward to the game, too bad we didn't make it to kitten dragons. =P

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      Creator Kris Thompson on April 29, 2012

      "You ready, Jack?" "I was born ready."

      So awesome that this hit the heights that it did. I can't wait to see what kind of awesome nearly 500% funding can bring about.

      Got my eyes on all the goodness coming down the pipe about this. :D

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      Creator Creston on April 29, 2012

      WOOOHOOOO! Also, shadowrun.com looks to be getting ganked by everyone.

      Can't wait to play as my physical ad... MAGICAL NINJA!

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      Creator Ha11eck on April 29, 2012

      w00t w00t! So glad this got so far, can't wait for the game. (Thanks for the flashback to one my most favorite movies also)

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      Creator Florian Rathcke on April 29, 2012

      Yay! Let's make this great! I waited nearly twenty years for this game to happen :)

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      Creator Tom Foxtrot on April 29, 2012

      "it's all in the reflexes"

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      Creator redeicarciofi on April 29, 2012

      GREAT!

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      Creator Gonchi on April 29, 2012

      Should I add $15 for international shipping to receive my Ninja?

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      Creator Moggle on April 29, 2012

      Congratulations!

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      Creator Mr.McDougle - Shadowrun Exile in Torment on April 29, 2012

      Some get us a Dexker for sr.com! :D
      Damn, I hope u release SFO SOON so u can start working on SRR. ;)

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      Creator nin on April 29, 2012

      Big congrats, gang! Proud of ya, and looking forward to the future!

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      Creator Raevyn Fletcher on April 29, 2012

      Congratulations HBS!

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      Creator Andrew on April 29, 2012

      WOOOOOOO congrats!!!!!!!!! :) :) :)

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