Dear Friends: Moving contacts to our game forums!
Hello Kickstarter friends....
We have been getting tons of messages and comments on the Kickstarter page for TAKEDOWN. The problem with this is that we are trying to provide information on the development of TAKEDOWN to this awesome community, but it's hard with the split between the Kickstarter page and our official forums.
Would you consider stepping over to our official forums here:
If you are a Kickstarter contributor, you can get access to a special forum that only contributors can access, and even if your aren't, you can step up and make the game you want a reality. Currently there are 5000+ Kickstarters and only 1000+ forum members.
It is a challenge for us to continue to feed information both to the Kickstarter page and to our official forums, so it would be much easier for us if you went to the official forums and joined the discussion.
As always, you can follow us on Twitter at @serellan.
Thanks,
Christian
[EDIT: We will be doing monthly updates on Kickstarter, for more regular updates, check the forums!] - @Serellan
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- Website: serellan.com
Pledge $15 or more
2974 backers
The finished full game, via digital Distribution when it's released. Also access to the private discussion forums and access to developer blogs.
Estimated delivery: Jun 2013Pledge $25 or more
1038 backers
The finished full game, via digital Distribution when it's released. Access to the private discussion forums and access to developer blogs. A unit patch for the game's military unit, suitable for wear on your tactical vest. You know you have a tactical vest, for when the zombies come.
Estimated delivery: Jun 2013Pledge $50 or more
441 backers
Access to the Silver Community Level, where you will be able to vote on weapons, locations, and features to be included in the game. Includes all previous rewards.
Estimated delivery: Jun 2013Pledge $60 or more
193 backers
Your name in a special "Kickstarter Supporters" section of the credits. Includes all previous rewards.
Estimated delivery: Jun 2013Pledge $75 or more
243 backers
A PC CD copy of the game, DRM free, along with a T-Shirt with the game logo on it. All previous rewards included.
Estimated delivery: Jul 2013Pledge $100 or more
131 backers
Access to the Gold Community Level, where you will be able to submit game content to be included in the final game if approved, along with credit for the content.
Estimated delivery: Jun 2013Pledge $125 or more
138 backers
A collectors edition boxed set of the PC CD version of the game, including a set of dog tags with the unit logo on them, and an art book from the game. Includes all previous rewards.
Estimated delivery: Jul 2013Pledge $150 or more
61 backers
A military unit challenge coin with the insignia of the team on it. Includes all previous rewards.
Estimated delivery: Jun 2013Pledge $200 or more
13 backers
A DVD of the soundtrack of the game including all music tracks, signed by the composer. Includes all previous rewards.
Estimated delivery: Jun 2013Pledge $250 or more
38 backers
Original poster of the cover of the game (shipping is free in the U.S., $10 shipping internationally). Special thanks in the credits. Includes all previous rewards.
Estimated delivery: Jun 2013Pledge $500 or more
11 backers
Get an in-game badge on your player model showing that you supported the project! Includes all previous rewards.
Estimated delivery: Jun 2013Pledge $1,000 or more
10 backers
Access to the Platinum Level community, where you will be able to participate in conference calls with dev team members to express your ideas. Includes all previous rewards.
Estimated delivery: Jun 2013Pledge $2,500 or more
8 backers All gone!
Get your face in the game, on one of the team members, and have them named after you. Includes all previous rewards.
Estimated delivery: Jun 2013Pledge $5,000 or more
0 backers Limited (5 of 5 left)
Tour the dev studio and go on a shooting trip with dev team members for an afternoon, shooting a range of different guns, including full-auto fun (must be able to travel to Seattle, WA)! Includes all previous rewards.
Estimated delivery: Jun 2013Pledge $7,500 or more
1 backer All gone!
Christian Allen, the creative director of the game, will fly to your hometown to host a LAN party for you and your friends. Lower 48 States only. Includes all previous rewards.
Estimated delivery: Jun 2013
Comments
Creator Christian Allen, Serellan LLC on May 9, 2012
We plan on monthly KS updates, and at least weekly updates on the forums. Don't want to spam people with emails, we got a lot of feedback of sending out TOO MANY updates. Hard balance to walk.
Creator Seumas on April 19, 2012
Though I like getting updates here to cut down on noise, I'm fine with either option. However, I would suggest that it would be beneficial to document the progress of the project by regularly updating via Kickstarter so that everyone has a history to follow to show that the project isn't dead and everyone is still alive and active compared to some other projects on Kickstarter in the past which become very suspicious to backers after a great period of silence.
Creator Stefan Maxwell on April 17, 2012
Have to say I agree that updates should be done on here...
I'm on the forums but that's just chatter.
Creator RSJ78 on April 17, 2012
...or you can use this link:
http://www.serellan.com/forums/index.php…
and watch it once a week for a short and informative update of the project directly from Christian :)
You don´t have to register!
Welcome!
Creator Tim Spencer on April 17, 2012
I'd much prefer the updates be done through kickstarter. That's my interface to you guys. :-) I don't mind if the updates end up being much less frequent here. I just would really like not to have to register for Yet Another Forum somewhere.
BTW, I am super excited about this game! I sure hope you can make this happen on the mac. It would make me sooo happy! :-) If not, then I'm happy to have just given you the ability to make a cool game. :-) Have fun!
Creator Kay Sindre Skogseth on April 17, 2012
Leave lot of info on the forums and every 1-2 months post a summary on kickstarter or make a newsletter where people can get information from.
Creator Tom Neudorf on April 17, 2012
I agree with Brett. Forums have to many threads to go through. It's way faster to get an email from Kickstarter saying there is a new update, than to spend 1/2hr-1hr going through a forum I'm not familiar with trying to find 1 update. I don't care if the forum has more info, just have the odd update o here from time to time.
Creator loobdabeast on April 17, 2012
Does anyone know how to access the 'Kickstarter forum' on the Serellan website? I created an account, however, I can't access it.
Creator Brett Brooks on April 17, 2012
@Sean Having RSS on kickstarter though makes the updates from multiple projects much more manageable. I can open my RSS reader and see all updates. The alternative is me having to open a forum and then basically look for unread items.
The forum issue is compounded even more when people like myself back a lot of projects that then move on to using forums.
It means for each project with a forum I have to go to that forum, login and read.... rather than just opening my RSS of kickstarter feeds.
Creator Sean on April 17, 2012
@Christian Allen, Serellan LLC
Kickstarter is very spammy with the updates. This is compounded for people who back a lot of projects because the average number of updates to a single project is 30-60. It get's exponential and impossible to keep up with. I'd recommend that you keep your day to day updates or devblog behind the forum paywall for backers, post major milestone updates on kickstarter but primarily focus the kickstarter updates on distribution of the finished product, when relevant. Drop the kickstarter after the finished product ships. Use the forum for everything else, but kickstarter is just the distribution platform at this stage, and the updates should be focused on that to, uh, keep it sane.
Creator Moggle on April 17, 2012
I like the kickstarter updates more than the forums!
Creator ET3D on April 17, 2012
Perhaps consider an opt-in mailing list for announcements. Or if your forum supports a way to subscribe to topics perhaps that would be enough. (Sorry, I'm not there so can't tell; I only pledged $1 because I thought you did well with that page and video update, but I'm not really interested in the game.)
Creator Brett Brooks on April 17, 2012
I much prefer kickstarter updates as well because of the RSS support. Far easier for me to look at kickstarter RSS feeds for updates than to manually browse to all the associated forums and look.
Creator Christian Allen, Serellan LLC on April 17, 2012
@Ben Cribb
I have been getting lots of negative feedback about posting kickstarter updates because some consider it "spam"
Can you provide your thoughts on that? We are trying to figure the best way of updating the community and are trying to give people the information they want...
Creator Ben Cribb on April 17, 2012
I'd prefer you posted the updates on kickstarter and linked in the forums rather than the opposite way around. Your forums aren't rss feed enabled, kickstarter is. I don't really manually navigate to things like this for news any more.