Reward Tier Revamp, Art Book & Boxed Copies!
A couple of days we passed the $75,000 mark on the game, so again we want to say a big thanks to everyone involved with the project! That means we’ve hit our first stretch goal and will look to be hiring a dedicated level designer in a few weeks, once we’ve done a bit more work on the tools and the tilesets they’ll be working with.
In the meantime, we’ve been looking at our reward tiers a little – particularly the $50 reward tiers. First thing to say is that we now have a preview of the Art Book, which you can find here. This is a 6-page preview of what will be a 48-page full colour book (A4 pages), the purpose of which is to show off a selection of the best art in Xenonauts and provide commentary and background on it both from the artist and the project lead.
This is the item I’d actually be most excited about getting my hands on if I was a backer, and it is available as PDF at the $50 reward tier, in softback form at the $60 tier and in hardback form at $100.
The item that other people seem most excited about, however, are physical copies of the game. We have therefore added a physical copy of the game as a choice at the $50 reward tier. We have created a new tier for this, but this is because we cannot edit tiers once people have already pledged at that level. If you have a $50 pledge of any kind, you will be able to choose a DVD copy of the game as your reward if you want.
These copies will be a standard black DVD case with a colour printed front and back, containing a printed 20 page manual and a printed DVD containing a DRM-free version of the game. You will only receive a single license for the game though, so you can’t (legally) give your physical copy to a friend and keep your digital copy for yourself.
Though several people have asked for them, we will not be offering a deluxe boxed copy with various cool things in it for a few reasons. These would be a more premium item and we’re not sure there would be enough demand at a higher price point to make up the minimum print runs these require, and while we are confident we could sell a hundred normal DVD copies of the game throughout the rest of development if we had them left over after the Kickstarter, we’re not so sure we could do the same with a deluxe boxed copy.
There’d also be quite a lot of time investment into adding extra goodies to the box, whereas it’s relatively simple for us to do a normal DVD copy. Less postage / shipping costs for a small and light DVD box too!
We’ve also added a reward at $50 where you can choose an extra Premium Pre-Order as your reward, giving you a spare copy to give to a friend (again, this is open to existing $50 backers too). A few people have requested it, and it reduces the amount of physical goods we’ll have to distribute when the project closes, so we’re all for it!
Finally, we’ve confirmed that the Xenonauts will be available on GamersGate on release, and that will be a DRM-free option for pre-orderers if you’d rather take that over a Steam key. We’re still looking at other options, but that’s at least one lined up for you!
EDIT - just to clarify, the physical copy and the second digital copy of the game are standard $50 rewards. If you want to pledge at $75, you can choose two of the $50 rewards, now: poster, t-shirt, digital art book, physical DVD copy, second digital copy of the game. The same logic follows for the higher tiers too - you can replace any of the existing three $50 rewards with one of the two new ones.
EDIT 2 - Just added the $85 tier for people who want the softback Art Book plus one additional $50 reward (t-shirt, poster, DVD copy, second copy for a friend)!
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Pledge $20 or more
3082 backers
Standard Pre-Order: A digital copy of Xenonauts on release (retail price $25), plus access to our development builds and beta testing until the game is complete! This also includes a special silver forum medal for our forums.
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $30 or more
877 backers
Premium Pre-Order: As above, but includes a spangly gold forum medal, a digital copy of the Xenonauts soundtrack, official desktop wallpapers, plus a lengthy digital write-up of our development diary on release.
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $50 or more
151 backers
Premium Pre-Order plus one of: a T-shirt, poster or digital copy of the Xenonauts Art Book. Please add $10 for international shipping if selecting the poster or T-shirt!
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $50 or more
101 backers
Premium Pre-Order (as $30), plus a phyiscal copy of the game. This will be a standard black DVD case with a colour printed back and front, containing a 20-page manual and a printed DVD copy of Xenonauts. Please add $10 for international shipping.
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $50 or more
50 backers
A Premium Pre-Order (as $30), plus an additional Premium Pre-Order copy of Xenonauts to give to a friend!
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $60 or more
45 backers
Premium Pre-Order, plus a physical softback copy of the Xenonauts Art Book (see FAQ for full details of the book - it's awesome)! Please add $10 for international shipping if required.
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $75 or more
18 backers
Premium Pre-Order, plus two of: T-shirt, poster, digital copy of Xenonauts Art Book. Please add $10 for international shipping if required.
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $85 or more
21 backers
Premium Pre-Order, plus softback Art Book and one of the $50 rewards (t-shirt, poster, physical DVD copy or a second digital copy to give to a friend)!
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $100 or more
12 backers
Premium Pre-Order, plus limited-edition hardback physical copy of Xenonauts Art Book. Please add $10 for international shipping if required.
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $100 or more
38 backers
Premium Pre-Order, plus backer name will be added into the pre-generated soldier name database and will appear in the game as a soldier! (see FAQ for full details)
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $125 or more
6 backers
Premium Pre-Order, plus limited edition hardback physical copy of Xenonauts Art Book OR backer name will be added to pre-generated soldier name database, plus one of the $50 rewards (poster, t-shirt, physical DVD copy, second digital copy for friend)! Please add $10 for international shipping if required.
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $125 or more
11 backers
Premium Pre-Order, plus limited edition hardback physical copy of Xenonauts Art Book and backer name will be added to pre-generated soldier name database! Please add $10 for international shipping if required.
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $150 or more
85 backers
Premium Pre-Order, plus limited edition SIGNED hardback Xenonauts art book, plus poster and T-shirt. Backer name and nationality is also added to pre-generated soldier name database, and soldier portrait may be selected from the existing in-game portraits. Please add $10 for international shipping if required.
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $200 or more
70 backers All gone!
As $150, plus our character artist will do a portrait of you from a photograph to accompany the soldier bearing your name. See the FAQ for full details. Please add $10 for international shipping if required.
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $500 or more
11 backers Limited (4 of 15 left)
As $200, plus you will recieve five (5) digital copies of the game to do with as you will plus your name will be added to the a special "With Thanks To:" section of the game credits. Please add $10 for international shipping if required.
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $1,000 or more
2 backers Limited (3 of 5 left)
As $500, but you will recieve ten (10) digital copies of the game and your name will also be added to the "Special Thanks To" section displayed in the intro credits that will be played over the game intro movie. Please add $10 for international shipping if required.
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $5,000 or more
0 backers Limited (1 of 1 left)
As $1000, but Xenonauts Project Lead Chris England will fly out to meet you for lunch (available anywhere in the US or Western Europe). We'll also let you off the $10 international shipping, as we're nice like that!
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012
Comments
Creator Goldhawk Interactive on May 28, 2012
James - you can replace any of the $50 rewards with it, so if you'd rather have a DVD copy than either the poster or the T-shirt that's fine by us!
Creator James M McKeon on May 28, 2012
I just jumped in at the 500 level, How could I get a dvd copy? It doesnt look like it comes at that level
Creator ThomasN on May 21, 2012
Got it. I will get asked about the "or" stuff in the pledge text by a survey after the kickstarter ends. Thank you for clarifying and adding the $125.
Creator Goldhawk Interactive on May 20, 2012
Thomas - it won't go out until the Kickstarter is over. The $100 tier is just a copy of the game and the hardback artbook though, if you want the DVD you can either go down to $85 and get the softback art book and the DVD copy, or we can add in an extra tier at $125 giving either the hardback Art Book or a soldier name in the game, plus a DVD copy of the game.
Creator Andrew Easter - on May 20, 2012
@ThomasN survey will be released after KS ends. Then it will ask you what you want etc. The $85 tier gives soft back book and dvd.. though 100 is hard back book.
@Goldhawk is it possible to add a DVD to the $100 tier?
Creator ThomasN on May 20, 2012
@all: I pledged the first $100 entry. I have no survey in this Web-UI, nor in my Mailbox. I know I could change to the second $50 entry to get a DVD, but I'd rather have the physical artbook AND the DVD. I'm lost...
Creator Gustaf Carstam on May 19, 2012
THomasN you should be able to select one of the new $50 tier rewards aftr pressing the "manage your pledge" button.
Creator Goldhawk Interactive on May 19, 2012
Thomas - should be a Kickstarter survey (or some kind of survey) sent out to each tier allowing you to choose which ones you want!
Creator ThomasN on May 19, 2012
"you can replace any of the existing three $50 rewards with one of the two new ones".
How? Will you handle that per E-Mail later?
Creator Henry D. C. Williams on May 18, 2012
Book looks great. Very excited about getting mine :)
Creator Goldhawk Interactive on May 18, 2012
You already get Desura keys (and always have). Yes, we've looked into GOG but we weren't able to agree a price point.
Creator Brantley Love on May 17, 2012
Keys for Desura would be very nice. By the way, have you looked into GOG.com as another possibility for DRM free distribution?
Creator darkstorm on May 17, 2012
cool, cheers for letting me know.
Creator Goldhawk Interactive on May 17, 2012
Yes, it is DRM free (updated the text to reflect that). For the $100 reward, no - though at $125 you get the soldier name and the hardback Art Book too. $100 is one or the other.
Creator darkstorm on May 17, 2012
Is the physical disc version drm free - no online activations or any such garbage?
Creator Zombie Pug on May 17, 2012
So at $100 (soldier name), not even the digital copy of the artwork is included?
Creator Goldhawk Interactive on May 17, 2012
Yup.
Creator Daniel Magnan on May 17, 2012
So if I pledge $75, I could get a physical copy of the game and a tshirt if I wanted?
Creator Goldhawk Interactive on May 17, 2012
@Christian - if you pledge either $50 or $60, both include a digital version of the game so you'll have a copy of it. However, if you pledge $60 you get a copy of the softback book as your additional reward and it doesn't include a choice of the $50 tier rewards too. It's a bit difficult to get both under the current system now you point it out, actually...maybe I need to put in an $80 tier including that.
Creator Goldhawk Interactive on May 17, 2012
@Christopher - yeah, that's not a problem. Though you'd have to message me seperately about it once the Kickstarter closes and I'll send you the extra key manually, as the current pledge system doesn't let us do it automatically.
Creator Christopher "DarkWolfNine" Muzatko on May 17, 2012
You're welcome. I'm glad I was able to help.
Creator robertoszek on May 17, 2012
Thanks Chistopher.
Creator Christopher "DarkWolfNine" Muzatko on May 17, 2012
Christian, I think (after looking at that tier) that it includes the $30 tier with the softback copy of the art book. (the $50 tiers, are all "Premium Pre-Order +" not just the $30 "Premium Pre-Order". So I don't think there is choosing involved.
Creator Christopher "DarkWolfNine" Muzatko on May 17, 2012
robertoszek, Yes. You would pick one of the $50 tiers as your reward (that has a shipping cost), but in your pledge amount, you would put $60, instead of the $50 for that tier. If you wanted the $60 tier, you would choose that as your reward, and add $10 to the actual pledge amount, making it a total of $70. Hope this helps.
Creator Christian Geiger on May 17, 2012
If i take the 60$ pledge, I still can decide which 50$ pledge goodie I'll take?
What about the access to development builds and beta testing, if I choose physical copy of the 50$ pledge?
Creator Christopher "DarkWolfNine" Muzatko on May 17, 2012
I like the physical dvd addition. I just pledged for it. Would I be allowed to up my $50 pledge to $70, to include the $20 tier, so I can "legally" gift that copy to a friend?
Creator robertoszek on May 17, 2012
I'm a little confused about +$10 for international shipping... So, if I pledge $50 for the reward of "$50 or more" (like the physical copy) I must pledge $10 more for the shipping, then I pledge $60 in total. But I won't receive the rewards of pledging "60$ or more" doing so (like the softback Art Book), right?
Creator Mikael Olofsson on May 17, 2012
Actually, reward tiers descriptions can be edited, even if they have backers, you just have to ask an administrator to do it for you
Creator Christian Dannie Storgaard on May 17, 2012
Please add keys for Desura as well, unless you want us to buy two copies ;)
Creator GamingLives on May 17, 2012
All sounds good :) Art book looks great so far, really looking forward to seeing it.