24 hours left to go!
Just a quick update from us this - we've entered our last 24 hours and things are going well. We've raised almost $6,000 in the 12 hours since our last update, which is much faster than any other time other than the very start of the project. Thanks to anyone who has donated or upped their pledge!
As promised, we've released the final five custom soldier portraits at the $200 tier. These will be the last ones released at that tier, so if you want to have your face in the game, grab them while you still can!
We're getting very close to our $140,000 stretch goal, which involves adding the entirely new Soviet Town tileset to the game. This will be a great addition to the game, as it'll add a bit more variety and geographical accuracy to the terror missions. You'll be spending a lot of time in the ground combat, so the more variety there the better!
Hitting this stretch goal will mean that it will replace the $125,000 "stretch goal" for tileset-specific AI soldiers. A few people have mentioned that it seems a bit odd to take out stretch goals that have already been reached, and in hindsight I can understand why it might look strange to newer backers (we didn't explain the reasons very well in the last update).
The tileset-specific AI soldiers are due to arrive at $205,000. We held voting on the stretch goals to decide in which order they'd arrive (the more popular a feature was, the earlier it would arrive), and the Soviet Town tileset was voted 3rd and the AI soldiers in 5th.
The only trouble is that tilesets are very expensive to produce and so the Soviet Town tileset was due to arrive at $140,000 instead of the $125,000 if it had been a simpler feature. A week ago we were asked whether we'd consider implementing the tileset-specific AI soldiers if we hit $125,000 but didn't raise the full $140,000. We thought that sounded fair, so we agreed.
This is why it looks like we're "taking out" the tileset-specific AI soldiers, but that's not really the reality of the situation. It's worth mentioning that we'll definitely put tileset-specific AI soldiers in the game if we raise $165,000 (but less than $180,000), but unless we have an extremely strong final day that is unlikely to happen. We're considering adding them in anyway - but no promises on that front!
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- Website: xenonauts.com
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 JJL on June 10, 2012
Hmm, you guys should probably remove npc tileset allies(besides 200,005 one) and just say it below chart that we will get it if there is enough pledging for it, that way they can only blame themselves if they are bad at reading :P
Creator Nikolai Thruxton Laneski on June 10, 2012
Woo-hoo! Soviet Town tileset achieved!
Creator Nikolai Thruxton Laneski on June 10, 2012
Man, things are looking good!