Xenonauts Reward Update!
Just a quick update to keep everyone in the loop as to what is happening - I've just sent out all the extra keys that people have requested (or are entitled to) as Kickstarter rewards. Instructions on how to send them to friends are on the keys themselves (using this Desura page).
This leaves us with only physical rewards left to dispatch. We need to send physical goods to somewhere in the region of 500 people. This is going to be quite a logistical challenge - for an idea of how ridiculous it can end up being, the Banner Saga team have posted up this mildly horrifying video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nEaY4JYooJk
Thankfully, they're sending out about 10x as many things as we are so we don't have the deal with quite that quantity of items. Unfortunately, British houses tend to be smaller than American ones and central London is especially bad for this; I don't have a garage or anything to store large quantities of rewards in.
I'm still trying to figure out the logistics, but we were originally going to order the T-shirts and posters this weekend and ship them to everyone, then do the DVD copies and Art Books together post-release.
Having mused on it for a bit, I'm not sure that's a good idea. The real killer here is going to be the postage, and mailing out the T-shirts and Art Books / DVD copies at different times doesn't seem a good idea given they can share the same box (otherwise we'll be paying double postage).
I also considered just sending out the T-shirts to those who only want to recieve a T-shirt and no other physical goods, but this is less than half of the total people who want a T-shirt. This means I'd have to find the space for about 150 t-shirts, and there's not a lot of room for that.
It's more than likely we'll just send out all the physical rewards once the DVD copies have been produced (i.e. once the game has been released). The only exception might be the posters, as they're such an awkward shape that we won't be able to fit them in the normal packing and will probably have to send them seperately. If that is the case, we may as well get them sent out ASAP. We'll let you know what the plan is soon in any case.
There's another build coming out this weekend, which will include fixes for the major crash bugs in the last version and will add a few new features. It'll also include all the custom pre-generated soldiers, so if you've paid to have your name in the game you'll be in the next build. I'll post another update with full details when the build is released.
The Linux porting is coming along, and we're currently testing the port with a few pre-orderers who use Linux. It's not done yet but hopefully it'll make an appearance soon. The Mac port will follow after that.
Finally, the Kickstarter money has finally made it all the way from Amazon Payments over to the safety our corporate bank account (for those interested, the final amount recieved after Kickstarter fees, Amazon fees and backers not paying up is $139,000). Now we can start to spend it on developing Xenonauts! Expect a more detailed progress report with the new build this weekend.
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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: 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.
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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 (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.
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A Premium Pre-Order (as $30), plus an additional Premium Pre-Order copy of Xenonauts to give to a friend!
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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.
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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 $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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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!
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Comments
Creator Sam Garamy on July 3, 2012
I noticed a few errors with Australia's representation on the Geoscape. Tasmania isn't visible on the map, and Canberra is south of Sydney, not north. Although I suppose Tasmania might have been completely destroyed by the aliens, which would be cool :D
Creator Raz Jain on June 30, 2012
Just focus on the game. People don't want rewards from a bad game. Get the respect from building a good game first. You can compensate for rewards easily if your sales are great from a brilliant game.
Creator Goldhawk Interactive on June 30, 2012
We'll actually be using Desura to distribute the Steam keys so it's actually better if you take up you Desura key even if you don't use it! Artur - sadly we can't edit the Kickstarter page now funding has closed.
Creator Gustaf Carstam on June 30, 2012
@shaun ault: The steam key will probably only be available at retail ie when the game is finished there will as far as I know not be any alpha or beta key for steam. the retail and the alpha/beta keys should also be 2 separate things so you don't lock yourself to desura by playing the alpha. You will be given an option to chose which key you want when the game is finished.
Creator Knight PT on June 29, 2012
Thanks for keeping us up-to-date. I wanted to leave an advice in the meantime. I have seen some people around in forums here and there saying that it's a shame that kickstarter was over for this project and they are realy unaware that the pre-order on your webpage is realy still a very valid way to help you guys, and in reality the "kickstarter" is not realy over, people can keep help funding.
I would like to sugest that on the front page of this kickstarter project you keep a direct link to your pre-order page and a big emphasis that "kickstarter is still running on your website by pre-order funding" or something like that.
Creator WP - Member, Mutant League on June 29, 2012
So looking forward to this game, my first x-com one, yeah \o/
Creator Michael Cantor on June 29, 2012
I also was hoping to just use steam. I assume that the steam key will be released when the final build completed.
Creator jose1711 on June 29, 2012
where do i signup for linux testing?
Creator Shaun Ault on June 29, 2012
I havent used my desura key because I was holding out for the steam key... is that still in the works?
Creator Richard Urwin on June 29, 2012
Thanks for keeping us up-to-date. If you need another Linux user, the version of Wine on this old Mint install doesn't like the .exe,
Creator AndonSage on June 29, 2012
@Lewis: Actually, that's not too bad. Projects can pretty much expect 10% to be gone in Kickstarter and Amazon fees. The Banner Saga fees percentage was only 10.16%.
Creator S.D. on June 29, 2012
No, it's more like 10K£ ... dollars are a great deal smaller.
Creator Michael Nielsen on June 29, 2012
its $ not £. Helps a bit :)
Creator Lewis West on June 29, 2012
Jeez, almost £16,000 gone just like that...