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In the virtual world of Jane Austen, it is not about kill or be killed, but invite and be invited with gossip our weapon of choice.

Ever, Jane: The Virtual World of Jane Austen

In the virtual world of Jane Austen, it is not about kill or be killed, but invite and be invited with gossip our weapon of choice.
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Judy L. Tyrer
Judy L. Tyrer

1,600 backers pledged $109,563 to help bring this project to life.
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Ever, Jane: The Year in Review

I wanted to update all those who donated to the Kickstarter campaign but do not get our monthly newsletter. Development has moved along steadily this year, never quickly enough and... Read more

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Happy Holidays

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For backers only

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

Well, we did it! It's been a bit of a roller-coaster ride, but we did it – thanks to you.

THANK YOU SO MUCH! 

 So what happens next?

The... Read more

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Successfully raised $109,563 USD with 1,600 backers

Leveling the Playing Field

I have listened to people's concerns about the hierarchical subscription model, applied the model to my fundamental beliefs about micro-transactions and other pay-to-play strategies and realized that I need to... Read more

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For the final push - a FARM

We have just over 24 hours left and $10K to go.  So we are offering the final push reward, a farm.  Anyone can choose a small farm instead of a... Read more

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Black Horse Friday

For those who have earned a horse, we offer the opportunity to have it be all black.  

TWO MORE DAYS!!!!

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Thanksgiving Turkeys and a Scholarly Review

Thanksgiving Turkeys

Annabel did some research and apparently turkeys had come to England by the Regency Period and so, to celebrate the US Thanksgiving,  we have added a $100 reward... Read more

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Last Day Party In World

Please join us on Sunday, Dec. 1 at 2 PM Pacific, 3 PM Mountain, 4 PM Central, 5PM Eastern, 10 PM London and 9 AM Monday Dec 2 in Australia... Read more

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Another Video, Another Interview, Another Project to share

Another video

This is more of the fraps footage used for the trailer.  This is AI walking about and bowing and curtsying appropriately.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnsvEbAJUL8&feature=em-upload_owner

Another interview

In this interview I... Read more

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Footage from the trailer

 I thought people might like to see the AI dancing about.  This was very rapidly done animation just for the trailer but I think it's kind of fun to see... Read more

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New Rewards

Go to the ball in style

We have added a Kickstarter special barouche reward at the $75.00 level.  This will be available for anyone contributing $75 or more.

Get your... Read more

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Rumors Abound

The Estate

There is a rumor that the estate is haunted.  If you wish to investigate this rumor further you will want to download a new client.  

Rocking Her... Read more

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Our New Partner and other announcements

Symas

3 Turn Productions LLC is proud to announce it's partnership with Symas, the leading open source implementation of LDAP directory services and libraries.  They will be providing us with database... Read more

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An In-Depth Interview about the game

We've had a lot of great press lately, but this interview is really exciting because it asked some challenging questions and it goes a bit more into the thinking behind... Read more

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Matching Pledges Ends

Great job everyone, we got $3,083 in matching donations.   Once this is in we'll be very close to half our funding!

Let's all keep on sharing and make this... Read more

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Music Games

While we are going to be adding music to Ever, Jane, I thought this might be an interesting project to check out.  

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/samanthazero/sentris-unleash-your-inner-musician

She will be sharing Ever, Jane... Read more

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Halfway mark

We have hit the halfway mark in our campaign and the number of backers is fabulous, but we are still ~$7K short.   The team is redoubling its efforts on... Read more

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3 Day Matching Funds

One of the backers of our project who really wants to see it built has offered an NPR style fund raising option and we thought it might be interesting to... Read more

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New Quest (and other changes)

To run the new quest, you will need to download the latest client.  I tried to fix it so you didn't have to chmod +x the MAC client, but was... Read more

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New Backing Tiers

We were getting some people who couldn't back at the $10 level but still wanted to participate so we made a $5.00 and $1.00 tier.  Those rewards are retroactive and... Read more

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More Great Press

I am overwhelmed with the press reception we are getting.  Those in the know for PR inform me that this would be a good time to ask everyone to please... Read more

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Character Select is back and working

We had a terrible flood wash out one of the roads to the village and many new villagers were stuck on the wrong side of the river.  Those who made... Read more

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Creating a New Character

We have a problem with character create where halfway through you drop into the world as the wrong character.  That is the result of a hack I put in to... Read more

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Great Press

We have been getting some excellent press.  I just finished an interview and will be getting the article soon but I wanted to make sure you saw what we've had... Read more

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New MAC client with latest OS

For those of you whose MACs were too new to play our MAC client, I have built a new MAC client that runs on the latest OS.   It is... Read more

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3 Turn Productions now has an iMac

I will be setting it up and building the client on it today.  The Apple sales rep believed that it should have worked using the old OD build and had... Read more

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MAC Build is ready

This is the link to the directory that has EverJaneWIN, EverJaneWIN-SmScreen and EverJaneMAC.  Enjoy!

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3nwngwv3c4fwupx/jrdDxZOeF1
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Tuesday Night: Find The Futures with the Devs

Tuesday night at 10 PM London time, 5 PM Eastern, 4 PM Central, 3 PM Mountain, and 2 PM Pacific (I don't know Australia, my apologies) we will be hosting... Read more

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Our First Kickstarter Quest

We are proud to announce our first quest, What Will The Future Bring.  You may have noticed throughout some of the unfinished parts of the village and the house we... Read more

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Small Screen Client and Server Update Scheduled

Apparently smaller screens were having the options buttons cut off so they could not adjust the resolution.  I have created a new client that allows you to set your screen... Read more

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Servers Down for half an hour

The first Kickstarter quest is being installed on the servers along with all the current gossip, invites and calendar events being removed.  I modified the gossip system to only generate... Read more

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Back in Business

I have always taught my children that problems that can be solved with money aren't REAL problems, though sometimes not having money is a real problem.  But in this case,... Read more

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Success Problems

I want to thank everyone for their support.  Sadly, we have had a bit too much success and Dropbox has closed down our link as we have had too much... Read more

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The Perils of Prioritizing....

Hi, and thanks for backing Ever, Jane so soon. We are going to be putting more quests and fun stuff into the game as the month goes on, so stay... Read more

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