Dev Update 2: New Forums + Private Forum Backer Access, upcoming livestreams & more!
Here come the forums!

Hope everyone had a great weekend! Today we’d like to introduce you to a brand new forum to interact with us throughout the development process. Head on over and check it out!:
Heart Forth, Alicia’s official forum
Right now, you should be able to see the public section of the forum, which contains boards for general HFA discussion, off-topic discussion, and a section to document and carry out community contests and public livestream events. For some of you, though, there are a couple of private sections dedicated exclusively to your tier level.
Private Backer Access
One of those sections is for people who pledged at the Private Demo Tier ($50), where you'll eventually get access to the demo when it comes out. We'll be able talk about it then, but we can meanwhile chat about anything you want to know about the game in the private section, or in the private livestreams we'll bring to you to show you how the game is moving along!
The other section is for people who pledged at the Elite Backer Tier ($150) and above. In here you'll be able to get your hands on all of the game's alphas and help us out by giving feedback and reporting issues, along with contributing with any ideas you might have that we could pick up and use in the final game! There are also several boards for us to discuss the particulars of the game's mechanics (such as the game's world, enemies, spells, accessories and more). You'll get access to the Private Demo boards as well.
If you are a $50 tier backer or above, head over to the forums and:
- 1. Register your username
- 2. Go to the link below to request group permissions and select your respective Membergroup. You'll be asked for your Kickstarter email/nickname, or your Paypal email/transaction ID. After you have provided the necessary information, we should have you approved shortly.
Request HFA Board Group Permissions
Please don’t request group membership if your pledge doesn’t entitle you access to one of the private groups. Membership requests must be processed manually, and making us pore over more requests than we need to will just take time away from everything else we have to do.
Contests
Funding Update
Small update now that the final day for changes pledges has passed: we received a total of ~$229,000 from the Kickstarter campaign! This means that nearly 99% of you came through with your pledges (compared to a failure rate generally between 2-3% for most Kickstarters), and we couldn't be happier. Along with the ~4k we've collected via PayPal, we're just north of $10,000 short of our 3DS stretch goal, and we promise we'll do everything we can over the next couple months to hit that goal.
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Remember to check out @hfagame to get the latest and more frequent updates about the game. Sometimes it is easier to post smaller things over there, so follow us if you want to stay up to speed with what we're up to! Also, feel free to tweet any questions you might have our way!
chan kwon on
Awesome!
Breno Ronchini on
That's great! Hope you guys make it!
Reikaniichan (RCS) on
yay!
Alonso Martin Creator on
Ah, apologies for that, some permission settings were set wrong! You should now be able to post replies :)
@Breno Yeah, if we make it to the 3DS goal, we'll add it as an add-on for all the people that pledged during the campaign.
Alonso.
Reikaniichan (RCS) on
Can't post or reply. :(
Breno Ronchini on
If you can manage the 3DS port, will it be a $5 add on too?
Alzorath on
Hmm... doesn't seem like I have permissions to post/reply (even as a demo level backer)
Alonso Martin Creator on
-Andrew
Alonso Martin Creator on
@Richard You need to be registered and logged in to reach the group permissions page. Have you made a username and were you logged in when you went to the linked page?
Richard Wojtaszak on
ok so you have to actually be logged in to access that area. DOH
Richard Wojtaszak on
on the update you have a link that is dead at this time. The forums where open yesterday and i had to re- register why i dont know or care about. And it seems i can not post anything.
The link to the members only area or whatnot i cant get to because it just errors out.