Fulfillment Update: ABRE and FlexAI Expanded Sample
about 4 years ago
– Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 01:50:08 AM
Hi all,
As promised, I've synched up BackerKit's records with my own personal fulfillment tracker, and have triggered fulfillment of the following products. If you believe you're entitled to one of these, and have not yet received a notification from DriveThruRPG, first please check your spam/blocked/blacklisted/junk email folder, then comment or message me so I can investigate.
- Aquilae: Bestiary of the Realm for Pathfinder (volumes 1-6 complete and volumes 1-2 abridged)
- FlexAI: Expanded Sample (for those who are entitled to the FlexAI Guidebook, this is what has been published thus far)
Onward!
Dark Obelisk 1: Collector's Edition
about 4 years ago
– Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 10:13:59 PM
A quick announcement that we have launched the Dark Obelisk 1: Berinncorte: Collector's Edition Kickstarter. You can find it here.
What & Why
The intent here is to celebrate the 5-year anniversary of when Dark Obelisk, and Infinium Game Studio, began, by producing Collector's and Limited Editions of the urban sandbox mega-adventure that started it all. To summarize, we'll be combining the now-two volume adventure into a single book, refining it and removing redundancy. Also, the 5E version will be fully converted finally, as there had been a file corruption which had prevented this originally.
Pipeline Impact: Zero, Then Even Better!
Of extreme importance, IGS will be partnering with a commissioned layout and design artist with extensive experience laying out indie RPG books like this. This "outsourcing" is planned for two reasons: first, to avoid any interference with the long pipeline of committed books that we're hard at work on and do not want to become distracted from; and second, to establish a longer-term relationship so as to be able to further accelerate our ability to produce quickly.
Who Gets What: Existing DO1 Owners & Backers
Please note that existing backers and customers of DO1 are entitled to automatic rewards for this campaign, as follows:
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We Few, We Happy Few: If you are one of the backers of the original Dark Obelisk 1 Kickstarter campaign, you will automatically receive all of the benefits of the Platinum reward tier for free, without having to even pledge.
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Citizen of the Realm: If you already have a copy of either the Adventure Book and/or the Dramatis Personae & Bestiary books, in either current rules system edition, you will automatically receive all of the benefits of the Silver reward tier for free, without having to even pledge.
Onward!
Missing BackerKit Surveys
about 4 years ago
– Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 12:22:12 AM
Hi all--Apologies at the delay in getting back to those of you who haven't yet received a survey notification from BackerKit.
The short version is, go here and enter the email associated with the Kickstarter account that you used to back this project, and that'll do it regardless of your situation.
More Details
I've resent the surveys a few times since the initial batch; typically, triggering that cleans up anyone who hadn't yet received a survey for whatever reason.
I'd recommend the normal stuff--checking your spam/blocked/trash/blacklisted email folder, making sure you're checking the email account that's associated with the Kickstarter account that you used to pledge, all of that--but from the feedback I've gotten, it seems that a handful of you might have gotten all of that good stuff right, and still don't have the survey.
My apologies; I've done this a bunch of times and I've not yet encountered this phenomenon, but who knows what changes BackerKit might have introduced.
At any rate, if you go to http://content-conversion.backerkit.com/ and enter your email address, you should be all set. Let me know if that doesn't work and I can contact BK support.
Onward!
IGS State of the Nation Q1 2020: Our 5-Year Anniversary, Production Status, Pipeline Status, Giveaways, and Much More
about 4 years ago
– Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 11:16:27 PM
Apologies for the delay; typically I've been trying to publish a "state of the nation" sort of update at least once a quarter. Today's Q1 2020 update is long overdue!
I actually have a duet of updates for everyone.
IGS State of the Nation
First, there's the actual State of the Nation for Q1 2020. If you're only interested in finding out how things stand and where we'll be, check this out. Spoiler alert: I'm behind schedule. But, I'm producing at a rate unparalleled in our history: since late spring, we've been pumping out 600-1200 pages of content each and every month like clockwork. (That's a good thing.)
IGS' 5-Year Anniversary
If you can believe it, Infinium Game Studio turns 5 years old this week: February 27th, 2015 is when I started writing what would become Dark Obelisk: Berinncorte.
I've got a lot planned for March to celebrate; if you're curious, check out the IGS 5-Year Anniversary update here. (Note that all of the promotions etc. planned are things that will in no way distract us from our mission of delivering already-promised content to those awaiting it.)
Thank You
I accomplished more productively in 2019 than in any other single year of my life, by a myriad of measures. I certainly did NOT get everything done that I had wanted to do, but what I did end up doing is a heaping ton of work.
There are delays. There are day job commitments. Things end up taking more time than I'd planned.
But never for a moment do I lose sight of my mission, or of how lucky I am to be able to do what I love doing most. I spend literally every single spare moment working on IGS books. And I don't see that changing any time in the future.
You can consider that, to use one frustrated backer's language, a bunch of "word salad".
But that doesn't make it any less true.
Thank you. And, of course: Onward!
BackerKit Surveys Sent!
over 4 years ago
– Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 09:11:43 PM
A quick update to announce that BackerKit surveys have been sent. Please let me know if you have any issues completing them, and if you could do so by March 1st, I'd sure appreciate it.
Onward!
