We have 3 BIG updates to share:

Every pledge, every share, every word of encouragement has gotten us here and will help us with future pitches. We couldn't have done it without you, so from the bottom of our hearts: THANK YOU.

More updates coming soon, let’s keep going. 💛 T_T

With gratitude, 
Célin + the Crazy Broke Asian Team

Hello Friends!

I'm coming to you with an overdue update. It took a little longer than preferred because I wanted to have enough news to share with you. 

But first, let's back up a bit, to almost a year ago. 

Producer Mike was getting too busy to handle the project. As is standard practice in the indie film world, full-rate commercial work takes priority over garbage-rate movie work. It's understood when people have to take the better paying job. So he asked Producer Meghan to take over. 

So I meet Meghan and she is great, and a few meetings in she sat me down and patiently explained, line item by line item, that our current production budget (drawn up during the first attempt to film this show, in the before-times) was complete nonsense and nowhere near enough to make a movie of this scope. Car chases? Explosions? Gunfights? Was I completely out of my mind? She asked, kindly. 

I explained how Gamers projects work. It's not Star Wars (yes, she's worked on Star Wars.) It's not a car chase in the traditional sense. Half of all the action takes place with minis on a game table. The gameplay is always a relief valve for the more ambitious scenes. Furthermore, I'm able to do a lot of stuff myself. I did another pass at the script and identified many places where we could replace a full shoot day and a crew of 20-30 people we have to pay and feed, with a one-man-band (me!) grabbing footage solo, unpaid.

So yes, I replied, I am completely nuts, and that's how we're going to pull this off. 

One of the things I can do is make stuff. So our game mat gets printed trees and such. Our Cinematographer Doug actually came up with the idea that, in addition to "Game table" and "in-world" scenes, the table itself is a third layer of reality. Every Gamers project tries to bring something new to the table, and this concept does it literally as we supplement those expensive real-world shots with enhanced game table action. 

Now Producer Meghan is wonderful and this project wouldn't have happened without her. However, one gripe I have with her is she won't let me break the law while she's watching. This is very inconvenient for independent filmmaking. Securing a permit for filming in this park was tricky enough. Lots of insurance requirements and filling out forms and such. On top of all that they required a permit for filming with a drone. I don't remember the exact amount but it was in the thousands of dollars, enough for the whole production team to say no. I conceded, and said I would just have to let go of aerial shots for these scenes.

This past weekend, I drove to the park by myself, early on a weekday morning so nobody would be there.

Another sequence, that I'm building out of my own footage and things I found in the neighbors' trash, is an entire side quest to Washington DC. So, obviously, we need the cliché plane-taking-off shot. I hauled my camera and tripod to good ol' SeaTac international airport. 

Once I've once I’ve integrated this new material into the edit, we'll move on to the next parts of post production. The downside of doing things this way is we are trading time for money, and unfortunately that slows things down. Once the the fun of principal photography is over, the makeup gets washed off and the lights taken down, the crew goes home, and it's just me sitting at my computer for months. Sometimes other people sit at their computers for a few weeks to help with VFX and audio. But I promise I am dedicated to making this installment of The Gamers as good as I am able. 

I'm super grateful to you all for making this happen. 

Cheers,
G

Hello, Adventurers

We're here today with some sad news about a member of the adventure game community and how you can help.

By now many of you have probably heard the news that Roberta Vaughan, a beloved member of the community and community manager / publicist within the adventure gaming scene, is facing a serious medicial crisis.

If you've spent any time around the adventure game community in recent years, you've probably crossed paths with Roberta online in groups like The Classic Gamers Guild or in person at events like last year's Adventure Game Fan Fair, where she memorably cosplayed as Laura Bow.

To help Roberta's family deal with medical and other expenses during this time, Sierra alumni Josh Mandel started up a GoFundMe page which you can click through to below:

Unsurprisingly, Roberta was an early backer and supporter of this project. It is our hope that we can repay that small kindness by helping to spread the word in her time of need.

Please donate if you are able: https://www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-ease-robertas-medical-burden

Our thoughts are with Roberta and her family ❤️

Dave, Will, and Cade

- The Legends of Adventure team 

IT HAPPENED!! WE HIT 100K!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

With two weeks still left of our campaign, we are now focusing on our first stretch goal to raise enough to fund episode 2.

Our first stretch goal is 200K! LET’S GOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

THANK YOU SO SO SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT! IT MEANS THE WORLD TO US ❤️

Hello everyone! Milo again :D

Our first package-fulfillment live stream is this Friday, (link to our twitch channel here!) meaning you need to have your address locked by this Thursday (ideally before that)! If you have moved to a different address since you locked your order, please email us at [email protected] with your new address and we will revise it manually! (If you're not sure if your address is up to date and want to check, you should be able to do so through your BackerKit account- or you can send us an email and we'll check it for you!)

For 95% of you, this should already be taken care of and you don't need to do anything further. We've sent out the final notice to the last ~30 stragglers to lock forms/addresses, thankfully around half of those have since locked their orders. We will not wait on the remaining few orders to start packing orders, we will simply contact them individually in the coming days. 

We will ship everyone's packages at the same time, that way we can send out your tracking numbers all at the same time (and everyone should receive their rewards around the same time). Truthfully, I can't get an exact estimate on how long packing all ~1800 packages will take, as we have never taken on an order that large before- and we still have to work on the pilot episode itself every day. My best estimate would be 1-2 months, but we will likely bring on some extra hands to get through the packages faster. Once shipped, packages within the US will take 3-5 days, international shipping times vary. Once you receive it, please check your tracking number for most accurate estimates. 

Thank you so much again for your patience as we thank you for supporting our project, we can't wait to see you on stream this Friday!

Flimp on, 
Milo

Hi everyone! Milo here,

About that last update...

Unfortunately we spoke too soon! We had a few hiccups in fulfillment- we were short on T-Shirts, campus maps, and ID cards (especially those, y'all liked them way more than anticipated!) The good news is that all of those orders will be arriving throughout this and next week. We sincerely apologize for the further delay in shipments, but it's all in the name of making sure we can start packing everyone's orders at the same time, and no one gets left behind. That being said, we completely understand if you want something extra for waiting this long- plus further proof that we are indeed working on fulfillment. So...

We will be packing your orders live on YouTube/Twitch!

While we've been waiting for the extra orders to come in, we've used our spare time outside of episode production to revamp our live stream setup. While live, we'll be packing your orders, hanging out with everyone in the chat- and maybe some fun bonus stuff while we're at it! (Don't worry, we won't be showing or mentioning your personal order info on stream- just packing the packages themselves!) Sort of like the live streams we did during the campaign, but less fundraise-y and more hang-out-y! If you've ever chatted with us at a convention while we were tabling, it'll be a lot like that. We hope these will be fun, and a nice way to see the progress of our fulfillment with your own eyes! We haven't announced this anywhere else yet, but expect some more details on our socials in the coming days.

While we're here- some of you still need to confirm your address/card info!

Around 30 of you to be exact. We're sending out another round of notices in the meantime, so keep an eye out in your inbox!

To be transparent, making a 22 minute animated pilot is already a massive workload for our small team- not to mention our social media and admin upkeep on top of that. Regardless, we're working full time, and we can't wait to pack your orders on stream soon- we hope to see you there! If anyone has additional questions regarding your order or in general, drop a comment below or send an email our way to [email protected].

Thank you all so much again for your support and patience, flimp on!
-Milo

Hello everyone,

WE HIT THE 70% MILESTONE!! Right as we reach the midpoint of our campaign with only 23 days left to go!

Your eternally grateful and temporarily crazy broke asian,

Celin