We hope everyone had a safe and relaxing holiday full of friends, family, food, and maybe some time spent with a few classic adventure games.
The Legends of Adventure team took a much-needed break over the holidays after a successful first shooting block in November and we're now all looking forward to 2025!
Documentary Progress Report
The Legends of Adventure team assembles at SeaTac Airport outside Seattle in November 2024
If you follow Legends of Adventure on Twitter and Instagram, you likely saw some of our updates from the road in early November 2024.
Our team returned to the Pacific Northwest for our first post-campaign round of interviews for the documentary, completing four days of interviews with six Sierra alumni in a little under a week – including Al Lowe, Jane Jensen, Robert Holmes, John Williams, Ken Williams, and Roberta Williams. It was a whirlwind road trip that took us all over beautiful Seattle and the surrounding areas and helped us collect nearly 20 hours of interview footage and b-roll.
Here is a selection of behind-the-scenes photos from our November 2024 interviews:
Setting up with Jane Jensen
Setting up with Robert Holmes
Shooting b-roll with Jane Jensen
Shooting b-roll of the former Sierra headquarters in Bellevue, Washington
Interviewing Al Lowe
Shooting b-roll with Al Lowe
Setting up with John Williams
Shooting b-roll with John Williams
Getting ready to roll with Ken and Roberta Williams
Shooting b-roll with Ken and Roberta Williams
The entire team is extremely happy with the results of this first shooting block. We're so grateful to all the folks we spoke with for being so generous with their time, our families for being patient with us while we were away on the road, and most of all, the backers for making this entire project possible.
We've now collected many never-before-told stories from the earliest days of Sierra On-Line through to its final weeks as a company, interviews that will form the backbone of the documentary. We cannot wait to show you all more!
The Quest Continues...
We're planning our second block of shooting for the spring that will take us back to the West Coast of the United States.
This production block will include stops in Eugene, Oregon and Los Angeles, California among other places, as well as a certain small town in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains: Oakhurst – where Sierra On-Line was based from 1981 onward.
We're planning to speak with many of the already-announced participants, plus a few more high-profile individuals that we still can't reveal quite yet. Stay tuned for more updates about additional cast members as we confirm our spring 2025 production schedule!
That's all for now – watch out for our next update before the next phase of production!
Backers: Be sure to visit the Legends of Adventure Community page (or simply scroll down if you're viewing this on Backerkit.com) to see some exclusive "Backer Only" content from the first block of interviews.
It's been a few months since our last update, but we're here to share the exciting news that Legends of Adventure: The Story of Sierra On-Line officially enters production later this week!
The production team is heading out to the Pacific Northwest on Friday for a week of planned interviews with some very recognizable Sierra alumni.
Who will we be interviewing? Project backers can find out below in the exclusive "backer-only" part of this update, but be sure to follow us on Twitter and Instagram for live updates throughout this production phase of production to see what we're up to.
But this is just the beginning. We'll embark on an even bigger shooting block this spring, taking us all over the United States and beyond. More interviews, more locations, and more stories about the history of Sierra On-Line from the people who were there.
None of this would be possible without you – the backers – so thank you again for helping us get to this point.
Stay tuned for more updates about additional cast members, rewards fulfillment, and some big surprises we cannot wait to share!
A Wild Game Grump Appears
You likely know him from his work on Game Grumps and as the frontman of Ninja Sex Party, and now Dan Avidan can add Legends of Adventure cast member to his impressive resume.
Dan was kind enough to record a quick message for us about his love of Sierra games and why he thinks the documentary is an important project. Watch it below:
That's all for now – look out for our next update in mid-November after this phase of production is wrapped.
Backers: Be sure to visit the Legends of Adventure Community page to see our exclusive "Backer Only" announcement about our first round of interviews!
That's a wrap on the Legends of Adventure crowdfunding campaign!
What an exciting final day it's been – thank you to all of our new backers who helped us go into overtime mode on the campaign, exceed 477% funded, and reach an incredible $357,557.75 raised! And to those who upgraded your pledges over the past few days, thank you for helping us get across the finish line with style.
Although we didn't reach our final stretch goal, we did come very close – and because of that, we may have some news to report about Legends of Adventure: The Book very soon.
In the meantime, our team will be taking a much-needed break tomorrow – but stay tuned because we'll have more updates for you soon about the next steps, from when production of the documentary will begin to rewards fulfillment, additional cast and crew member announcements, and more!
And, in case you missed it, you can watch a recording of our Campaign Wrap Party live stream – with a cavalcade of amazing guests from the world of adventure games – below:
And if that's not enough Legends of Adventure content, you can still ask us questions on our Reddit AMA from earlier today here.
Thank you again for all your support!
- The Legends of Adventure Team (Dave, Cade, and Will)
Anyone else remember the first supplements that attempted to add modern rules to Advanced Dungeons and Dragons? Fitting guns and cars into those first edition rules wasn't easy, and it led to some pretty unusual in-game moments.
Attack of the Pwns pays a comedic tribute to a few of the most memorable early modern supplements with Fartherall Modern:
What are some of the silliest or most absurd things you've experienced in fantasy games with modern elements? We'd love to hear your stories!
We wanted to share some pictures of the actual 4-trading card puzzle stretch goal cards that are shipping to every backer coming up with the Puppet Master Trading Cards shipping beginning soon. Here they are!
Our shipping team is prepping to begin fulfillment starting hopefully by this Friday or upcoming Monday (a week from today). All the cards, the binders, and the special cards are being pulled together, the fulfillment info is being prepped for the shipping meters, and the packaging material (boxes, stuffing, etc) is being prepared to begin the assembly line of shipping. We will announce when packages are live and rolling out so everyone can watch their email for notifications from USPS with tracking.
Just a reminder that we still have 14 backers who have not replied to their shipping surveys. We sent out reminder emails to them directly. And here is the Backerkit link to retrieve your survey if you need it:
We've been working behind the scenes to get everything ready to ship out for the Puppet Master trading cards for the last few weeks and we are just about ready to start filling orders. The cards are in our hands and our warehouse team is setting up all the necessary packing materials to make sure everything is prepped and shipped safely to you. We are looking at the first boxes shipping out to everyone one week from today starting on Thursday 3/13.
Now thebig news - we were excited to unlock two of the four stretch goal puzzle cards during the Puppet Master trading cards campaign. Cards #3 and #4 of the puzzle set were not unlocked. But as a surprise bonus thank you to our incredible supporters for your patience, we are giving all backers ALL FOUR cards so you have the full exclusive Backerkit puzzle card set for your Full Moon collection! Check it out:
Watch for more updates next week as orders start shipping. And we still have 14 backers who have not replied to the surveys with shipping info. If you lost your survey - you can recover it here:
Can we get a shipping date? An estimate? You allegedly have all the materials and are ready to ship but refuse to put out any possible shipping date or any information that you could be held accountable for.
When will you ship the things we have purchased that you were supposed to ship to us last year?
You wrote this response to a comment
“The people who have their cards are the retail set and do not include the exclusive items that were offered as part of the campaign. Those items took longer to produce, but they are done and we are collecting the surveys and should begin shipping to backer soon.”
You could ship now to the backers that have completed the survey but you are not shipping them. I want to know why? And when. You have everything needed to ship according to your own comment. So when will you ship? A date. Not “soon”. Go pack one box and mail it out to those whose passion and trust you have prayed upon and betrayed.
Or just admit you stole everyone’s money.
Or give me the address where the stuff is. I will go pack boxes.
