We're only a few days away from the launch of Despair Dilemma, so I wanted to take a chance to collect the information from our previous updates and let you know about our plans for the first 48 hours of the crowdfunding campaign! We've finally finished up the crowdfunding page, and we're really excited to show it to you very soon.
There's a decent bit to cover, and ideally we'll be editing this to add even more if we need to, so I'll get right into it!
Reveals (What's in the Despair Dilemma Book)
In the lead up to the crowdfunding campaign, we made a few posts describing some of the elements of the book you'll be gaining access to if you back the campaign!
Remember that if you want to see how the game plays, we have a free demo available on Itch and TTS.
The Bleeding Heart Community Drive (Community Copies)
A lot of crowdfunding campaigns offer a bonus for backing in the first 48 hours. This is important because success in the first couple days is essential to the overall success of a campaign - one backer during this time can represent up to three backers across the whole thing.
At the same time, we're generally not a fan of people missing out on anything or paying more if they couldn't support at the launch or didn't catch the project in the first couple days! So we came up with an answer that we believe has the best of both worlds - "The Bleeding Heart Community Drive".
For each backer that supports our project at any level in the first 48 hours, we'll be donating a Community Copy of the game to people in need over Itch.io. You won't miss out on any other content, but you will get to spread the love of TTRPGs to people across the world!!
Let's Make a Death Game! (Together)
We want to make something exciting with you - all of you! While we're already adding more Death Game Sheets with stretch goals, we thought it'd be fun to make one up together with our backers! Over the course of the campaign, throughout different update posts, we'll be asking people to make recommendations for different parts of the Death Game Sheet and to vote on which recommendation you like best! The first of these questions ("Where are we setting our Death Game Sheet?") will be included in an update in the first 48 hours, and you can share your ideas then!
Streaming the Game (With You)
Having been busy hosting the Pocketopia Showcase streams, we realized we haven't actually taken the chance to stream the game itself! Despair Dilemma is a game all about creating stories together, so we had an idea; we'll let chat (all of you) take control of a Plot Sheet!
Playing Despair Dilemma WITH CHAT! March 14 9:30PM ETD / March 14 1:30AM GMT Take control of The Mob's Will alongside Nora Jean Haynes and Iris Cassandra Saintclaire as we explore Despair Dilemma!
There's a good chance we won't be able to complete a whole play session (we're not sure how long it will take to figure out what chat wants to do haha), but if things get cut off we'll plan a followup stream soon after!
-- Thank you all so much for your time, and I hope you're as excited about the launch as we are!! Nora Jean Haynes
