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Charles Ryan
about 2 months ago
How far can we make the Backer Train go?
Hey, all! You've noticed the Backer Train on the main page. Whenever someone makes a pledge (or increases their existing pledge with an add-on) it counts down from 10 minutes. It keeps resetting every time there's new pledge activity.
BackerKit's Overtime Mode means the campa...
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During the campaign we asked if the New Order Medallion was be available as a stand-alone add-on for those of us who already had a medallion set; I just got the pledge manager and do not see this add-on. Any idea if it was just missed or were we bamboozled?
PROJECT UPDATE
Charles Ryan
CREATOR
about 2 months ago
Project Update: We’re Crossing the Finish Line! KEY INFORMATION
Greetings, vislae—
This exciting campaign has reached its conclusion. (After an amazing four hours of Overtime Mode!) THANK YOU so much for helping us bring Invisible Sun: Indigo, The Electric Sun, and all the other new elements of the Invisible Sun RPG into being—and for unlocking the stretch goals that let us build them out toward our ultimate vision.
We want to tell you a bit about where things go from here—and we have some very exciting news for you—but first let’s give credit where credit is due:
While this campaign has been running, Monte has been working on The Electric Sun with Sean’s help, while also leading the rest of our design team—Bruce, Shanna, and our editor Dominique—as they keep our pipeline of products, including Dig Your Own Grave and All Your Gods Are Dead (for the Old Gods of Appalachia Roleplaying Game), The Darkest Woods, and Make Your Statement (for The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game) moving along on schedule. Monte, Bruce, and Sean have also been working on a pretty cool secret project—more on that below!
Bear and Javier designed bookmarks and wicked keys, imaged the forthcoming products, and handled the graphic design of this campaign—and they’ll make Invisible Sun: Indigo and The Electric Sun shine! With Teri, they’ve also been shepherding titles like Neon Rain and Gunslinger Knights through their production phase.
Jen, Olivia, and Kate have answered your questions (and are always available to provide support to you, our wonderful community) and managing MCG’s presence at events like UK Games Expo and the ACD distributor open house, both of which happened during this campaign.
Tammie has been steering the ship and keeping the logistics plates spinning. And Charles planned and ran this campaign (and is the author of this update!).
We are a small team, but we’ve worked diligently to keep all of our products coming while also running this campaign for future products. We all thank you very much for backing this campaign. We love making mind-blowing RPGs with beautiful production values and immersive experiences, and your support makes that possible.
Now, here’s what to expect as we move forward from here. Please read it—and remember, there’s a big announcement at the bottom of this update!
The Immediate Future
Running a crowdfunding campaign is hard work, so we’re looking forward to getting a bit of rest. You may not hear from us for a little while, but don’t worry. As we’ve said, Monte and the team is already at work on Indigo and The Electric Sun. We’ll post updates any time there’s news share.
The Next Few Weeks
BackerKit began collecting pledges the moment the campaign closed. But it takes them a full two weeks to release those funds, along with the data on our backers.
In the meantime, we will get the pledge manager fully set up. The pledge manager gives us the information we need to fulfill your pledge and lets you manage your add-ons and make any pledge upgrades you want. We’ll notify you when we open the pledge manager, which should be in about three weeks. Please look out for, and respond to, that notification!
The Next Few Months
Once you’ve completed the pledge manager survey, we won’t need anything else from you until it’s time to start fulfilling rewards. We’ll be busy crafting Invisible Sun: Indigo, The Electric Sun, and the other items you funded, in the months to come. We’ll post regular updates, but if you don’t hear anything for a few weeks, don’t fret.
At the same time, please pay attention when you do get communications from us. Our emails and updates include critical information about your rewards.
When Your Rewards Ship
Every time a reward is ready for you, we’ll contact you by email to begin the fulfillment process. Generally, we’ll direct you to the MCG Shop, where you’ll log in, “buy” the product (for free, because you’ve already paid for it through this campaign), and check out.
This is an important part of the process because it ensures we have accurate delivery information for every item we send out. (With thousands of backers getting rewards, it's amazing how many people will change their address over the fulfillment period.) You'll pay for shipping at that time.
Please pay attention to communications from us—don't let our updates or emails go to your spam folder, or otherwise ignore them, because if you do you could miss out on some of your rewards.
Thanks for your support!
—Team MCG
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PROJECT UPDATE
Charles Ryan
CREATOR
about 2 months ago
Project Update: Stretch Goal Unlocked. This Next One’s a Biggie!
Greetings, vislae—
It’s the final day of this campaign! We have just a few hours to pull as many vislae as possible out of this lie-filled Shadow and into the Actuality.
Thanks to your efforts, we’ve reached enough vislae to unlock yet another stretch goal: we are now reissuing the Order Medallion set and adding the medallion for the new Arcist order to it. The set is now available as an add-on (and we’ve kept the original price despite adding this new medallion!). The Arcist medallion has also been added to the rewards at THE BREADTH OF THE ACTUALITY (PRINT AND PDF) pledge level—all backers at that level get it for free!
You—Yes, You!—Make This Happen
The final days of a crowdfunding campaign can get quite exciting, and this one is no different! We’re working hard to spread the word and reach gamers who haven’t heard about this campaign yet. But we can’t do it ourselves. Crowdfunding campaigns take off when—and only when—their backers help build buzz and share why they’re so excited about the campaign. It’s the excitement that’s contagious—and only you can spread that excitement.
Please take a moment now to hop into social media, onto your favorite gaming Discord, or into reddit, EN World, or wherever else you see gaming news or conversation. Comment on a few posts. Like a few. Post your own thoughts, or share posts of others.
Our next goal is a big one, but with your help we can bring it into being before the campaign closes!
A Big Upgrade for The Electric Sun
Over the course of this campaign we’ve expanded The Electric Sun several times. Now it’s time to reach for a bigger vision: we’d like to upgrade The Electric Sun from a book to a boxed supplement! Like Book M and The Wellspring, The Electric Sun will remain a hefty hardcover, but will now come in a box and include an assortment of new spell, ephemera, incantation, and object of power cards introducing new magic associated with the new Arcist order.
This is more than a physical expansion—this is also another expansion to The Electric Sun’s content. Like the 1000 or so cards in Invisible Sun: Indigo, the spells and other magical praxis on these cards are new content, not duplicating material from the books.
We’ll add this box and new magic cards when we reach 1907 backers.
As we have with stretch goals throughout this campaign, if we unlock this one we’ll add a bonus reward for every single backer: a reference bookmark. Fittingly, this one will be for The Electric Sun!
Will We Make It? That’s Up to You!
This is a big goal, but if past campaigns are any guide, we can absolutely unlock this before the campaign ends—with your help.
Play Invisible Sun with Sean! There’s still time to win a seat at an Invisible Sun game with MCG’s own Sean Reynolds, and taking part in our raffle for it is one small way to help spread the word. Check it out!
It the meantime, here’s the winner of our final poll on wicked key designs. Thanks to everyone who helped us choose the designs for the new wicked key sets!
Thank you for your support, and for helping us reach new vislae and unlock so many stretch goals!
—All of us here at team MCG
P.S. Here are some images you can share on social media to help spread the word about this campaign. Right-click to download them, and be sure to link your post to mymcg.info/indigo
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CREATOR
Hey, all! You've noticed the Backer Train on the main page. Whenever someone makes a pledge (or increases their existing pledge with an add-on) it counts down from 10 minutes. It keeps resetting every time there's new pledge activity.
BackerKit's Overtime Mode means the campaign doesn't actually close at the scheduled time--it keeps going as long as the Backer Train is active. As long as there are no gaps in pledges longer than 10 minutes, the campaign remains active. For MCG's recent campaigns, that's sometimes minutes, and sometimes hours!
So: How long do you think we can keep this one going?
BackerKit's Overtime Mode means the campaign doesn't actually close at the scheduled time--it keeps going as long as the Backer Train is active. As long as there are no gaps in pledges longer than 10 minutes, the campaign remains active. For MCG's recent campaigns, that's sometimes minutes, and sometimes hours!
So: How long do you think we can keep this one going?
PROJECT UPDATE
Charles Ryan
CREATOR
about 2 months ago
Project Update: The Electric Sun Now Has Spell Cards!
Greetings, vislae—
What a fast-paced and exciting day it’s been. You’ve busied yourself seeking vislae still lost here in Shadow, and your work has paid off—you’ve brought this BIG stretch goal to life!
The Electric Sun is now becoming a boxed product, which will contain the hefty hardcover supplement (already expanded and upgraded a few times through prior stretch goals) along with a selection of new spell, ephemera, incantation, and object of power cards introducing new magic associated with the new Arcist order.
This campaign is scheduled to end in less than two hours—although it may extend beyond that through Overtime Mode (a feature in BackerKit that keeps the campaign going as long as backers keep pledging). It seems unreasonable to offer another stretch goal at this point, especially here in Shadow—a realm that suppresses magic. Although. . .
We do have a few more ideas we’d love to explore. Perhaps we can extend the stretch goal process through late pledges, or investigate a similar mechanism. If we do, we’ll count every backer who pledges to this campaign before it closes.
So please continue to spread the word! Who knows what else we may be able to add to The Electric Sun?
Thank you for your support!
—All of us here at team MCG
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