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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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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PROJECT UPDATE
Charles Ryan
CREATOR
about 2 months ago
Project Update: Another Stretch Goal Unlocked!
Greetings, vislae—
With your help, we’ve reached new vislae trapped here in Shadow and have unlocked yet another stretch goal. As though coming into focus from a semi-forgotten dream, The Electric Sun is again expanded, with new adventure content related to this mysterious sun.
And, as we do with each of the stretch goals, we’ve added a free bonus to the rewards for every backer: a strking and useful reference bookmark—in this case for Book M!
These bookmarks are a bonus reward for every backer, no matter your pledge level.
Only a Couple of Days Left!
The campaign ends this week—we have just three days to reach as many lost vislae as possible. If you’re a veteran fan of Invisible Sun, this is the chance to help the game you love reach a broader audience. That means more players, more community, and more support!
And if you’re new to the game, won’t you share what you’ve seen, read, or experienced that made you realize you want to explore the Actuality?
The final week of a campaign usually heats up quite a bit (that’s already happening!), and we might easily unlock several more stretch goals before it’s over—but only if you help spread the word!
Here’s an easy way to do it, and maybe:
Play Invisible Sun with Sean K. Reynolds!
MCG’s Sean K. Reynolds has been immersed in the Actuality since well before the publication of Invisible Sun. He’s not only worked on Invisible Sun design (including The Electric Sun)—he’s been a player in Monte’s own Invisible Sun narrative for many years. So you know that a journey into the Actuality with Sean will be a revelation!
You can win such a journey, and help spread the word about this campaign as well. Simply visit our Gleam raffle. It only takes a minute, and you’ll be entered for one of five seats at Sean’s virtual table!
New Stretch Goal: A Poster Map for Indigo
Invisible Sun: Indigo contains everything you need to explore the Actuality and to immerse yourself in the surreal city of Satyrine and the many worlds along the Path of Suns. We’ve already upgraded Invisible Sun: Indigo a couple of times through stretch goals, making it even easier to navigate and putting it in a lustrous foil box (and exclusive just for you, backers of this campaign).
Now we’d like to further immerse you in the Actuality by including a large, double-sided poster map featuring Satyrine, the City of Notions. Your Invisible Sun narrative might never leave Satyrine, or your adventures may explore a thousand sites along the Path of Suns—but regardless, Satyrine will be an important locus of your campaign. This poster map will do justice to it—and the beautiful cartography of Invisible Sun. We’ll unlock this upgrade to Invisible Sun: Indigo when we reach 1664 backers.
And Another Bookmark!
The vislae’s road has many steps. Shadow. Satyrine. The Path of Suns and the worlds of the Actuality. At each step the vislae’s eyes and mind are further opened. But are there even greater mysteries? Further steps? Deeper secrets to reality? The Thresholdtakes vislae beyond the Actuality and into the Labyrinth. Is it a maze? A test? A crucible? A doorway opening into a greater existence? There is only one way to find out . . .
Every time we unlock a stretch goal, we add a reference bookmark for one of Invisible Sun’s many useful supplements as a free bonus reward. When we unlock the current goal, we’ll add a bookmark for The Threshold to the rewards of every backer.
Remember: We need your help to unlock this goal and continue to build your collection of reference bookmarks!
Let’s Choose Another Key
Throughout this campaign you’ve been helping us select the designs for the new set of wicked keys (available as an add-on, and included in THE BREADTH OF THE ACTUALITY pledge level). In our most recent poll you chose this one:
Let’s choose another! We’ve launched another poll in the comments with two new designs. Let us know which wicked key you’d like to find on the streets of Satyrine after a keyfall!
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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PROJECT UPDATE
Charles Ryan
CREATOR
about 2 months ago
Project Update: Poster Map Added. Let’s Talk Arcists—and Medallions!
Greetings, vislae—
Once again you have amazed us with your alacrity! You have reached so many trapped vislae in the past day that we have unlocked another stretch goal. We are now adding a poster map to Invisible Sun: Indigo, showing off the beautiful city of Satyrine. We’ve updated the mockup of the game to include it:
Additionally, we’ve added a free bonus to the rewards for every backer: a beautiful reference bookmark for The Threshold. Remember: every time we unlock a stretch goal, every backer gets one of these bonus rewards as well!
We have an exciting new stretch goal for you, but first:
Join Monte and Sean Tonight!
The weekly Cypher Unlimited livestream will host Monte and fellow MCG designer Sean tonight! They’ll be talking about Invisible Sun, The Electric Sun, their own Invisible Sun campaigns and characters, and more—and taking your questions. Tune in to Cypher Unlimited tonight at 10:00 p.m. EDT (7:00 p.m. PDT)!
And don’t forget you can enter to win a seat at Sean’s virtual game table. He’ll be running a one-shot Invisible Sun adventure, and you could be one of his players! Take part in our Gleam raffle for a chance to win.
A New Order: The Arcists
One of our earliest stretch goals in this campaign expanded The Electric Sun to include a new, playable order of vislae. Vislae of that order call themselves Arcists.
Arcists create and utilize the power of magical devices. To the uninitiated, these might appear to be electrical machines, but they are much more than that. Infused with a type of magic specific to the order, these devices perform functions no normal machine could. Arcists create surreal, seemingly impossible electrical weapons, conveyances, tools, and much more. They can even create electrical people. Further, they can utilize powers to modify, and enhance, the devices on the fly.
A Medallion for the Arcists—and All of the Orders
As part of the crowdfunding campaign that funded the original Invisible Sun Black Cube, we offered a set of medallions representing the five vislae orders. (Four orders, really—makers, weavers, vances, and goetics—plus apostates.) These medallions are no longer available—they long ago sold out. But there are now six vislae orders (five, plus apostates). So let’s make a medallion for this new order! When we reach 1763 backers, we’ll reissue the Order Medallion Set, including a sixth medallion for the Arcists. Backers at THE BREADTH OF THE ACTUALITY (PRINT AND PDF) will get the new medallion added to their rewards automagically, and the complete set will be available as an add-on, offered at a special, backer-only price.
Here’s a look at the original set, along with a preliminary design for the Arcist order symbol.
And while we’re at it, as we do with every stretch goal, we’ll add a bonus reward for every backer: a reference bookmark for The Wellspring.
The Wellspring details locations, NPCs, creatures, and organizations from across Satyrine and the Actuality, each with interesting props and handouts to help create the full immersion for which Invisible Sun is legendary. It includes dozens of supporting props, a slipcase, spell cards, and more—all created to help you launch your Invisible Sun narrative.
A Wicked Key Showdown
Throughout this campaign you’ve helped us choose the designs for new wicked keys. A set of nine of these very cool metal keys are among the many rewards at THE BREADTH OF THE ACTUALITY pledge level. The set is also available as an add-on. These are the five designs you’ve chosen:
Some of the polls were very close, though! Let’s find out which of the unselected keys you like best. We’ve launched another poll in the comments with designs that, while garnering a lot of votes, just barely didn't make it. The set will probably not contain more than five unique designs (the original set had only four), but your vote will give us a backup design or an extra choice should we go with six or more designs.
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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