Looking Back at Essen Spiel '22 & Kickstarter Exclusive Campaign introduction
over 3 years ago – Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 11:27:19 PM

Hello Survivors,

we have recently come back from the Essen Spiel '22 and would like to thank everyone who visited our booth, tried the game, or just said hello. It was an amazing event and a pleasure to meet some of you in person. As some of you have already started sending posts about your experience, we would like to encourage the rest of you to send your opinion, what did you like the most, how was your experience, etc. We are looking forward to your feedback.

Kickstarter Exclusive Campaign Introduction 

As we promised last week we would like to give you more information about the Kickstarter Exclusive campaign. We are now preparing the update, which should be published this Thursday and will contain all the detailed information about the campaign. Anyways, here is a little introduction.

The exclusive campaign will contain about 20-30 smaller scenarios that should take about 30-50 min each. Scenarios are designed to be smaller than in an original rulebook that allows us to create a rich tree of options on how you can go through the whole campaign. In each scenario players are facing the main event they are trying to accomplish. If they succeed they go to the next scenario in the row if not, they have to choose a different path. At the end of each scenario, some game parts might be changed which will affect the next scenarios, so the decision made during each scenario affects others.

For example, one of your leaders has been imprisoned and you have an option to rescue him. If you succeed you gain that leader card and its unique abilities for the rest of the campaign and if not, your morale will drop down and each player will receive some negative effect for the rest of the campaign. You can always skip the scenario if you want that gives you more time to accomplish the next scenario, but you will suffer consequences.

The campaign itself will contain a booklet, up to 30 new cards, and maybe other components such as Tokens, Additional player action overlays (to manipulate with Additional player actions during the campaign), etc. We will reveal more detail during the next update.

New Written Reviews

The game slowly reached other reviewers to spread the word about the game.

Board Game Quest

Board's Eye View

Stepan

Essen Spiel '22
over 3 years ago – Wed, Oct 05, 2022 at 08:25:03 PM

Dear Survivors,

even though the wave of invaders seems strong, the campaign still growing and we are about 60% funded during the first week.

This week we will be at the Essen Spiel '22 fair presenting our game and talking with distributors about possible localizations. You can expect the full report the next week when we returned home. If you will attend the Spiel pass by, try the game, or at least say hello. We would like to meet you in person. 

Stay away from the radiation,

Stepan

New Recruiter Pledge Level
over 3 years ago – Wed, Oct 05, 2022 at 03:04:12 AM

Hello Backers,

we updated the Kickstarter page and added a new Base Pledge Level "Recruiter" to be transparent about the content of all pledge levels.

We were not fully transparent about the content of the exclusive campaign. It brings a lot of new content to the game (extra cards, booklet, components, etc.) and it costs a lot to produce. That is why the price point of the previous base pledge was a bit higher. It was the reason why we added this new pledge level to allow people to back the game for a lower price without needing to pay anything extra.

We wanted to make it a surprise for you during the campaign, but maybe it was not the best decision and we want to fix it. We will reveal the content of the exclusive campaign during the next week so you know what you can expect.

We apologize for any inconvenience,

Stepan

The First Day of the Invasion is over!
over 3 years ago – Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 08:31:48 PM

Hello Backers,

First, I would like to thank you for supporting us on this journey. The campaign has raised 40% during the first day and this is a solid start even though we think we might get a better start. But we are honest with our funding goal which makes it a bit harder against other big projects currently on Kickstarter. But we hope we will make this game reality together.

Stretch Goal #2

Despite the slower start, another stretch goal has been unlocked as we reached more than 2000 followers on the campaign.

Spread the Word

The first platform with invaders landed on Earth and we need more recruiters to survive. If you can, share the project across your social network to help the project grow. Your contribution will not be forgotten. 

New Game Mode - Team Fight

In the meantime, we are working on updating the rulebook by adding a new game mode to the game.  The Team Fight is a combination of cooperative and competitive modes where two teams of players are fighting against each other. Teammates can help each other the same way as in the cooperative mode but fight against another team similar to the basic competitive mode.  We hope you will find this mode fun.

Is there something you would like to know about the game? Share your questions in the main comments on the campaign so we can discuss them.

Thank you for being with us,

Stepan