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- So it looks like the Kickstarter will be launching early next week. I’m still trying to come up with some cool rewards and incentives to offer this time. Some of the stuff we did last time… well, it didn’t work out so well or ended up costing a lot more than it brought in. So I thought I’d share some of my ideas this time and you could all tell me what you think. Keep in mind, the goal here is to generate as much money as possible. This isn’t a complete list, of course.Reward ideas:
- Mini print set. 3 new 8 x 5 color prints featuring brand new art. These are small enough to ship with the book but large enough to display.
- Season 2 Print + shirt. Last time the Season 1 print was a big hit. I ended up offering a shirt with the same image to people who contributed enough to get Chocodiles, but didn’t want them (usually for dietary reasons). This time i’d like to offer the shirt and the print together to anyone that wants it! the Season 2 print/shirt image is similar to Season 1, but a bit more badass. I think you’ll dig it.
- I thought it would be cool to offer custom user avatars. So I’d draw you (either the real you, or the you you want people to see) as a 6 x 6 illustration. You’d get the original art, plus digital versions that you could use as forum avatars, Facebook and Google+ Id’s or whatever LiveJournal user pics. Is Live Journal still around?
- I plan on offering some original art from Season 2.
- Write a strip! Is this a cool idea? You write a strip, I’ll draw it?
- A custom, hand drawn dust jacket for the Season 2 book. Really what this would be is a 6 x 25 inch piece of original, hand drawn and colored art. You could use it as a dust jacket or frame it or whatever.
So those are some of the new reward ideas. Here’s some of the stretch goals:
- More bonus comics. Just like last time, I’ll do 3 pages of extra comics for every $1000 we go over our goal. These comics will feature Jake (what’s he been up to?), Medus and Urano (from their adventures when Marah was passed out from the Ghost attack), the Snakes… who else? Who do you guys want to see in a comic?
- Medusa papercraft doll. My friend Tyler Tinsley has offered to produce a Medusa papercraft doll. Everyone will get one of these if we raise X amount of money.
- Pirate comics by Patrick Devine. Did you like the Pirate comic Patrick did the other day? We’ll get him to do a whole bunch more for the book if we raise X amount of money!
- A big bonus story. For the Season 1 book I did a big 10 page comic called Ghost Story, featuring the Ghost and Jake. For Season 2 I plan on doing a similar 10 page comic featuring another important character. If we raise enough money I’ll do an extra bonus 10 page comic as well. So that will be like 20 pages of extra comics!
So those are my ideas. What do you guys think?
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Also, I’ll be at Wonder NW in portland this weekend. Stop by and say hi!
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Comments: 9
Clovis15 [2012-05-26 20:33:45 +0000 UTC]
I thought long and hard about this for a while, and it dawned on me that one of the things I am most looking forward to right now is the upcoming "Magical Realm of Yeld" rule book. After that I wondered if there was someway that a pre-order bonus could somehow be bonus content for the upcoming RPG rule book, so how about a supplement for the upcoming Magical Realm of Yeld that gives stats for Medusa and Marah as playable caharacters (or at least stats so that the GM could have them guest star as NPCs during some sort of story sequence)? A number of the players in my RPG group are also fans of the comics, some of whom started reading it because of how much they liked our Mermaid Hunters test session.
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JakeRichmond In reply to Clovis15 [2012-05-28 22:09:40 +0000 UTC]
I'm totally into this idea, but I'd like to save it for the game Kickstarter in August.
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Clovis15 In reply to JakeRichmond [2012-05-28 22:49:30 +0000 UTC]
So the kickstarter for the rule book starts in August? Bummer, I was telling all of my players that August was supposed to be when the book finally comes out. I guess it's actually not going to be out until a while after that. Anyways, it's definitely a donation bonus that would get me excited no matter what it's used for.
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JakeRichmond In reply to Clovis15 [2012-05-28 23:43:53 +0000 UTC]
Yeah, sorry. We want to have the book out before the end of the year, so August is the likely Kickstarter date. However, we'll have a plain text version of the rules available as a minimum kickstarter reward that contributors will get as soon as the project is funded.
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Aseika [2012-05-26 04:03:01 +0000 UTC]
you know since medua likes DS have her do something with the 3d's streetpass game. thats one thats great for me. ya never know who's going to add to that game.
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JakeRichmond In reply to Aseika [2012-05-26 11:23:41 +0000 UTC]
neat idea. I'll look into it!
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Aseika In reply to JakeRichmond [2012-05-26 22:32:41 +0000 UTC]
ever since I've got my ds 3d that street pass game has been the best side game it has and I've been watching medusa and figured I'd throw that idea atchya
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Uncle-Ben [2012-05-25 19:34:15 +0000 UTC]
Is there a way to get book 1 because I flubbed on getting into that one (and didn't get anything)?
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JakeRichmond In reply to Uncle-Ben [2012-05-25 20:28:47 +0000 UTC]
Yes! You can order it from my store: [link]
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