The Wyrd of Stromgard has Successfully Funded!

Thanks to a whole bunch of amazing backers, the Wyrd of Stromgard wrapped up a successful Kickstarter this month which means the project can move on to it's production phase! Yay!.

Here's a look at the vital stats for the Kickstarter:

• 204 total backers
• $6291 raised
• 157% funded

If you missed the Kickstarter, you can still pre-order the book over at our Itch.io page!

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Stromgard's Kickstarter Campaign Ends December 13!

If you haven't been following, our Dungeon World expansion, the Wyrd of Stromgard, hit its funding goal just a few days into the Kickstarter campaign! Now, the campaign is wrapping up and we're hoping for one last push before we move onto the production phase of this project. If you haven't backed us yet, you can check out the Stromgard page here on our site, or check out the campaign page over on Kickstarter.

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The Wyrd of Stromgard is Launching THIS WEEK

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Coming to a fancy smartphone near you!

We've recently started to clean up Nice Bowling to look and run better on mobile phones for eventual release on the Android and Apple markets. We've made a lot of aesthetic changes to keep things simple and clean in their execution including breaking up the score card, adding touch controls and helpful animations, as well as refined out Nice! effects even more. Please look forward to it and sign up for our mailing list to keep up with the latest! If you would like to help beta test the release click here.

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We strongly believe that games should be for everyone and after watching Mark Brown's Youtube series on accessibility, we decided to run Nice Bowling through several color tests in order to improve the look and usability for people with varying types of color blindness as well as add multiple new audio adjustment settings for those with hearing issues or sensitivities.

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With both of us still learning the ropes with both 2D and 3D animation, sometimes we end up relying on clever tricks to workaround the deficit in our experience. We could have individually animated the rotation and trajectory on every single pin for the opening scene but it seemed immense and daunting to try and attempt it that way. Instead we set up an invisible lane inside invisible walls and throw an invisible ball. The splash screen with our logo masks the beginning of the process and opens at just the right moment where the most pins are spinning around and generally being chaotic. Also, this means that the 'animation' is a little different each time you start the game!

We posted about this 'workaround' over on Reddit and the discussion it prompted was super informative. Check it out here in all its glory.
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A quick update...

We spent the last week cleaning up assets mostly, in addition to some minor tweaks and adjustments to things like camera stability and some special ball functions.

This mostly entailed trying to find exciting ways to make all the aspects of Nice Bowling really fit into that 80's retro look we're trying so hard to maintain!

We're still looking for testers too, so if you're interested in playtesting dev builds of Nice Bowling, click here!

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Nice Bowling's New Home!

It's been a wait but we finally have a sleek new lander page for all of our Nice Bowling development and media to be on. Bask in its eclectic 80's aesthetic, sample it's retro/chillwave OST, check out some screencaps of features we're working on, or even peep some videos to see the game in action.

Check back often for updates as we move on with development!

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