{"id":923,"date":"2013-11-22T16:19:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T00:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/?p=923"},"modified":"2013-11-22T16:19:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T00:19:57","slug":"nestalgia-pre-steam-fundraiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/nestalgia-pre-steam-fundraiser\/","title":{"rendered":"NEStalgia Pre-Steam Fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"8bitcoin\"Amid all of the craziness of trying to get the game ready for Steam<\/a>, one of the road blocks that I’m currently running into is a shortage of available funds for development. Part of that stems from putting aside projects that actually pay the bills in order to work on NEStalgia (which doesn’t\u00a0yet<\/em>\u00a0pay the bills)… but also because there are a lot of pre-release expenses piling up.<\/p>\n

Many of you have been incredibly generous with donations to our cause in the form of gift subscriptions or the purchase of custom guild capes in the past. I’m always receiving requests from players who are interested in paying for other types of vanity items, but I didn’t want things to get micro-transactiony.<\/p>\n

So, in what will hopefully be a win-win for everybody involved, I’m going to offer several different types of new vanity items, customization options, etc. for a very limited time. By “very limited time” I mean just a couple weeks, and that it will be the only time I’m ever going to do this. It is essentially a Kickstarter campaign, and if you want to make your mark on the game before it hits Steam, then now is your chance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Like the custom guild capes that we’ve offered before, none of the stuff on sale here is going to give anyone a gameplay advantage. Players who don’t donate during this fundraising campaign won’t be negatively impacted in any way (though they will see some new masks\/dyes\/costumes on other players that aren’t yet accessible).<\/p>\n

I’ve come up with the usual list of Kickstarter-esque donation options, but if you think of a cool option that isn’t on this list, then please share it in the comments. I’ve re-purposed the Put NEStalgia On Steam<\/strong> website for use in this fundraising campaign, so simply go to PutNEStalgiaOnSteam.com<\/a> to check it out the list:<\/p>\n

Put NEStalgia On Steam .com<\/a><\/h2>\n

Every donation helps and is greatly appreciated. Anyone who donates during this fundraising campaign will have their name permanently placed on a list of contributors in the game, and will be given full access to the eventual Key of the Exiles closed beta test.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The NEStalgia Pre-Steam Fundraiser starts right now and will end December 4th. As I said above, I won’t be extending this campaign nor offering anything like it ever again. Because we don’t have any sort of micro-transaction mechanism in the game, all of these items will need to be distributed manually, which we’ll work to do as quickly as possible. Thanks everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amid all of the craziness of trying to get the game ready for Steam, one of the road blocks that I’m currently running into is a shortage of available funds for development. Part of that stems from putting aside projects that actually pay the bills in order to work on NEStalgia (which doesn’t\u00a0yet\u00a0pay the bills)… […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":948,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions\/948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}