Final Day Livestream, FS + Fablecraft RPG, and Next Steps
about 1 year ago – Mon, May 01, 2023 at 02:05:15 PM

Final Day Livestream

Join us starting at 5pm CDT until the end of the campaign while we play Fractured Sky, answer questions, and celebrate with all of you! You'll find the link to the YouTube livestream just below.

A Fractured Sky RPG?

We're not launching a Fractured Sky RPG (yet...), but we did cobble together an adventure filled one-shot and played it on the brand new Fablecraft digital RPG platform. We've had the pleasure of being friends with the Fablecraft team for awhile now and wanted to get hands on with their system. A few members of their team travelled to Nashville and joined us in the studio on a journey through the skies to the Frosty Fjords. 

It was an incredibly fun way to explore the lore of Fractured Sky. We hope you enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed living it.

Squawk!

What to expect after the end of the campaign

Our next step is the pledge manager! If you're newer to crowdfunding, the pledge manager is simply an website outside of Kickstarter that we use to collect and manage all of the information we need to get your pledge to your home. It's also the place where you can add add-ons and additional games to your pledge.

Email from BackerKit

You will get an email this week from Backerkit inviting you to complete your pledge, which means adding your address and paying for shipping (and VAT in applicable countries). You will also be able to add on additional games, accessories, and Fractured Sky merch during this process.

The pledge manager will be open until the end of May. After May, you will still be able to complete your pledge, but some items will no longer be available as add-ons.

We will be sending another update with more detailed instructions when the pledge manager goes live.

Errored Pledges

Occassionally payments are declined when Kickstarter attempts to process your pledge. If you payment is declined, you will receive an email from Kickstarter every 48 hours this week until it is fixed. If not fixed by Saturday evening, then your pledge will be abandoned.

If you used APPLE PAY and don't have an email on your account, please email us at [email protected] so we can invite you to the pledge manager. If you don't receive an email invite to the pledge manager, this is likely the reason.

$1,000,000 Raised, All Starfall Rewards Unlocked, and Solo Gameplay!
about 1 year ago – Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 05:42:17 PM

$1,000,000 Raised 🤯

Ya'll are the best.

All Starfall Rewards Unlocked

Congratulations hunters, the Metal Starfall tokens will now be 50% off in the pledge manager!

You have unlocked all of the Rewards, but the pursuit of glory remains. There's still puzzles to be solved that will immortalize your name in the rulebook.

Starfall Hunt Update

The final clues will go live at 10:00am CDT on Monday! 

A quick update on the remaining puzzles:

Ludicrous Leverage's puzzle is now available for the community to do virtually here!

Agreeable Ambassador's puzzle was findable in the wild, but the final image was not correct. Here it is for Monday!

Solo Mode Gameplay with Austin

Austin takes on Jerry and Gary in TTS to showcase the solo mode. Both solo and 2-player components will be included with the game, we just used TTS to make it faster!

2 Player Play Through, New Art Print Unlocked, and New Painted Mini Photos!
about 1 year ago – Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 02:34:08 PM

THERE'S OVER 8000 OF YOU!!!

We've said it before and we'll say it again—you all are amazing. Thank you so much for your support.

We have a few goodies to share with you today. You can watch Austin and Zac battle artificial intelligence in a 2-player gameplay of Fractured Sky. We have new painted mini samples (they look basically identical to the old sample, but we took more pictures anyway!). And you've unlocked another reward in the hunt for Starfalls 💫.

2-Player Gameplay

Can Zac and Austin take down Jerry (the AI)? Watch the new 2p gameplay on YouTube. The solo and duo variant was designed by the legendary solo-mode team of David Turczi, Nick Shaw, and David Digby.

ALSO, we will have a 1 & 2 player how to play video coming out at some point, but likely not before the end of the campaign.

 The solo variant plays very similarly and we will be sharing a solo gameplay in the next update, so stay tuned. 

New Painted Minis Samples

We got the new samples of our painted miniatures from Panda and are so excited to show them to you. These are a great representation of what you can expect from the final production versions!

We can't stop drooling 🤤 

New Art Print Unlocked

We are nearing the end of the Starfall Hunt and the seekers have done an incredible job. In fact, if the campaign crosses $1,000,000 you will have unlocked all of the rewards.

You just unlocked the last art print, check it out!

Dice Tower Spring Spectacular, New Art Print Unlocked, and Starfall Hunt Round 3 on Friday!
about 1 year ago – Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 03:51:56 PM

A Quick Update

We are down to just 12 days left on the campaign! Here are a couple of housekeeping updates to answer some of your common questions:

• We will be shooting solo and 2 player content this week to share with you next week. 
• We are waiting on another round of samples from Panda for the deluxe painted minis, but we will be sharing more images likely next week!
• Moonrakers Titan and Add-ons will be available in the pledge manager (but not Veiled Fate and Mythic Mischief).
• Lenticular card packs are per game ordered, not per order.

Spring Spectacular

We had another showdown with The Dice Tower yesterday! Austin went down to their studio this time to face off against Mike Dilisio, Camilla Cleghorn, and Bryan Drake.

New Art Print Unlocked

The clever Starfall hunters have unlocked another art print! Only 9 more Starfalls are needed to unlock all of the rewards.

Starfall Hunt Round 3 Begins Friday

Some of you have requested notice of when the next puzzles would go live so you could have a fair shot at competing to unlock them. We thought this was a fair request, so the next puzzles will go live on the page at 2:00 pm central time on Friday! We may or may not post an update at that time, but the puzzle graphics will update.

Hunt Update & Gameplay Spotlight
about 1 year ago – Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 05:47:10 PM

Gameplay Spotlight

Watch Becca Scott, Paula Deming, Shea Parker, and Banzainator play a game of Fractured Sky. Special mention to the Good Time Society set designers—they deserve an award.

Starfall Hunt - Conquered Cold Solution

The Starfall Hunt continues into Round 2 today, and we wanted to give observers some insight into how another Starfall was found. Today we’re talking about Conquered Cold, found by Toby Court.

The Conquered Cold clue showed a star icon and a grid of dots above it.

First, the dot grid may have reminded keen eyes of the “glyph grid” map on the page. Then, star symbols matching the one on the Conquered Cold clue are spread throughout the Kickstarter page, surrounded by rows of additional glyph letters.

To solve the puzzle Toby Court matched these glyph rows to sections of letters inside the glyph grid on the page. The star icon in each row covers a letter of the solution to the puzzle.

From there, all Toby had to do was find all of the letters to unlock the final clue: “Farewell”.

Hunt for the Starfalls Round 2 is live!

Hunters, you have successfully found all of round 1's Starfalls and we have just posted the clues for round 2. Best of luck in your search, you are halfway to the final rewards already!

New Submission Rule

We have decided to institute a 3-guess rule per person per day in the comments section. This is to cut down on the overall number of comments on the page and to also to cut down on random or "brute force" guesses.

New Starfall Rewards

We are thrilled that so many of you have been hunting for the Starfalls, you've unlocked 2 new art prints since the last update, nice work!