Most games have some sort of paddling-pool-and-water-wings beginning to ease you in: Oolite takes the rather more Darwinian approach of heaving you straight into the ocean, often with a brick or two in your pockets for luck. ~ Disembodied
Folks - Now that it is finished I can reveal the following:
Pledgers direct from here (ie. the Oolite BB) contributed 5.98% of the total pledges. That's £421. This was also the biggest individual category of websites feeding into my KS page.
There were a bunch of recognisable names that also pledged from my emails, tweets and facebook updates, at around £250.
So you folks can be heartily proud of yourselves for being responsible for around 10% of the funding for Elite:Reclamation, and what's more - most of that arrived on day 1, which demonstrated a huge amount of faith in me and my writing.
Genuinely delighted and touched by the support. You're all fabulous.
That's good to know - and also means that 90% of your funding was generated from people who may not have directly know who you were at the start of the KS - I think this perhaps says even more.
Looking forward to your novel, Drew. Started writing yet?
Author of Tales from the Frontier - official Elite 4 anthology.
Author of Marcan Rayger adventures - unofficial fan-fic novellas set in the Frontier universe.
Congratulations Drew! Can't wait to read the book! and thank you also for running a fantastic kickstarter campain and being a brilliant common sense/good vibes generator over on the E:D kickstarter comments section back when it was going through some bizzare and dark times a few weeks ago
Yup, the anger surprised me as well - and it is still out there: I noticed some hostile comments to the latest media articles as well.
Author of Tales from the Frontier - official Elite 4 anthology.
Author of Marcan Rayger adventures - unofficial fan-fic novellas set in the Frontier universe.
Indeed, your campaign was fantastic! I haven't seen another kickstarter with so many updates in so many places--well done and all the best for writing the book!