Pledge Manager Out and Rolling!
about 5 years ago – Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 11:30:59 PM

In case you haven't gotten the email, the Pledge Manager for Guardians is up and rolling finally!

The Details

So the pledge manager is alive and has a few items we want to discuss:

• The Pricing. For now, the pricing will remain what it was on the Kickstarter. We are only doing this because for whatever reason some 30 pledges were dropped because of card failures or other reasons, and we wanted to give those that supported us during the Kickstarter the chance to get those prices as well. The pricing will be going up to near retail levels on March 15th 2019. So if you are one of those dropped folks, get in now. 
• The Add-Ons. You can add in additional Guardians sets, as well as the Battallion Expansion if you missed it during the Kickstarter. The Deluxe Play Mat is in the Pledge Manager as well, and measures at 14 x 28 Inches. We will be showing the final mat graphic below now that the machines are set up to stitch and finish them.  The pricing for all add-ons will also be raised and changed on March 15th 2019. 
• The Duration. The Pledge Manager right now will be open until March 31st 2019 at 11:59 PM Central Standard Time. As for why, we need accurate counts and we need them fast. Why? Well, we cannot get into that quite yet, but suffice it to say, we need to get everyone nailed down as soon as possible!
• Address Changes and Pledge Changes. We will be locking things down as soon as we can, so, should you find your Backerkit locked down, by all means email us at [email protected] and we will take care of your address and pledge changes as needed.

So we hope that answers some of the questions about the pledge manager, and we want to discuss a few things we have been working on behind the scenes. 

Development Updates

• The team has been balancing small details post kickstarter. Like removing the pips altogether, and focusing on the dice and abilities themselves, then submitting the game to about 50 blind tests since November in other countries.
• Though not a development of the game mechanisms topic, ALL of the cards have been changed to Poker Sized Cards, to accommodate a simpler publishing list, as well as because we had a little extra funding. This meant that all of the Threats and Villagers could be increased in size and have their cards re-evaluated. This also lead to increases in the following; the font of everything was increased by 1-2 points, the non-keyword special text was clarified, the victory points were increased in size both in numerical value and its icon. 
• The Cards have all seen rewording, revaluing and just polish over the last months. 

Anyways, that is a good amount of Development Updates for this one, there will be more to come though as we work to push this thing forward and into your homes!

All the spaces have been increased for spacing, as well as the re-titled Marketplace in the bottom. If you saw the video posted in an earlier update, you know the quality our printer is crafting these with so they are gonna have a sheen that looks so pretty your eyes will pop out of your head!

That's all we have for today, more development updates to come in the following weeks, just know we are smooth sailing thus far and its been a fun and amazing ride thus far :D We would be remiss though to not encourage all of you to give a look and any support you can to our latest Kickstarter effort, seen below;

The campaign is just 24 dollars and all of us here at KLTG would appreciate you help making the game, whether it's pledging 24 or 1 dollar, as well as sharing the campaign. You all have helped us make Kickstarter one of the greatest, most fun communities to be a part of! 

Live Play Tonight
over 5 years ago – Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 09:59:17 PM

Join Ben and Chris as they Live Play tonight!

And you can always catch it after the fact, on Youtube!

Live Stream and General Update
over 5 years ago – Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 12:59:03 AM

Exciting update day!

Ben, Ben and Chris will be rocking a live stream on Monday night for you all :D I am sure they will have a challenging event combination setup for you all but either way, it's going to be fun. Should be around 6 PM Monday night? Sometime right around then. We will post an update with the stream link Monday when it's happening, but the easiest way is to simply tune it at the time on our Twitch Channel.

So Productions Updates!

As everyone saw with Ben's Unveiling of the new stitched Play Mats, we are already done with production on one part of our goal for this game! 

Where is the core game, well, we are finishing up the final edits before the end of Chinese New Year so we can begin production around that time.  

Rulebook edits are being finalized, and it too will be in the next substantial update. 

Overall, things are progressing really well and we are very excited!

Pledge Manager

Now that we have the shipping rates in from all of our partners, we will be dropping the pledge manager in the next week. Could be sooner if they ok everything swiftly! We will be using a private partner, essentially a new KLTG Team Member in the EU as well as part of the Oceanic Area, and VFI.

When it goes out, we will be ready to answer any questions you have :) Should be a simple pledge manager though, simply allowing you to add extra copies, add play mats and pay for shipping! 

We cannot wait to talk to you during the live stream and we hope you join the guys and shoot questions you have to them!

Well.... Now the real work begins!
over 5 years ago – Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 09:03:40 PM

So here we go fellow Guardians!!!

That's right, the first and easiest part of the samples are here, just a few weeks post Kickstarter!

This is incredibly important to us because it shows you how much this team has grown, in size and experience since Tabula Rasa launched! We have learned so many things about our production schedules and how to manage and pace them correctly, and as you can see here, the work done on this sleek mat are amazing!

So what else can expect?

Well, we like to keep everyone updated about once a month, though all of us check the comments nearly daily, so if you have anything, feel free to sound off! Even if it is just to check in on where we are or how our weekends were :)

The next thing we will begin doing now that editing is done, is work on the game itself! 

So you can expect to hear from us in early to mid January as to that progress and us opening the pledge manager for you all. If you are a backer of Alphas, you know we are working on new shipping partners and plans, because the queues that ShipNaked has just don't fit with the timelines we want to move on in the future. But don't worry, this won't cost you guys anything beyond what was predicted :D 

Anyways, we hope this playmat update holds you over the Holidays, until then Guardians, we hope the season treats you all well and we cannot wait to talk with you next about our progress!

Celebration Time!
over 5 years ago – Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 12:13:52 PM

We did it! We knew that even in this hyper competitive market your support could carry us over the finish line!

You will have noticed this on the front of the campaign, and if you give us until Friday... or Monday if the Holiday here in the US is really tiring, we will have our pledge manager planned out date/timeline wise, as well as our plans for what comes next :D

We want to thank our backers from Tabula Rasa and Alphas, and for any entering contests, we will be announcing and keeping an eye on those as things finalize. 

You all have been amazing and expect a Post Thanksgiving Holiday Update from us with all that information :D