You did it! You really did it! AdventureQuest 3D is happening!
What an incredible way to start our New Year of adventure together. Including Kickstarter ($368,503) and Paypal ($34,265), our final total is a colossal $402,768. ALSO, you have gotten AdventureQuest 3D greenlit on Steam and unlocked ALL of the posted Stretch Goals! Absolutely amazing! Way to go everyone!
On behalf of the entire Artix Entertainment team, thank you. This is all because of you and our amazing community. As a direct result of successful support on this campaign, we will now be able to finish building and deliver AdventureQuest 3D. Thank you for seeing the potential of this project. Most of all, thank you for giving us the opportunity to build this amazing cross-platform, massively multiplayer game for you. As a Backer/Founder, we invite you to join us as we build it!
It is the 1st day of 2016. There is little time for celebration, we have a lot of game-making to do!
AdventureQuest 3D is not complete yet. As you know, the goal of this Kickstarter was to raise funds so that we could pay for the servers, bandwidth, team, software and other costs to finish AdventureQuest 3D over the next 6 months. The official Kickstarter page has an estimated delivery date of July, but we are over-achievers and will move things along as fast as possible for you. For example, if you got early access, then you will be able to join us in the Pre-Beta which is starting this month! By funding this project you empowered us to build the following:
Cross-Platform (PC/Mac/Android/Apple iOS… more to come)
Persistent Online World
Real-Time Combat
PvP Arena - Player vs Player
Chat & Emotes
Multi-Class System
Weapon & Item Fusion
Crafting Solo
2-player and Large group sized adventures
Summon / Teleport to Friends
“Sidekick” your friends to your level
Self-Cleaning game to free up space on your mobile device
Evolving World & Storyline through regular updates (It’s kinda our thing)
"You got us on Steam!!!"
Steam is the #1 PC & Mac video game content delivery system in the world. When we asked you and the community to help Greenlight us on Steam, we never imagined we would quickly become the #4 game out of the thousands of games submitted there! We were approved within an hour of reaching our base Kickstarter goal. It was one of the most exciting moments of our game making careers. WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A GAME ON STEAM! Since then, we already have a dev-only version of AdventureQuest 3D running on it with full Steam feature support-- including Steam voice chat, friends, and the ability to use Steam achievements. Keep watch on the www.AQ3D.com website for news when you will be able to use your Early Access to get in on this!
You and the community exceeded our funding goal, and unlocked stretch goals adding even MORE features to the game’s deliverable list! Of course, some stretch goal features might take a bit longer than July to get built into the game.
Backer Starting Potions Doubled
Twilly & Zorbak (and other Moglin) NPCs to be in game
Daily Login Rewards
Exploration Achievements
Daily Boss Dungeons Pets
Interactive World Effects! (Traps, Environmental Effects, Special Boss Fights.)
Credits listing all of the Backer’s (Thank you!)
BONUS! Also, you unlocked the stealth Stretch Goal “Player Voted Emotes.” Head on over to the official post to suggest emotes. We will be put all of the best ones in a large list that the community will vote on. We are all excited (and somewhat terrified) to see what you choose!
We are in the development of AdventureQuest 3D for the long haul. Sure, there is a lot on our immediate to-do list, but we have been brainstorming about the future with you too.
Item Trade / Auction House
Player Owned Houses
Mounts
and a lot more…
We know a lot of you have never backed a Kickstarter before, so I would like to explain what happens to your pledge and how we manage the 4,900+ Backer accounts.
KICKSTARTER
Kickstarter begins collecting payment
Starting today, Kickstarter will begin charging your pledge on your credit card. But it may take a FEW WEEKS for them to process all 4K+ backers. If there is a problem charging your account, you will receive an email and have a couple weeks to work it out.
How to get your rewards
NEXT WEEK (Jan 4-8, 2016) we will email you a survey through Kickstarter to get your info so you can start receiving your rewards as we create them.
Custom Weapons, NPCs, Adventure Designers
If you pledged at the Create a Custom Weapon or above tier, there will be additional questions in the survey about how you would like us to contact you.
Pre-Register your AdventureQuest 3D Account
If you do not already have an AdventureQuest 3D account, please pre-register atwww.AQ3D.com
Need Help?
If you are having any problems with your AdventureQuest 3D account, please go towww.AQ3D.com/Help
Behind the scenes
I know some people like to know technically what is going on behind the scenes. Kickstarter gives us a list of backers who completed their forms and payment. Then we use that list to update the AdventureQuest 3D database to give your account the badges. The badges indicate which rewards you will get. As you probably guessed, we have to manually run that update which is why this does not happen instantly. We will do it frequently. If we run into any problems with your account, we will contact you and help fix it!
KICKSTARTER EXTENSION (Paypal / Artix Points / Xsolla)
If you backed us through the Kickstarter Extension on http://Account.AQ3D.com, then your payment has already been processed.
Rewards will be delivered at the same time the people who pledged on Kickstarter.
Cross-Game Rewards & Credits
I will let you when we start emailing out the form/survey next week by posting here, on the game's website, Facebook, Twitter... and, well, pretty much everywhere! And even if you somehow miss it, do not worry -- we will make sure you get setup! You backed us, and we will always have your back too. Meanwhile, we are finishing the new characters pages. The Character pages will display all of your badges and upcoming classes so you will immediately be able to see your coming rewards. Also, we are getting the Pre-Beta ready so you can start using that Early Access. That is, if you are brave enough to play a REALLY early version of the game while we continue build it for you. Keep an eye on the official www.AQ3D.com website. I will be posting news for you there extremely frequently.
Some people only find out about the Kickstarter AFTER it is already over. It is no longer possible to get the Kickstarter-only exclusives. Those perks are now officially perma-rare. But it is still possible to become a Founder, get Guardian and qualify for Early Access at http://Account.AQ3D.com
It took everyone to spread the word and make this happen. For getting over 6,000 shares and retweets of the launch posts on Twitter, Dage designed an INSANE new sword for the three games that inspired this one. It will become available later this month in AQWorlds, DragonFable and the original AdventureQuest (Probably at the same time Pre-Beta starts) for all players and it will be upgradable to it's incredible final form. Way to go guys!
As I write this with a heart full of gratitude, it is the first morning of 2016. Backers and Founders of AdventureQuest 3D-- there are not enough ways to say thank you for all that you have done for this new game and the future of our game studio. We are going to have to invent a brand-new way of saying thank you just for you guys, but until then, please allow us say, from the bottom of our hearts, thank you for sharing our vision. Thank you for being a part of this. The team and I are looking forward to questing beside you from our phones, tablets, PC or Mac in AdventureQuest 3D!
2016 is going to be our video game community's greatest year ever. Now... it is time to get to work! Our New Year's resolution is the singular goal of making the greatest, cross-platform, MMORPG in the world for you. Please join us in every step of this exciting journey together.
Battle On!
Our Dev Team’s Oath of the Black Watch (Game of Thrones parody by Alina)
We shall take no sleep, enjoy no vacations, slay no windows. We shall wear no crowns and seek no other glory. We shall rise and fall at our monitors.
We are the guardians of the new world.
We are the designers of dreams.
We are the artists that capture the light.
The coders that evolve the matrix.
The writers that craft the legends
The animators that call forth life.
We pledge our lives and honor to creating AdventureQuest 3D for the the upcoming beta release and for all the releases to come!
Pre-Register at www.AQ3D.com
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Help others with the information you learned here.
Do everything in your power to encourage, guide, and support the team as we take AdventureQuest 3D to completion!
Next week we will email all backers of this project a form/survey through Kickstarter. This is how we will get your info and start delivering the rewards to you as we created them.
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