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I CANT WAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTT

LET ME GIVE YOU MY MONEY NOW!

Also, thank you Team Sauropod for completing this awesome product.
Merci mes Tbnk, et salut de Gatineau!

Excuse me while I go tell everyone I know to get their money ready :D

Bravo les gars! Cest super votre jeu!

Wooyeah!! *peed*
Dammit over excited

SHUT UP AND TAKE MAH MONEY!!! VOS YEULE JVEUX VOUS INONDER DE CA$H… Sérieusement, vous allez probablement avoir assez d’argent pour devenir le nouveau Mojang…

You should set the countdown time to a UTC time stamp. The Countdown shows 10am in Europe, too.

Jens

Why wait a week to release the kickstarter? You should have known all along that you would have an increase in traffic. However your increase might not be as many as u think as most people will just watch the trailer on kickstarter. Also do you think releasing the kickstarter on a friday is a good idea? Wouldn’t you want to release it on a monday when more people are sitting at computers instead of out living life? More people at computers means more people talking and reposting and spreading the kickstarter…

Can’t wait for the kickstarter! Woo!

How splendidly exciting, I have been watching the gradual progression of this game for some time now and simply can not wait to throw some money at it, I have supported developers in the past and some cracking games have been released from them :) Now its the folks at Sauropod’s turn, Can’t wait for the Beta release too, A very exciting prospect indeed!

Best Wishes too all who are equally as excited and to the developers themselves
Bentley

Well since it all goes great now, have you though about piracy? Like you gonna do something or so?

I’ve been checking your website daily to see updates / news on the kickstarter campaign. I love the idea you guys have for your game and I am already convinced it’s going to be hugely successful! I can’t wait to throw some money at you to help you with your project!

best of luck in the future guys!

Every day I searched Kickstarter’s website for “Castle Story” but now I have a definite countdown, Thanks!

YOU ARE THE BESTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT “”"FUCK THE REST”":D:D!!!!!!!!

The game looks great! Can’t wait for the Kickstarter, TAKE ALL MY MONEYS!

The game gets released on my birthday, this is awsome!

My name says all.

WOAH! You guys have been working so hard and keeping us so updated…and now it’s almost time. Can’t wait to see what you guys did with the kickstarter video and hope you’re immensely successful. (Now I need to go get a kickstarter account).
I wish you even more luck in the coming months!
-Ben

I want you to know, that people from Ukraine (like me) waiting for this game too!!!

So whens the video coming? Hope it’s before the kickstarter, super excited myself but want moar to go on. Plus it would be good to get the drumms going a day or two early :).

For a long time now I have been playing games like the 4 from firefly studios and one like mojamg to build my castles and defend them. One had great building but no real attackers. The other had both but was poorly put together really. Castle Story looks like a smoothe blend between Castle Building and strategy, a combination that has me very excited. I personally feel that this game has a lot of potential, potential to be even more then “just an indie game” as some have said. I will definitely donate to this game because I believe this will only be the start of something bigger. And bigger is saying a lot considered how great this game will be.

I wish you the best of luck with your development!

P.S. Would there be anything that would pursuade me to go out and expand from an already rock solid castle in the later game?

what so when the kickstarter timer ends the game is released??

If there is ever a Beta/Alpha access, i’m in..

WOOO! I don’t know what kickstarter is, but I guess its like a demo..
Will the ‘demo’ have multi-player? (I’ve typed this so many times, I think I forgot something….)

Yay, the kickstarter begins on my b-day! Best present ever :3 Thanks guys!

I think they said in a earliar post maybe a comment that there would be access to the prototybe(curent version)

Yea good job with getting the game done so far, i think u guys will be even more succesfull then minecraft.

greetz from Edward :D

Can’t wait. <3

congrats guys, will be supporting.

If you get some sort of beta acces if you kickstart it then I am in otherwise I have to wait a bit,
low on money so i need to get direct value for money =/

Oh My God, that’s soooo Über cool…. let’s go see what happen on Kickstarter…

I’ve been keeping tabs on Castle Story for quite some time now! Keep up the amazing work Team. You definitely deserve all the same kind of attention that Minecraft does! :)

I just realised, assuming their campaign works like most Kickstarter ones, that I am getting excited about a countdown to a month long fundraiser for an indefinite development cycle leading to an actual product…

Getting excited anyway.

WHYYYYYY!!!!!!!

Why did you just have to release it the single day i have absolutely no time this week :S

So my timer at work says 1 d 23 hours left to go.

The timer when I open this site at my home computer says 23 hours only to go! I wish that one was the real timer :P

Did you do the Countdown with iWeb?

Are we going to be able to farm in this game?!

I want to grow wheat, barley, corn, and tobbacco.

Pourra-t-on acheter le jeu sur kickstarter ou devrons-nous attendre encore un peu?

I have no idea what’s going on, but I can’t find your game on Kickstarter. Nor do you have a link to it there, just a timer and link to their FAQ :|

I’m pretty darn sure I saw it there some time ago, but searching Now is giving me absolutely no relevant results.

Hey the countdown finished and I can’t find the game! What’s going on?

Thanks Inigo, I just realized now that my computer was one day in advance! Changing it now -_-’

Oh my god… I… I can’t beleive its coming out, shame im going to have to be at camp. Still I am so glad you guys are releasin it and I hope god is sent from heaven and gives you million dollars when 15000 rainbows are across the sky when the sun is setting and the moon is setting!!

i guess the trailer is coming out with the kickstarter i was hoping to see the trailer one day in advance so everyone can get prepared for the game.

6 hours to go!

Hey guys i think a Thing for the housing of bricktrons could be Making the structures of The shelter to fit The Substantial and specific living space so every house can be built by you but can look different each time. There could also be varied town buildings to make A thriving castle And Amuch fun game than building and defending there could be upgrading and Expanding. As The game improves you could at an option for a “Small world” and expanding rather than a big floating island setting we could choose a normal world thanks for your time and hope you like these This is just a maybe as it improves… Keep up the good work on it and maybe Once a month Have a Q&A on what would be implemented as it goes on … :)

2 and a half hours to go! Will it happen exactly then or is that just an estimate?

How much it will cost ?

Am I actually watching this countdown? Yes…yes I am.

3590 $ in 5 minutes!!

I want to pledge badly but I´m only 17 years old and due to that I don´t have a credit card…
Does someone have an idea how i can pledge?
Like paysafecard or with a girocard?

half an hour, 16% of the way there… so at this rate, it’ll be 230% funded :p i know this is just the initial boost but its nice to dream :)

Finally! I got so excited seeing the enemies attacking, throwing rocks, breaking down doors. I’m so excited for this game and I can’t wait!

This is going to be nuts! And it’s already at 23 percent!

Wow 50% or 40,000$ out of 80,000$ this is going nuts they may reach 500%.

If I buy the 25$ package and I’m using a MAC will I be able to get the game later on PC? I’m not really expecting the beta but I would expect both the game at release and future expansions (Says free future updates) for both systems.

Grazi.

Please reply before I can’t donate anymore (does it end when it reaches 80,000?)

Thank you.

SO CLOSE. 74 THOUSAND!

I’m going to attempt to get a screenshot of 80,000, or at least very close.

77,000, almost there!

Already over 80,000

We did it. <3

I got a screenshot of $79,999 too!

http://i49.tinypic.com/zad6q.png – picture of victory. <3333

Good job guys you did it. ;)

Congratulations on reaching your goal, now give us that game!!!!!! :D Cheers guys!

So, at the end it will be what?..3-400% over maybe?.. Guess they got one hell of a funding for the Beta :P

Wow, congrats on making your goal so quick! Game looks awesome!

lol, they reached the goal even before they managed to update the blog… So much win here.

Congrats on passing your goal in less than three hours! Its gonna be Fuckin’ amazing!

Damnit… wanted to make a Screenshot of the 100.000$… missed it, because it suddenly jumped about 500$ to 100.231 dollars! Congrats guys, you deserve it!

(PS: First to post 100000!!! :D lol)

If we throw more and more money at the screen, will the game come out sooner :D i want it :p i can’t wait a month for the prototype lol congrats on one of the fastest meeting of funding goals yet, this rate of funding will probably not see a too significant drop over the next 12-24 hours I expect…

Hello wich day is the last day to pay you on the kickstarter?
Please answer i realy want to now

it s amazing!
120 000$- 7 hours!!!

I think they need to put lots of names in this game.
2180 Backers who pledged 25$…
And everyone of them gets his/her name in the game ;)

Wow!! Pledged this morning, got back home this evening to see $ 230,000 funded!!! I thought it was a joke at first! Thank goodness it’s real! You guys have worked so hard, you deserve this!! Time to pop open the champagne,or beer,or whatever; just celebrate!! :)

On a scale of 1 to 10. How would you rate the amount of donations so far.

1 being not shocked at all.

5 being very pleased and somewhat unexpected

7 being completely blown away and barely able to breath.

9 Being completely blown away to the point that you are having uncontrollable sweats, neurological symptoms,
nausea, vomiting, and uncontrollable laughter mixed with joy.

and finally 10

So blown away that you find your self dazing in and out of a new dimension of reality. You imagine far off landscapes, tropical beaches, goblins, flying pitchers of Canadian beer, scantly dressed woman, Bricktrons dancing on distant clouds as the sun sets over the horizon of a new world that only could only be imagined by the mind of a child.

Can we almost play the game?

So, you managed to gather almost twice the planned amount in what, eight hours? That’s quite a lot, and wait until gaming sites catch wind of this. I won’t be surprised at all if you end up with half million dollars, if not more.
And since I contributed too, I have a question: will there be traps? Dungeon Keeper had traps, Evil Genius had elaborate traps, Dwarf Fortress had insanely elaborate traps, will Castle Story have traps to remotely fend off the Darktrons? I’m not even thinking about Dwarf Fortress/Orcs Must Die level of complication, just simple things like spikes in the floor, automatic arrow chuckers, etc.

We donated over 200% even on second day .. At least give a demo of the prototype or something? xD

I really want to buld with those yellow buddies.. At least small buildings :D

We donated over 200% even on second day .. At least give a demo of the prototype or something? xD

I really want to build with those yellow buddies.. At least small buildings :D

Will there be weather in the game?

It would be cool to have it rain, for example, and the bricktrons have a different set of animations or a few extra animations, like raising a shield over their head to shelter themselves, or walking around looking a bit unhappy/miserable, slightly slouched… or if its really hot and they wipe the sweat off their brow (do evolved rocks sweat?)

Could also have gameplay implications…

Also I think the Q&A should be sooner, or possible one in the next day or in the next few days, then another one when you’d planned at the 2-3 week mark, and one about 3-4 days before it ends…

Congratulations on getting funded on Kickstarter, guys. I’m a professional game programmer and I’ve really enjoyed reading your dev blog; I just contributed to the KS. It must be a really exciting time for you, and I’m almost a little jealous. :)

Now that you have a huge audience there are going to be more eyes on you, which might be hard to juggle with the effort of making the game. Here’s some unsolicited advice but maybe it might be useful.

- Most fans will not understand what it takes to make a game. It’s ok. Don’t be discouraged by people asking for things that are impossible and being upset when they don’t get them. Any community has a silent majority and vocal minority.
- Everyone likes to see tangible progress. There will be weeks when you spend the entire time working on AI bugs or performance optimization. Keep a list of “fan features” and put aside maybe 1 day a week working on little things that are visible.
- The community loves to feel engaged in the 24/7 cycle of what’s going on. But that can be a huge pressure on a small dev team. Don’t feel like you need to spend every day engaging with the community. Set a rhythm and stick to it; maybe a dev blog on Monday, a screenshot on Wednesday and a build update every second Friday. (I think you’re doing this already.)
- One thing which can help people feel engaged without taking up a ton of your time is a webcam.
- It’s likely you have fans that live in Montreal now. You could find someone who was willing to come and have lunch with you, play the build, and post updates about it each week. Having excited, positive people around every once in a while can be really beneficial when you are working super hard.

Good luck on your grand adventure!

Chris

Hope you guys will still do the Dev blogs still…….

Will there be a demo of the game for people to play later?

Many people prefer to play a demo in order to pay for it. However, I dont’ know how it would be possible to make a demo of this, since too many features would be like copying the game :P

question about paypal – will it be option to kickstarter like westland2 nad ahadowrun?