Early October Update
over 3 years ago – Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 04:51:01 PM

Hey everyone!

Jim here this time with just a small update this week to keep you up to speed on how September closed out.

We’ve had a few quite productive weeks in regards to organizing play tests and contacting testers. It’s been really encouraging to see excitement to play The Midnight World! As such, this Monday, October 5th at 7pm EST, we’ll be streaming another live play test over on the Gem and Eye Twitch channel. With James back at the helm, join us for a new nightmare to be spun for our fooli—I mean courageous—testers!

We’ve also crossed a milestone with our work on Cults and have begun feature testing and refinement for them. The only way to bridge that chasm is going to be play testing, play testing and play testing, and we’re grateful for all the help we can get!

Now, I don’t have any fancy Lucas Ryan art to share this week, but I did slip something recovered from a COREWorlds evidence sweep in for those of you who might be jonesing for a little lore fix:

Until next time!

Periodic update!
over 3 years ago – Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 02:11:40 AM

Hey everyone, it's time for another Kickstarter update! 

TESTING

We're deep into our first beta testing phase. The Chimera level backers have all received our first draft Beta packet, and we've had several storytellers run games for their tables and send us feedback. We really need more testing, though. We're working on a more streamlined beta document that includes a few stories for STs to run, along with an easy to fill feedback form. We'll have more news about that ASAP.

TWITCH 

We're also continuing our Twitch Testing Stream tomorrow evening at 7pm EST. We've partnered with a couple of others STs, and within the next few weeks we should have a Twitch session up and running at least once every other week there! We'd love to have you drop by and watch the stream. You can even give us real time feedback right there while we're on air! 

CONTENT

We've also sent out beta-read packets for 4 of the Cults that will be a part of The Midnight World. These organizations aren't strictly necessary for play, and indeed many players might choose not to have their characters become members. For those that are interested in them, though, they offer interesting new story hooks and alternate power sets for the Touched to pursue. 

We have absolutely G O R G E O U S title cards for the Cults, painstakingly crafted by our amazing artist Lucas Ryan. We leave you with this super-cool image of Agent Xan, a notable NPC infiltrator, and our title card for the Children of the Everblazing Star. 

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Playtest Stream on Twitch tonight
over 3 years ago – Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 01:10:03 PM

Hey all! We'll be running our first live Twitch Playtest stream tonight at 8pm EST. 

You can catch the action over at  the Gem and Eye Twitch channel. James will be running an original story, and both James and Jim will be available to answer any questions and record any feedback! 

ALSO! If you haven't dropped by our Backerkit  Pre-Order Store, you really ought to check it out! We're not far from unlocking a couple of stretch goals that didn't make during the original Kickstarter run! 

Beta 1 Playtest Packet is out!
over 3 years ago – Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 09:40:46 PM

LET THE TESTING BEGIN

If you backed at the Chimera level or above, check your email! We've just sent out links to the Beta 1 Playtest Packet for The Midnight World. It's definitely still in draft format, but it has everything you need to get your game started. It's also set up so that you can make comments on the document, and thus provide us that delicious feedback we need to get to the next step. Within the next few days, we'll push out some Modules as well, in case you'd rather not have to hassle with writing a full story yet. 

Upcoming Twitch Games 

We're still working on setting up our first Twitch Playtest. We ran a pretty cool stream last week were Jim and I just talked about the game and where we're at, but alas, we didn't know how to record it. Nonetheless, we will be better about that going forward! We'll hopefully have an announcement by Sunday about an upcoming game session!

Testing Begins!
almost 4 years ago – Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 10:01:31 AM

Hey everyone! 

We're excited to announce that we're ready to begin the testing phase! If you backed at the appropriate level to receive our testing materials, you'll be getting a link this week to our packet, along with details on how to provide your feedback. 

We're also really excited to start showcasing the game again. We've set up a Twitch Channel so that we can run a playtest out in the open for you guys a couple of times a month. We'd like to run the first session this upcoming Wednesday at 7pm EST. 

If you have any interest of getting your name on the list for that, or for other upcoming livestreamed tests, make sure to pop an email over to [email protected] by Tuesday evening. I'll grab four or five of you for this test, and add the rest to upcoming tests! 

We look forward to showing off The Midnight World again!