Surveys are being sent, and Pre-Order Store to open next Monday! 🎉 (And new NPC sneak peak) 👀
12 months ago – Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 05:58:50 PM

Hi Loftians! We hope everyone’s been doing well!

 Surveys are now being sent! 💌    

Surveys for Kickstarter rewards are now being sent to all backers!  Due to the large number of backers, they will be sent out in batches over the next few days. If you haven't received yours yet - don't worry, it'll arrive in your email soon (make sure to check spam)! If you have any questions about the survey, feel free to drop them in the #questions channel on our Discord or by emailing [email protected], and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.

Surveys will be used to record your information so that we can deliver your rewards when they're ready, and it'll also allow you to upgrade your pledge level, or purchase any additional add-ons if you wish to!

 Pre-Order Store 🎉

In other exciting news, we are going to be officially opening our public Pre-Order Store starting next week (that will be supporting both card and PayPal payments)! The store will offer non-Kickstarter reward items such as game keys, digital art book and plushie, and will be open indefinitely.

However we understand that some of you experienced payment problems with Kickstarter and were dropped from the campaign, so we’ll also be offering a limited selection of Kickstarter rewards for the first 2 weeks! Unfortunately we aren’t able to offer the full Kickstarter pledge tiers now that the campaign has ended, but this will still be an opportunity to secure some extra goodies for those who missed out.

The Pre-Order Store will launch next week at Monday, 7:00am PT, and you can access it by going onto our Kickstarter page and clicking the link that will be visible when the store goes live! If you know anyone who missed out on our campaign, be sure to let them know too.

 What we’ve been up to 🛠

Like all Kickstarter campaigns, there has been a huge amount of admin and organisational work to get through following the Kickstarter campaign, including roadmapping our development plan for the year ahead, as well as taking some days off to rest and recharge! Right now our team is already back and deep in development as we speak, so we'll be starting dev updates soon!

In fact, here’s a sneak peak of our NEW NPC! Can you guess what occupation this new character has in Loftia? Comment your guesses below 👀

We also recently announced an Emoji Competition for our Discord server as our first post-Kickstarter community event! 😍🎨 This event involves creating an emoji inspired by the world of Loftia, or anything that you think would fit within the game. The winners of this competition will have their emoji added to the Loftia discord server emoji list! We've already gotten some incredible submissions from our community, and we can't wait to see more roll in - so if you have a creative idea for a Loftia emoji, come join our event! Full event details and submission timelines can be found on our Discord server in the #events channel 📝

As always, THANK YOU so much for supporting Loftia, and get excited for more updates to come! 

Love from the Loftia Team 💛

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Post-campaign FAQ! Card settlements, BackerKit Survey and what's next! 🌱🎉
about 1 year ago – Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 08:46:52 AM

Hi everyone! 👋🏼

We hope you all had a great weekend of rest and relaxation now that Loftia’s Kickstarter campaign is over, we know we definitely did! There were still a few moments where we had to pinch ourselves to make sure this all wasn’t all a dream! Thank you again for the most incredible campaign month, we really appreciate everyone’s congratulatory messages, and it’s so heartwarming to see our community come together to celebrate this win! 💛🎉

We’ve put together a list of everything you need to know during the next few weeks. This is a very important period of time as all Kickstarter transactions will be getting settled, and we will also be sending out BackerKit surveys so you can claim your rewards! Here’s an overview of some of the key pieces of information you should know:

My Kickstarter payment didn’t go through. What should I do? 💳

If your payment was declined, you’ll need to log in to your Kickstarter account and click the "Fix Payment" button in the banner at the top of your screen. This will guide you through the process of changing or retrying your payment method. Kickstarter will also send you an email every 48 hours with a direct link to correct the issue.

If there isn’t a specific issue with your card type or funds available, your bank or card issue might just have flagged the transaction to the safe. If this is the case, please reach out to your bank or card issue directly to ask for help.

  You’ll have 7 days from the date the project ended to resolve the payment issue, before you’ll be dropped from the project. You can also refer to Kickstarter’s Common Pledge Problems page for more information on payment processing issues.

How do I claim my Kickstarter rewards? 🎁

We’ll be working with BackerKit to send our surveys to all backers, via the email associated with the Kickstarter account you used to pledge. These backer surveys will be the way for us to get the details required for delivery of all of the rewards. This will include email addresses, Discord usernames for the Discord titles, and also physical addresses for those who got the whale turbine plushie. We will be making another reminder announcement the day before surveys are sent.

After we have received all survey responses, we will begin the process of delivering immediate rewards such as Discord titles and access to the Discord Alpha group. For backers who have purchased “design” rewards, we will also be directly emailing you when we’re ready to start the process. More information about this, and all other rewards will be announced once we’ve collected the required information from all backers!

Can I still upgrade my pledge and purchase more add-ons? ⬆️

Yes! Existing backers will have the chance to upgrade to a higher reward tier, or grab any additional add-ons, through BackerKit's Pledge Manager system. The pledge manager will only be available to those who have backed during the campaign in August, however.

When will we receive the Survey and access to the Pledge Manager?

Kickstarter requires 2 weeks to collect all backers' payments and let us know which pledges were successful. Once that’s been done, we will be sending out both the Survey and Pledge Manager access to all backers.

We were originally hoping to send both of them out this week, however, due to the time Kickstarter needs to process the pledges, we’ve had to extend the timeframe. We know how excited everyone is to receive their Discord titles and more information about the rest of the rewards, but please rest assured we’re working to get them out as quickly as possible!

I missed the Kickstarter. Will there be a pre-order store? ⏰

We know that a lot of projects open a BackerKit pre-order store after their campaign ends, and we will also be considering this option for Loftia. If we do open a pre-order store, this will mainly be for backers who weren’t able to complete their payment within the 7 day window, or for those who were unable to back due to incompatible card types. Quite a few people have messaged us that they weren't able to pledge for the Kickstarter due to the limited payment options Kickstarter accepts, and it doesn't seem fair to leave them out! The Kickstarter rewards are meant to be a thank-you to our earliest supporters, so this would only be for a limited time and would only feature a limited number of Kickstarter tiers. We’ll keep everyone updated soon, on whether there will be a pre-order store!

What’s next for Loftia? 🌱

The road to Alpha starts now!! The upcoming year will be incredibly exciting as we build our way towards our first Alpha play-test, and we can’t wait to bring you along for the journey!

As a first step, our team will be diving straight into roadmap planning to re-assess our project scope and carefully budget our new resources. We want to take our time with this so we can lay a solid foundation for the future, so we expect this to take a full month. Once all our plans have been re-assessed, our team will continue developing our Alpha build. Throughout this phase, we will be providing regular updates on our progress and keeping all your suggestions and ideas front of our minds. We still have 2 more pets to confirm - and we’ll be running a poll on our social platforms to decide what animals they should be!

During all of this, we will continue planning fun events and activities for our Loftian community through our Discord and other social platforms! So make sure to join our Discord and turn on pings to get notified of future announcements, updates and events!

How can I ask more questions, or get in direct contact with someone from the team? ❓

If you have any questions about your pledge, payment, or anything Kickstarter related, please feel free to leave your question in the comments below, or send us a direct message through Kickstarter! You can also ask us questions by messaging our social platforms, or by sending a ModMail ticket on our Discord.

Delivering Loftia to the highest of standards is going to be our priority for the upcoming year, and we’re so excited for the next chapter of our journey! Thank you all SO MUCH for believing in us, and trusting us.

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🥳🥳🥳 TOUCHDOWN!!! What a month this has been for Loftia! THANK YOU SO MUCH! 🥳🥳🥳
about 1 year ago – Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 07:08:14 PM

Hey Loftians!

WE DID IT! 🥳 Loftia's Kickstarter has now concluded, and what a truly AMAZING month this has been!!! The campaign has been such an incredible success with over 16,000+ backers, and many more who have been cheering us on from the sidelines and providing support in other ways too! From the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU. Loftia is going to be INCREDIBLE, directly as a result of the never-ending enthusiasm and support and all of you in the community!

So, what's next?!

Now that the campaign is over, we've begun work on the backer surveys! These backer surveys will be the way for us to grab the details required for delivery of all of the rewards. This will include email addresses, Discord usernames for the Discord titles, and also physical addresses for those who got the whale turbine plushie!

Many of you have asked whether you'll be able to pledge for additional rewards or tiers after the campaign has ended, and the answer is yes! Throughout the month of September, all existing backers will have the chance to upgrade to a higher reward tier, or grab any additional addons, through BackerKit's Pledge Manager system. The pledge manager will only be available to those who have backed during the campaign in August, however.

We're working together with BackerKit on both the surveys and the pledge manager, and we expect them to be pushed out next week! So keep an eye out for those - we'll keep everyone updated on this front through both updates here on Kickstarter, as well as on our Discord.

A quick note about payments: Kickstarter will be charging everyone's cards now that the campaign has ended. If your card is declined, Kickstarter will be in contact with you, and there'll be a 7 day window for you to fix any card-related issues!

THANK YOU!!!

The campaign may be over, but this is only the start of our journey together into the world of Loftia! Thank you all so much, and we'll be back with more updates very soon!

Adventure Builder UNLOCKED! And we're now in our FINAL 24 HOURS!
about 1 year ago – Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 07:40:01 PM

Good timezone, Loftians from all over the world!

Thank you so much to every single one of you for your overwhelming support and encouragement for Loftia! We've managed to hit the Adventure Builder stretch goal in just 1 day after reaching the million dollar mark, which is just absolutely mind-boggling to think about. Let's all give ourselves a huge pack on the back!!!

Adventure Builder

Adventures were always going to be a staple of Loftia, but with the Adventure Builder unlocked, you'll be able to build your very own adventures from a range of building blocks! You'll be able to link together series of these building blocks, or "modules", to create an experience that both you, your friends, and even the wider Loftia community will be able to partake in.

Within the team, the Adventure Builder has always been one of the most highly anticipated stretch goals. In fact, even before the campaign had started, we had already built out an internal working prototype of this feature! Now that we've actually hit the stretch goal, we're going to be diving into developing it further and polishing it up as soon as we can. Keep an eye out for more news in this area!

What's next?!

We know many of you in the community are hoping for even more stretch goals, and in fact, we did have a few more ideas that we had been considering. However, we've decided that rather than promising even more stuff, we're going to commit all of our additional resources to making sure that the features we have already promised are as fleshed out, deep and polished as they can possibly be!

But, that doesn't mean all the additional ideas that we have in mind are going away! They're still there, and we're still planning on bringing them to Loftia. We're definitely not done with Loftia even after it reaches full release status! The team is going to be continuing to build and add more features for many, many years to come.

Rest assured that every dollar that we raise from here on out in these last 24 hours will still be going directly towards making Loftia the best possible game that it can be! This final push will be sure to have a very significant impact on the development timelines of Loftia.

So there is one final thing that we would like to ask of you: please share about the Loftia campaign to your friends, family, or on socials! Together, we'll have a huge impact on the campaign and the future of Loftia in these closing hours, we can feel it!

If you have a social account, please share a post on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter!

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Just 📅 2 days left for Loftia's campaign! And even more updates: 🐇 pet reveals, 🎨 art contest results, and more!
about 1 year ago – Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 09:29:10 PM

Hey Loftians!

We're already back with even more news and updates about Loftia and the campaign! There's been so much going on, so sit back and relax - here we go!

More pets revealed!

Loftian penguins are now here! We've gone through the pipeline from concepting, to modeling, to animating, in order to bring them to life, so check them out! We absolutely love how adorable their belly-slide animation is, as they follow you, and we hope that you do too.

In the previous pet update, we revealed that red pandas would be part of the additional pets. Here's a look at the concept art for it!

Our next 2 pets that we’ve newly confirmed are:

•  bunnies!
•  frogs!

So now we've got: dogs, cats, ducks, capybaras, alpacas, turtles, penguins, red pandas, foxes, mini highland cows, bunnies, and frogs!

There are still at least 2 more pets that we’ve yet to decide. But let’s face it - with all the love that everyone’s got for pets, it’s looking like we’ll probably might just go over the initial +10 pets that were promised as part of that early stretch goal. We're still accepting suggestions, so drop them in the comments below, or on the main campaign page!

The Loftian Fanart Contest is now over!

A massive thank you to everyone who participated in Loftia’s very first fanart contest! We received an overwhelming 400+ submissions across different platforms! We had no idea that there were so many talented artists in our community.

We also wanted to gift something to everyone who submitted a piece to the art contest. If you participated, you'll be receiving this Artist Hat in-game!

If you took part in the contest, instructions to claim your artist hat are in the #events channel on our Discord! 

We had an incredibly difficult time narrowing down all the submissions to just 30, they were all just so seriously good! Those 30 submissions were then voted on by the community on Discord! We had originally allotted 10 winners, but upon seeing just how close some of the votes were, we expanded it to 13 winners. Congratulations to all of our winners, who will be receiving an all the contents of the Kickstarter Art Pack, as well as a whale turbine plushie!

Here are just a few of our incredible winning entries! You'll be able to see all the winners on Discord here.

Thank You!

The team is still reeling from surpassing the million-dollar mark in funding! We didn't think that we would hit such a massive milestone, and yet here we are. This was only possible because of you, the amazing Loftian community! Thank you so, so much for rallying behind Loftia and this campaign and pushing it to new and greater heights.

We've just reached 48 hours remaining in the campaign. Let's keep this momentum going and land that Adventure Builder stretch goal!

Another cool project: Obojima

We also wanted to give a shoutout to another Kickstarter campaign that's also currently in its last days: Obojima! If you're a fan of board games, and Studio Ghibli's aesthetics, then you should definitely check them out.

Guide your players through breathtaking locations, encounter strange spirits, discover rare oddities, and battle wild and wondrous creatures. Create your own unforgettable narrative in this familiar world, with an all-new collection of curious items, magical spells, and numerous player options!

Check out Obojima!