How
fun it is to be talking stretch goals! Stretch goals are a tricky
thing, especially with this amount of time left: it’s plenty of time for
a nice little burst of activity, but it isn’t ages either…
We wrote a little bit about our attitude to stretch goals yesterday here, and so, building on that, here is our plan…
We’re
not gonna go mad, but we do have a few nice ideas that we’d like to put
out there and see how people respond to them, and if they prove
popular, we have further things to expand upon based on uptake too.
We’ll be revealing 2 possible stretch goals to start with, and then revealing a new one each time one is met (if they are met!).
To start, we have these stretches for you:
Stretch Goal #1: In Game social media feed!
How about it: an in-game, fictional social media app that does some world building and can provide hints for both narrative and mechanic discovery?
We are on our way already with this one: the campaign currently sits at £20,593 so we’re 13.5% toward it already! :)
Apps...
This will give you more insight to what's going on in the game world
outside (rather than just what's going on in the mission you are
playing), through a short message-based social media feed. Not unlike
certain real-life one with a bird as their logo.
We feel this is something that would make the OFF GRID world feel more alive, *and*
that we can do without it affecting our release schedule since we
already have built similar tech for other parts of the game. The feed
would be a combination of procedurally generated messages from the
"outside world", pre-made story telling messages, and ones created as a
response to player's actions and choices in the game. This would also
create an additional way to learn about people in the levels, and
perhaps gather some useful information as well. After all, people post all kinds of things on social media!
To go with this, we'll add a new limited edition tier to our campaign, giving you an opportunity to create your own message and have it included in the game.
What might you put in there?! Get to thinking - it’ll be up on the reward section once the stretch goal is met!
(We
reserve the right to veto inappropriate or ill-fitting content of
course, but will work with you to get everything edited into something
that will work with the message generation system we use.)
Stretch Goal #2: New hackable interfaces!
Now this one is niiiiiice!
The game currently has one device user interface (UI) which
represents something you'd have as a back-end settings menu on a device.
With this stretch goal, we'll add some new ones to represent the
front-end side, what any normal (non-hacker) user would see when using a
device.
...after all, all the devices in the game are actually
used by other characters too, and surely they aren't doing it by hacking
to their back end settings menus like you are! So the player should be
able to see the same end-user side as well.
We think this will make for some potentially interesting variations on hacking techniques and puzzles too.
Let’s do this!
“How?” you say...
Tell others that you’ve backed OFF GRID and want to see it go further!
Tell your friends they might like the game too!
Post the campaign wherever you hang out online
Do you write about games? We’d love you to write about OFF GRID!
Do you stream? Stream the demo and talk about the campaign!
Retweet, share, and like our posts as much as you can
Start thinking about what social media message you want to adorn OFF GRID with and back the new tier once it's unlocked!
If you haven’t already, and you like what we do, back us at any
level you can! Remember, if you are tempted by the stretch goals and
have already backed, you can up your pledge too! Even just by £1!
Every single little bit helps!
THANK YOU BACKERS!
The Off Grid Team
If you haven’t already - be sure to wishlist Off Grid on Steam - each wishlist makes a big difference to us, and we really appreciate your support!
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