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I’m making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS!

Ahem, yeah…
We don’t really know where to start. We were preparing for a long, grueling campaign in which we’d have to fight for every dollar, while in fact it went down pretty much like [this]. But now that we look back on how we did things, the long grueling campaign was in fact the three months we spent painstakingly creating the trailer, and filling in the paperwork in order to sign up for Amazon Payments. And boy was it worth it!
But it’s not over! In fact, it’s barely begun. We still have 27 days to go. We have a lot to do to make up for your outstanding and frankly humbling generosity, but let’s start by saying:

The mood here at Sauropod Studio is incredible. A mix of awe and relief. It’s that kind of feeling you get when you work really hard on something, taking the long way around just because you want to do it right, and then somehow you’re rewarded for all that work.
We have a truckload of ideas for new reward tiers, nothing is set in stone, but we’re going to announce some of them really soon.
In the meantime, We’d like to announce some of the new things we’re going to do with the extra funding. The 80,000$ we had put in as our goal, was really just the bare minimum to keep going for a few months more intil a beta release. But now that we have exceeded that goal, her’s what we plan on doing in the near future:

• We’ve contacted an amazing artist to help out with the posters. Germain had originally planned to paint them himself, but now we can work together with the artist to make the posters much, much more impressive. We really can’t wait to see how that turns out!
• We would like to hire a professional sound engineer to help us with the ambience of the game. We realize that music is important, but is just a part of the whole audio soundscape. Having a strong ambience and intricate sound effects can really help make the game much more immersive.
• We will probably hire Thierry (aka. Menekis) officially as Webmaster and Community Manager. He could also even help with the multiplayer since he has some experience in that. Until now, Thierry has been working as a volunteer for free and putting dozens of hours it the website and the Kickstarter campaing. His help has been invaluable and we are really looking forward compensating him for that.

Lots more coming in the next days!
We’re going to post some polls soon to see what everyone would like us to do next, so stay tuned!


Before we go, we’ve made two sweet little desktop wallpapers for those of you who enjoyed the t-shirts we made:


Cheers!
The Sauropod Team

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Thanks for the official update and congrats to Thierry on the new job ;-) Everything sounds great and looks great, keep up the amazing work!

Wow, those wallpapers look really good! Congratulations on the successful kickstarter and I can't wait to hear more about the prototype.

Congrats on your Kickstarter success! I am proud to be a backer. I am looking forward to taking a peek at your additional reward levels. What are you guys up to?... As for what we want you to do next, release the prototype of course!

Looks good!

Can't wait to see the stretch goals and any further media!

Awesome, Everything is going great! Really enjoy the wall papers (Hoping for more =D). Keep up the great work every one!

Thanks for the update.
May i make a suggestion of a poster/wallpaper of all the tipes of bricktrons together and the enemy posing off in front of a castle as if in a big familie foto. Some sitting on a catapult. Basically encompassing ( i had to look up that word ) everything in Castle story in one big group pic in colour( as in the game).

This is all too good to be true There have been a large mass of us who have been watching and waiting for months and its paid off. Good luck

François and Germain! I can't wait for the awesome that is about to come.

I don't have an amazon account and I really want this game... please make a paypal link?

Great job Sauropod Studio! Lets hope for a 500k and dream of a million...

Is there nobody that thinks this will make a great wallpaper/t-shirt/poster?

<< I’m making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS! >> quote by GLADIS (Portal)

cant U create links on the website which are only accesable when you bought something... i.e if you make a "buy button" on paypal, you can insert several links where you can be transferred to that special page which you made private and only accesable 1 time if you have bought a thing. maybe do something with that?

its a pain to ask this but come on i want them dam T-Shirts there fricking awsome and i cant donate the frapping money because of amazon > plz work ur magic guys i want my T-shirts (and the beta of course ;D )

http://castlestoryonline.com/threads/other-payment-options-than-credit-card.602/#post-10245

In this thread I listed a few ways to do so without a CC if that is the problem with amazon, as I know it is for many.

I dont think i can actually obtain that cards... Paypal on its own would be really helpfull... Can you explain why its not possible Thierry?

Hello, Something I think would be great in the game is a really high build level, as in you can build a tower strait up like 1000 blocks high! I think that would be Awesome! 1000 blocks would be a bit high but maby like 100, 200 that would be amazing

I APPROVE

Seriously though, this desktop is smexy. Sauropod, you guys are awesome.