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We hit a certain percentage on Kickstarter and Rory wanted to say a few words about it.
Hello, everyone! A Very Important Date is at 59% on Kickstarter at the end of our second week! We still have 31 days to go, so if you’ve not backed us yet there is still time to do so. If you’re unable to pledge towards our goal, sharing our posts and links helps us, too.
We’ve been getting a lot of good questions on our Kickstarter from backers and non-backers. A question we received earlier today asked us if someone backed the Kickstarter with a tier that includes free routes, if they could use one of their free routes on our 9th mystery character? Our answer is yes, most definitely! For example, if they only get one route at the $10 Lilac tier, they could hold onto their free route and redeem it for the 9th character once they’re released.
We’re also adding in the option to back us on Kickstarter through PayPal! Any money received through Paypal will go into Justin’s account, which he will then put into the Kickstarter as a proxy for our Paypal backers. When you back us through PayPal make sure you use USD and leave a note saying which tier you’re pledging towards. If you are wanting to pledge through PayPal towards any of our tiers with limited openings, please contact us first. Also, if you want to receive the Backer Only posts, please let us know so we can email them to you. Please do not share the Backer Only posts anywhere else.
Thank you all for your continued support for our visual novel!
Hello, everyone! We are happy to announce that our second attempt at Kickstarter is now LIVE!
This time our goal is $3,500 and will feature more digital rewards, like Exclusive CG/Event Illustrations, a digital copy of our soundtrack, our AVID Spin-off BL Game, and possibly getting all 8 of AVID’s suitors!
This doesn’t mean our physical rewards are gone, though! Backers at certain tiers or those that want to add-on physical items can still possibly get our metal keychain, 5x7 character prints, body pillowcases, or our acrylic charms!
Also, for backers at the $15 Lotus Tier, not only will you get our digital soundtrack, you’ll also get access to our exclusive Kickstarter backers live streams on our private Facebook group! We do hope to do a Backer Only Live Stream within the first week, possibly during the con if hotel wifi allows for it, but we don’t know for sure yet. Tomorrow night we hope to be able to post a date and time after Justin, Noelle, and Darkenmarr look over their con schedule together.
We’ve also learned that sometimes posts with links involving Kickstarter campaigns are finicky and sometimes won’t appear in Tumblr’s search. We love our game, our story, and our characters and want to bring this experience to as many people as possible. We ask if everyone who sees this post could kindly share it to help reach more people. We greatly appreciate it!
Thank you all! We hope to update everyone on our A-kon experience soon!
Hello, everyone! Today marks day two of our Kickstarter! Currently 34 amazing backers have brought us to a total of $1,142 USD, which is 32% of our goal! Thank you all so much! In our previous post, I also forgot to fully mention our game’s title outside of the tags. The game’s full title is A Very Important Date and our Spin-Off Game isn’t titled at the moment.
Another thing that was brought to my attention that the information in the 2nd early bird tier ($40 USD Limited Edition Rocking Horsefly) says that it’s the same as the Aster tier. This is incorrect as it’s the same as the $50 USD Orchid tier.
Once again, thank you to all of our backers, everyone who has reblogged our posts, and our loyal fans.
Hello, everyone! Noelle here! One of the rewards we plan to have for Kickstarter is backer only live streams via a Facebook group. Why a Facebook group? It was the most cost effective way we could figure out how to keep these live streams completely backer only. It was also the only way we could truly block and remove someone from the stream if we absolutely needed to along with many other features we needed. Kickstarter Live seemed like the simplest alternative, but it isn’t backer exclusive. Then we thought about Google Hangouts, but that’s prone to intrusive bots and people that can find their way in because it can’t truly be private and it’s mute/kick people function is lacking. We thought of join.me, but you have to pay for a subscription to allow a lot of people to join and others could still invite more people in. So as it appears our best bet for a truly backer exclusive experience is Facebook Live. We’re going to test this method of live streaming with our backers from our first Kickstarter attempt and see how it’ll work out before we finalize it for a reward for our second Kickstarter attempt.
In honor of getting Greenlit on Steam, the team has decided to unlock another add-on to thank our backers and fans for voting for us!
This new add-on is our new single-sided charms. These charms are different from the charms in the tiers as those will be clear double-sided charms. The add-on charms were previously shown in another Kickstarter update post.
These add-on charms start at just $6 for a single charm of your choice, then $22 for your choice of five charms, and only $38 for all nine of our character charms.
If you don’t have a physical item tier, you will need to include shipping costs on to that. Please add $5 USD for US and Canada and $10 USD for the rest of the world on top of the addition to your current pledge amount. Again, we want to thank every single one of you wonderful fans, the Steam Community that voted for us, and our amazing backers!
Hello everyone! We have a special announcement today!
Because of the holiday spirit, the team has decided to unlock TWO of our add-ons on Kickstarter. Today we’ll be unlocking our Digital OST, all songs created by Geoff Moore, and a newly designed poster by Darkenmarr.
Our digital OST is $9 USD, so all you would need to do to add it in is adjust your pledge to include the $9 USD to you current pledge amount.
The poster will be of a new design (TBD) by Darkenmarr and is set to $11 USD. If you don’t have a physical item tier, you will need to include shipping costs on to that. Please add $5 USD for US and Canada and $10 USD for the rest of the world on top of the $11 addition to your current pledge amount.
Our Thunderclap campaign for A Very Important Date Kickstarter ends in about 4 hours! If you haven’t done so yet, please support it for us! https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/50209-a-very-important-date
Hello everyone! With the spirit of the Holidays in full swing, we are happy to announce that because of popular requests we have added a new tier to our Kickstarter!
Our new $75 Honeysuckle Tier gives our backers access to the Backer-Only updates, their names in our credits, 5 wallpapers, 2″ metal keychain, and 1 body pillowcase of their choice.
All of our body pillowcases will be fully colored and double-sided! There have been a few computer issues this past week that have caused a bit of a delay, but we’re hoping to get the majority of the body pillowcases’ art done as soon as possible. To see the first sketches of our body pillow cases, check out this update on our Kickstarter!
Hello all you wonderful folks! We just poster another update on Kickstarter. This one gives everyone a glimpse at the first early sketches of our body pillowcase designs! Check it out here.
Along with that update, we also posted a backer exclusive update yesterday! This update featured a number of WIP images of Gwyn’s Live2D sprite, in various states of undress I might add. He’s almost finished! We’re so excited! Remember our backer only updates are available to all of our backers for as little as just a $1 pledge.
Don’t forget about our special winter image for our backers! If we hit 50% of our goal (we’re currently 27% of the way there now!) we will give all of our backers a special digital winter scene of our cast!
If you haven’t already, please join our Thunderclap campaign! It’s absolutely free and helps bring awareness to A Very Important Date’s Kickstarter campaign!
Also if any of you fans out there want to try out our Android and iOS versions of our current demos, just fill out our Beta Testing form here!
We’ve hit 12% on Kickstarter! Thank you to all of our backers and fans for spreading the word! Today we’re going to talk about one of our stretch goals: 2-Day Mobile Sale and Boy Love Side Story.
We’ve already mentioned our 2-Day Mobile Sale in one of our asks, so I’m going to skip over that one for now.
The Boy Love Side Story is our first stretch goal and one that we’re hoping to hit during our Kickstarter campaign. This side story will be 3 to 4 chapters long and will feature all of the Looking Glass crew and even Alison in a smaller capacity. The lead for this story, however, won’t just be a genderswap of Alison. He will be his own character with his own personality and quirks.
So be on the lookout! We hope that we’ll have at least a sketch of our male lead for the Boy Love Side Story soon.
Don’t forget to join our Thunderclap campaign to bring more eyes to our Very Important Kickstarter!
Hello tumblr fans! We've been super busy with Kickstarter and game related ordeals over the last day, but we're happy to say we've hit 10% on our Kickstarter! We posted an update about it on there. Check it out here.
This update also comes with the news that our first milestone will be 100 backers. Once we hit that, we unlock one of our higher tiered items for everyone! Remember our backer tiers start at just $1!
We're also planning a special winter image of our cast! This will be released as a special gift to all of our backers if we can hit 50% by December 15th.
We also want to take time out to mention two other visual novels, one still in the midst of their Kickstarter campaign.
The first, from YesterJoy Games, is Legend of Rune a boy love/yaoi title. I played through it a few days ago and I was wholly impressed. Please check out their demo and consider pre-ordering the game.
The second, </reality>, from Fancy Fish Games, is visual novel that tackles the concept of existence and VR. The game isn't afraid to try new things and succeeds with all of them. Download their demo here and please consider backing their Kickstarter.
Don’t forget our Thunderclap! Find it here.
Hello all you wonderful fans!
We’ve just posted our second Kickstarter update! Check it out here!
Along with that update, we also made our first backers-only post, which are available to all of our backers starting at just $1. This post shows off some our early work-in-progress images for our 5 character wallpapers, which is one of our Kickstarter rewards that starts at our $5 Forget-Me-Not Tier. This update also includes some progress images on Gwyn’s updated Live2D sprite and concludes with two beautiful backgrounds from Lordless and Furude that have never been seen before outside of Naïve Sprites.
We received news this morning that our Thunderclap was approved! Thunderclap is a way for us to reach a large audience all at once with a single widespread tweet, Facebook status, and/or Tumblr post. This mass sharing helps boost our reach even further and draws more attention to both our campaign and our upcoming push to be Greenlit on Steam. We have our Thunderclap set to go off when we have 15 days remaining in our Kickstarter campaign. All we need is just 100 supporters to click the support buttons on our Thunderclap page before December 19th and agree to post our message, which would help us out immensely. I know that with all of our wonderful fans help, we can reach that goal!
In a little bit we will also be answering some questions, possibly even getting to an in-character ask at some point. So see all of you soon!
Hello everyone!
We’ve just posted an update on our Kickstarter page and have opened up donations through PayPal. This is a very important update, and that’s not just us being clever with wordplay. This update highlights what our backer-only posts will look like on Kickstarter and also reveals the direction our sprites will be moving towards for A Very Important Date’s final release. Here’s a hint: the word “moving” was actually wordplay that time. So click here to go over to our update on Kickstarter!
Also, we are still taking dev questions and in-character asks and we’ll get back to them shortly, so be sure to send in your questions here on tumblr!
It is our pleasure to finally announce that the time has come, A Very Important Date's Kickstarter is now live! Check it out here!
We have some wonderful rewards for our backers and they start at just $1 USD! Throughout the campaign we'll be updating on the game art, adding more features to the demo, discussing the future of our sprites, revealing some CG art, and finalizing the designs for some of our rewards (like the body pillow cases)! We will also be updating here with In-character asks and developer questions, like usual. If you are unable to back us, we understand, but you can still help us out by sharing our links and spreading the word! We’ve also added Linux demo to itch.io and you can now fill out a form to be invited to our mobile demos. Thank you all for being a part of this journey with us. We are so looking forward to seeing where this rabbit hole goes.
Hello everyone! After a eventful week, today brings an end to Naïve Sprites' San Japan adventure.
First, we want to thank San Japan for holding such a smoothly run convention and for allowing us a table in the Artist Alley.
We want to personally thank Josh for his kind words and the wonderful opportunity he gave us and our game during the Sale of the Century panel.
On the Naïve Sprites home front, we want to thank @darkenmarr and her sister for taking the time to come out to San Antonio with us. Thank you both for your hard work and for making this convention so worthwhile. We can't wait to do another one with you!
To each and every art patron who commissioned @darkenmarr for beautiful custom made pieces, we thank you for supporting our talented artist. And last but certainly not least, we couldn't forget about our Very Important fans! We all had an amazing time meeting those who stopped by our table. We want to extend a special thank you to all of our longtime fans who took the time to seek us out and also extend a warm welcome to our new fans who stopped by to learn more about us and the Looking Glass crew.
To those who downloaded our demo on itch.io and checked out our Prefundia, thank you for giving us both your feedback and reviews!
Finally, to all our fans everywhere and those who couldn't make it, we appreciate all of you! Your support is what keeps us going, and we can't wait to release the game for everyone to enjoy! So with that, we're off to to take some much needed rest. But we'll be back real soon, with some news to address. Are there progress updates? Reveals? Just what could we mean? Well, it seems some missing friends might return to the scene.
Hello everyone! Time for a quick update.
Right now the team is working on adding in the Choice and Save/Load features. After releasing the demo, we did receive some constructive feedback and will be changing certain elements upon the next demo release, like splitting existing dialogue that extends to 3 or 4 lines and general text fixes.
We would like to note that, at the moment there are no sprites until Alison reaches Gwyn's mansion. In the next demo update, we hope to have the official sprite of Ashley, Alison's best friend, completed and implemented into the beginning.
For those who have yet to download our demo, below is the link to our itch.io page. We would love to hear more feedback!
In other exciting news, our Prefundia page has been approved! Think of our Prefundia as a sneak peek into our Kickstarter campaign, so all of you wonderful fans can see our lovely list of Backer Rewards and get a glimpse at what Stretch Goals we have planned.
And lastly, we have some big upcoming news, but since Rory hasn't said much lately, we'll let him tell it.
That's right! Naïve Sprites will be at San Japan this weekend! Any fans in the in the San Antonio area, stop into San Japan's Artist Alley to check us out! We'll be giving out game information and selling official merchandise at table H208! And that's all the new info we have for today. See you next update, and for fans that will be at San Japan, we'll see you in a few days!
We are doing a survey again on what reward items people would like to see in our Kickstarter. As the time for us to launch it is getting closer and closer we are planning out the rewards and their tier levels now. We do welcome written in answers, so if there are rewards that you would like to see that aren’t listed, please write them in.
Please, help us by filling out our survey at:https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WHCDTV9
So far the top 3 answers in the two groups are:
What sort of small items would you like to see in our Kickstarter Rewards?
What sort of items of more limited quantities would you like to see in our Kickstarter Rewards?
The most typed-in answer is: T-shirt/clothing
We really want to provide rewards that people would want, which is why we’re doing this survey. Right now we have 49 people that have filled out the survey and we would really like to have at least 100 as this would give us a better idea of what people would want.
