Progress
Our artists have continued creating new kinfolk concept art, models, and animations! Backers can see the details of these developments on our Progress Board. Several unrevealed kinfolk have been given special code names and are currently being tracked on the board. We hope you’ll have fun guessing what their names could mean!
The design team has been focusing on core game mechanics, including the capture mechanic, bond activities, and companion kinfolk personalities.
In addition to these game mechanics, the design team is also creating a small-scale version of Hinterlock complete with towns, villages, and other points of interest to help with sculpting the full map!
Progress on the game’s code base has been slower than usual the last 2 weeks, in part due to a family emergency with one of our developers. The dev team is also in the process of carefully planning out the complex network architecture required for features like PvP, Trading, Co-op, and Raids. It’s a slow, but vitally important phase of development. Luckily for us…
We added a new senior developer to the team who we’re very excited to be working with! We have no doubt that their talent, experience, and passion will be extremely helpful as we continue building the foundations of our code base.
Community
We've received some AMAZING entries in our music contest! Many entries embody exactly what we hoped for, and several members of the team have caught themselves humming submissions stuck in their heads. There’s still time to enter your song! The contest will end on Friday May 1st at 11:00pm (23:00) EST.
Our Q&A Stream last week with Meyuu and Kayla was a blast! Kayla gave a lot of great insight to the 3D modeling process, and Meyuu revealed some new drawings of Nyazen! The official phantom coloring is shown at the top of this newsletter!
We plan to continue having more official streams in the future! Past streams are available to watch on our Twitch channel for 14 days after going live, and we’re looking into adding all previous streams to our YouTube.
One of our community moderators, Crank, hosted a stream for Kindred Fates fans to discuss the game while playing JackBox games together last week!
Crank’s next Community stream will be on Sunday May 3rd at 2:30pm (14:30) EST, and will feature a fun art challenge:
Participants will be given a Kindred Fates-related prompt to draw within 1 hour. During that hour, a variety of kinfakes posted to our #art-contributions Discord channel will be featured and discussed! We hope to see you there!
Backer Rewards
Digital Wallpapers and links to the Progress Board have been distributed to all backers! If you backed the game and didn’t receive an email, let us know by emailing support@skymill.com. Don’t forget to check your spam folder ;)
We’re very happy to announce that we’ve finally received our first prototype of the Kickstarter Awburn Plushie! Here’s a first look:
While this particular plushie is no longer available for purchase since it’s exclusive to backers, we are planning to have other plushies available in the future!
Thanks for reading! We’ll see you next time, on May 8th!
