Social Media Stretchgoals
almost 6 years ago
– Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 04:16:16 AM
Hey everybody,
as the campaign now begins to slow down a bit, we were finally able to get around to some stuff, like planning the rest of the campaign and fixing some more bugs.
One of the things that came out of our planning phase is: Social Media Stretch goals.
Most of you probably already know this concept from other campaigns, but the basic idea is: we provide you guys with a link to share on social media or with friends. If people back via this link we will know that it came from this link. When we reach a certain number of backers from that link, we will add an additional stretch goal that everyone (even the APPRENTICE LEVEL) will get added to their pledge! You help us reach more people and everyone benefits from it!
SHARE THIS LINK ON YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA TO HELP UNLOCK THE SOCIAL MEDIA STRETCHGOALS:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/townsmith/townbuilder-unlimited?ref=c5kajm
The first social media Stretchgoal will be: MINI SET II: STREETS. We decided that a Mini Set would be the best fit for this, as a lot of people will get use out of it and it is not dependant of any other stretch goals so we can also give this to the apprentice backers.
So share this link with as many people as possible and help us reach the 100 Backers needed to unlock Mini Set II: Streets.
I am finishing up the concept art for Premium Set I today and will try to get the new poll up later today, so keep your eyes out for another update.
Cheers, Christopher and the Townsmith Team.
60k and Stretchgoals up to 80k revealed
about 6 years ago
– Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 10:23:14 AM
Hey everyone,
We had some talks about stretch goals. This lead to me preparing the stretch goal roadmap up to 80k. Though we have almost no concept art for it, at least you people get a rough idea what will be unlocked in the coming weeks.
Hopefully this one will hold up for a bit longer than 1 day :D
Ah yeah and we just hit 60k and 1500 Backers at almost the same time. Thank you so much for your support!
For all the new folks: check our the links at the top of the campaign description, we have a currently ongoing poll for the first premium set, we have an open beta to join and try out the Townbuilder yourself, and we have a discord with awesome folk that already create incredibly buildings!
And for your convenience: here are all aforementioned links:
Premium Set Poll
Discord
Open Beta
Cheers, Christopher and the Townsmith Team
Stretchgoals up to 65k revealed!
about 6 years ago
– Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 06:25:03 AM
Good morning everyone!
As we are getting very close to 60k I got out the drawing tablet and made some concept art for the 60k stretch goal which is...
Splitting up floors!
We are very excited to announce that buildplate size will no longer be an issues and you will be able to build your houses as large as you want as long as you put some thought into splitting it up later!
The basic workflow will look something like this:
- Build a building
- Check where you want to split it
- Group all models that you want as one solid block in individual groups
- Select all models on the edge of the said block that should connect with the other blocks
- Exchange them for OpenLock compatible tiles (think in the same style as AddOns)
- These parts will be assembled as separate STLs that have connector slots on their borders
- Infinitely large buildings that can be combined in a modular fashion
- Profit
As for the upcoming stretch goals: We will slow it down a bit and sprinkle a few more "more sophisticated" features in there that will take some more development time than, let's say cutting squares out of our windows to allow for plastic insert, but still not as much as an entire set or a feature like pegs and magnets.
We will still be open to smaller suggestions and put them into the stretch goals wherever we can fit them.
Cheers, Christopher and the Townsmith Team!
Share your saved buildings, first stretch goal progress, More stretch goals reveiled!
about 6 years ago
– Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:28:10 AM
Hey everybody,
so yeah... we just hit 40k. With over 1000 people now backing this project more and more stretch goals are being unlocked. That's why we added more! Check out the stretch goals up to 57,5k. 45k is very close and that is the second community voted set! At 60k another Big one will be waiting, but we don't quite want to unveil it yet :P
A highly requested feature was just casually implemented by Tom. I don't know how he did it this fast but the Community Library has just been added to the Townbuilder. In your profile, you can publish any of your saved buildings which can then be found in the Community Library for other users to play around with! I'll let him explain how it works.
Hey everyone, Tom here, I just quickly want to show you how you can use the Community Library. First of all, this is just the necessary skeleton of a Community Library, I want to add much more like Descriptions for the templates, maybe a voting system, better filters, etc.. But I wanted to get this out as quickly as possible so more people can see the amazing buildings that are already being created by users.
To get started, simply use the new share-button on buildings that are in your saves.
You are then prompted with a window that gives you the option to add tags to your template. These tags allow other users to filter the Community Library. The tags are predefined by us and we will increase the number of tags as we go along in this project to better describe templates (Your feedback is welcome). When you are done with the tags press share again and after that, if nothing went wrong, your template will be in the Community Library for others to edit and enjoy. If anything doesn't work yell at me, but on Discord please. That's it from me, back to Christopher.
Ok back to the next point on the agenda. While I am just talking and pretend to work, Monika has been modeling. Since the sets have not been decided she already started with the first stretch goal. And is almost finished with it... Angled and Curved models have now been added to the Townbuilder Beta. If anything doesn't fit, please let us know. But keep in mind, that there are more angled and curved models coming, we just wanted to share this first load with you!
Known issues:
- Fachwerk Windows miss their addOns
- Fachwerk Walls stick through other walls when rotated to 90 degrees
- We need more roofs
I think we will now take a much-needed break and will be back tomorrow.
Cheers,
Christopher, Tom, and the Townsmith Team.
50k and Poll for the first Premium Set
about 6 years ago
– Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 05:06:01 AM
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