Community Update #3 Handing out Discord Roles & The Winners of the Emote Contest
almost 3 years ago
– Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 04:36:53 AM
Hello there!
We just send out the reward surveys and so many of you have already filled them out. Awesome! That means we can start to hand out the Discord roles as soon as the beginning of next month. We just want to make sure, that all of you (that are interested) have claimed their Discord roles in time until then. So we would like to ask the last remaining people to please fill out their surveys :)
If you have problems, finding your reward surveys from BackerKit, you can request a new reward survey here: https://dfd.backerkit.com/
Also make sure to fill out your Discord name in the surveys EVEN if your role has already been assigned to you, as we will reassign all the roles based on the reward surveys beginning of July.
Additionally, we are happy to announce the winners of the Discord Emote Contest:
The top performers from last week were able to keep their lead from all the newcomers and got even more votes in the last week! You can check out the winning emotes yourselves on our Discord here and also start using them today! 🍴
So, What's next?
As announced, we will have our first monthly Developer Blog update next week on the 27th of June!
We are excited to show you the first parts of our Multiplayer integration for DFD as well as some insight into the miniature control!
So stay tuned, and as always
We are looking forward to seeing you inside DFD!
~Tom and Khang
Community Update #2: The Reward surveys are out & the top performers of the community contest!
almost 3 years ago
– Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 07:12:31 PM
The Reward Surveys - Check your Mailbox
Good news! As announced in our last community update, the Backerkit reward surveys were sent out today:
This means that you can check your mailboxes right now, to find your own special link to your BackerKit survey! You don’t need to create a BackerKit account to fill out your survey. Just click the survey link to respond. Answer the questions about your reward preferences and add purchase add-on items if you like.
Also if you want to claim your Discord role(s), please feel free to do so! It is important that you fill out this info in the survey EVEN if you already have the role assigned, as roles will be reassigned and confirmed via the surveys. So go claim your title, you deserve it!
The top performers of the community contest
We just announced our first community contest last week: The #Emote-Contest.
And the submissions so far have been awesome! So let's take a look at the top 5 performers:
Home Slice, Dungeon Keeper
InvaderDib
Karen
Master Torch
Heather Longail
Haven't had a chance to participate yet?
Feel free to hop on our Discord to check out the submissions yourself and exchange with our awesome community! And if you want to become part of DFD history, you can try your luck as well with your own submission! We would love to see more cool emotes from you!
We look forward to announcing the final emote winners in the next community Update, as well as giving you some insights into the development process in our Dev Blog end of this month!
And as always:
We are looking forward to seeing you inside DFD soon!
~Tom and Khang
Community Update #1: Surveys coming soon & the first community contest!
almost 3 years ago
– Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 09:59:52 PM
Hello everyone! It's been 1 week since the end of the amazing Kickstarter campaign and we are back with exciting news!
- The first official DFD community contest starts as of today!
- Starting end of next week, you will receive your surveys to claim your Kickstarter rewards!
So let's break down these two points:
1 - The first community contest - Who would like to have his own Discord emote for DFD?
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it is a fork! This is the chance for the creative people among our community members to shine! Starting today, you can submit your best ideas for server emotes in the new #Emote-Contest-Channel on our Discord to participate (png or gif squared format)!
The submissions with the most "👍" reactions will be added to the server!
2 - Reward Surveys - With the help of our pledge management team @Backerkit!
To help us with the management and coordination of rewards, we have teamed up with BackerKit! Their experienced team helps us save lots of time by streamlining the survey process, automating data organization, and providing us with help when handing out your rewards.
That means you can expect an email from us end of next week with a special link to your BackerKit survey (It’s important to respond to your survey as quickly as you can since we need this information to fulfill your rewards.). You don’t need to create a BackerKit account to fill out your survey. When you receive the email with the survey, just click the survey link to respond. Answer the questions about your reward preferences and add purchase add-on items if you like.
If you are interested in the Discord role, please fill out this info in the survey EVEN if you already have the role assigned, as roles will be reassigned and confirmed via the surveys.
After you respond to your survey, you can go back later and change your responses at any time before we close the surveys and get our final counts.
If you need to review your information or pledge status, you can return to your survey by clicking the link in your survey email or requesting your survey link under "Lost your survey?" on our BackerKit project page at https://dfd.backerkit.com.
If you used your Facebook credentials to log in to your Kickstarter account, the BackerKit survey is sent to the email address you use for your Facebook account. If you have another email address that you prefer to use, please contact the support at https://dfd.backerkit.com/faq.
What's next?
Starting end of this month we will publish a monthly developer blog to keep you updated on the current development topics of DFD and get some feedback and suggestions from your side! The topics for the June Developer blog will be Multiplayer and Miniature Control! So stay tuned for this!
And as always:
We are looking forward to seeing you inside DFD soon!
~Tom and Khang
The end of the campaign… and the beginning of our glorious adventure!
almost 3 years ago
– Thu, May 27, 2021 at 07:50:44 PM
So it's officially over: The Kickstarter campaign has ended…
First of all:
"Thank you. Thank you so much!"
The support we received from the community has been nothing short of amazing!
Not only were we able to collect over 230.000€ for DFD, but we were also able to grow an amazing community along the way!
Over 3800 heroes on Kickstarter have backed us, collectively posted almost 200 comments, and wrote us over 100 messages. We made sure to answer all of them! (if we missed one of you by accident: please message us again, we are always there for our community!)
Over 1600 adventurers have joined our Discord to chat with each other, to ask questions to the developers, or to just hang out & post their funniest memes. We are happy to talk to all of you and to laugh at these memes together with you!
Over 700 travelers have rallied on our Reddit to exchange, discuss and stay up to date on DFD! We will make sure to post regularly to keep your lurkers happy!
The next steps
It would be an understatement to say that the last couple of days were crazy for us. So right now we want to take some time to restructure ourselves, to work on the roadmap for DFD – to make sure that it will become as amazing as possible – and to expand the team by even more passionate people!
What does this mean for the community?
- We want to establish a monthly developer insight update starting next month, to show you what we are currently working on, to give you some insight, and to get some feedback & suggestions from your side
- At the same time, we want to stay close with our community, and although we might not be able to read all the messages anymore (as we will focus on the development of the game) we will do our best! We will post regular community updates as well as host some awesome community contests (more on that in the next update!)
What about my rewards?
We are happy to have grown such a large and awesome community on our Discord. Some of you on there have already gotten their Discord roles. Now it's time for the rest of the supporters to join in as well (if you want to)! However, we need some time to rally up our team (and possibly prepare the mods) to give out all of these 3600 roles! So please give us some time to prepare, we will send out the reward surveys in about 2 weeks so that all of you can get their discord roles! In these surveys, you can also already specify the platform for your DFD copy. More details on those surveys will be coming in the next community update!
Also as it was highly requested by so many: If you missed the Kickstarter, you can still – for a limited amount of time – do a late pledge. If you miss the late pledge window, you'll have to wait until DFD is out of the Beta. We were also asked about the ability to upgrade a pledge and will update here with our solution in the next community update.
But enough for you to read, for now:
Let's celebrate together!
And as always: "Thank YOU!" This wouldn't have been possible without you!
We are looking forward to seeing you inside DFD soon!
~Tom and Khang
200k€ reached - 48 hours left...The final push!
almost 3 years ago
– Tue, May 25, 2021 at 03:58:21 AM
This is it: The final days of our Kickstarter campaign: We just reached 200k€
…and there are still 2 days left until the end of the campaign and to reach the final stretch goal!
So, if you want to help us with the final push: Share the campaign with your friends & your foes, with your gamemaster & your players, with your siblings & your dog!
We can't put into words how amazing the journey has been so far, and there is not much to say but "Thank you for all the amazing support!". Now let's go out with a bang!
