⛏ Terraria: The Board Game

More Developer Set Art + New Stretch Goals + Vulture Adoption + Discord AMA!
5 months ago – Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 08:27:02 AM

Hello Terrarians! 🌳

We hope you had a lovely weekend 😊. As always, thanks for helping each other in the comments; we really appreciate it! It might be the final few days of the campaign, but we’ve still got lots to share with you, so let’s get stuck in 👀…

🎨 Cenx Set Art + Additional Developer Set Sketches

We’ve now unlocked all of our developer set vanity cards! Here is Cenx’s Dress Set in all its painted glory, as well as the sketches for Grox the Great, Leinfors, FoodBarbarian and Safeman’s sets:

✨ New Stretch Goals Unveiled!

You absolutely obliterated our Boss-themed stretch goal sprint! 🤯 You did so well, it’s given us the chance to squeeze in some more deluxification before the big finale! We’ll be revealing a couple of these extra stretch goals at a time over the next 48 hours (followed by the final stretch goals). Here are the first 2:

🔓 Vulture Adoption

They might not be the cuddliest of creatures, but vultures need our love too; today we achieved our desert-themed social goal, so we’ll be adopting a vulture from the Hawk Conservancy Trust. They are a UK-based charity that run the International Vulture Programme (an initiative that focuses on the research and conservation of vultures) and the National Bird of Prey Hospital (where sick, injured or orphaned raptors are cared for and rehabilitated).

This also means that it’s that time again; we want to hear your names for our adoptee! Let us know in the comments 😊

🙋 Discord AMA

In about 30 minutes (1700 UK time / 0900 PDT / 1200 EDT), we’ll be over on the official Terraria Discord server for an ‘Ask Me Anything’; come on over and ask us about the game! Here’s the link to the server; you’ll find us in the 'paper-fort-games-ama' channel: https://discord.com/invite/terraria. 

📅 Updates and Rulebook

We’ll be back with another update on Wednesday (19th) as we enter the final 48 hours of the campaign. 

We’ll also be uploading the revised rulebook this week (before the end of the campaign). We’re currently incorporating all of the fantastic feedback we’ve had from the community; thank you! 

In the meantime, please share this campaign with anyone you think might be interested; you can use this link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paperfortgames/terraria-the-board-game . 

Thank you so, so much for your support; here's to a fantastic final few days 😃

 - The Paper Fort Games Team

Developer Set Sketches + Contest Entry Gallery + New Boss-Related Stretch Goals + Update Plan!
5 months ago – Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 08:59:52 AM

Hello Terrarians! 🌳

We hope you’ve all had a great week 😊

🎨 Developer Vanity Set Sketches

We’ve now unlocked all but 2 of the developer vanity sets; here is a sneak peek at the sketches for Cenx, Loki, Jim and Crowno’s Sets, with more sketches (and full Cenx's Set art) to come next week!

🖼️ Contest Entry Gallery

In our last update I (Chris) forgot to include the gallery of contest entries. I’m very sorry about that; here it is! Thanks again to everyone that took part; it was very difficult to choose our winners, and we think you'll understand why:

💥 New Stretch Goal Sprint Revealed: Boss Blast!

We know that many of you have been wondering what stretch goals lie beyond the developer sets; we’re excited to reveal another stretch goal sprint, this time for Bosses! It includes the rest of the foiled boss cards, as well as more sculpted versions of boss-spawned enemies 😊

After this sprint, there will be a set of ‘finale’ stretch goals, which will be revealed next week.

Just so you know, we are going to add all funds raised in BackerKit (after the campaign) to the total that we count towards stretch goals too, so we have the best chance of hitting every single one!

📖 Rulebook Feedback

Thank you to everyone that has provided feedback on our rulebook; we really appreciate it and we’ll be incorporating it into an updated document which we’ll be uploading at the start of next week.

📅 Update Plan

We’ll be publishing our next update on Monday 17th June. We’ll then be publishing a daily update for the final 3 days of the campaign (Wednesday, Thursday + Friday). We’ve still got lots to show you!

Thanks again for your support, Terrarians; we hope you all have a great weekend! 😃 Please bear in mind that we might be a bit slower responding to your comments as the team takes some downtime over the weekend in preparation for next week. 

-The Paper Fort Games Team

Hive Adoption + Playthrough Video + Rulebook + Build Contest Winner + AMA Date Change!  
5 months ago – Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 02:55:45 PM

Hello Terrarians! 🌳

We've got lots of exciting information for you today; let's get stuck in! 😃

 🐝 Hive Adoption Is Go!

Yesterday, we blasted through our jungle biome-themed social goal, which means that we will be adopting a hive from The Hive Much Birch, based in the UK. They promote natural beekeeping and provide apiaries simply as somewhere for wild bees to build their hives. They don’t harvest or sell the honey that the bees produce; they just want to support these incredible insects and the ecosystem that they are a vital part of. Thanks again to Jared for suggesting this great idea, and to all of you who got involved over on Instagram!

 📹 Playthrough Video

We’re very happy to announce that our playthrough video is now available! You can watch it below:

 📖 Rulebook

We’ve also uploaded the game’s rulebook; you can read it here. 

Please bear in mind that this is a work in progress document, and will be updated and improved (by us and by external editors) right up until we go to print. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to drop us a line at [email protected].

🏅 Build Contest Winner!

Thank you to everybody who sent in an entry for our in-game build contest. The challenge was to recreate the Paper Fort Games logo inside Terraria and we can tell that every person who entered put a huge amount of effort into their builds. We received entries fromalmost 30 different Terrarians and we were *very* impressed with the creativity on show. After lots of deliberation, we are delighted to announce that the winner of the Hellstone pledge is @Bobins16; congratulations! 🎉 We particularly loved the party vibe of this build, as well as the fact that minimap representation of our logo was given extra character by the NPC icons! 

In addition, we’ve also decided to award a Gold Pledge to @zeeSwampWitch and dragonmagician for their takes on the brief! Well done to you both 😃.

We’ll be reaching out directly to the winners before the weekend (via the same route as the entry was submitted) to arrange prizes.  

📅 Discord AMA Date Change

Originally, we had had planned to do our Discord AMA (Ask Me Anything) tomorrow, but we’ve had to rearrange it to Monday 17th (we’ve updated the Community Calendar on the campaign page to reflect this). The AMA will be taking place over on the official Terraria Discord server at 1700 UK time / 0900 PDT / 1200 ET; we’ll send out an update shortly before with details of how to access it. 

 Until next time, Terrarians!

 -The Paper Fort Games Team

Developer Sets Unlocked + Last Call for Contest Entries + What's Your Favourite Critter?
5 months ago – Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 02:20:54 PM

Hello Terrarians! 🌳

Thanks for bearing with us in the comments over the weekend and to those of you who answered questions on our behalf while we were recuperating; we really appreciate it 😊

✨ Developer Vanity Sets Unlocked!

We’ve already unlocked 4 vanity sets as part of our ‘Developer Dash’; Red, Cenx, Loki and Jim's sets! Next up is Crowno's set and there are plenty more to come, including one that hasn’t yet been announced... can you guess who it might be?

Every piece of art in the game goes through multiple stages of iteration and feedback, and with the developer sets it’s no different. First, George creates a sketch based on the sprite which is then sent over to the Re-Logic team. Any feedback is collated and changes are made; after another round of approval, George then proceeds to painting the final art.  Here’s a look at the initial sketch and final art for Red’s set:

We'll be showing you the final art for the other dev sets as it comes in! 

📢 Final Call for Build Contest Entries!

This is a reminder that the deadline for our in-game build contest is tomorrow (11th June) at 2359 UK time (1859 EDT, 1559 PDT). We’ve had lots of fantastic entries; don’t miss out on the opportunity to win a Hellstone Pledge! To enter, recreate the Paper Fort Games logo within Terraria and share a screenshot of your creation on Twitter or Instagram before the deadline with the hashtag #terrariaboardgame, tagging in @paperfortgames. If you don’t use social media, you can also email your entry to [email protected]. The winner will be chosen and announced in an update on 12th June by the Paper Fort Games team (the winner will also be contacted directly).

Here are some of the recent entries! (We’ll share all of the submissions to the contest when we announce the results)

🐇 What’s Your Favourite Critter? 

Though you won’t be able to interact with them in the board game, we want to add as many critters as we can to the background art of the game’s biome tiles; let us know in the comments which ones you’d like to see!

When we asked this question in a recent State of the Game and on Twitter, we had some great suggestions, including squirrels, seagulls, seahorse, mystic frogs, grubby, sluggy, dolphins, bunnies, owls and ducks, but let us know in the comments if we’ve missed any of your favourites!

 As always, thank you for all of your support! Until next time 😃

-The Paper Fort Games Team

£1 Million! + Developer Vanity Stretch Goals + Planting Trees and Adopting Bees
6 months ago – Sat, Jun 08, 2024 at 02:10:59 AM

Hello Terrarians! 🌳

Overnight, we achieved an incredible milestone; we passed £1 million! 🤯 Thank you *so* much to every one of you who has made this possible 🙏 Thanks to everyone who was in the comments counting down; your enthusiasm is very much appreciated! 

This means that we’ve unlocked screen-printed character pieces. This is something that mny of you have been asking for, and we’ll be revealing lots more artwork for the pieces (in both the Gold pledge and the Hellstone custom character pack) over the course of the campaign. In the meantime, here’s a sneak peek; please bear in mind that these pieces are only 20mm high, so the level of detail has been chosen so that features are distinguishable, even at this small size.

🏃 Developer Dash

Now that we’ve passed £1 million, we’ve prepared a run of closely packed stretch goals honouring the Re-Logic team; vanity Developer Sets to overlay your character card! We’ve been working closely with the dev team memebers to reimagine their personal sprites and we’ll be revealing them one by one; first the sketches, then the final painted versions. We’re calling it our ‘Developer Dash!’.

🌲🐝 Social Goals: Trees and Bees!

We recently blew through our forest-themed social goal, which means that we’re going to be planting 100 trees aroud the world via Just One Tree. Here’s their mission statement:

“…We support reforestation organisations around the globe, focusing on areas severely affected by mass deforestation. Our partners work with communities that are committed to restoring their forests. Through training, education and employment they are lifted out of poverty, whilst simultaneously improving the environment…”

We also want to thank Jared, who suggested that it would be cool for us to adopt bees; what a wonderful idea for a jungle-themed social goal! We’ve made this one simple; you just need to like our pinned photo of Queen Bee over on Instagram.

When we hit 500 likes on that post (we're already at almost 200), we will be adopting a hive fromThe Hive Much Birch, based in the UK. They promote natural beekeeping and provide apiaries simply as somewhere for wild bees to build their hives. They don’t harvest or sell the honey that the bees produce; they just want to support these incredible insects and the ecosystem that they are a vital part of.

⏰ Update Frequency Reminder

As we mentioned in our previous update, we are going to shift from daily updates to updates every 48 hours. This is to save your inbox but also to make sure we’ve got plenty to tell you about in each update. It also allows the team to have some relaxation time so we can re-energise and make sure we don’t burn out before the end of the campaign. Rest assured we’ll still be answering your comments and messages, but it might take a little longer as we’ll be taking some time away from our screens, especially over the weekend. Once we get to the last 72 hours of the campaign, we’ll be ramping back up to daily updates as we ride the wave to the finish line!

 Thanks again for all of your support; it means a huge amount to us! 

See you next time 😀 

-The Paper Fort Games Team