Kickstarter Successfully Crowdfunded $378,000!!!

Dear Seikyuians,

 

I am Klaus, the Director of Tales of Seikyu! I wanted to take a moment to personally say how thankful myself and the ACE team are for your unwavering support. We spent a lot of time preparing for the Kickstarter; initially hoping to potentially reach around 200k, but, to our surprise, we reached $378,000! Each backer played a crucial role in the future of ToS.

Due to our small team size, we may not always respond promptly to questions on Kickstarter and Discord. Special thanks to Kc and Mimi, our volunteer Mods  and collaborators (not affiliated to our Studio), for their assistance. While we dedicated much time to Kickstarter preparations in the past months, our focus will shift more towards game development in the future. We encourage everyone to participate in our Discord discussions as this is our first time developing a game of this scale. We hope you can provide us with game-related suggestions and help us create a Yōkai RPG game that everyone will love.

Regarding campaign goals that have not been realized yet, such as character customization and multiplayer, I have good news. We will ensure at least simple character customization features like skin colors, and we will gradually update more anticipated content in future releases.

The Alpha playtest is currently scheduled for April, and we will notify everyone on Discord and Kickstarter at the end of March on how to participate. Bear in mind that due to how uncertain and unpredictable game development can be, the playtest may have to be rescheduled for a later date. Since the game is in its early stages during the Alpha test, we will require participants to sign an NDA, preventing the game's public disclosure or video recording. Your feedback on any content issues or bugs during gameplay will be valuable for the game's improvement.

We are preparing the Kickstarter survey, and we ask for your patience. Once we have a precise time we will immediately inform everyone, which we expect to have ready within 1-2 months. All in-game rewards will be delivered as codes before the game's official launch, and can be redeemed in the game. Steam keys will be synchronized for PC players before the EA launch, and Console key players will receive their keys before the console version's release.

To the backers involved in game design, thank you for supporting our game in this way. As design content requires more time, we have prepared design-related surveys that will be gradually synced with everyone next week. You can submit designs or revisions anytime until April 30. For any questions, feel free to join our Discord and message Klaus privately.

As a reminder, we would like to inform every backer for whom their payment didn't go through, either due to processing errors or insufficient funds, that Kickstarter allocates a 7 day period, debuting the moment the campaign ended, to rectify the situation. If you don't correct your payment prior to that deadline, you'll be dropped as a backer, and won't receive your selected tier rewards.

Finally, on behalf of the ACE Entertainment development team, I express our gratitude. Thank you for your support, helping us fulfill the dream of bringing the world of Tales of Seikyu to players. We hope you join our Discord to help us develop and refine the world of ToS together.