A game of obsession and wonder in a nightmare dungeon beneath the Spire.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Art previews and the Witch class breakdown
over 4 years ago
– Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 12:24:50 AM
Hello all,
It's been a little while since we spoke, so we figured we'd give you an update to let you know that we're not dead and are, in fact, still working on the book.
We're on track to finish the first draft of the core text by early January; at present we're going over the classes and callings and tightening them up, as some of them are functional but not quite as brilliant as they could be. (We just finished overhauling the witch.)
Felix is hard at work illustrating the book - he's doing all the pencils first, and once we give him the thumbs up, he's going to get into the pen and ink versions. Below are a few scans of his pencil sketches to whet your appetite:
The Iconic Cleaver makes their first appearance, complete with devotional flensing glaive
The Temple of the Moon Beneath in all its reconstructed glory
The Cult of Knives hold court in the body and limbs of their latest unfortunate bearer
You'll also be pleased to hear that, now the witch is complete, we've uploaded the Class Breakdown that we didn't write during the campaign. We reckon you'll be pleased with her new abilities - take a look at our site for more details. She can adopt predatory buildings, now!
That's all for now. Be good to each other.
- Chris, Grant and Mary
Pledge manager and pre-order store are live
over 4 years ago
– Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 01:10:05 AM
From there you can increase your pledge if you want to add some more stuff to your order (and we have a lot to choose from); we've opened the pre-order store too, so if for some reason you're reading this but didn't back the project, you can sign up there.
Some of the pledge levels on the backerkit include PDFs that already exist from Spire or our other games. However, we can't give you access to these until we charge your cards and receive payment. Therefore if you'd like to get your hands on the PDFs before we go to print next year, please send a message to [email protected] with the email address you used on Kickstarter, and we can individually charge your card early.
THE WITCH CLASS BREAKDOWN
... Isn't here! Okay so: we've been going back and forth on the witch for a while following your playtest reports, and after much thinking we've come to the conclusion that the class is trying to do too many jobs. We're overhauling the theme and abilities to make sure that it's as good as it can be (and that it doesn't encroach on the Cleaver, who operates around pretty similar themes). Don't worry - the witch is still a blood-disease powered occultist, and stays true to the Blood-Witch class from Spire that preceded it.
But it's not ready yet for final release, so you'll have to wait for a bit while we get everything hashed out properly.
Okay, that's all for now. Thanks again for your tremendous support throughout this whole process.
- Chris, Grant and Mary
Backerkit almost live
over 4 years ago
– Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 02:39:34 AM
Hi folks,
We’ve just pushed the Smoke Test button on the Backerkit pledge manager, which means that a handful of you will get an email asking you to fill it out. Assuming everything goes to plan and there aren’t any massive issues, we’ll notify the rest of you by the end of the week and you can fill out the forms to confirm your name and address as well as add stuff to your pledge.
That’s all for now. Once the whole thing goes live we’ll post it here along with (finally!) the Witch class breakdown.
- Chris, Grant and Mary
Heart Discord
over 4 years ago
– Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 12:49:23 AM
Oh - and we have a Discord server where you can chat about Heart, Spire and all of our other games. Here’s a link, come along and join in: https://discord.gg/z3hwaDX
DONE!
over 4 years ago
– Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 06:29:02 PM
We've funded! I mean, we funded early on. But we've done it officially now, and once Kickstarter sends the money over, we'll get on with setting up the Backerkit and opening the pre-order store.
We passed the last stretch goal - Vermissian Black Ops - so that's happening, too. Just got to write it now.
Thank you so much for your tremendous support and enthusiasm throughout this project - it's been amazing to see, and we genuinely couldn't make it happen without you.
Right. Maybe we'll take the rest of day off? Tomorrow, we're finishing off the Eight Heavens. One of them has swords growing in them! Another has bootleg ambrosia. We're having a lot of fun.
