Salutations, fellow dwellers of the stygian abysses of Kickstarter!

Liviu here, bringing you update #3, and boy oh boy is it a long one! Please gently massage your scrolling finger before you jump in. Theeeere you go. I have so much to tell you, it’s hard to decide where to start! Oh wait, no - that part’s easy. I’ll start by thanking everyone again, whether you backed from day one or 30 seconds ago: you guys are literally making this game happen as I’m typing this, and it’s a beautiful thing.

Tonight, as darkness draws near and otherworldly voices whisper in detestable, unknown languages around you, look up in the sky - the stars are right! The waxing gibbous moon is upon us!

Gibbous: More than half but less than fully illuminated. Can also mean "only partially revealed". Hmmm...

Halfway there!

I can’t believe it’s already the middle of the campaign! It’s been a thrilling ride, and I’ve met so many cool new people and gotten so much love and support for the campaign, it’s a little overwhelming. We are now halfway there, and 50% funded - there hasn’t been a day without at least a couple dozen backers, and many of you upped your pledges, told your friends and cheered us on, for which we’re very grateful. Awesome people like Michael from Adventure-treff, Gabriel, Serena, Jean-Baptiste, Octavian, Alex Palade and many more are what keeps us going.

At the time of typing this, we are 960 strong. It's amazing. Amazing!!!

We’ve also been greenlit on Steam in 10 days! It was an incredibly pleasant surprise, and we want to thank everyone who voted for Gibbous from the bottom of our blackened, wretched, Old One-worshipping hearts.

I’ve been steadily contacting the press - I can safely say I’ve sent more e-mails in this couple of weeks than in my entire life before. Here’s to hoping it will pay off and Gibbous will gain the exposure we think it deserves.

A Quick Important Note On the demo

We haved uncapped that mutha from the prison of the 24 frames per second - now the framerate goes as high as your computer can! It now supports all aspect ratios (cutscenes might be a bit stretched on non 16:9 resolutions). Whether you didn't get a chance to play it yet, or you already did, you might want to get it again and be in awe at how fluid it now is. Download: Windows Mac Linux.

Add-ons, Discounted Eldritch Idol and General Physical Rewards Stuff

As I promised from the beginning, we are listening closely to your feedback and acting accordingly, whether it be the game or the campaign. Therefore, two big developments: Due to popular demand, we are now enabling add-ons! Simply up your pledge in accordance to the add-on price below, and later on we’ll send out a survey so you can tell us what your choice was. Oh, and just to make sure, shoot me a message about it, too! Here are our available add-ons:

If you have any more ideas about add-ons, let us know in the comments or message me. I will answer as fast as I can.

Another biggie is the *drumroll* iiiincredibly discounted and super-limited Early Bird Eldritch Idol Tier! We completely understand people want the Kitteh 3d print - and this isn’t even her final form, wink wink! - but some can’t afford to shell out too much for it, so we are discounting the Early Bird Eldritch Idol to ~$199, and limiting its quantity to 10. And I wasn’t kidding with the final form, the statuette will be even cooler and more detailed (could use some tentacles, don’t you think?).

Introducing a whole new generation to sentient cats and cosmic abominations

As for the physical copy prototype - I am on the printing house guys’ back constantly, a couple of e-mails away from an electronic restraining order. It will happen soon.

Starr Mazer and Gibbous? WHAAAT?

Huge news, my friends. I will of course assume you know what Starr Mazer is, but just in case - it’s an incredibly cool retro-sexy point and click adventure slash shmup being developed by the excellent people of Imagos Softworks. I remember being blown away by the kick-ass Kickstarter they ran a year ago, so getting in touch with Starr Mazer creator Don Thacker was a no-brainer.

Adventure games, yo.

Well, to make a very long story short, the stars have aligned and it IS happening: the very talented Don Thacker will be voicing our own grizzled detective, Don R. Ketype! Don is an incredibly good voice actor. And film director. And game creator. And all-around awesome dude. Let me tell you - he is THE man for the job. Don IS Don. Coincidence? I think not! We couldn’t be more thrilled.

Don could only be Don.

But wait, there’s more! I will be joining Don and Starr Mazer tv for a live interview today at 9:30 AM PST / 5:30 PM CET, so go to the HyperRpg twitch channel in a couple of hours to see a really tired man with a horrible headache try to make sense and hype up his game simultaneously, while you make fun of the whole thing in the chatroom. See you there!

Hot Off The Press

Well, it ain’t no Panama Papers (I literally had no time to see what all that was about, seriously), but Gibbous has been making some fresh appearances in the press, like an interview in The Examiner (holy smokes!) and articles on Adventure-treff.de, Gameskinny, NicheGamer, Gamewatcher, Made With Unity, AdventureAdvocate, Goombastomp, DigitalRiot, Games.Cz, Sektor.sk, Juegario and more. Thanks to everyone who wrote or blogged about us. Every share, view and pledge helps!

And speaking of press, we will be featured in Nivelul 2’s printed edition: a whole 4 pages on Gibbous! Wow! This was an opportunity to realize we didn’t really have any decent team pics, so we took some. A friend said they look like sitcom promo shots. We’ll take it!

Lady and the tramps

... and in case you were wondering, Three Point Oh is just as tired from all this Kickstarter business. We tried, but she couldn’t be reached for comments.

No pictures, please!

In Closing

We’re halfway there, brothers and sisters. We really need to pull together to make this ambitious game happen. Please know we are doing our part and we are very hardcore about it. If you’re as passionate about this project as we are (and we know you are!), please don’t hesitate to help spread the word. So far it’s been a steady climb toward funding, but we would love to hit some exciting stretch goals like the translations, being ultra fully voiced, and our specialty: badass animated cutscenes. Let’s do this, fellow cultists!

Head-achingly-but-with-a-huge-grin-on,

Liviu, Crasher of Gmail servers

PS: Shout-outs!

Ghost Theory is a first person horror game that will have you investigating real haunted places from around the world. I really wanted to give them a shout-out, not just because Ghost Theory looks awesome, but also because in the game you’ll be investigating the infamous Baciu forest, well-known for hundreds of weird paranormal rumors and sightings. Many say it's the world's most haunted forest. Ok, so why’s that so special? Well, it’s about 100 km from where we live, and we recently went there to, ahem, investigate it ourselves. But that.. Brr.. that’s a story I’ll have tell some other time. Click the picture to visit their campaign.

And, last but not least, our good friend Fabrice Breton will finally launch his game, Demetrios: The Big Cynical Adventure, on May 31st! Demetrios is a game he developed by himself throughout the years, which is… insane. Fabrice, you are insane, and I mean that in the nicest way possible. I have so much respect for one-person teams, so give Demetrios a spin May 31st, see what irreverent adventures Bjorn will be embarking on. Click the picture to be whisked away to Demetrios' Steam page and add it to your wishlist.

See you next update!