The Smoke Test Starts Soon! Backerkit Surveys On The Way This Week 📧
about 1 year ago – Mon, Nov 06, 2023 at 03:26:01 PM

Good evening, Shivers fans!

Tonight, we'll be sending out links to the BackerKit Pledge Manager to a small percentage of our backers to ensure that the surveys are working properly (This is called a smoke test ). Everyone else should receive their survey by the end of the week. 

Remember, if your pledge includes a Core Game, we need you to complete your survey by November 15th at the latest so we can get you your game in time for the holidays!

If you don't receive your BackerKit survey by Friday evening, please reach out to us at [email protected] 

Thank you!

- The Shivers Team 

Over $210k raised on Kickstarter! Thank you for supporting our campaign, and now the fun begins. 👻
about 1 year ago – Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 05:03:41 PM

First, a huge thank you to all of our fans and backers.

Once again, you've shared our vision for an expanding Shiververse and supported our new project. We can't thank you enough and hope you'll enjoy the end result when it's ready to ship later on. Our family has grown up with The Shivers, and we hope yours will too!

Next, an important note about your next steps:

In the next few days, you'll be seeing emails from us and BackerKit about accessing your Pledge Manager, a portal through which you can input your shipping address, add any add-ons, and make a payment via credit card. Keep an eye on your inboxes!

IMPORTANT: If you are a Core Game or All-In tier backer, we will be trying to send your Shivers Core Games to you before the holidays. You will have until November 15th to complete your pledge manager, or you won't get your game until after the new year.

Also, did you notice the hidden puzzle on our page? 

SHHH! 🤫

Some of you may have noticed some faint hidden clues across our story graphics, and a brave few of you decoded them all correctly! Congratulations to those sly sleuths who sent in the proper code word. They'll be receiving a special bonus item in their main shipment! 

And finally, what's next for our team?

Here are the tasks ahead for our creative team: 

- Schedule out the full development/production/shipping calendar

- Construct the next generation mockups of our new 3 pop-up rooms and the giant facade

- Work with the writing team to divvy up assignments and review initial ideas for the 12 new episodes 

We'll be sending out monthly updates here on Kickstarter, so you can share in the development process as we go! And as always, be sure to follow us on social media @TheShiversGame. We'd especially love to see posts of your Shivers games around your tables this holiday season! Check out this post from @LederGames about a Root/Shivers mashup. 

Or this crossover post inspired by the Star Wars community: 

Once again, we want to thank you all for being a part of our amazing online community. You all have gone above and beyond with your support of the Shiververse, and we can't wait to make you proud with these new additions. 

Have a wonderful November!

- The Shivers Team

The Final 24 Hours! Celebrating Our Spooky Stretch Goal Unlock (and Happy Halloween, too! 👻)
about 1 year ago – Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 02:07:43 PM

The Halloween Decor Pack is now unlocked with 24 hours to go!

With perfect timing for Halloween, the Spooky Decor set sticks the landing and is now unlocked. Almost like we planned it, huh? 

This just leaves our final Stretch Goal, HAMBOT-7!

We know it's a real stretch at $215k, but with your help, we can bring this cute hamster hero into the Shiververse! 

So if you want Hambot added to your game, you (our awesome backers) have the power to unlock this goal by sharing, tweeting, X-ing, posting, shouting, or mentioning our campaign with your friends. We can get there together! 

Be sure to tag us @TheShiversGame, and here's a handy link & graphic you can use: 

bit.ly/ShiversTripleTerror

Important Note about the BackerKit Pledge Manager:

For those of you with the Core Game or All-In pledge tier levels, it will be super important for you to complete your BackerKit pledge manager within the next couple of weeks. This will ensure you'll receive the Shivers Core Game part of your reward before the holidays. So keep an eye out for emails from us and BackerKit in the next few days. 

At the same time, ALL backers will be able to add their favorite Add-Ons to their orders, including Expansions #1 and #2, the Dog and Cat characters, and the super-exclusive Shivers scented crackling candle!

If you're out Trick-or-Treating tonight, have fun and stay safe! 🎃

- The Shivers Team

It's The Final 48-Hour Countdown! Will We Unlock The Legendary Hambot? 🐹
about 1 year ago – Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 02:34:56 PM

We're So Close To A Spooktacular Home Makeover!

There are just 48 hours left here on The Shivers: Triple Terror Kickstarter, and we're less than $4k away from unlocking the Spooky Decor Set! Are you ready to embrace your inner interior designer and add some haunting details to Fogmoor Cove's most iconic architecture? 🎃

One Last Quest For The Road 🐹 

You voted for him/her/them, so here's Hambot-7!

During our first round of community voting for our next Peculiar Pet, Hambot here was an unexpected crowd favorite. While they came in second to our beloved Raccoon Family bandits, you all shared so much love for this high-tech helper that we thought we'd bring this campaign home with one last cast member! If we can hit $215k before the campaign ends this Wednesday, we'll add the playable character Hambot to the Bonus Character Pack!

Core Game & All-In Backer Alert

As you know, our goal is to get all core games shipped out in time for the holidays. In order to make that happen, we'll need you to fill out your BackerKit pledge surveys as soon as they arrive next week. We'll post several reminders here and send a few emails just in case, but if we don't have your response by November 15, we won't be able to get your Shivers journey started before Christmas. We can't wait to welcome you all to Fogmoor Cove!

Last Call For This Pop-Up Party!

With your help, we've already unlocked:

• The Dia de los Muertos Character Standee Set
• New Playable Character - Kenji Yakamura
• The Bottomless Pit Layout Tile
• New Playable Pecular Pet - The Raccoon Family
• The Halloween Character Standee Set

and...

• The Bonus Monster Standee Set

As we head into our final hours, we would greatly appreciate it if you could share this campaign with any friends and family who might enjoy our mysterious world of pop-up adventures.  After all, what better day than Halloween to entice your gaming group with some frightful family fun? We've even heard our games makes the perfect holiday gift as we head into that season. 

Here's a handy link and graphic to make posting on social media easy! 

bit.ly/ShiversTripleTerror

Finally, from the bottom of our hearts, we would like to say thank you to each and every one of you for all of your support throughout this campaign. Every pledge, comment, share, post, and like has brought us one step closer to expanding the Shiververse in new and exciting ways. We're so excited to have you by our side on this spooktacular journey!

-The Shivers Team

Monster Pack Unlocked! Now, It's Time To Get Spooky! 👻 (Bonus Deluxe Dice Sneak Peek & Poll)
about 1 year ago – Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 03:35:15 PM

We've unleashed the monsters!

With your help throughout the weekend, we managed to smash our latest Stretch Goal, unlocking the Monster Standee Set. Thank you to everyone for weighing in on which creeps you'd like to see in the pack!

(We LOVE the giant blob suggestion!)

The votes are in. Introducing the Spooky Set Stretch Goal!

We really appreciate all of your fantastic feedback on our last update. The Spooky Set beat out the Winter Holiday Set by a mile. Maybe it's because we're in October? Frightful fun is all around this festive season! 🎃

Here's your chance to let us know about your favorite Halloween decor items. Just weigh in by posting in the comments below!

Super Deluxe Dice, anyone?

We've been talking with the great folks at Level Up Dice and, if enough of you are interested, we can offer some deluxe upgrades to the standard tri-colored Shivers dice.

These would be hand-crafted out of semi-precious (and semi-translucent) stone, with upgraded graphics and filigrees. They would also be about 25% larger at 20mm per side. For reference, the current acrylic Shivers dice are 16mm per side. The 3-dice upgrade pack would be about $30. Let us know in the comments below if you'd like to see these as add-ons. If there's enough interest, we'll set the wheels in motion!

Be sure to follow us @TheShiversGame for all the latest fun!

- The Shivers Team