Exoplanet: First Contact - After the Campaign

After the successful Kickstarter campaign for Exoplanet: First Contact, the devs are talking about their next steps.

We’ve hoped that after our Kickstarter campaign we’re going to take a little break, rest and continue developing Exoplanet. However that wasn’t the case. While the campaign was running we’ve gathered so much feedback that we’ve still didn’t manage to get through all of it.

During the first week after the end of the campaign Kickstarter was gathering funds from the backers. Some payments however couldn’t be processed, so an additional week was required, so the people could fix their payment details, and most did. Statistics show, that at the end of the campaign about 10% of the backers withdraw their pledges, though in our case the percentage was minimal and didn’t affect the final sum much. This shows, that every single one of our backers made a deliberate choice and believes in Exoplanet: First Contact, a fact that we really appreciate.

Now we have a final list of the backers, therefore we’re planning on starting shipping the physical rewards, taking care of services and other details. According to Kickstarter, funds are going to be transferred in a timeframe of up to two weeks. We’ll start shipping the physical goodies as soon as the transfer is confirmed.

While taking care of logistics, we don’t forget about the actual development of the game. During the campaign we’ve come to know experts that offered to help work on the project. That allowed us to start development of new assets, for which we didn’t have resources before our success on Kickstarter.