{"id":1358,"date":"2014-08-13T00:01:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T04:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tellest.com\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2014-08-25T05:11:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T09:11:37","slug":"what-could-have-been-kickstarter-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/what-could-have-been-kickstarter-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"What Could Have Been &#8211; Kickstarter 201"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of you might not know this, because this site wasn&#8217;t nearly as large as it is back in January of 2013, but our successful Kickstarter this year\u00a0<em>wasn&#8217;t<\/em> actually our first Kickstarter. \u00a0You see, we tried to run a campaign for the third book in the Child of the Stars trilogy,\u00a0<em>The Enemy Within<\/em>. \u00a0It was very touch and go, because the book is so large, and required a lot of editing, which is why one book was gunning for such a huge campaign goal.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, the campaign stalled &#8211; and for good reason. \u00a0I don&#8217;t think I managed it right, and I think toward the end, I was actually glad that we didn&#8217;t meet our goal.<\/p>\n<p>That said though, I think there are some things that we really missed out on because of that. \u00a0I&#8217;ve always been a big fan of retro games &#8211; stuff from the 80&#8217;s and 90&#8217;s, as you can see from the development we&#8217;ve put forth on Heart of the Forest. \u00a0So one of the things I was really excited to do was release some 8-bit button pins that you could clip to your bag, or a mirror cozy, something that was just quirky. \u00a0I actually had our whole A-list lineup of heroes. \u00a0Here&#8217;s just a couple of them:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/8-bit-Kaos-version-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1359\" src=\"http:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/8-bit-Kaos-version-5.png\" alt=\"8-bit Kaos version 5\" width=\"150\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/8-bit-Steel-Tip-version-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1360\" src=\"http:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/8-bit-Steel-Tip-version-4.png\" alt=\"8-bit Steel Tip version 4\" width=\"150\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/8-bit-Dirk-version-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1361\" src=\"http:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/8-bit-Dirk-version-2.png\" alt=\"8-bit Dirk version 2\" width=\"150\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Obviously they feel like Megaman. \u00a0But I think they turned out really well, especially Dirk. \u00a0What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of you might not know this, because this site wasn&#8217;t nearly as large as it is back in January of 2013, but our successful Kickstarter this year\u00a0wasn&#8217;t actually our first Kickstarter. \u00a0You see, we tried to run a campaign for the third book in the Child of the Stars trilogy,\u00a0The Enemy Within. \u00a0It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[57,145],"tags":[558,81,231,560,559],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Tellest-Pixels-e1407529092458.png","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1UVey-lU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}