Kickstarter funded in under 24 hours! Stretch goals! London Comic Con!

It’s been just over a week since we launched our Kickstarter, and a LOT has happened. Let’s get to the biggest news first though!

Crescent County hit its funding goal in under 24 hours.

This is an absolutely unbelievable achievement and we are so, so thankful.

For a game idea that started out so small, and so hopeful, and seemed so utterly impossible to make real, we’re now sitting at 62k with 20 days left to go. From all of us at Electric Saint, thank you so much for all your cheering and enthusiasm and support. We crossed the line at 16:37, with more than an hour to left on the clock!

It was also CARNAGE in the Discord as we speculated on whether we’d cross the finish line before the 24 hour mark.

We were screaming, we were cheering, there was much keyboard smashing. We didn’t think it was likely to happen in 24 hours at ALL, but the sheer momentum of this community’s energy carried us forward. With delight and yelling and memes. Sending you all SO MUCH LOVE!!!! And hop into the Discord if you’d like to get involved!

We’ve also hit our first stretch goal:

£60k: Expanded Driving Radio!

Music is such a vital moodsetter for our game, and we want to have as many vibey tracks in Crescent County as possible. With the extra funding, we can pay for more music for our in-game radio/background music (not the Spotify playlist)! Alongside creating more original music to add to our OST, we also want to license music from existing artists. We'd love for CC to act as a literal vehicle for music discovery, especially for new and upcoming local bands! This is something we're already doing in a small way, but we want to do it a WHOLE LOT MORE!

Our next stretch goal iiiiis:

£67k: Longer Dates, More Kissin!

With the extra funding we can put more resources and assets into our romances with Aster. Bo, Jessica, and Mara, which includes more animations (taking Jessica on a romantic ride on the back of your broom, anyone?), better date locations (bonfires on the beach, mycology research with Aster, light breaking and entering with Mara), and expanded dialogue options. We really want to create memorable romantic moments with emotional heft (any maybe even some yearning), so this funding will really help us achieve that!

Finally, we rolled straight from our launch into demoing our game to the public at MCM London Comic Con! This may have been one of the most exhausting things Anna has ever done. However, with the support of some incredible booth buddies, it was a wonderful success!

We got some amazing demo feedback that we're going to be applying alongside what we've received in our Discord demo feedback channel, and we got to have a lot of wonderful moments of long-time supporters of Anna's illustration realise that the painting on their wall is a video game now. Also Gengar enjoyed the wares.

To top all of this off, one of our favourite motorbroom enthusiasts Alex customised a Sony Sports CD Walkman to look like a piece of witch-tech straight out of Crescent County! Honestly this is hands down one of the coolest things EVER and it has pride of place on our shelf, forever. Look!! At this!!! We must find a way to reference it in game.

Anyhow, LOTS HAPPENING, LOTS MORE TO COME. We haven't even gotten into the Crescentsonas yet! As always, please tell your friends about our Kickstarter, please back us if you're interested, we've got so much more that we want to do! It's happening, gang, it's happening!