Pledged: $45 CAD + $25 CAD shipping Rewards: Hardcover copy of the book, Digital resource archive Kickstarter start date: September 15, 2020 Kickstarter funded on: October 16, 2020 Estimated delivery date: January 2021
Context:
Backed this book because it came around a time that I was looking to get better at digital art colouring and shading.
Pledged: £50 (+£22 shipping) Rewards: “How to THINK When You DRAW Vol. 3” hardcover, “How to THINK When You WRITE” hardcover Kickstarter start date: April 28, 2020 Kickstarter funded on: June 4, 2020 Estimated delivery date: November 2020
Context:
My brother owns the earlier volumes in this series of art and writing tutorial books, so I figured I should get the rest.
Result:
The two new books arrived earlier than the estimated delivery date above!
Here they are on the shelf next to my brother’s copies of Volumes 1 & 2.
They also included an alphabetical Table-of-Contents for all three volumes!
Pledged: €70 Rewards: Two special edition books (comic anthology, art book) signed and sketched in by Novil, three PDFs (comic anthology, art book, first book) Kickstarter start date: November 7, 2018 Kickstarter funded on: January 3, 2019 Estimated delivery date:February 2019
Context:
I haven’t kept up with this webcomic in such a long time, that I only heard about this Kickstarter while scrolling through Facebook. Fortunately, this physical edition has every comic I need to get caught back up.
Result:
The books arrived on April 11, 2019.
Above: The anthology and art book. Below: Stamps and signatures from the author, Oliver Knörzer.
Pledged: £22 Rewards:Signed first edition hardback, eBook, Name in the back of the book Unbound start date: July 25, 2018 Unbound funded on: N/A Estimated delivery date: N/A
Context:
The Region Locked book comes from the Did You Know Gaming team, and even includes excerpts from Ashens who made the campaign I posted about before this one. It also seems it will talk about Wonder Project J and Live a Live, my favourite Square-Enix SNES games.
Result:
The book was released after a few years of the Unbound project start. (TO-DO: Images of book)
Pledged: £34 Rewards: eBook download, Physical paperback copy of book (signed by Cyriak Harris), Name in the back of the book Unbound start date: May 18, 2018 Unbound funded on: N/A Estimated delivery date: N/A
Context:
Cyriak is a surrealist animator, who suddenly announced they wrote a book, so I backed it.
Result:
The eBook has been sent to backers and my name is credited on page 371.
The physical signed copy of the book was received between May-June 2019.
The backer credits of Horse Destroys the Universe. NeonWabbit’s name is listed here as “Darien Brice Dickinson”.
Pledged: £30 Rewards: Physical hardcover book, Name in the book Kickstarter start date: March 20, 2018 Kickstarter funded on: April 21, 2018 Estimated delivery date: April 2019
Context:
The only Oddworld game I’ve finished is the 2nd Abe one on the PlayStation One, but I’ve been interested in how the series all came together and the art and lore behind it, so I opted for this book.
Pledged: £35 (+£17.45 shipping) Rewards: Signed hardback, eBook, Name in the back of the book Unbound start date: October 25, 2017 Unbound funded on: N/A Estimated delivery date: N/A
Context:
Larry Bundy Jr. has a good YouTube series on facts about video games, so I decided to check out the book version of the series also.
Result:
The book arrived at my place on February 11, 2020.