Kickstarter report: day 13

We are now halfway by means of our Kickstarter campaign, and it is time to highlight one of the rewards we’re offering. In this update, you’ll get a sneak peak into the approach of writing the novel for Cross of the Dutchman.

In order to do this, we need to have to go all the way back to the begin of the project. During our investigation, we came across several books about Grutte Pier. We found that some of them had been really factual, where other individuals seemed much more like person stories about our hero. On leading of that, none of the books had been really exciting to read, mosty due to the fact of the dated style in which they had been written. We employed the books as a reference, but when we started writing the 1st draft of the script, we immediately saw that there would be a massive chance for an thrilling and modern day novel about Grutte Pier.

Then, for a although we focussed on getting the technology for the game up and running, so the suggestions about the book were place on hold. Until, that is, we had been reminded by 1 of the guests of the CotD weblog about the possibilities. This is where issues began to get moving. Remco ended up meeting with Afûk, a publisher of Frisian books, a business with a quite flexible and contemporary method to book publishing. Ernst Bruinsma, Editor in Chief introduced author Ate Grypsta, who had recently released his thriller novel “It beest fan de Westereen” (the animal of the Westereen), and who was clearly up for a new challenge. The chemistry betweem Ate and Triangle was there right away, and after performing the math, the decision was created to write and publish a new book based on the script for Cross of the Dutchman.

At the moment, Ate is tough at word writing the novel, and we are working in close collaboration to ensure that boh book and videogame complement every single other. Just last Friday, Ate visited the Triangle office, and we recorded a video of him explaining his drive for becoming a writer in general, as effectively as for this lastet book of his. We are proud of the reality that the novel will be written completely in Frisian, but not to be concerned, there will be both Dutch and English versions accessible as effectively.

Back to the project, final week we held a Game Jam at Triangle. The assignment was basic: Come up with a cool idea for Cross of the Dutchman. Two teams worked the whole day, and had been able to come up with some very impressive demos! Examine out the fruit of their labor in the following YouTube video (gameplay footage included!).

In the meantime, our Kickstarter campaign is not performing nicely adequate. We’re finding messages each day of individuals generating quite great ideas on how we can increase, but it seems that our efforts have but to reach the broader audience we need in order to turn out to be profitable. The team is giving it their extremely best to total the gameplay material as soon as achievable, hopefully that will trigger a lot of blogs and internet sites to write an article about us and give us the boost we so desperately want.

To close off, I would the moment once again like to thank everyone who has currently backed Cross of the Dutchman, and please remember to tell your friend about the project as nicely, we need all the focus we can get!

Cross of the Dutchman