We're so delighted to announce that in just the nick of time, Of Sense and Soul was fully funded on Kickstarter! 💌

Those of you who have been following the campaign or kept in touch on our social media will know this already, but we really cannot thank you all enough. It's still sinking in that we have the funds we need to make the game happen, but we cannot wait to get back to work on it!

• If you backed the campaign (first of all, thank you!) then all there's left for you to do right now is make sure your pledges have gone through on Kickstarter and wait for an email containing the Backerkit Survey coming within a month of the funds coming through on our end.
• If you missed the campaign, fear not—we have a Backerkit "Better Late Than Never" Pre-Order store up which you can access from now until the end of September! Last call to grab those Kickstarter goodies, everyone!
• We also have a Post-Kickstarter Survey up where you can relay your thoughts about the campaign. You can submit your response at ofsenseandsoul.com/postks.

You could also join our Newsletter and our Discord to get the latest updates first and chat with us! We'd love to hear from you 💖 

Campaign Post-Mortem

If you're curious about all the ups and downs of the campaign and everything that led up to it, I've got a Post-Mortem for the campaign up on my blog. 

You can read Of Sense and Soul: A Kickstarter Postmortem on ingthing.dev, featuring quality memes like this one:

Voiced CG Preview: Hugo Chapter 8

The voiced scenes scattered throughout OSAS truly make the slow build of Hugo and Seamus' relationship all the more special! 

We promised an early preview of this scene from Hugo Chapter 8 to our backers when we hit 75% funded. Seeing as we reached that along with 100% at the very end of the campaign, here it is for you all to enjoy! 🥰 ✨ 

As always, Max and Shaun did a spectacular job with every nuance in this scene, and MAHO!Cody's direction made it all the better! Listening to the voice acting as I draw has been really helpful in deciding what expressions and variations I should include in the CG itself.

 The Scene: Hugo and Seamus are en route to the library via omnibus, and the close quarters they're forced together in lead to a conversation that gives Hugo quite a bit to mull over...

Next Steps

While we wait for Kickstarter to process your pledges, we'll still be working behind the scenes and getting plans for the rest of production ready so we can hit the ground running in September!

We'll also be cheering on and spreading love to a fellow developer's campaign:

Dual Chroma by Galen Games: On Kickstarter Now!

Dual Chroma is an otome fantasy visual novel with RPG elements in which you must follow your head or your heart as advisor to the Second Prince (Keldran, shown below) of the Galens Empire in a ruthless war against the monsters returning from the empire's tragic past.

Their campaign started just under two days ago and they've already made it to 59% of their £10,992 goal! It's such an incredible start, I have high hopes they'll make it to their stretch goals.

Now, I may have a slight bias seeing as I designed the logo of this game, but to Crysil, the dev behind Galen Games, Dual Chroma is her OSAS—that one project that she wants to bring to life with everything she has! Just as my hopes rested on outcome of our campaign, so do hers, in wanting to tell the stories that have lived in our heads for years and years.

I was able to play part of the demo in the midst of my campaign madness, and there's some great dialogue and some quality characterisation on display already—and the art is stunning! I'd love to see Crysil and her team succeed, and I hope you would too! 

➔ Play the Demo and Back their campaign here! 

We'll be back to regularly scheduled content (and dev updates for the past... two months? Eep!) very soon, but once again, thank you all for supporting our game! 

Of Sense and Soul means the world to us, and I hope the final game becomes that special to you all as well.

Until Next Time,

Ing

P.S. Remember to play the new Seamus chapter of the demo! :)