Call of Kilforth, Day 6 – Kicktraq, Videos, Music!
over 2 years ago – Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 12:02:27 AM

Hello there,

Hope you're off to a lovely start to the week - let's have a nice brew and a catch up...

Kicktraq Link!

It will really help boost the campaign if you can save this as your bookmark for the campaign page from now on - i.e. click this link instead of any other to get to the Kickstarter page and it will push us up the all important Kicktraq rankings:

https://www.kicktraq.com/projects/tristanhall/call-of-kilforth-a-fantasy-quest-game/

No Minis Gameplay All-In Pledge?

There have been several requests for a Gameplay All-In bundle without the miniatures. I'm reluctant to over-complicate the campaign by adding even more pledge levels, especially at this stage. Trying to identify what Gameplay All-In means to each person is a complex issue. To some, it's strictly new gameplay content across all three games. To others it's only the gameplay content for Call of Kilforth. And to other people it means everything without miniatures, including the Deluxe expansions.  Whereas to others it means all of this, but add the playmat...

I don't think one pledge is going to satisfy everyone's wants, which is why everything in this campaign is available as an add-on – feel free to personalise your pledge as much as you like. You could, for example, just pledge for Call of Kilforth and then select anything from the campaign as an add-on. :) 

Many of you have identified that we are offering the miniatures at a truly insane discount – we are very hungry to see the beautiful Kilforth Miniatures join the Kilforth collection!

Kilforth Ratings on BGG

I can't overstate how helpful it is for you to rate our games on boardgamegeek.com – if you have played either of the previous two Kilforth games and have the opportunity to give them a mark out of ten (and maybe leave a comment too) that would be incredible:

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/98527/gloom-kilforth-fantasy-quest-game

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/238916/shadows-kilforth-fantasy-quest-game

We know Kilforth is a beloved IP and so this is yet another avenue for you guys to let the wider world know this too. It's pretty bloomin' cool being Tabletop Gaming's Best Kept Secret but it does mean that we have to work much harder to get the word out about what we're doing! :D

Music of Kilforth

For those of you who don't already know, Francesca composes, arranges and plays all of our soundtracks. Here's the entire original piano sound track for Gloom of Kilforth:

It's an absolute blessing to listen to Francesca play whilst I'm designing game worlds. For Call of Kilforth she arranged and played a piece called Blue. This is the first time she has used a piece by another composer (Mike Gibbons) – we both loved it so much that we felt we had to use it for the Kilforth soundtrack. I think you'll agree that the song is both unique and ethereal:

Videos

These guys have been shouting about us on YouTube so it seems only fair to share their links - even more brilliant to see some of you guys popping up in their comments too! :D

GloryHoundd (34m, 11s)

Liege of Games (00m,45s)

And for our lovely French fans, Les Rois de Trefle has been doing a whole Gloom play-through to dovetail with the campaign: 

And that's all for today - ciao for now!

Tristan xx

PS. No spoilers, but Spider-Man: No Way Home is utterly brilliant! :D

Call of Kilforth, Day 3 - Project We Love!
over 2 years ago – Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 08:30:49 PM

Hello there,

If you're anything like me you'll love a clear and sorted inbox, so this is just a super quick one to keep your emails uncluttered and to say thank you again for all of your comments, support and love – you guys are absolutely smashing it! So much so in fact that Kickstarter has bestowed us with the much vaunted Project We Love badge...

I mean, this is a coincidence because we really love this project too! :D

If you guys could share this campaign on social media we'd be super appreciative. Even though Call of Kilforth has already smashed our expectations we don't take a single moment for granted, and every tweet or shout-out you can spare helps boost the campaign enormously, which as you know lets us continue doing what we love to do.

Hope you're having a brilliant week and that you manage to get some quality gaming in. Our little one has discovered the joys of Dark Souls so I'm hoping to help him smite some bosses this week at some point. :D

Cheers!

Tristan xx

Call of Kilforth, Day 1 - Funded in 10 bloomin' minutes!!
over 2 years ago – Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 11:37:04 PM

Hello there and welcome to the beautiful lands of Kilforth!

I'm honestly struggling for words today because this has been crazy...

£117,881 pledged 1178% funded 927 backers 23 days to go!!!

This is a record-breaking Kickstarter for us and we are absolutely thrilled to bits with the support you have shown us. If we had ended the campaign on these figures we would have been delighted, so to finish the first 12 hours at this level is an unbelievable achievement. 

Thank you so much.

I think it's also a glowing testament to the enduring appeal of Gloom of Kilforth and Shadows of Kilforth, which were together very recently voted into the 1PG top 100 games of all time for the 5th year running. As a designer it's literally a gift for me to be able to return to this world I've spent decades developing, and to work with the best artists in the world to breathe magnificent new life into every character and landscape imaginable. And the Dungeon Master in me gets giddy with excitement to see so many people enjoying adventuring in my alternative home world! :D

There are tons of new faces here today, as well as many legends who've been with us from the outset of our journey, and you are all most, most welcome. Francesca and I have been running Hall or Nothing since 2015 and to watch it grow from the seeds of a scrappy albeit bold first Kickstarter campaign which took 27 days out of 30 to fund, right through to our 9th campaign which funded in 10 minutes? Well that journey has just been, as our friend Jason Brown points out, incredible:

So wherever we go from here, I just want to say thank you again so much for joining us, and we have such beautiful sights to show you.

Have a brilliant rest of the week, and season's greetings from the Team at Hall or Nothing!