Ever, Jane is a Go!

According to the latest Kickstarter announcement from the team behind Ever, Jane: The Virtual World of Jane Austen, the game is now a go after meeting its funding goal late Sunday evening. According to the announcement, after rounding up pledges, the team will be hard at work on seasonal activities, adding stretch goals and continuing to add content to the genre-stretching new MMO.

Well, we did it! It's been a bit of a roller-coaster ride, but we did it – thanks to you.

THANK YOU SO MUCH! 

 So what happens next?

The first thing is that Kickstarter will be collecting all your pledges over the next two weeks – look out for an e-mail from them in case there are any problems with your cards! You wouldn't want to miss out, now, would you? While this is happening, the prototype game will remain free to play, so do invite friends if you would like. 

We will, however, be busy setting up our website to handle account verification and payments, and once this is in place, only you, our backers, will be able to continue to play for free. However, we're also listing our stretch goals on the website and people who contribute to these will have automatic access to the game. We're also going to be setting up a spreadsheet with all your names and the rewards you're entitled to so that you don't miss out when we launch the game itself – 90% of the rewards are in-game, as you know, so you will have to wait for most of these. 

I hope we'll also be able to put you on a mailing list so that we can keep you informed about new updates, releases, etc. We'll be putting these on our website, of course, but it would be good to be able to e-mail you as well. Obviously we'll set up a mechanism so that you can unsubscribe from our e-mails – and we promise not to e-mail you too often – but we hope you'll want to go on hearing from us, and be willing to allow e-mails from3turnproductions.com into your inbox. 

Next up will be our end-of-year parties, so please keep an eye on the website for details:www.everjane.com And thank you all, so much, once again.

In case you missed it, we caught up with lead designer Judy Tyrer to talk about Ever, Jane. It's a terrific and informative read.