The folks over at Protagonist Labs have been blazing through their inaugural Kickstarter for their debut game, Storium. It’s an intriguing new kind of game that blends online forum gaming with more traditional roleplaying game elements, and it lends itself to being played in all sorts of different settings.
They explain a bit of it in the pitch video below, and if you’re interested in giving it a try, backers get immediate access to the beta. They cracked their initial funding goal in the first 24 hours of the drive, and they’ve been knocking down stretch goals like a demonized Goat Simulator ever since.
To help out with those stretch goals, Protagonist Labs has lined up an all-star cast of developers and writers to help out with the game. They started out with Will Hindmarch (who also designed the game), Mur Lafferty, JC Hutchins, and Chuck Wendig as core advisors and then added worlds from game and story luminaries like Delilah S. Dawson, Stephen Blackmoore, Mark Diaz Truman, Amanda & Clark Valentine, Nancy Holder, Jason Morningstar, Maruice Broaddus, Filamena Young, Saladin Ahmed, Andrea Phillips, Lenny Balsera, Ken Hite, Rich Dansky, Lauren Roy, Elizabeth Bear, Ryan Macklin, Tobias Buckell, Lillian Cohen-Moore, Keith Baker, Scott Sigler, Mike Lee, Karen Lord, Shoshana Kessock, Seanan McGuire, Matt Wallace, Logan Bonner, and many more. (Whew!)
Just last night they added me to the list. The Kickstarter drive stands at over $95,000 as I write this, and if (really: when) they crack $100,000, they’ll add my Monster Academy setting to the game. I’m going to handle the writing and design of the Monster Academy story tools myself, so it’ll be as authentic and true to the stories as possible.
If you want to get in on the fun, just $10 gets you that beta access. The sweet spot is $40, though, at which you get all the stretch goals too. The Kickstarter drive has 10 days left, so grab hold fast and hold on tight. It’s already been a wild ride.
