Storm Weavers: Story Driven Solo Tabletop Game

Illustrated World Guide unlocked and new add-on: Thymin figure!
over 3 years ago – Tue, May 04, 2021 at 06:10:36 AM

Greetings, Adventurers! 

Hurray for you for succesfully unlocking another stretch goal - Illustrated World Guide! With additional pictures, our world guide will be even more atmospheric! These illustrations were not included in the original Polish edition of the game. With the goal of 60.000 EUR unlocked, we are just sending messengers to our illustrator Przemysław Gul to start his sketches!

We also present you a new add-on, which is Thymin figure avalaible in two versions - resin and metal. Dimensions are 25/28 mm standard, so it can be useful for you not only with Storm Weavers, but also with other tabletops.  Thymin mini should appear soon in Add-ons section on our campaign page. 

Now it's time to mobilize our forces to unlock the next goal - a Bookmark with a Rules Aid Card! The bookmark will contain a summary of the most important rules, so you will not have to go back to the instructions when reading the paragraphs.

Since we only have 13 days left, please keep supporting us! We can do it and together unlock all the goals!

With Darven Regards,

Mat,

Storm Weavers Team

New stretch goals and important news about translations!
over 3 years ago – Mon, May 03, 2021 at 11:41:54 AM

Greetings, Adventurers! 

Some fresh news: we beat 500% funding goal and unlocked 9 stretch goals already! As we said before, now it's time to show you next goals to unlock! 

So, what's ahead of us? 

We are printing Epilogue: The Gamebook will be extended with additional 60 sections of story that takes place after the core adventure.

We are printing World Guide: The Gamebook will be extended with additional appendix which contains a lot information about Storm Weavers world, its history, lands and creatures living in it. 

Illustrated World Guide: Additional illustrations to the World Guide (both PDF and printed version). The illustrations for Prequel, Epilogue and World Guide will be created especially for Kickstarter edition!

Bookmark with a Rules Aid Card: just a quick reference guide in form of a bookmark to increase your gaming comfort !

Dedicated soundtrack: atmospheric music suitable for wandering the land of Midgard, as well as more dynamic tunes that suits combat.

Game box: a game box to keep all your Storm Weavers stuff together. 

Dice upgrade: Dwarven Design: unique dice with Storm Weavers motifs, made especially for the game. 

Box quality upgrade: an extended version of the game box, with better quality materials and art. 

As you unlock your next goals, you'll get more details about them!

Now, let us introduce new members of our team, who just joined our dwarven smithy to help forge the game for you!

Joanna Różycka, English Translator

My name is Joanna Różycka. I’m an English teacher and translator. I hold a Master’s degree in the field of Linguistic Studies, with Specialisation in English Translation Studies. I consider myself to be a real bookworm; therefore my bachelor’s thesis in Literature was based on Joseph Conrad’s works, whereas the master’s thesis in Translations dealt with idioms in the Polish translation of The Brethren by John Grisham. My true love is the crime fiction genre; however, I found entering the Storm Weavers’ fantasy world extremely fascinating. My other experience in Polish – English translations includes medical articles, TV commercial scripts, real estate and accounting services contracts.

J.M. Green, English Editor

University instructor and former journalist, researching interactive storytelling design and working on future branching story gamebooks.

Anna Sarapuk, French Translator

Hi! My name is Anna and I'm a professional French translator since 2011. Even though I work mainly in the medical field, I've always been a fantasy enthusiast and I'm thrilled to go back to this first true love! I also have a PhD in Translation Studies - my whole thesis was about translating cultural elements in Polish fantasy novels, namely in The Witcher.

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Bonjour! Je me présente: Anna, traductrice professionnelle de langue maternelle française depuis 2011. J'ai beau travailler principalement sur des textes médicaux, la fantasy est mon premier amour. Au point que j'ai décroché un doctorat... avec une thèse sur la transmission des éléments culturels dans la fantasy lors de la traduction du polonais vers le français!

French Editor

To provide high quality of reader’s experience we are going to hire a native speaker French editor.  We thought maybe our French community could recommend a candidate? If you would like to recommend someone with experience and who do you trust, and who would like to work with us please feel free to send your recommendation by the mail to [email protected].

Prequel: new stretch goal brings additional 110 references to the book!
over 3 years ago – Mon, May 03, 2021 at 03:51:53 AM

Greetings, Adventurers!

On the fourth day of our campaign we bring you great news - we have about 400% funding goal realized at this moment, and 7 additional stretch goals unlocked! It would be not possible without your support, thank you very much! We go forward, although a little slower than in first two days, but still onward with true dwarven persistence!

With the Prequel you get an additional 110 sections (or paragraphs... or references... as you would like to name them) inside the gamebook.  Maybe you watched videos from our dear Patrons and wondered why the Polish version of the book is thicker than the English version? Many thought it was about linguistic differences. But it was just that the Polish version was already expanded with the Prequel and the Epilogue, so it had more content! Together with the Prequel, the current printed version of the gamebook will include 380 sections ... and there is still a printed Epilogue to unlock! As you can see, there really will be a lot of adventure to play!

So, what is the Prequel about? This is an adventure that precedes the events of the Storm Weavers core story. To avoid spoilers, let's just say that, as Thymin, you will set off to the Celtic island of Eirin to face the evil forces that threaten it.

What's next? 

Once again we thank you for your great support! Remeber that you are always welcome to spread the word about our campaign among your friends, who might be interested in supporting Storm Weavers! Although we have our game funded, we have still a lot of stretch goals to achieve. With reaching 45.000 EUR we will show you next tier of stretch goals to unlock. Let's hope it will happen soon! 

And finally, important information for our French Backers, who are concerned a lot about quality of translation - next week we will update you in detail about translators and editors in our team. We really wish to assure you that you have no cause for concern. A dwarven word of honor! 

With Dwarven Regards, 

Mat,

Storm Weavers Team

New stretch goal unlocked and more news about the box!
over 3 years ago – Sat, May 01, 2021 at 01:04:50 PM

Greetings Adventurers! 

After the weekend we are back with some really great news! At first, you have succesfully unlocked another stretch goal - printed World Guide and this is really awesome!  Hurray for you, Warriors! It means that our gamebook gets even thicker, expanded by another printed content. With World Guide you will learn more about Storm Weavers universe and its inhabitants, history and interesting places. You will receive it with additional illustrations that were not included in the original Polish version of the game.

There are more and more voices about the game box in our community. You have noticed that the game elements should be stored somehow. So, after consulting our printing house - we have the solution. The game will be delivered to you with the basic cardboard box, which looks like this:

This is the basic, simple version of the box, which will be added to each physical copy of the game that we will send to you secured in the outer packaging.

So what about "stretch goal Game Box"? 

Upon reaching the goal of EUR 90,000, which we are convinced is possible, we will give you an improved version of the box - one that Storm Weavers truly deserve. Made of solid (dwarven) cardboard and illustrated, it will make Storm Weavers a really beautiful box set:

 Many of you are concerned if we will be able to reach this streatch goal. Don't worry- we are entering the second phase of the campaign and we are going to launch some serious advertising support that will lead us to this goal ... and maybe even further!

Meantime, you are always welcome to help us with our campaign. Please have on mind to regulalry check https://www.kicktraq.com/ and click "visit project" green button - this can help us to keep high on the Hot List and make our campaign more visible. You can also spread the word among your friends and publish news about us on your social media. 

With Dwarven Regards,

Mat,

Storm Weavers Team

Short but important news!
over 3 years ago – Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 12:58:05 PM

Greetings, Adventurers! 

Today we have a short, but important update for you: we reached 45.000 EUR stretch goal and that means  our physical gamebook is getting extended by additional 70 sections of Epilogue. That means  Storm Weavers physical gamebook contains now 454 sections! This makes the book so solid that it could hit a skinny goblin for serious damage, when used as an improvised weapon. 

Another cool thing is that you will get extra illustrations which were not included in the Polish version. Our Artist, Przemek Gul, started to work on them today. 

Some of you have pointed out that a map of the world of Midgard would be a nice addition to the book. In fact this is a really great idea, we decided to make a map of the game world which will introduce you to the atmosphere of the game!

We keep marching forward! 

With Dwarven Regards, 

Mat

Storm Weavers Team