TaleTown Kickstarter Video Wrap

So, tonight we're shooting the last scene of our Kickstarter video for the TaleTown project!  TaleTown Project?  Kickstarter video?  Huh?

Explanations may be in order.  Remember that post a few weeks ago where I mentioned that I had a programmer and we were planning on creating a Facebook game?  How I mentioned it was going to be consuming a big chunk of my life?  It is.  Ravenously.  But it's going fantastically.  We've brought Jiba Anderson in on the project as lead art director.  He's already finished character designs (you'll see them in a week or so).  Andrew Janssen has been programming like a fiend.  We can already access the game and upload art into it.  Now, mind you, this is bare bones.  It's just a series of options and buttons, nothing that resembles a game yet.  But it's bones.  Everything grows from that.

While working on this we discovered Kickstarter.  Kickstarter is a fund-raising website where you put up a video, explain your project, establish a reward structure for donations, and hope to raise money for whatever it is you're working on.  It's crazy hot right now for small projects, like this, to find grass roots funding.  You should check it out. 

We're doing this project regardless of whether or not we get paid for it, but funding would be nice.  Since Andrew has more programming on the front, we decided it would be worth pausing some of Jiba and my work to put effort into funding.  So about three weeks ago I called up Gracie Hagen and talked her into doing our promo movie.  I wrote a script and tonight we finish shooting!  By mid-week she'll have it edited.  With any luck our Kickstarter proposal will be up by next Friday.

The video is only a minute or two long.  It's structured like a Choose Your Own Adventure sort of thing where the pages of a book turn and lead to different scenes.  Jiba and I got to play ourselves, post-alien-invasion-resistance-fighters (pictured above), and pork-n-bean deprived homeless bums!  Also, since Andrew is in Indiana, we used a stand-in wearing an Andrew mask in every scene.  We didn't want him to feel left out.  Tonight, we get to live large and look like successful debutantes!  Of course I ended the script with a celebratory party!  We'll do our wrap and final shoot all at once.  How's that for efficiency?

I'll keep you posted as soon as it's up and online!