Below the Stone - A Pixelart Caving Roguelike about Dwarves
Created by Strollart Studios
A hand-drawn pixel art roguelike about dwarves, mining, and resource gathering.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
LAST WEEK LEFT on Kickstarter! & BONUS REWARDS
almost 5 years ago
– Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 12:34:14 AM
ONE WEEK left to make the most of our campaign -- and with it, a HUGE thank you to our fans.
With just one week left, we have made huge progress on the Kickstarter, breaching $31,000, and approaching 500 unique backers! It has been an amazing journey for us as developers to see our project get the recognition that it has, and to have so many amazing people following what we believe will be the next big splash in roguelikes, mining games, and carve our place among the list of awesome Dwarven games!
As a thank you, we are offering BONUS rewards to our fans who have already pledged, or plan on boosting their pledge to get a chance at these new limited time rewards! These will be keychains, posters, and even a DESIGN A PET reward for when we hit the stretch goal. We can do it!!!
These rewards will be offered to EVERYONE who has pledged above these amounts:
Pledges above $50.00: Free keychain added with your items 🔑
Pledged above $90.00: Free Poster added with your items 🖼️
Pledges above $300.00: Design a pet that can be found in Below the Stone 🐰
If we do this together, by simply sharing, with people boosting pledges one additional tier, and with the energy of our huge new fanbase, we can smash through these goals, and keep pushing the campaign during our final push to Co-op!
BIG BOX NEWS:
Additional news on the Big Box included in our Kickstarter: With the limited edition Big Box, we will be numbering them from "1 to 50" as a way to show you are the limited owner of that copy of Below the Stone. This is to make every copy that more special.
This will now also include:
"(Your #) of 15" for NPC designers boxes, 🧙
"(Your #) of 10" for enemy designers boxes,😈
"(Your #) of 5" for Boss designers boxes.👹
These are special rewards, and we want to mark our special they are to the people who are wanting to be part of the development of the game!
If you have any additional questions, feel free to drop into our discord -- and remember to comment, like, and share, because it helps the algorithm know we're doing something right! To all our Depth dwellers, we salute you!
Thank you,
- Mike @ Strollart; Below the Stone
We hit out $30,000 stretch goal!
almost 5 years ago
– Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 01:10:00 AM
Thank YOU, and everyone for getting us so far!
In the last 22 days, we managed to gather what is now almost SIX times what we raised with our original Kickstarter back in 2019, and this time blasting past our goal in what anyone might describe as a blowout success so far. Never in our wildest imaginations that only two years ago would we have thought of being in the place we are today.
September 2019 campaign
I want to thank each one of you for helping us get this far in our campaign. It's an incredible feeling to know that not only do people want your game -- but they also want your dream to be a success.
Many joined our adventure with us from the original campaign in 2019, but we hope that many of you join with us on our journeys with this campaign as well!
We still have ELEVEN days to continue the push here on Kickstarter. Many new fans are still pouring in, and each day we simultaneously see our community grow ever stronger.
Thank YOU, and everyone so much for your continued support, and sharing our dream to so many new people!
- Mike @ Strollart; Below the Stone
It's Fanart Contest Time!
almost 5 years ago
– Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 11:14:06 PM
Below the Stone's Fanart Competition has launched as of...now.Right now.
During our previous Kickstarter, we held an art competition and the response from the community was amazing...so we’re hosting another one!
We wanted to keep things simple, so for this contest we are looking for fanart themed around Below the Stone. That’s it. Any art medium is permitted, so get your creative freak on over the next week and show us what you got.
Summary of rules:
Create Below the Stone themed fanart
Any art medium is accepted
Submit entries in the #art-competition channel on Below the Stone’s Discord here: discord.gg/8AwwTPf
Get your submissions in by midnight of Monday 27th September EST.
Prizes:
1st Place: Digital Copy of Below the Stone, Below the Stone Pin & Below the Stone Stickers
Runners up (2nd & 3rd Place): Digital Copy of Below the Stone & Below the Stone Stickers
FAQ:
Q. Is NSFW allowed?
A. As much as everyone would love to draw dwarven booty, kindly refrain for the sake of our innocent greenhorn eyes pretty please.
Q. Are multiple submissions allowed?
A. Yes! The more, the merrier.
Q. Will you give us a shoutout if we win?
A. Of course! Feel free to add your Twitter/IG/any social media handles you would like us to include along with your submission(s).
Q. How will the contest be judged?
A. A public vote will be held once the competition entry deadline has passed.
Any other questions? Feel free to ask us on Discord.
Best of luck and we can't wait to see what you come up with!
- Karam
400 Backers! More than two weeks left.
almost 5 years ago
– Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 11:40:34 AM
Thank you to everyone whose gotten us to 400 backers!
To everyone whose backed us, been sharing our campaign, and whose joined our community; THANK YOU for making this happen! We still have a little over two weeks left in our Kickstarter campaign, but I thought it would be worth writing a little update to commemorate our progress that we made!
Our original Kickstarter had 171 amazing backers which all believed in our project, and today we more than doubled that number, and more than quintupled the amount raised by those same amazing backers with the original Kickstarter.
Another great part of the community is the stuff our community creates, last week we were also featured in JenEricLive's PAX West Top 5 indie games, give them a watch and guess where we made it to!
Remember to join our discord and follow us to keep up with all the updates!
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Only 3 weeks to go - & Important Shout Outs!
almost 5 years ago
– Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 09:07:58 AM
We officially passed the TWO week mark!
As we make our way to our next Stretch goal, we have a few people to thank along the way including all the fans who have already supported us and backed us on Kickstarter! I am writing out personal messages to people who have already backed us, so if you hadn't gotten an email yet, it will be coming your way in the next couple days!
At Strollart we try to make a commitment to thank everyone whose supported our project, because each person who supports us deserves to hear it from the developers themselves how much we appreciate you helping make this a reality for us.
I would also like to officially announce our efforts to team up with BACKERKIT, for those who want add-ons after the Kickstarter is over, this will be your way of still supporting us once we make it. More news on this to come!
With that, I would like to let the next part speak for itself, as these fellow Kickstarters have helped us a long way!
🚨IMPORTANT SHOUT OUTS:🚨
This section is dedicated to people who've helped out our campaign so far, or plan to! I appreciate each and every one of them for making an effort to reach out to us and to help our campaign, you guys are awesome, and you all helped us reach our goal!
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