In the previous public version (v6) of the demo, released during our attempt at a Kickstarter, Midnight Stranger-style mouse navigation was implemented: the mouse cursor changes when it’s over a hotspot that you can click on. This was critical to get working to show that the navigation features in the original could be implemented in HTML5/Javascript. New in this version… Read more »
This is just a repeat of Update #7 on our Kickstarter pages, but it sums up where we are pretty well: tl;dr summary: Thanks to everyone that supported us by pledging to the Kickstarter, by giving us a shout out, by telling a friend, or by joining our live stream Tuesday night!!! Even though the Kickstarter failed, we are still… Read more »
If you’ve been thinking about helping to spread the word of the Midnight Stranger Kickstarter, we’re getting down to the wire… now is the time! We’ve done three updates on Kickstarter so far that provide all sorts of great background info and some deeper insights into our plans. Update #3 introduces a public event here in Ottawa that Jeff is… Read more »
Wow, we hope this bodes well for the project itself… we ended up being ready to go several days ahead of schedule: it went live at 3:07AM on February 3, 2016 (Eastern Standard Time). What we’ve done is extended the Kickstarter by four days so it still ends on the same date (or anyone that was already planning to wait… Read more »
To download the PDF version of this press release, click here. It will open in a new tab. Midnight Stranger: the 2016 reboot of a legendary digital interactive drama, and the inception of a new media genre February 3, 2016 For Immediate Release On February 3, 2016 Other Body Enterprises (OBE) launched a 35 day Kickstarter campaign to fund the… Read more »
Our Kickstarter campaign will be launched on February 8th, 2016 and we will post a link to the Kickstarter page when we go live. Until then, you can preview what this Kickstarter is all about by checking out our accessible version of the page (which also has all of the quirky videos that go along with it, plus videos of… Read more »