Underworld Ascendant Update #5, $365,818 and Counting

The latest update for the Underworld Ascendant, the fifth so far, presents more members of the team and attempts to get people to back the project by offering some additional rewards to backers, provided certain milestones are hit. For example, if the total backers for the project will exceed 8,000 backers, every backer should get an exclusive backer item, the “Little Friends” claw knuckles:

While we’re well along towards reaching our base funding goal for the project, it’s still up in the air how many of our stretch goals might get funded. We would love to do them all! They include some great extensions to the Stygian Abyss, and to gameplay. Also some wonderful innovations.

To reach more stretch goals the community of Backers will need to steadily grow over the next couple of weeks. You are the vanguard who first recognized the vision for Underworld Ascendant. It’s your voice that will ring loudest with friends and colleagues to join us. Let’s make sure they don’t miss out on this great game.

So we’ve got a little challenge. Over this next week let’s see if we can exceed 8,000 Backers by a healthy margin.

As a pat-on-the-back for all Backers, if we end up exceeding the 8,000 mark by noon (EST) Sunday the 15th, we’ll gift everybody who pledges $5 or more a special Kickstarter Exclusive in-game item

The notion of backer-exclusive items hasn’t always been well received from what I’ve seen, which is likely what prompted the developers to add this little postscript:

Just a reminder that while the all of in-game Backer Exclusive items are fun and distinctive, and some oddball, none are powerful. We don’t want to imbalance the game, or give a meaningful edge over players who might not have these items. But they are unique and will not be offered to any players after the Kickstarter ends.