Stormgate Dev Tracker

To confirm: this is not just open to accredited investors. This was an error as we are a Reg CF filing, not Reg D. We have reached out to StartEngine to ask that they correct the error in the FAQ.

Hi, folks. I'm here to clarify a few things and to answer questions as best I can. Please note that crowd-equity involves securities, and there are strict rules as to what we can and can't say at this time. Our StartEngine Test the Waters page is a preview page only. It's like a "Coming Soon!" page where you can opt to get in early and reserve the right to receive a 5% bonus on the common stock shares you receive by becoming part-owners of Frost Giant.

I can't share information that is part of our campaign pitch page, video, or financial background until it clears the compliance review process. We understand if you are interested but would prefer to wait for the proper campaign to launch. (We can't share the timing for that either, as it needs to happen after the regulatory compliance review.)

What I CAN address now are some of the questions on our funding situation. Early Access is our initial release. We will begin to monetize at Early Access, se...

Hi Dyoakom--our intent has been to be very transparent about our funding situation with our community. Hopefully, I can answer some of your open questions.

We are an independent studio with nearly $35M raised. Modern AAA games have budgets over $100M, and that's before you consider their marketing expenses, which can be in a similar range.

Stormgate is fully funded to get us to our Early Access release. To this date, we have invested almost the entirety of our funding into the development of the game. For marketing, we've been relying on word of mouth and sharing our progress with the RTS community to grow public awareness of Stormgate. This campaign is targeted at raising additional funds to support publishing efforts for our upcoming release as well as ongoing development. We have a long road ahead, after all, and plenty of work left to do before our official launch in the future.

The community has been a critical component of our journey thus far, such ...

We have heard that many of you want to upgrade your pledges. I’m looking into it.

If you get into beta, you automatically get access to all future tests.

I'd like to add that Stormgate is not a marketing beta -- the game is far from final and we are still working on foundational gameplay design, features, art, sound, and story content. Then there's the editor we're planning to put into players hands. At this point in Wings of Liberty's development, for comparison's sake, the game wouldn't even be announced for another three years. We already have a playable beta in players' hands. You wouldn't see the Wings beta for another 5 years or so.

If you're comparing our beta to a beta test for an almost-finished game, they're completely different things. We are actively developing the game with our playtesters and their valuable feedback is part of why the game has gotten this far along in such a short time.

We are early and have a lot of work left to go, but we are excited to see how quickly the team is making progress with each new build. Art is one of the most-impacted disciplines as most game teams and publishers do n...

Hello, Stormgate Community,

We know lots of you have been waiting for this. If you missed out on our Kickstarter, late pledges will become available within a week, giving you another chance to jump into the action. Our best estimate is Friday, February 23, but we’re doing our best to make late pledges available even earlier. Please note this will be for new pledges only, not upgrades to existing pledges.

We’ll have at least two options available that would include access to our current beta testing phase, codenamed “Elephant”:

• Deluxe Founder's Pack ($40): This pack includes a Hero for each of our three initial factions, Chapter 1 of our Vanguard campaign content, and Army accent cosmetic, a Founder’s Discord role, plus a Chicken pet.
• Ultimate Founder's Pack ($60): Our most popular bundle, this includes everything in the Deluxe Founder’s Pack plus Chapters 2 and 3 of the Vanguard Campaign (shareable with friends–for free), and an additional “H...

Oh yeah… you should click on the Maloc Hero repeatedly—he might have something fun to say about it.

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We’re working on it!

This is a lie. Not a single content creator has been paid to play or promote Stormgate. Why are you just making things up?

Thanks for this write-up (including the constructive feedback). We're super glad to see that you're enjoying the game. Have you messed around with Maloc much in 3P co-op? He has the ability to spawn Fiends directly.

Tier 3 is coming--I love the nod to the D&D monster manual, by the way. I have a 1E version on the bookshelf to my right and just cracked it open for the nostalgia.

Kickstarter campaign is over, but we will offer late pledges via GameFound. I don't have a date to share, but hopefully it's soon!

It's Maloc. Those alternate spelling sources aren't FG... but that Malok spelling is beginning to grow on me...

We're working on the late pledge page, folks. We'll make sure to announce it here and in our Discord once it's live. (discord.gg/stormgate)

Very cute. Thanks!

If I recall, SC2 was in “beta” after 7 years of development, and within the year it was released. Totally different situation. That was more of a marketing beta—we are still very early on and in active development.

Thanks so much for writing this up! We're only getting started, but we're glad to see that you are excited about what we're building. The months ahead are going to be exciting--we'll get to showcase our third faction, Tier 3 units, and more.

We appreciate your support and hope you enjoy what's yet to come.