Full Kickstarter Rewards Reveal, Discord AMA, and Why A Kickstarter?

We wanted to give all of our Ranchers a sneak peek into what to expect from the Kickstarter which launches on July 1st at 8am PT. 💪
We thought the easiest way to do this would be to share the preview of our actual Kickstarter page with you so you can get a sense of the funding goals and rewards we have on offer.
Some caveats:

• This is a PREVIEW of the page, which means you can’t see all the details you will be able to on launch. 👀
  
• We’ve included a complete list of what each Reward Tier includes below 👇 because we know this is what many of you will be really curious about.
  
• You may need to be logged into a Kickstarter account to be able to see this page, but I hope not.
  
• There is space on this preview page to leave comments 💬 but we would prefer you to send any feedback directly to us to avoid a lot of clutter on the page.
  
• We are still adding a few final touches onto the page, so there might be minor errors 🤐 If you happen to see any, please let us know!
  
• Don’t be worrying about the duplication of VIP and non-VIP tiers. These will disappear on launch and you will only see the non-VIP tiers on July 1st.
  

If you’ve got any questions about any part of the Kickstarter or Paleo Pines in general, I’d love you to join in our Discord AMA this Thursday at 8pm BST 🥳 If you’re not able to make it to that, please feel free to send your questions directly to us through any of our socials. You can join our Discord server here!

Visit our Kickstarter Preview Page!

Once again, thank you so much for supporting the development of our Players’’ Choice Expansion Pack! 💚🦖

[h2]What is a Reward Tier?[/h2]
The primary goal of our Kickstarter is to fund an expansion pack for Paleo Pines. As a way of saying Thank You for your pledge towards this goal, we have created multiple awards that you can choose from depending on the pledge level you can afford. Please do not pledge higher than you feel comfortable with and please under no circumstances do we want you to go into debt. We’d rather 100 people pledged lower amounts than causing anyone anxiety about finances.

[h2]What’s Included in each Reward Tier?[/h2]
Note: Prices are listed in GBP.

[h3]Supporter Pack (unlimited) £10[/h3]
The perfect entry point to support us in our expansion development or to build your own custom tier with add-ons.

🌌 Expansion Pack Released on All Platforms for Free!
💻 Discord Role as a Supporter
📱 Digital Phone Background featuring the Spino!
🥰 A heartfelt :heart: THANK YOU :heart: from our Dev Team!

[h3]Experienced Rancher Pack (unlimited) £30[/h3]
Gorgeous digital rewards and your name in the credits!

🕺 Chosen Name in our Credits
🎨 Digital Art Print of Spinosaurus
🛒 20% Off in the Paleo Pines Merch Shop
🌌 Expansion Pack Released on All Platforms for Free!
💻 Discord Role as a Supporter
📱 Digital Phone Background featuring the Spino!
🥰 A heartfelt :heart: THANK YOU :heart: from our Dev Team!

[h3]New Rancher Pack (unlimited) £45[/h3]
Perfect for new Ranchers or those who want to gift a copy of the game to a future Rancher!

🎮 Digital Game Key for Steam
🕺 Chosen Name in our Credits
🎨 Digital Art Print of Spinosaurus
🛒 20% Off in the Paleo Pines Merch Shop
🌌 Expansion Pack Released on All Platforms for Free!
💻 Discord Role as a Supporter
📱 Digital Phone Background featuring the Spino!
🥰 A heartfelt :heart: THANK YOU :heart: from our Dev Team!

[h3]Creative Rancher Pack (unlimited) £120[/h3]
For Ranchers who love dino merch!

👕Spino Campaign T-Shirt - Inclusive Sizes Available
📌 3 Pin Pack - Enamel Pins of Spino, Bernard, and Lucky
🎁 Sticker Sheets - 1 each of ‘Dino & Friends’ and ‘Plushies’ A5
💫 Digital Art Poster - Kickstarter Exclusive
📫 Digital Concept Art Postcards (Set of Three)
🌌 Expansion Pack Released on All Platforms for Free!
📱 Digital Phone Background featuring the Spino!
🎨 Digital Art Print of Spinosaurus
💻 Discord Role as a Supporter
🛒 20% Off in the Paleo Pines Merch Shop
🕺 Chosen Name in our Credits
🥰 A heartfelt :heart: THANK YOU :heart: from our Dev Team!

[h3]Lucky Plushie Pack (100 available) £250[/h3]
Already a collector's item - this is your last chance to get an original Lucky Plushie!

🍀 Lucky Plushie - Rare 1.0 Original from Makeship
👕 Spino Campaign T-Shirt - Inclusive Sizes Available
📌 3 Pin Pack - Enamel Pins of Spino, Bernard, and Lucky
🎁 Sticker Sheets - 1 each of ‘Dino & Friends’ and ‘Plushies’ A5
💫 Digital Art Poster - Kickstarter Exclusive
📫 Digital Concept Art Postcards (Set of Three)
🌌 :Expansion Pack Released on All Platforms for Free!
📱 Digital Phone Background featuring the Spino!
🎨 Digital Art Print of Spinosaurus
💻 Discord Role as a Supporter
🛒 20% Off in the Paleo Pines Merch Shop
🕺 Chosen Name in our Credits
🥰 A heartfelt :heart: THANK YOU :heart: from our Dev Team!

[h3]Parsnip Plushie Pack (100 available) £250[/h3]
Complete your set with Parsnip - our Ankylosaurus Plushie!

🥕 Parsnip Plushie - Original 1.0 Plushie from Makeship
👕 Spino Campaign T-Shirt - Inclusive Sizes Available
📌 3 Pin Pack - Enamel Pins of Spino, Bernard, and Lucky
🎁 Sticker Sheets - 1 each of ‘Dino & Friends’ and ‘Plushies’ A5
💫 Digital Art Poster - Kickstarter Exclusive
📫 Digital Concept Art Postcards (Set of Three)
🌌 Expansion Pack Released on All Platforms for Free!
📱 Digital Phone Background featuring the Spino!
🎨 Digital Art Print of Spinosaurus
💻 Discord Role as a Supporter
🛒 20% Off in the Paleo Pines Merch Shop
🕺 Chosen Name in our Credits
🥰 A heartfelt :heart: THANK YOU :heart: from our Dev Team!

[h3]Dino Designer Pack (20 available) £350[/h3]
Work with our dino artists to get your unique colour scheme into the game! Not only do you get to choose which dinos* your colours will appear on, but you can choose rarity and a special video will be created for you! *Excludes spino.

🌈 In-Game Dino Colour Selection (Excludes Spino)
🎥 Digital Promo Video Featuring your Colour Selection
🦖 Dino Designer discord Role
👕 Spino Campaign T-Shirt - Inclusive Sizes Available
📌 3 Pin Pack - Enamel Pins of Spino, Bernard, and Lucky
🎁 Sticker Sheets - 1 each of ‘Dino & Friends’ and ‘Plushies’ A5
💫 Digital Art Poster - Kickstarter Exclusive
📫 Digital Concept Art Postcards (Set of Three)
🌌 Expansion Pack Released on All Platforms for Free!
📱 Digital Phone Background featuring the Spino!
🎨 Digital Art Print of Spinosaurus
💻 Discord Role as a Supporter
🛒 20% Off in the Paleo Pines Merch Shop
🕺 Chosen Name in our Credits
🥰 A heartfelt :heart: THANK YOU :heart: from our Dev Team!

[h3]Plushie Designer Pack (2 available) £750[/h3]
Want to see your favourite dino as a plushie? You'll join our design team as we bring your plushie to life with Makeship! Exclusions include all existing plushie species, spino, carnotaurus, archeopteryx, and psittacosaurus.

🧶 Plushie Dino and Colour Selection (Exclusions Apply)
🧵 Plushie Designer Discord Role
👕 Spino Campaign T-Shirt - Inclusive Sizes Available
📌 3 Pin Pack - Enamel Pins of Spino, Bernard, and Lucky
🎁 Sticker Sheets - 1 each of ‘Dino & Friends’ and ‘Plushies’ A5
💫 Digital Art Poster - Kickstarter Exclusive
📫 Digital Concept Art Postcards (Set of Three)
🌌 Expansion Pack Released on All Platforms for Free!
📱 Digital Phone Background featuring the Spino!
🎨 Digital Art Print of Spinosaurus
💻 Discord Role as a Supporter
🛒 20% Off in the Paleo Pines Merch Shop
🕺 Chosen Name in our Credits
🥰 A heartfelt :heart: THANK YOU :heart: from our Dev Team!

[h3]Spino Designer Pack (5 available) £1,000[/h3]
A brand new dino needs some brand new colours! Work with our dino artists to bring your spino to life and also receive an original Spino Plushie from Makeship!

🌟 Spino Colour Selection
🧸 Spino Plushie from Makeship
🎥 Digital Promo Video Featuring Your Colour Selection
🎇 Spino Designer Discord Role
👕 Spino Campaign T-Shirt - Inclusive Sizes Available
📌 3 Pin Pack - Enamel Pins of Spino, Bernard, and Lucky
🎁 Sticker Sheets - 1 each of ‘Dino & Friends’ and ‘Plushies’ A5
💫 Digital Art Poster - Kickstarter Exclusive
📫 Digital Concept Art Postcards (Set of Three)
🌌 Expansion Pack Released on All Platforms for Free!
📱 Digital Phone Background featuring the Spino!
🎨 Digital Art Print of Spinosaurus
💻 Discord Role as a Supporter
🛒 20% Off in the Paleo Pines Merch Shop
🕺 Chosen Name in our Credits
🥰 A heartfelt :heart: THANK YOU :heart: from our Dev Team!

[h2]Items that can be added on to any pledge pack:[/h2]
[h3]Add on Reward (unlimited) £20[/h3]
🧍‍♀️ In-game outfit and ranch item. Kickstarter exclusive.

[h3]Add on Reward (unlimited) £20[/h3]
🅱 Access to Beta Test Group for Expansion Features.

[h3]Add on Reward (unlimited) £10[/h3]
📚 Digital Art Book

[h3]Add on Reward (60) £30[/h3]
🖋 Signed poster by original dev team.

[h3]Add on Reward (unlimited) £8[/h3]
📍 Individual pins

[h3]Add on Reward (unlimited) £11[/h3]
🌌 Copy of Paleo Pines Game with Expansion Pack (Steam Key)

[h3]Add on Reward (unlimited) £5[/h3]
🧁 Digital Poppin Recipe Cards

[h3]Add on Reward (unlimited) £20[/h3]
👕 Spinosaurus T-Shirt

[h2]What's Next?[/h2]👇
We’ve got our Discord AMA on Thursday, June 26th at 8pm BST! The AMA will take place in the Paleo-Pines-Discussions channel, and if you're not a member of the Discord yet, you can join here!

[h2]Why A Kickstarter?[/h2]
We've had some questions surrounding WHY we're doing a Kickstarter for this content, which we've added to our Kickstarter itself, but we'll share it here as well to make sure folks can see it easily! 🤗

It's completely understandable to wonder why a studio with a game like Paleo Pines, which many consider a success, would need a Kickstarter. This has been one of the toughest communication challenges we've faced as an independent studio, and we want to be as transparent as we are able to be.

While Paleo Pines has indeed been a wonderful success story in terms of its reception and reach, the unfortunate reality is that the financial benefits of that success have, so far, primarily gone to our publishers. Our merchandise sales, while appreciated, don't generate substantial income due to high costs and thin margins. We have managed to get to this point primarily through the sales of our plushies, determined as we were to keep on trying to secure other forms of funding.

The current landscape of the games industry is incredibly tough. Funding opportunities for independent developers have been drying up at an alarming rate. This makes it incredibly difficult for studios like ours to secure the investment needed to continue our work, especially when it comes to creating expansions and updates for existing games.

Last year, when we shared our financial struggles with our community, our main hope was to find a new publishing partner. We poured countless hours into this effort, approaching over 50 different publishers in a desperate attempt to secure the resources that would allow us to keep our dedicated team together and bring new content to the game. Despite our best efforts, we were met with disappointment at every turn.

It was in this moment of uncertainty that our incredible community stepped up, with a huge number of players urging us to try crowdfunding. With no other viable options on the horizon, we decided to listen to your voices and embrace this path. This Kickstarter isn't just an option for us; it is truly the only way we can bring the Players' Choice expansion to life. Your support means the world to us, and it's what will allow us to continue building the world of Paleo Pines.

Thanks for all your support,
Lots of love,
The Paleo Pines Team 💚🦖