Paleo Pines News

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 💚🦖

Make a note in your calendars folks, Paleo Pines Players' Choice Kickstarter is going live on the 1st of July!

For those of you who've never used Kickstarter before, payments are only taken at the end of the campaign if the campaign is successful.



We know we've been hammering on about this, but we want to make sure that no one who wants to help support the future of Paleo Pines misses out on this chance 🤗
We're truly hopeful that with your help, we'll be able to add some of our players' most repeated requests to Paleo Pines, starting with our main goal: The Spinosaurus!



If we hit that goal, we're prepared with our first stretch goal: Poop. It's a lot, we know- When you've got one of those end-game ranches with every dreamstone assigned to a dino, it's a chore that seems to never end... Unless we clear our main goal, and hit this stretch goal, anyway! 💩🧹



And finally for this little update, our VIP Programme to go along with our Kickstarter is now closed for new VIPs! Existing members will continue to get all the perks they signed up for ✨



Lots of love,
The Paleo Pines Team 💚🦖

So we've hinted quite a bit with this one, but just in case you weren't sure 👀 We would like to address the elephant in the room, or well… the ✨ spino ✨ in the room 🤩

GASP! 🤯 THAT'S RIGHT! We're so excited to announce that if our Kickstarter is funded, we'll be bringing our Spinosaurus home to Paleo Pines 🎉🥳 (and adding a way to get more of those lovely dreamstones 🌟)

Follow our Kickstarter here (or by searching for Paleo Pines on Kickstarter) to be alerted when it goes live!

Keep an eye out for more details to come 🤗
Lots of love,
The Paleo Pines Team 💚🦖



Image text reads: "Let's get the Spino in the game!

You've been asking for the mighty Spinosaurus for some time now, and they can't wait to meet you!

This goal includes significant optimisation across the entire game to allow the new features to run smoothly!

Plus, another dino means more dreamstones! Yep you read that correctly, we're adding more dreamstones too!

This is our main goal with the Kickstarter, but we have tons of stretch goals coming up!"

Howdy Ranchers 👋
You've asked, you've dreamed, and you've inspired us every step of the way! Now, we're thrilled to announce that at Paleo Pines Kickstarter, driven directly by YOUR incredible ideas and requests, is officially on its way! 😍🌳🧭

We know you've been eager for more biomes, new dinos, and exciting gameplay. But, getting new content off the ground in today's games industry is incredibly tough. Despite all the love for Paleo Pines, securing traditional funding for a big expansion proved to be a monumental challenge. While Paleo Pines has been incredibly popular, the financial benefits haven't trickled down to the studio in a way that supports ambitious new development due to the industry standard publisher-studio model. 💔

That's why we're turning to our amazing community who made Paleo Pines what it is! This expansion is for you, and with your support, we can make it a reality. ✨Plus, in a true reflection of the spirit of Paleo Pines, the expansion pack will be released free on all platforms when completed.

We're gearing up to launch our Kickstarter campaign soon, but we need your help to build unstoppable momentum right now! 🙌
We've just launched our early Kickstarter Pre-Launch Page, and we need every single Rancher to follow it! 🤩

Click here to follow our pre-launch page and help us bring this expansion to life!

By clicking "Notify me on Launch," you'll be the first to know when the campaign goes live, AND it sends a massive signal to Kickstarter that there's huge interest! 🤯

Can't back financially? NO PROBLEM! Your support is still vital! Please still follow the Pre-Launch Page and SHARE our social posts far and wide! 📣 Tell your friends, family, fellow dino-lovers – anyone you can think of! Every share helps us reach more people and makes a monumental difference in helping us hit our goal!

Your support means the world to us. ❤
Lots of Love, The Paleo Pines Team 💚

P.S- You can check out our lovely trailer on Youtube!

Hi everyone!
I just wanted to give you a quick but important update on our upcoming Kickstarter and our roadmap in general. We're experiencing a delay in launching the campaign as we're currently in ongoing discussions with our publisher to finalise details around the campaign that will require their support. Our aim is to secure their full support to ensure we can deliver on all the exciting additions we've got planned for the game but this is taking longer than originally anticipated.
We believe in being completely transparent with you all, and we want you to know that we're working hard on our end to move these discussions forward as quickly as possible.

On a related note, we know many of you are eager for the plushie duo! While we're incredibly excited for you to see them, we've decided to prioritize the Kickstarter campaign to give it our complete focus. This means the plushie duo release will be delayed and is now expected in August.
Thanks for your understanding and continued support ❤