Skystead Ranch News

Thank you so much for helping us to reach our Goal! 💖



We wouldn't be here without each and every one of you; thank you all so much for supporting our project and helping us reach our goal of £15,000! 🎉 Each and every one of you is an incredible human being.

Whether you found us on Kickstarter, from an event we attended like EGX or MCM, or if you have been a longtime ToastieLabs fan, we can't thank you enough for your support. It truly means a lot to a small Indie Game Development Studio like ours. Thank you! 🥰



It may be ambitious, but we still have 2 days to go! Please continue to share our Kickstarter campaign and help us push the total as far as we can!

The first of the stretch goals is the Beach Island at £20k.

The Beach Island will guarantee that there is an additional beach biome-themed island for you to play with the release of Skystead Ranch. Even more exciting, the new beach biome will bring 10 additional unique Skylets for you to discover in addition to the 30 we have planned for the general release!

Let's keep the momentum going and see how far we can get together!



We are back in the North East and we have just about recovered from the super busy, but absolutely amazing, long weekend we spent at London MCM Comic Con!

A huge thank you to everyone who stopped by our stall and chatted with us about our game, Skystead Ranch! A double thank you to those who were long-time fans we met for the first time; we didn't realise we were big enough to have anybody recognise us so THANK YOU!



We staggeringly raised over £4000 in the MCM weekend alone! Thank you all so much for your kind words and generosity; it was a genuine pleasure to meet you all in person and get to chat with the people who are supporting us and playing our games.

An additional shout out to Kim and Hypered, who, although don't develop games with us here at ToastieLabs, were an invaluable help to us in the setting up and running of our stall at MCM - Thank you! 💓



So, you have checked the tiers and selected the one that's most appealing to you. But when will get your sweet, super awesome backer rewards you ask?

Whether it's exclusive DLC for our game Coloring Pixels, the cool Merchandise kit that'll be sent to you physically, or just organising your Kickstarter Backer Discord role for our Community Discord Server, we plan to get it all organised and sorted for February 2024, so there's not that long to wait for your goodies!



All of you amazing people who have pledged to back us with the Skyship Designer tier and above, we will be getting in touch as we progress with the development of Skystead Ranch to ensure you have ample time to design your own additions to the game. You will be working closely with our artist, Jack, to iron out all of the fine details; we cannot wait to see what you come up with!



Once again, thank you all so much!

We are all ready to get to work on the Backer Rewards and the Development of Skystead Ranch, and hope you are as excited as us to see the next steps!

Make sure you follow us on Twitter, Discord, and YouTube to stay up-to-date with all of the goings-on here at ToastieLabs and get a behind-the-scenes look at the game Development Process!


Thank you. ❤️ Stay awsome.

Another week, another chance to win 1 of 3 great prizes!
Update your Skystead Ranch demo and you'll notice a "Speedrun" message on the main menu.



This timer tracks how fast you can complete the tutorial task of making the first Shelly happy!
Take a screenshot of your fastest times and share it in our Discord, Tweet the image with #SkysteadRanch or share a link to your screenshot on this post for the chance to win 1 of 3 great prizes!

The winners will be announced on Friday! Good luck!

Prizes:
- A Skystead Box filled with goodies
- A goodie bag (also filled with goodies)
- Your choice of ToastieLabs DLC.

There are only 2 weeks left to back the Kickstarter, so make sure you pledge before the 2nd of November to not miss out on exclusive backer rewards! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/toastielabs/skystead-ranch

We're halfway through the Kickstarter Campaign but we aren't slowing down!


With the demo live, large changes and updates to the game build have slowed down in order to prevent accidentally adding new bugs while people play.

However! There have been a variety of smaller updates, these are mostly fixing small bugs that could be found in the demo, (like the ability to run up the cliff at one specific spot and get out of the map!) but one big update was added during one of our livestreams! Our programmer, Rob, live-streamed the addition of adding "Shiny" versions of the Skylets!

These shinies will get an official Skystead Ranch name in the future, but for the purpose of the demo, there is a 1/100 chance that a Skylet will spawn with a sparkling effect, and when tamed, have a different colour pallet altogether!


Let us know how many Shinies you have found!


Both Next Fest and EGX finished this weekend and we are happy to say both events have been an absolute blast to take part in!

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Next Fest allowed everyone to access Skystead Ranch from home and came with a couple of fun broadcasts - one of which, we managed to find 3 shinies in 1 playthrough! If you missed the live broadcast, you can get a recap here on our YouTube channel.

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EGX was a totally new experience for us here at ToastieLabs. Our first ever live event where we got to showcase our game live at a convention and chat with hundreds of people who stopped by to play!

We attended EGX with a remote setup which meant we were covering the booth via a video call, this was great fun, even if we gave some people a jump scare when they realised we were live on camera. 😂


We were overwhelmed by the response of people visiting our booth, both machines were occupied constantly and even had a few queues form. If we had known we would have such a great response, we would have made the EGX demo shorter! Thank you to everyone who stopped by for both EGX and Next Fest and we look forward to what's next!


MCM Comic Con is the final event we have lined up, and this time we are attending in person! If you are going to Comic Con in London this month, make sure you look for our Skystead Ranch booth and stop by to say hi! We are giving away free goody bags and will be available to chat with you all weekend!


We still have a lot of preparations to finish for the convention, but we are working hard and are sure to be ready by next weekend!


We have continued our fun and games over on our website every day! Make sure you check out the webpage every day this month to take part in the fun we have planned!




As we hit the halfway mark today, we are so proud of our progress! We are so close to hitting 50% pledged and we know we can all come together to get the campaign to its goal!

Click me ^ it's not a Rick Roll, I promise...


Your support (even just sharing the link on your Socials) still means the world to us and will allow us to provide the best game we can for everyone. Thank you so much once again to all those who have already backed the campaign!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/toastielabs/skystead-ranch

Thank you to everyone who has played our game Demo and backed our Kickstarter!

Next Fest has been a blast, with so many of you downloading the demo and wishlisting the game for when it releases! Thank you!



Both of our Steam Broadcasts were great fun! Our Game Designer, Lee, played through the demo on 2 separate days with thousands of you stopping by to watch. We even managed to find a couple of rare shiny versions of the Skylets!



If you missed the broadcasts and would like to see the devs playing Skystead Ranch, you can find an edited version of the stream on our YouTube channel.



We are running a Kickstarter campaign this month alongside the Next Fest, EGX and MCM Comic Con events we are attending to promote Skystead Ranch.
Thank you to everyone who has pledged to back the Kickstarter already! You are all amazing!

We are just getting to the 50% mark as we reach the halfway point of the campaign so we can't stop now!

Share the Kickstarter with your friends, consider pledging again or even buy an early Christmas Gift for someone in the form of a Kickstarter pledge and gift them the game and rewards tied to the tier you choose!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/toastielabs/skystead-ranch


Thank you again from all of us here at ToastieLabs, your support means the world to us