Shelter 2 News

Following the brilliant turnout for our Meadow birthday party last month we've been listening to your feedback and made some plans for more statues and achievements. That's right, the fun will go on! Only this time the statues will stay for good, which is just as well because they're not easy to spot!



For each month until the release of Shelter 3 next year, we'll be placing ten statues of an animal from Shelter 3 in the Meadow world. That's nine more animals altogether and we're going to reveal them one by teasey one as the months roll by ;) As with the anniversary elephants, you'll unlock achievements for the first, fifth and tenth statues you find.

Next you'll be able to hunt low slung crocs across the game world - check them out on podium number two and keep your eyes peeled! We hope you enjoy seeking them out and showing the way and sharing your findings, and best of all, there is absolutely no rush.

We hope you like the crocs! See you in the Meadow!

Best Wishes and stay connected,

Helen and the Shelter Team xx

A great big thank you to all of you who shared and played our Anniversary Play Event last weekend: we broke our 10k player target and raised a welcome donation for Safe in Our World. We saw lots of you sharing the event on your social channels and some of you helping newbies around the place, and we do appreciate that for a fair few of you the Meadow was a little more crowded than you're used to - so thanks for sharing your space for the party



We're glad you enjoyed helping one another visit them all, and we've heard that many of you don't feel super keen on time limited achievements, so we'll be putting them back for another ten days, which we hope will be enough time for new players to find them all and will allow previous ones to finish up. Expect to see them some time on May 5th. We might add a few extra too, more info on that next week. You'll get achievements for the first, fifth and tenth elephant that you visit.



The elephants were so popular that we thought we'd make some more statues for you to find, so in the next couple of months we'll be dropping a different kind of animal in for another ten days. Every animal will be from Shelter 3, and our first new animal will be appearing in June.

We hope this is good news for you and thanks again for a really great super feel good anniversary weekend!

Best Wishes and Stay Safe!

Helen and the Team

About this time in April ten years ago, Might and Delight was made, and to celebrate suitably in these times of lockdown we're holding a great big Meadow play event. For the duration of the play event all profit from our Steam sales will go to charity Safe in Our World, and if we get 10,000 players joining us in #Meadow we'll add 25% to that donation - so please join us, bring your friends along... and help us get to 10,000 players by sharing the event on Twitter and beyond!

ADDITIONAL NEWS! Meadow will be free to play all weekend, so please share this news and invite your friends and family to join in too!




Safe in our World’s mission is to create and foster worldwide mental health awareness within the video game industry and beyond. Founded by industry veterans in 2019, the charity is currently working to promote positive mental health in the Covid-19 crisis - you can read more about their work here.

The event begins on Thursday April 23rd and will end at midnight on Sunday 25th. As well as obelisks to unlock together, there will be some special edition statues of elephants to find, which will gain achievements.

• #PlayApartTogether Event in Meadow
  
• Starts 10 am PST Thursday 23rd April, ends Sunday 26th
  
• All profit from sales of M&D games over the duration go to Safe in Our World
  
• An extra 25% will be added if 10,000 players attend
  
• Spot 10 new hidden elephant statues to unlock achievements and look out for the devs in their special dev skins!
  
• Find your new playmates on Discord during and after the adventure (#Meadow or #Play-With-The-Devs)
  

Thank you so much for your support through the years - we're so glad to have had you with us and we look forward to all we can create together in the years to come!

Stay safe and be well,

Helen and the team xx

Hello!

Today we are really excited to share this, our new trailer! We hope you like it. Much like an elephant, development is coming along slowly but surely. Currently the team are working on elephant behaviours, level design and bringing some animal NPCs to life.



Elephant Development

But the truth is that we should have been further along than this by now, and today we're writing to let you know that we've had to revise our schedule - release is now set for a realistic early 2021. We're sorry - we know that some of you have been waiting so patiently! But we're a small team and along with updating Meadow, we just don't have the resources to move much faster than this. This means that we won't be working on any new updates for Meadow until Shelter 3 is released. Pulling resources away from Meadow means that we can fully commit to our deadline for Shelter 3, however we do have plans for some fun Meadow updates when that time comes - we think it will be worth the wait!


Meadow in the Meantime

Meadow has been an unexpected high point in our journey and we want to say a huge thank you for making Meadow what it is today - it's been four years of animal joy, and we've never stopped being surprised, touched and deeply grateful for all that you have produced and shared. Thank you. 

Our recent Kickstarter means that there's been a few new faces in Meadow recently, and we'll continue to do more Play-with-the-devs events (one soon-to-be-announced for April). We also want you to know that the emotes you've been using so effectively will be gaining a sibling in our upcoming fairytale RPG, Book of Travels. Again, to all Meadow players, a huge thank you for helping us test and develop this communication system and showing us how magical it can be.

That's all for now - thank you for all your comments here on Steam! (We've been a little absent lately but we'll be around more often to say hello in the future.)

Best Wishes,

Helen and the team at Might & Delight

Hello!

As I write we are nearing the end of our Kickstarter campaign for Book of Travels, and if you've been thinking of getting involved and backing us but haven't done it yet, now is the time!  

We write to you now to update you on two very important topics! Rewards and... a cat!




Free games now included + map book
We want to make sure you don't miss out on our last little bit of Kickstarter adventure... It's been a crazy campaign and we've flown a little bit by the seat of our pants, which included adding some extra free things to the rewards bundles. Every pledge Traveller and above now gets Meadow + an illustrated Map Book, and every pledge Settler and above gets (Meadow and) Tiny Echo + an illustrated Map Book. (If you already have these games you are free to give the key to a friend!)

Flik the cat goes to Braided Shore

Did you know we have one member of the team who is not quite human? She is Flik, our visiting cat. To celebrate the end of the campaign, and to honour the calm and chaos she brings to the studio we're going to add her into the game as a rare event, try to spot her on your travels!

Here is Flik in real life!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiWLH8VONK0

Thank you so much for checking out the campaign in these final hours! We will be much more present here on Steam in the coming weeks, and we'll be opening a new thread where you can add your game ideas!

If’ you haven’t clicked your way to the  campaign yet there may still be time! Here's the link once again. 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bookoftravels/book-of-travels-a-serene-online-rpg?ref=creator_nav

Best Wishes,

Helen and the team at Might & Delight