A Hat in Time on Kickstarter!

Hello my old friends from Mapcore, it has been a while since I came here showing off de_cistern. I have since joined a small indie game company and have spent the last four months helping them bring A Hat in Time to Kickstarter in all it's colourful glory! E3 is coming up and the team and I believe we are ready to start raising funds to bring our game to the public. It is currently still in early development so keep that in mind when looking at what we've made so far!

Yesterday we launched our kickstarter page and already we've raised over 50% of our target. Of course we are hoping the stretch goals are met as we would love to put all the love we can into the game. I mean who doesn't love split screen / online co-op in adventure games?

Kickstarter Link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jonas…thon-platformer

Therefore I introduce to you, A Hat in Time, a collect-a-thon, platforming adventure game in the spirit of the old N64 games you once loved, Banjo K / T, Zelda MM, Mario 64 and Donkey Kong 64.

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You control Hat Kid, a time traveller who is collecting Time Pieces in order to fix time. Along the way you'll run into Mustache Girl who wants to use the Time Pieces for evil! You'll travel to new worlds like the City of the Mafia Cooks or the Subcon Forest with the shamed inhabitants who hide behind masks.

We consist of a small team of 8 people from around the world and we are in dire need of funding so that we can put our full focus into this game. Right now we either have full jobs or are students or in my case, unemployed. The game is being developed on the Unreal engine and is currently for PC / Mac only however we have had talks with a publisher who might be interested in bringing it to the Wii U. We can't promise this but it's an aim we have in mind.

The game will also include lots of hats! Something we found amusing and it seems to have charmed a lot of people. Of course this game will feature lots of places to explore and things to collect but we intend to add story and character to each one of them so that they don't feel like a shopping list of stuff to collect.

You have the power to make this game a reality, we just need your help to spread the word!

Please watch this video to get a glimpse of what we have to offer:

Thank you!

Ah I knew I could count on the Great General Vivi Cheers dude, we appreciate it a lot. Feel proud that your money is going towards feeding my cat ;P

Thank you! We're doing surprisingly well and the Kotaku article has given us even more exposure. Turns out there's a HUGE demand for Wii U version...we've been caught off guard by it and are swimming in the deep end of the pool but should be interesting.

It will probably remain that way. I can't stand Source anymore after going back to UDK :<

And thanks, I think I did pretty well fighting UDK's lightmass

In just 2 days we've reached 200% of our intial goal. The people wanted it and they got it, co-op will be officially added to the game as well as developer commentary.

As a reward we released this music teaser to give you a taste of the music in the game. Enjoy.

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Oh yes, most of us have Source backgrounds so a hat game was inevitable

Cheers dude. We've had some interesting developments since yesterday, might bring back the attention if we do it right. That's all I'm saying

Small update, we've ported some of the character models to Source Film Maker in case anyone wants to make a fan film or something

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/fi…258&searchtext=

Thank you very much. I should also add we've been getting quite a few voice acting submissions, if you really want to try then send some samples of your voice to [email protected] but keep in mind we need to reach the stretch goal first

Just letting you know that:

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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jonas…latformer/posts

Just to make it clear, the huge stretch goal isn't all for him, rather it's to make the game even better. He's offered to help us with a special single song.

New Update, we reached 95k which means full voice acting! And we also posted this video as thanks.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jonas…er/posts/501553

Finally we made these, which one do you like?

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Hey guys, new update. We have only 8 days left till our kickstarter ends and a lot has happened since I last updated you. First of all check out this recording of Awesome Video Games playing our prototype which we built with a 0 dollar budget in our free time.

These are the winning t shirts that the backers will receive!

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and the badges:

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As also added more stretch goals:

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Showed off the Banjo styled mumbling:

We explained the Wii U situation and the attention we've received from publishers.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jonas…er/posts/510837

We showed off the physical box which was inspired by the N64 design:

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And a concept of the HUB world, Hat Kid spaceship!

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Finally our director did a developer walkthrough of the Subcon Forest:

We're in the final 57 hours! We met all the stretch goals and raised a massive $200,000. From now till the end, every 15,000 will add a new Grant Kirkhope song to the game.

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And if you want to see more of the game including challenge levels inspired by Mario Sunshine then go here and watch this 3 hour stream by a well reknowned speedrunner, CosmoWright. He really pushes himself to beat that ghost hehe.