We are extremely happy to officially launch on Early Access. You can now download and play the game! We can't express how happy we are to have such a great community that's been working together to make this Early Access happen! If there is one thing more we can ask of you is to please help us spreading the word about Tale of Toast in the coming days! :) For launch, we have set up two servers - one in US (West) and one in Europe (Germany).

Bounty Program

As you know, the items in the Crumbs shop will now start costing actual money. We understand that not everyone have the ability to purchase Crumbs, so we have introduced a Bounty Program! This program allows you to earn Crumbs by promoting Tale of Toast. Each participant can earn a minimum 1 crumb and maximum 500 crumbs per category:

• Social Media (Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc)
• Videos (Youtube, etc)
• Stream (Twitch, etc)
• Blog Post/Article
• Other (anything really goes here, have a Tale of Toast event at school, add posters at your local mall, etc.)

The decision as to how many crumbs are awarded per category to each will be based on total amount of views, shares, upvotes, etc. This means you are free to make multiple blog posts, multiple instagram posts, etc. The goal of this program is to bring awareness of Toast, but be very careful to follow best practises on each platform so you do not spam or break any other rules! You can also improve your chances by doing multiple streams, multiple Instagram posts, etc. On top of awarding crumbs to each participant, we will also be giving a special unique title and in-game pet (designed per your wishes, subject to approval) for your account only to the one gaining most crumbs. Example what a user could do: Creates a reddit post explaining Tale of Toast. The post gets 200 upvotes and comments. Posts a tweet about the launch of the game with a link to the steam page that is then retweeted and receives some comments. Posts an instagram picture with a screenshot of the game and receives likes. Does a twitch stream with 10 viewers. Does a Facebook post that they are playing Tale of Toast. You have until Friday the 3rd of March at 00:01 (AM) UTC to do as much as possible. Once you have done the things you wanted to do, email hello@taleoftoast.com with the following:

• Links to your posts/comments/videos/etc.
• Screenshots where links are not possible.

The weekend after that, we will be announcing the winners and send out the Crumbs Rewards to all the participants. Austin and Fredrik will be making the final decision on how many crumbs each participants get and who the winner is, and the decisions are final.

Limited Edition Crumbs Item

The "Plain Toast" cosmetic item will Only be for sale during the first week of launch (it will be removed from the Crumbs Shop on the 3rd of March 2018 at 00:01 (AM) UTC. After that, the only way for someone to obtain this specific (and most likely ultra rare) item is to trade it with other players for Crumbs Bonds (it is not tradable for anything else) in an amount that is completely up to the player selling the "Plain Toast" item. While the item is in the shop, you cannot trade it, but after it is removed from the crumbs shop you will be able to trade it with other players.

Changes

For the past three weeks, we have done hundreds of changes. They are far too many to be listed here, and we want to give you the pleasure of discovering the changes on your own, but some the highlights are:

• Increased movement speed.
• You are no longer locked for 3 turns during PvE combat (PvP combat is still like this until we have added a melee rooting skill)
• Part of the main quest chain has been implemented.
• A temporary level cap has been set to Level 30 (even though we have content to level 60). The reason for this is that we want to ensure there are no major issues for the first two weeks that cause problems with leveling or such. For the same reason, the bridge at Blue River Crossing has fallen into the water.
• Lots of updates related to balancing (skills, damage, stats, etc.).

Thank you for Alpha testing!

The feedback and bug reports we've received during the alpha testing has been extremely important to us, thank you for all your effort and dedication to making this a great game! As a very small token of appreciation, we have given those who took part of Alpha testing a unique title (can be enabled under the "Social Menu") only given to those who took part of alpha testing, and it is bound to their account name. We're still working on being able to give each alpha tester a unique crumbs item, but as we do not yet have that functionality we will need to give that to you later. Of course, the testing does not end because we've entered Early Access. We will continue to improve the game during Early Access, the main difference being that the game is now accessible 24/7. We hope you will enjoy playing Tale of Toast, and as always we appreciate your feedback and bug reports so we can continue improving the game! :)

Discord

Feel free to head over to our Discord, if you want to have a chat with some of the other players: https://discord.gg/taleoftoast

[ 2018-02-23 08:45:27 CET ] [ Original post ]