Big update today for Kind Words Steam beta testers and Humble owners!

Paper Airplanes!

One of the weirdest, most wonderful problems I've ever had in my entire game design career is that Kind Words has too many people just bubbling over with kindness and clogging up the request queue with loving statements of support and joy! What am I supposed to do, tell you to stop?! So today you get paper airplanes. These airplanes are just the place for you to send your thanks to the world, to an individual, share an inspirational quote, or maybe even just scream and vent some strong emotions. Your words will fly through everybody else's worlds and everyone can click on them to read our shared stream of thoughts.

Full History

Your inbox only shows you the newest responses to your requests for letters. This helps keep things speedy for the servers. Now there's also a full history browser that will let you chronologically browse all your requests and responses, no matter how many.

More

• Steam cloud saving!
• Updated mixes for all music tracks!
• Music volume slider!
• More reporting options!
• Secret stuff that's not unlocked yet but might turn out to be new stickers. Who knows?!

It's been a fantastic couple months leading up to the full Steam launch. Over 40,000 letters written! You folks are the best. Keep being kind and get hyped for beautiful new players you'll be talking to after the upcoming release!

[ 2019-08-26 16:37:43 CET ] [ Original post ]

Write Nice Letters to People and Get Stickers

Has something got you down? Stressed you out? Scared you? That's pretty normal. It might help you to talk about it.
In Kind Words, players anonymously write out their concerns and sorrows by making short requests for letters.

Receive Comforting Letters

Everyone can respond to requests with letters of comfort, sympathy or gentle advice.

Kind Words is a positive context; a warm, cozy mood. A place to feel centered and focused on the opportunity presented:
Use your words to lift others and be lifted in return.

Oh, and There’s Stickers!

You start the game with a couple random stickers in their inventory.
Stickers can be placed on letters written to others or sent as an appreciative response to a letter that has been received.
Once you get a new sticker, you can make copies of that sticker to send out to other players.
Each sticker also comes with a 3D toy that you can put on display in your room.

Swap letters to build up your collection of stickers and room decorations!