Illustration Inspiration

With art direction for 70+ interior illustrations pending, and 1600+ backers with cool thoughts about the parts of Poseidon they want to see brought to life, I thought it would be fun to solicit ideas for possible illustrations. Not all ideas will be used and it's not practical to credit inspiration as there will likely be a lot of overlap in ideas, but if you think this would be a fun way be involved, please make a submission through this link. In fact, feel free to submit as many suggestions as you would like.

By the Numbers

28 day campaign ✔︎

4 hours to fund ✔︎

417% funding goal ✔︎

2 core books ✔︎

25 stretch goals ✔︎

700 sci-fi-filled pages ✔︎

1657 backers ✔︎

125,341cs ✔︎

Countless thank yous! ✔︎✔︎✔︎

This campaign has been unbelievably successful because of the enthusiasm and generosity of the Blue Planet community - by both the old crew and new friends. We are excited at the promise the exceptional funding holds for the world of Poseidon and can’t wait to get started on the whale-sized project you have just handed us. The real work is about to begin, and if you want all the details, check out the latest update on our Kickstarter page.

3rd and Final Wave

Check out the final three stretch goals for the Blue Planet: Recontact Kickstarter. They will complete an amazingly successful and satisfying campaign that is the direct result of backer enthusiasm and support. Thank you to all who have invested in the game and if you are still thinking about it, check out the story here. Time is short as we are about to break orbit for Poseidon!

One Week

One week to the end of the Blue Planet: Recontact Kickstarter, and it's been a surprising and gratifying trip! If hard sci-fi roleplaying on a contentious, frontier water world with a dangerous ecology and undercurrents of alien mystery interests you, check us out.

BP Q&A

What: Blue Planet-Recontact live Q&A

When: Saturday, 4.24, at 2p Pacific Time

Where: Discord (https://discord.gg/663PtKrvcX)

Join us for a voice chat to discuss the new edition, the Kickstarter, water-world-building or whatever other marine sci-fi goodness you want to explore!

KS Updates

Check out the Blue Planet: Recontact Kickstarted updates. We blew through our initial funding goal in just 4 hours, knocked down 19 stretch goals and just passed $80k! The Blue Planet community is killing it, the books are going to be gorgeous, Wormhole and World of Hurt are both getting made and we still have two weeks to go!

Kickstarter Loves Blue Planet

Thanks to the support of our awesome community, Blue Planet: Recontact is now a “Project We Love” on Kickstarter. This means a higher profile on the site, more potential backers and even more stretch goals going down. Thank you Crew, you are killin’ it!

BP Kickstarter is Live!

The Blue Planet: Recontact Kickstarter is now live. If you appreciate deep world-building and character-focused mechanics you’ll love the fully-realized ecology and sociopolitics of the ocean planet Poseidon and the reimagined, character-centered system in this definitive edition of the classic, hard sci-fi game.

Tomorrow

Click here for notification of when the Blue Planet: Recontact KS launches tomorrow morning.

Incoming!

“Entering orbit.

Telemetry online.

Velocity 40,320 kph.

On final approach to Poseidon.”

Click here to sign up for notification when the Blue Planet: Recontact Kickstarter launches.

One Week

Today we are one week out from the launch of the Blue Planet: Recontact Kickstarter on Tuesday, April 6th. To mark this moment in the countdown, I want to share something no-one but the creative team has yet seen - the new edition cover art!

The covers are by the incredible Jeff Zugale and intentionally evoke the imagery and wonder of the popular, first edition cover. The illustration is a diptych of the Player’s and Moderator’s Guides, as shown by the mock-ups below.

I hope you love the image as much as we do and are as excited to see the rest of the project come to life as we are. Thank you for your ongoing support and welcome back to Poseidon.

Two Weeks

Curious about the background of this banner? Well, every good game book needs a fantastic cover…

We are just two weeks from the launch of the Blue Planet: Recontact Kickstarter and are super-excited for everyone to get involved. To mark the moment in the countdown, I thought I’d share a few teasers.

Teaser #1 - Here’s a current work-in-progress by our amazing interior artist Stephan Shoz - the finished version of which I can’t wait to see.

Step 1

Step 2

Teaser #2 - Instant rewards! The day after the end of the campaign, every book reward level will get PDFs of the previous editions of Blue Planet, and if you pledge for a book set (both Player’s and Moderator’s Guides) you will receive PDF copies of everything ever published for Blue Planet! That’s over 1700 pages of waterworld wonder, as soon as the Kickstarter closes!

I know this might not motivate the hardcore Blue Planet fans out there who already have access to Poseidon, but since one of the goals of this campaign is to bring the game to a new generation of players, I’m psyched to get folks through the wormhole on day one!

Lambda Serpentis II

Teaser #3 - Here is a draft of one of my favorite reward levels. I’m excited about this one because it will allow backers to plant their own little flags on Poseidon. Note in particular, the last line below…

Reward Level - Book Set and Naming Rights

• One physical copy of the new Blue Planet: Recontact Player's Guide

• One physical copy of the new Blue Planet: Recontact Moderator's Guide

• Blue Planet Recontact PDF set

• All funded stretch goals

• PDF versions of all 10 previously published, 1st and 2nd edition Blue Planet books the day after the campaign ends.

• Naming rights for a previously unnamed cartographical feature of your choice - landmass, surface or sea floor element. You provide the name and we will add it, like an aquatic easter egg, to one of the new, in-game maps.