Week 4 [Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple]

Hey everybody! Sorry, no video this week. We're rolling on all cylinders here in the final couple days of layout. It's going to be a non-stop workfest in the home stretch.

Backers $40 and Up
Thanks for sending us your choices for citizen, troublemaker, and creature. Many of you chose to be troublemakers! No surprises there. ;) If you don't see your name in this spreadsheet, you haven't replied to my Kickstarter direct message yet. If we don't hear from you by midnight, we'll make the choice for you. If the name we have for you is inaccurate, misspelled or missing, please message me or leave a comment on this post.

Those Prize Bundles
They sure disappeared fast. Many thanks to the generous backers who grabbed those while they were hot. All three were gone within 24 hours, including the ultra-exclusive $1000 bundle. Crazy! Interesting data point: All those bundles went to existing backers who increased their pledges.

Speaking of Data
We're just over $19,000 as of this update. Astounding. My wife insists we'll be over $20k by the end and she may be right, but that's not the number that is most impressive to me. It's the number at the top of the column: 393 enthusiastic, generous backers are making this game possible. For every one new backer, who can count how many dozens – hundreds! – of new players will arrive in the coming months? Let's see if we can get over 400 backers in the remaining days. ^_^

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