Funding update

Hello, everyone! CROSSROADS has been out for a month and has reached 62% of its funding goal. Thanks to your support, I've been able to provide 33 community copies, all of which have been claimed. I'm looking to hit my funding goal of $250 to cover my labour and to compensate my playtesters. Once I have hit this goal, I'll release a package of visual assets for folks who want to play CROSSROADS on stream. More on that in the next section...

CROSSROADS on stream

One of the things I'd love is for more folks to play CROSSROADS on their game streams! I have overlays created by the amazing Jess from Huetopia, who is my friend, mentor, and an absolute powerhouse in the TTRPG community. If you're a streamer who would like early access to these assets and you can commit to playing CROSSROADS on your stream, please send me a direct message on Twitter or a message through the contact form on my website. In this message, let me know which version of the overlay you'd need (1, 2, 3 or 4 player) along with your channel name. I can also provide a copy of CROSSROADS for free. And of course, I'll happily promote your stream and encourage folks to tune in.

If you're not looking to stream just yet and you'd prefer to wait for the package to become available to the general public, here's a list of what you can expect:

• Overlays for 1, 2, 3, and 4 players with greenscreen and window cutout options, plus space for virtual tabletop (VTT) capture, captions, and channel branding (1920 x 1080 px)
• VTT capture graphic with DISCARD pile and space for the drawn map (1000 x 900 px)
• Unedited Background Image (1920 x 1080 px)
• Palette and font information graphic
• CROSSROADS promo image for Twitter (1200 x 675 px)
• CROSSROADS promo image for Instagram (1080 x 1080 px)
  
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Check out this highlight of cryss playing CROSSROADS on her stream as a solo player!

#HypeSwap

Since releasing CROSSROADS, I have participated in #HypeSwap for the first time and it's been a really cool experience. #HypeSwap is an initiative whereby game designers swap games and celebrate each other's games: what they loved about it, what makes it unique, and why more people should play it. So far, I've been lucky enough to have had three amazing designers to #HypeSwap with me! 

If you are interested in doing a #HypeSwap with me, I'd love to send CROSSROADS to you! I will write a thread about your game on Twitter, which will be saved to my #HypeSwap moment. I'll also add your game to my #HypeSwap collection, and I'll leave a public comment on itch encompassing the main thoughts from my #HypeSwap thread.

If you're ready to swap games, please send me a direct message on Twitter or a message through the contact form on my website. In your message, tell me which game of yours you'd like me to look at, where I can find it, as well as the best place to contact you. At this time, I prefer solo games because I can guarantee that I'll be able play it before I do my write-up.

I'll leave you with this interview I did with the RPG Internationale about CROSSROADS, my game design journey, and more. Thanks so much for being here and for checking out my very first game as an indie publisher!