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Hey friends, here’s a cross-post from our Kickstarter page that we originally shared on Thanksgiving Day. Just to give you a window on what we’ve been up to:

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Hello everybody,

Since today is Thanksgiving day here in the United States, we at Addo Games wanted to take the opportunity to reach out and say how thankful we are for your support. While we’re at it, we also have an update on Robots Love Ice Cream.

Even though most of our progress has been behind the scenes, we’ve been hard at work on both the game and the Kickstarter rewards. We’ll be sending out surveys for mailing addresses and T-shirt sizes this coming week to help us fulfill your rewards.

Physical rewards will be shipped soon, depending on the level at which you backed—right now we’ve got awesome vinyl stickers and postcards ready to go, posters at the printer, and T-shirts in vendor selection. Digital items like the soundtrack and wallpaper pack will be released when the game launches. If there’s a rewards item you liked that wasn’t in your pledge pack, we’ll also have a few things available for purchase online later this year.

Without your help, this endeavor wouldn’t be possible and we owe you our profound thanks. We’ve set a high bar for this game and we are looking forward to giving you a glimpse in the next month or so. Development has ramped up more slowly than we would have liked because of the usual indie developer challenges, but trust us, we’re as impatient as you are for the release of Robots Love Ice Cream, and we’re as determined as ever to make our game something truly memorable and special. As of right now, the plan is to get the game onto your iPads in April 2012.

In the spirit of the holiday, here are a few things we’re thankful for:

-The incredibly talented creative people who are contributing to our project
-Fresh ground/brewed coffee and our ancient-but-irreplaceable Starbucks coffee maker
-Online supplier coupon codes
-Skype
-Rooster cookies
-Tools like Smartsheet and Evernote that help us keep our heads on straight
-Sincere words of encouragement from friends and family
-The Unity community
-Internet radio (especially the game music channels)
-Fellini’s Pizza - site of creative/strategy summits
-Twitter
-The opportunity to pursue our dream and have all you amazing people volunteer to come along for the ride

Again, thank you for supporting and loving Robots Love Ice Cream!

Hey guys,

I’ve put together a few new promotional shots that show off some of the fruits of our labors.

Ice Cream Truck (Hero)

This is still very much a work in progress, but I think it’s a great start. I’ve got the truck rigged and animated with suspension and chassis rocking that speeds up and slows down depending on the speed the player spins the planet at.

Koi Fish Robot

This little guy is one of the characters for the Japanese feudal level. Our current plan is to have him capture Citizens through his mouth from the inhabited buildings on the planet below.

In-Game Peek

And lastly, here’s a screen from the current build of the game. Not everything is represented in this shot and the buildings are definitely placeholders, but things are moving along and it’s starting to look a bit like a game, :)

Please feel free to share these with friends and game blogs. We definitely need your help meeting our funding goal for Kickstarter. The project ends in 12 days (July 31, 3a EST)!

Robots Love Ice Cream on Kickstarter

Thanks,

Burton