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We hit $28,000 for Remember August and I am so pleased at the interest and support for this experimental little game! I am excited to dispatch over five thousand letters to y’all.

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shing yin khor

@sawdustbear

Sep 7, 2021

Remember August, my live-mail letter-writing keepsake game is now live on Kickstarter. You grew apart from your childhood friend August when she went to work for the Bureau of Time Disruption. Now, she is lost in time, but you can anchor her. kickstarter.com/projects/shing

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shing yin khor

@sawdustbear

There are two primary texts that really inspired this game. One’s a childhood favorite, the Griffin and Sabine series by Nick Bantock. The other is the resplendent novella This Is How You Lose The Time War by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar.

8:50 PM · Sep 9, 2021

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I devoured the G&S books. They reinvented books for me. I spent so much time with them! Putting Time War on the list to read.

shing yin khor

@sawdustbear

Sep 9, 2021

Same! I feel like my two biggest book inspirations are the Griffin and Sabine series and the illustrated Gnomes book(Huygens and Poortvielt). Completely groundbreaking and also really solidly produced.

dongwon 송동원

@dongwon

Sep 10, 2021

we literally used griffin and sabine to pitch time war lmao

lol, of course!!!

If I hadn't already backed this day 1, this would sealed the deal. This Is How You Lose the Time War is so beautiful I could cry (and I have)! Never read the other series, but I remember reading it was one of the inspirations of Time War too.

Fat, Bald Dabus

@mr86400

Sep 10, 2021

Oh no, you’ve said the secret word