FORTIFY: A Classic Water Balloon Battle!💦

Surveys have been sent!
over 3 years ago – Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 12:26:13 AM

Thank you all so much for your patience while we worked to get everything ready for the survey. As you may have already seen, we are offering extremely low prices for our add-on games as a way to say thank you to our backers who made this campaign possible.

Growing up, one of our favorite things was battling head to head at a video game with a friend. In those moments the rest of the stresses of school and growing up melted away and we were entranced in the match. Fortify is our love letter to those type of games. We are offering these discounts because we wanted a way for our supporters to be able to pay it forward to a friend that is important to them.

On that same note, see some of the finished art of our friends, you helped add to our game. Have an amazing holidays and we look forward to seeing everyone in 2023!

Stay tuned for more fun updates coming shortly, but in the meantime, fill out your survey, drink some egg nog and have the hap-hap-happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tapped danced with Danny Kaye!

Happy Holidays folks!

FORTIFY new character ARTWORK update!
over 3 years ago – Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 03:55:41 PM

Howdy Folks, we are super excited to share with you some of the new Character Artwork for FORTIFY!

We wanted to say THANK-YOU to some of the amazing folks who really helped us get the word out on FORTIFY and share it on their social channels.  These folks are amazing and they have been so supportive and helpful to us over the past few years! 

Our amazing artist Kendall Hale has finished up the sketches of these amazing folks, and we cannot wait to see how they turn out in the final game!

These folks are amazing, and we could not me more stoked to have them as characters in FORTIFY!  

Thanks again to all of our wonderful backers who made this game possible, be on the lookout for your BackerKit Surveys arriving in the next few days and you will have a chance to add a second copy of the game for an awesome discounted price!  We will also be including copies of MOONSHINE EMPIRE in the BackerKit as an Add-on Item, and will be shipping those out to folks right away so you can get them in time to put under the tree for that special Moonshiner in your life!!

Take care, and stay tuned for more updates coming shortly.

- Barrel Aged Games

THANKS BACKERS! + Next steps for FORTIFY
over 3 years ago – Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 12:06:31 PM

A HUGE thank-you to all of our wonderful backers who helped us reach our funding goal for FORTIFY and helped us bring this game to life!  I know you have heard: "we could not have done it without you"... but honestly... we truly would not be able to make this game if it wasn't for each and every one of you!  

Next Steps for FORTIFY:

1) We will be finishing up the artwork for the game with our awesome artist Kendall Hale.  (He has been working on some of the additional characters that we UNLOCKED during the campaign, we will send out the updated art to you folks as soon as it is done!)

2) We are working with a few manufacturers to get competitive quotes so that we can provide you with the best quality game with minimum delays in manufacturing and supply chain... (Believe us... that is not very easy these days!!)  Along with this we are working with shipping companies which will give us the costs we need so that we can send out the BackerKit surveys to all of you!

3) In the mean time, go watch the how to play video and grab a friend and give Fortify a try on tabel top simulator here:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2861267330

Stay tuned as the next update should have some amazing new Character Artwork! 

Thanks again for your support!

- Barrel Aged Games

SOLO MODE Unlocked for FORTIFY! #BackerRAID was a success!
over 3 years ago – Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 12:50:58 PM

Howdy Neighbors!

First off, thank-you soooo much to the folks who participated in the FIRST EVER #BackerRAID on Kickstarter!!

It was a close race between FORTIFY and MINE YOUR BUSINESS... but in the end they out-Raided us by a narrow margin!  Both campaigns saw a massive boost in comments and backers during the #BackerRAID!

So we decided to celebrate it as a success and UNLOCK something for FORTIFY anyway!

FORTIFY SOLO MODE!

This SOLO MODE is something that we have been keeping under our hat for a while, but we are so excited to finally share it with you folks! 

We built this Solo Mode to teach you the aspects of building a fort and also added in the fun push your luck stress of choices between re-rolling or cycling cards.  It is very fun and quite challenging as well.

Thanks again to all of you for helping us get to this point in the campaign!  Please share this update with a friend of yours that LOVES solo games!

Stay tuned for our next Character Unlock... coming soon!

-- Barrel Aged Games

Let's help a fellow small game publisher!
over 3 years ago – Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 02:07:02 AM

Howdy folks!

So FORTIFY is over 150% FUNDED, and we are on our way to unlocking more characters and fun extras for the game, (More on that shortly!)

But first, we wanted to try out something that we have never done before, and honestly have never seen done on Kickstarter before?!?  We want to help out a fellow small game publisher and we need your help!

Many folks may not know this but projects on Kickstarter gain views, are featured higher on the rankings, and gather more steam by: 

1) The $$ amount that is pledged to that campaign

2) By the Number of Backers backing a project

3) By the number of Comments that project has on the page

While we cannot directly affect #1 on the list, with your help, we believe we can affect #2 and #3 !! 

We would like to start a #BackerRAID with our new friend Matthew's game "MINE YOUR BUSINESS"

We met Matt at the World Series of Board gaming in Las Vegas, he has his new game on Kickstarter right now, and he needs our help to gain some steam on his project so that it can fund!

Since it was Las Vegas, we made a little wager with Matt... If we can get more of our Backers to head to his project, back the game for $1 and post in the Comments: #BackerRAID FORTIFY then we will unlock something for FORTIFY!!   Obviously he is going to ask his Backers to do the same thing and #BackerRAID the FORTIFY campaign as well... let's not let them beat us!! 

So again... in order to help out another small publisher, and unlock something fun for FORTIFY: 

1) Go over to the MINE YOUR BUSINESS Kickstarter page HERE:

2) Back the game for $1

3) Post in their comments: #BackerRAID FORTIFY

4) Sit back and watch the fun rivalry ensue!!! 

Truly THANK-YOU!!  We know that $1 may not seem like much, but to small publishers who are pouring everything we have into these projects, $1 and a nice comment goes a really long way! 

-Jason and Caleb

Barrel Aged Games