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✨ Help Us Launch Quilltangle: Pixie Parable — A Mythic MMO for Democracy & Imagination We’re an independent game collective building something radically different: A multiplayer storytelling world where players write the future — and build new models of democracy, education, and healing through play. Quilltangle: Pixie Parable is our flagship title — a myth-infused MMORPG where players don’t just explore the world — they expand it. Our playable demo is live via our web app, Chicken Jockey Scribe Racer, and now we’re racing to evolve it into Quilltangle for a global game jam with $10,000 in funding and mass distribution potential. We need your support — by July 1st — to finish this summer build and submit *Quilltangle: Pixie Parable* to the Citizens, Assemble! Game Jam, hosted by Global Game Jam and One World or None. --- What is Quilltangle: Pixie Parable? Think The NeverEnding Story meets RuneScape, with a large scoop of TypeRacer thrown in. Typing and storytelling become core gameplay mechanics Scribing prompts shape the world in real-time In-game assemblies mirror real ones — players debate, vote, and collaborate Moddable server shards let communities host and expand their own regions It’s a multiplayer mirror world — a fantasy of the future where today’s biggest crises have already been overcome. Players race, write, and deliberate their way through a realm built on empathy, ecology, and collective creativity. Most importantly: Players who rise through the ranks earn the right to submit their own prompts, lore, and quests. They become Worldbuilders whose stories breathe life into new biomes, factions, and solutions — both in-game and IRL. --- What We Need — and Why Now To meet the July 1st jam deadline — and be competitive for Epic MegaGrants later this summer — we urgently need: * A **dedicated Unreal dev machine** for compiling and testing 3D builds * Modest **stipends for our all-volunteer team** who are working full-time * A cross-platform **mobile-ready build** for Android and Linux handhelds * Our own Linux distro: **ScribeOS**, a fork of Garuda Dr460nized Gaming, which will ship with *CJSR* and *Quilltangle* pre-installed * Tools for **community writing, player submissions, and lore management** We’re not a studio with deep pockets — we’re educators, designers, and indie devs using games to **prototype the infrastructure of future democracy**. --- Stretch Goals If we exceed our $2,000 goal: * $3,000 → Hire a part-time writer to assist with player-submitted quests * $5,000 → Commission diverse art assets and world expansions * $7,000 → Stand up multiplayer server support for community-hosted shards * $8,000+ → Build a cinematic teaser and pitch deck for publishers + Epic MegaGrants --- ## Why This Project Matters > “Citizens’ assemblies give ordinary people the power to shape extraordinary futures.” That’s the heart of the **Citizens, Assemble!** jam — and it’s what *Quilltangle* is all about. Through races, rituals, and written spells, players in *Quilltangle* rehearse a different world — one where **every keystroke can help solve real problems**, and every story becomes a seed for collective transformation. --- ## Back Us Today If you've ever wanted to see a game where: * ️ Democracy becomes fun, fierce, and magical * ✍️ Players earn narrative power by proving their literacy, curiosity, and courage * Ideas become quests — and solutions become systems... …then *Quilltangle* is that game. And now is the moment to help it grow. **Donate today to help us hit our July 1st build deadline — and to show the world what participatory, open-source gaming can do.** We’re not just making a game. **We’re building a living story.** And we’d love to write it with you. Team TimeKnot Games — Weaving Futures Through Play Aloha! We're TimeKnot Games, a story-forward indie studio on a mission to blend joy, justice, and worldbuilding into unforgettable games. Our dream? By the end of this jam, to secure the momentum to launch 8 full-time positions and bring our flagship title Quilltangle: Pixie Parable to life—alongside a full slate of community-driven, genre-blending projects. Meet the Founders: Cody Lestelle Creative Director | Vision Shepherd Game dev since second grade, scholar of Indigenous Futures, veteran of the Games for Change Unreal Accelerator, and founder of AgileXPS, 7ABCs & TimeKnot Games. Cody brings decades of community organizing, curriculum design, and dreamcraft into every pixel. Korvus Blackbird Narrative Alchemist | IRASCIBLE Teaching Artist™ A mythmaker with edge, fire, and feathers—Korvus channels artistic grit, theater, and unapologetic truth into every word and world they touch. Think bard, but louder. And sharper. And way more fun. We're just getting started—but we’re here to build a studio that can stand the test of time and twist the knots of fate into something beautiful, hilarious, and healing. ✨ Let’s jam. Let’s play. Let’s tangle the quill. —Team TimeKnot https://timeknotgames.com