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Thank you for backing the Kickstarter! We have some special goodies for you.

Thanks for being on our side.

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Subscribe to S. D. Smith’s Updates and get The Green Ember Audiobook for FREE:

We Started a Podcast! 🫛🏰  Go search for

We Started a Podcast! 🫛🏰  Go search for ~Green Ember Goes Forth~ and listen to a BTS story of the making of an ambitious, audacious, hospitable adventure!

Created by Zach Franzen and featuring me, my brother, my brother-in-law, and the messy, blessed world of our family business.

Lots of concern about media and boys, and we’re

Lots of concern about media and boys, and we’re doing something about it!

Loved being on with Amy Sloan (Humility and Doxology) to talk about books and boys and games and creating with the intent to serve.

Kids > Profit We've carefully designed a game wit

Kids > Profit

We've carefully designed a game with no:
❌ ads
❌ in-game purchases
❌ chat

This game has a:
✅ beginning
✅ middle
✅ end

We've been told that this type of model won't work but I believe there are families out there who want a radically hospitable game that treats kids as human beings. We're taking the harder route because it's the better route.

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#greenember #sdsmith #bookrecommendations #videogame

How it all began. There were rabbits in the yard.

How it all began.

There were rabbits in the yard...

🎤 Mere Christians podcast with Jordan Raynor

#greenember #rabbitswithswords #bookrecommendations #author

We’re in the TOP 1% 🎉 Kickstarter has just n

We’re in the TOP 1% 🎉

Kickstarter has just named us a “Project We Love”. They’re taking notice.

Of the 13,000+ children’s publishing projects on Kickstarter, Green Ember: Helmer in the Dragon Tomb is currently sitting at #9 of all time...halfway through.

Not only that, of the live projects in children’s publishing it’s currently the:
#1 Most Funded
#1 Most Backed
#1 Most Popular (we overtook Chupacabra and Krampus plushie pals 👀)
Outperforming 99.9% of projects

You did that.

Families are happily supporting this cause, not million-dollar studios or corporate backers.

We want better media for our kids. And we’re putting our money where our heart is.

BUT WE'RE NOT DONE YET

Most games today are built like slot machines—designed to seem cheap up front, then pull players in with addictive loops and endless in-game purchases. We’ve chosen a different path, one that doesn’t exploit kids or families. But that choice makes our journey more difficult.

I’m truly thankful for the amazing support we’ve already seen. It means the world to me. I want to see this beautiful, rare adventure reach even more kids. I believe it can—but we need your help to get there.

If you haven’t backed yet, would you consider doing it today? And if the game’s not right for your home, gift it to a family who would use it?

Your support makes this possible. Let's keep going. Let's show the world that families still care about hopeful, hospitable storytelling without hidden agendas.

Our kids deserve better media.

Let's give it to them.

I'm on your side,

Sam

It's a game based off the book. Story first, alway

It's a game based off the book. Story first, always.

#bookstagram #videogames #videogamization #storytelling

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