From The Town Records of Shadow River Park - Solo Story Game

From the Town Records of Shadow River Park is a solo journaling game in which you build the living history of an impossible small town, one council meeting at a time. 

Premise

You are council member number six of six, just voted into your position and about to start the new year's session. 
You'll work with the council members to determine the fate of citizen requests and therefore the town.

First 24 Hours Bonus
Backers in the first 24 hours will receive The First Record - a story of the very first council meeting of Shadow River Park. 

The Council Members come with their own backgrounds and quirks.

The Citizens have demands.

Throughout the game, you'll learn more and more about the town, the people, your colleagues, and the many secrets found inside this small town. 

Tell us what's inside! 

Small towns are living, breathing beasts full of life, vigor, mystery, desire, and myth. The game is set up to bring your version of Shadow River to life. 
Each round runs a bit like this:
 

The whole game is sort of like a coloring book for writing. You get the outlines, fill it all with whatever you think is best! 
 

Gameplay preview 

What's the Town Clerk? 

The Town Clerk is keeper of the record and absolutely essential to everything. 

The Town Clerk is central to the expansion mode The Undersigned, as well. 

Yeah, that tier sounds like a solid value. Tell me more about The Undersigned.

Throughout the game, the Town Clerk is leaving little notes and doodles on the final record submitted to the archives. When your character finally takes notice of all that, the truth of Shadow River Park becomes a little clearer. 

New citizen types show up in the audience chambers during the meetings. New After Hours events pop up to help solve the mystery of Shadow River Park. 

New interactions with the Town Clerk are available, and the notes might start to make sense. 

Will your character piece together what is happening? Or will they operate in blissful ignorance of what's really going on? 

The core game shows us what it means to be part of a town. The Undersigned shows us what it means to belong to a place and see all its faults and charms as part of the whole experience. 

Stretch Goals

Pure luck helped the last Kickstarter go well beyond the goal (thank you, Krista, Bluesky, and everyone who backed and shared!)   
Moving out of the end-of-the-world bunker and into the charms of a mysterious small town brings on some fun new challenges. These are all stretch goals most certainly. 

We're aiming for $50 raised because that's practical, buys the domain name for another year, plus gets the kids a fast-food burger of their choice.  Wins all around!

Since Shadow River Park is a community, we're going to celebrate every new member of the community! As our population grows, so does the town! 

GOAL ACHIEVED! 20 Citizen Backers  - Town Events
Shadow River Park's city council gets to weigh in on traditions and events of the town. Festivals, ceremonies, parades, traditions, fairs; all with a Shadow River bend. (ba dum tss)

GOAL ACHIEVED! 30 Citizen Backers - Additional (in-game) Citizens
We'll drop in 5 new citizens to pick from! Whole new storylines, whole new quirks, whole new portions of the town opened up. Five new concerned citizens all ready to pester the council for an hour at a time, then reveal they've been motivated by the memory of a grandparent to be the best version of themselves they can be. 

GOAL ACHIEVED!  40 Citizen Backers - Special Sessions 
A town isn't just citizens who need stuff. It's a mess of stuff that needs attention! These prompts will see how well the council deals with abnormalities. 
Earthquakes? Government vans showing up in the middle of the night? Budget crisis brought on by UFO-spotting equipment overspending? 

GOAL ACHIEVED!  50 Citizen Backers - New Business
Let's see what else the citizens want to talk about. This will introduce a prompt table for topics outside the citizen history path items. Maybe the town dump needs to be more friendly to sentient prairie dogs. Perhaps there's a radiation leak, and everyone wants to know what the council plans to do about potential zombies. It's new business, and anyone can speak up!

GOAL ACHIEVED! 60 Citizen Backers  - Town Developer
A map-making addition to the game! You're on the council; you should know where stuff is located. A series of roll tables and rules to bring a little location-based weirdness to the town. 
Tables include: 
*The Statue that Winks
*The Sentient Prairie Dog Colony 
*Maribeth's Bakery
*The Place Mothman Ordered a Burger That One Time, I Swear! My Cousin Al's Best Friend Was There
*The Orange Tree That Smells Like Cinnamon 
*The Community Garden
*Town Hall, Town Square, and Town Circle

NEW >>> 70 CITIZENS - After Hours: Pets!
This add-on gives your council member a little pet at home! No additional writing from this group of roll tables; what we get with this stretch goal is a glimpse into your pet's life when you're away. Optional add-ins: you roll for your pet, then, during the After Hours section, roll to see what they were up to during the meeting and the implications of their actions. 

NEW >>> 80 CITIZENS - After Hours: The Shadow River Park Gazette!
The town paper knows what is going on. You spend your time in politics; they spend their time in town chasing the story.
This add-in is a series of roll tables that build the day's leading headline for after the meeting. "Local Gardner Warns Town About Glowing Coffee Mug In Front of Several Witnesses" could change everything about the next meeting. 

100 Citizen Backers, The Second Ledger Expansion
When the Undersigned campaign ends, the Second Ledger campaign might pick up. 
There's something keeping things in order in this town, and it's not the council. Whatever it may be has taken notice of you. 

120 Citizen Backers - Shadow River Park: 1985
Shadow River Park at its most rad. New councilmembers, citizens, special sessions, and new business to tackle waaaaaaay back in 1985.
 

Citizen (Backer) Exclusives
Citizens gain instant access to A Year in Shadow River Park in Update #4 and more to come! 

For backers in update 8, head into the Forest:
 

Freebies!
Check out the updates for some fun little card games 
Update 7: 
A prairie dog game of control, intrigue, subterfuge, and war.

Update 6 has us playing the rumor mill:

Update 3 starts the hunt for bigfoot:

Update #9 send you into the office:


Add ins! 
If you backed the We Don't Live On the Surface Anymore campaign, you have access to both of these in the original Dropbox link! Woo!

Missed We Don't Live on the Surface Anymore? Pick it up now. Check out the game details here: The Campaign Page

Bunkers is a lightweight multiplayer TTRPG just right for those groups that want the fun of the end of the world without the overworld monsters getting in the way. Built and delivered as a stretch goal during the last campaign, it's pretty fun! Bunkers Info Video 

Thanks!
Thanks for taking the time to check out this project! I am incredibly thankful for your time and attention and hope you're stoked to create some fun stories and adventures in Shadow River Park.