Dorkness Falls Receives Kickstarter’s ‘Project We Love’ Accolade, L. Gabriel Gonda to Join

Contact: Matt Vancil, matt@cabin9films.com
Friday 07 June 2024

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Dorkness Falls Receives Kickstarter’s ‘Project We Love’ Accolade, L. Gabriel Gonda to Join

Tacoma, WA

Project We Love

On Wednesday (June 5th), Kickstarter selected Gamers 4: Dorkness Falls as a ‘Project We Love.” The recognition is Kickstarter’s “way of highlighting brilliant examples of creativity.” As part of the recognition, Kickstarter has added a badge under the project’s main image, and the campaign will be featured on Kickstarter.
 

L. Gabriel Gonda

Cabin 9 Films also announced the addition of L. Gabriel Gonda as Co-Director. “[Gonda] has a long history with this troupe,” wrote Writer/Director Matt Vancil. “If you’ve watched most any ZOE production over the last decade, you’ve seen his work.” Gabriel is the director of Dark Dungeons, Strowlers, Gamers the Series, and most recently Liberty Cabbage.

Gamers 4: Dorkness Falls is the conclusion to the feature-length film trilogy that started with Dorkness Rising (2008), and continued with Hands of Fate (2013). It is seeking $500,000 on Kickstarter through June 29th to fund the production. Visit www.DorknessFalls.com for more information on the campaign.

Preproduction will begin in Fall 2024, and production in Spring 2025. The film is slated for a December
2026 release.

Cabin 9 Films is part of Matt Vancil’s Bearfoot Media LLC, and is managing the production of Dorkness Falls.

The Gamers: Dorkness Rising was produced by Dead Gentlemen Productions and Epic Level
Entertainment, filmed in 2005, with a Gen Con premiere in 2006. Distribution of the film began in 2008.
1,796 people backed a Kickstarter campaign in 2015 to produce a Definitive Edition Blu-Ray of the cult
classic.

Its sequel, The Gamers: Hands of Fate was supported by 4,311 Kickstarter backers pledging more than
$405,000. Production by Zombie Orpheus Entertainment began in 2012, and it was released in 2013.
 

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Project Assets:
Kickstarter link
http://kck.st/4c0h1mh

Kickstarter pitch video (via YT)
https://youtu.be/E_HoMDULFXM

Media Assets available at
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yBjPo4pDRTGCg8mq1oRVQkwt_ie9BioB?usp=sharing

Scott Kurtz to Join the Cast of Gamers 4: Dorkness Falls

Contact: Matt Vancil, matt@cabin9films.com
Saturday 01 June 2024

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Scott Kurtz to Join the Cast of Gamers 4: Dorkness Falls

Tacoma, WA

Cabin 9 Films announced today that Eisner and Harvey award-winning cartoonist, Scott Kurtz, is to join the cast of Gamers 4: Dorkness Falls.

“One of the greatest pleasures of our last 20+ years on the convention circuit,” wrote Writer/Director Matt Vancil on the film’s third Kickstarter Update, “has been getting to know other media creators and gaming celebrities, many of whom we now call friends. We’re thrilled to have Scott join the cast of Dorkness Falls.”

Scott Kurtz is the creator of PvP and Table Titans and played Binwin Bronzebottom in Penny Arcade's Acquisitions Inc., one of the earliest Dungeons & Dragons podcasts. Recently, Scott has ventured into authoring kid-lit with his debut middle-grade novel Table Titans Club.

Gamers 4: Dorkness Falls is the conclusion to the feature-length film trilogy that started with Dorkness Rising (2008), and continued with Hands of Fate (2013). It is seeking $500,000 on Kickstarter through June 29th to fund the production. Visit www.DorknessFalls.com for more information on the campaign.

Preproduction will begin in Fall 2024, and production in Spring 2025. The film is slated for a December 2026 release.

Cabin 9 Films is part of Matt Vancil’s Bearfoot Media LLC, and is managing the production of Dorkness Falls.

The Gamers: Dorkness Rising was produced by Dead Gentlemen Productions and Epic Level Entertainment, filmed in 2005, with a Gen Con premiere in 2006. Distribution of the film began in 2008. 1,796 people backed a Kickstarter campaign in 2015 to produce a Definitive Edition Blu-Ray of the cult classic.

Its sequel, The Gamers: Hands of Fate was supported by 4,311 Kickstarter backers pledging more than $405,000. Production by Zombie Orpheus Entertainment began in 2012, and it was released in 2013.

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Project Assets:

Kickstarter link
http://kck.st/4c0h1mh

Kickstarter pitch video (via YT)
https://youtu.be/E_HoMDULFXM

Media Assets available at
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yBjPo4pDRTGCg8mq1oRVQkwt_ie9BioB?usp=sharing

Funding Now! Gamers 4: Dorkness Falls

Contact: Matt Vancil, matt@cabin9films.com
Friday 31 May 2024

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Funding Now! Gamers 4: Dorkness Falls

Tacoma, WA

DORKNESS FALLS, the conclusion to the feature-length film trilogy that started with Dorkness Rising (2008), and continued with Hands of Fate (2013), is seeking $500,000 on Kickstarter through June 29th. www.DorknessFalls.com goes directly to the Kickstarter campaign.


The Gamers movies have been featured on Netflix, Amazon Prime, and screened at festivals and conventions worldwide.

“The Gamers is a story we began telling over twenty years ago,” writes Matt Vancil, writer/director of The Gamers films. “The series began with The Gamers, a 48-minute short that was made for $500 in 2002, and went on to go viral in the days before YouTube, selling tens of thousands of DVDs and leading directly to the production of the feature-length Dorkness Rising.” He concludes, “What began as a passion project has grown into an indie cult classic franchise.”

“We would not be here…” says Nathan Rice in the Kickstarter pitch video, “if not for the unflagging support of fans over the last 20 plus years.

Dorkness Falls will conclude the story line that began with Dorkness Rising (2008) and continued through Hands of Fate (2013). At the end of the last film, The Shadow—the nemesis of the players since the original Gamers —pulled the players into the game world itself. What have the gamers been up to since then? Who is The Shadow, and what are his plans? How have they managed to survive without powers or class levels? And will they ever find their way home? The answers, and so many familiar faces, will be found in Dorkness Falls.

The entire main cast of Dorkness Rising are reprising their roles (or taking on new ones) including Nathan Rice, Brian S. Lewis, Carol Roscoe, Scott C. Brown, Christian Doyle, and Jennifer Page.

Several cast and crew alum are back as well, including Matt Shimkus (The Shadow), Chris Mosio (Director of Photography), Kevin Inouye (Fight Choreographer) and Matt Vancil (Writer/Director).

The Kickstarter runs through June 29, 2024. Preproduction will begin in Fall 2024, with production planned for Spring 2025. It will then enter 18 months of postproduction with a planned for release in December 2026.

Cabin 9 Films, which is managing the production of Dorkness Falls, is part of Matt Vancil’s Bearfoot Media LLC.

The Gamers: Dorkness Rising was produced by Dead Gentlemen Productions and Epic Level Entertainment, filmed in 2005, with a Gen Con premiere in 2006. Distribution of the film began in 2008. 1,796 people backed a Kickstarter campaign in 2015 to produce a Definitive Edition Blu-Ray of the cult classic.

Its sequel, The Gamers: Hands of Fate was supported by 4,311 Kickstarter backers pledging more than $405,000. Production by Zombie Orpheus Entertainment began in 2012, and it was released in 2013.

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Project Assets

Kickstarter link
http://kck.st/4c0h1mh

Kickstarter pitch video (via YT)
https://youtu.be/E_HoMDULFXM

Media Assets available at
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yBjPo4pDRTGCg8mq1oRVQkwt_ie9BioB?usp=sharing

New on Audible: The Fatal Frontier

Sure, you could listen to The Fatal Frontier for free via YouTube. But why do that when you can buy your own copy via Audible! Quick link: tiny.cc/tff

Also available for purchase in paperback or e-book formats at Amazon.

"Please transport me to the repair bay."

With the release of The Fatal Frontier Audiobook on YouTube, Seth got a bit enthusiastic and made a ringtone/alert of Denis' oft spoken plea.

For your amusement, the clip is available for download in three formats.

.m4r (for iPhones) | .mp3 | .wav

 

Seth also added "Preet!"

.m4r (for iPhones) | .mp3 | .wav

 

(Troubleshooting: for some it may be best to download this via a desktop computer and then upload to your phone. If the .m4r file downloads as an .mp4 or an .m4a file, change the suffix back to .m4r and it should work.)

The Fatal Frontier Audiobook

 

Coddiwomple 11 - A (Hopefully) Brief Doomcation

Guest: none  

Coddiwomple 11 - A (Hopefully) Brief Doomcation

0:00 Intro 1

0:29 What are you working on? 

19:04 What are you reading?
+ Funny Man: Mel Brooks by Patrick McGilligan
+ Star Trek: Stellar Cartography by Larry Nemecek 

26:12 What are you watching?
+ ST: Picard
+ Castlevania 

34:29 What are you playing?
+ Super Mario Maker 2
+ Diablo 3 

40:20 Listener Questions

# # #

Matt Vancil's Coddiwomple! Join Matt Vancil as the conversation meanders to a vague destination. Guests include family and friends who discuss what's currently on their minds as well as casual reviews of what they've been reading, watching and listening to.

Coddiwomple 10: Double Emergency Fallback

Guest: James Youngman 

Matt outlines the adaptation. James makes distinctions in design. A recording disaster is averted. Our longest episode yet ends with an avalanche of answered questions and compliments. 

Coddiwomple 10: Double Emergency Fallback 

0:00 Intro 

9:18 What are you working on? 

37:19 What are you reading?
+ Walking by Erling Kagge
+ Underground by Will Hunt
+ Vegetable Gardening in the Pacific Northwest by Lorene Edwards Forkner 

44:05 What are you watching?
+ Bojack Horseman
+ The Mandalorian
+ Star Trek: Picard; Discovery 

1:02:40 Listener Questions

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Matt Vancil's Coddiwomple! Join Matt Vancil as the conversation meanders to a vague destination. Guests include family and friends who discuss what's currently on their minds as well as casual reviews of what they've been reading, watching and listening to. 

Coddiwomple 09: New and Exciting Ways to be Bad

Guest: Nathan Rice

Matt sleeps with the stuffies. Nathan memorizes poetry. The boys review politics in Rokugan. Pro Tip: the lightning round shouldn't take several minutes. 

Coddiwomple 09: New and Exciting Ways to be Bad 

0:00 Intro 

15:05 What are you working on? 

19:13 What are you reading?
+ How Fascism Works by Jason Stanley
+ Beneath Cold Seas by David Hall 

33:31 What are you watching?
+ The Good Place
+ Picard
+ The Witcher
+ Red Dwarf
+ Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
+ Godzilla: King of the Monsters 

55:50 What are you playing? + Marvel Spiderman + Spirit Island + Candy Crush Saga 

1:04:22 Listener Questions

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Matt Vancil's Coddiwomple! Join Matt Vancil as the conversation meanders to a vague destination. Guests include family and friends who discuss what's currently on their minds as well as casual reviews of what they've been reading, watching and listening to. 

Coddiwomple 08 - Garbage Time

Guest: Nathan Rice 

Matt remembers his mentor. Nathan burns through the podcasts. Neither can remember Shankar Vedantam. Happy holidays from Matty Matt and Monkey Man. 

Coddiwomple 08 - Garbage Time

0:00 Intro 

20:13 What are you working on? 

25:55 What are you reading?
+ Podcasts: Hidden Brains, Invisibilia
+ Pwned by Matt Vancil
+ Range by David Epstein
+ So, Anyway… by John Cleese 

38:58 What are you watching?
+ The Mandalorian
+ Years and Years
+ Watchmen 

52:55 What are you playing?
+ L5R CCG
+ D&D3.5
+ Red Dead Redemption 2 

57:50 Listener Questions 

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Matt Vancil's Coddiwomple! Join Matt Vancil as the conversation meanders to a vague destination. Guests include family and friends who discuss what's currently on their minds as well as casual reviews of what they've been reading, watching and listening to. 

Coddiwomple 07: Cultural Osmosis

Guest: James Youngman

Matt digs 18th century duds. James gushes over moral philosophy. A series of interesting choices are made. Unleash the Archers on the Rubberbandits! 

Coddiwomple 07: Cultural Osmosis

0:00 Intro 

16:04 What are you working on? 

30:37 What are you reading?
+ Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall
+ Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
+ Temple of Warm Harmony by Frank LaRue Owen 

34:47: What are you watching?
+ The Good Place
+ John Wick 

48:27 What are you playing?
+ Surviving Mars
+ World of Warcraft 

1:04:56 Listener Questions

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Matt Vancil's Coddiwomple! Join Matt Vancil as the conversation meanders to a vague destination. Guests include family and friends who discuss what's currently on their minds as well as casual reviews of what they've been reading, watching and listening to. 

 

Coddiwomple 06: Simmering in the Background

Guest: Nathan Rice

Matt gets political. Nathan commutes forever. Irreconcilable differences are revealed. The boys survive their very first lightning round. 

Coddiwomple 06: Simmering in the Background

0:00 Intro 

4:51 What are you working on? 

13:33 What are you reading?
+ Podcasts: Radio Lab, Hidden Brain, Invisibilia
+ Pathfinder 2nd edition
+ The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley 

22:40 What are you watching?
+ Carnival Row
+ Legion
+ The Boys
+ Star Trek: Voyager
+ What We Left Behind
+ Queer Eye
+ Barry 

41:33 What are you playing?
+ L5R
+ DND
+ Red Dead Redemption 2
+ MTG - Throne of Eldraine
+ Hyrule Warriors 

48:41 Listener Questions

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Matt Vancil's Coddiwomple! Join Matt Vancil as the conversation meanders to a vague destination. Guests include family and friends who discuss what's currently on their minds as well as casual reviews of what they've been reading, watching and listening to. 

Coddiwomple 05 - You Got Dead a Lot

Guest: Noodle

Matt optimizes travel between the pantry and microwave. Noodle trolls his father. Audio levels are ignored. Our shortest episode and co-host yet.

Coddiwomple 05: You Got Dead a Lot 

0:00 Intro 

6:04 What have you been doing this summer? 

9:50 What are you reading?
+ One Square Inch of Silence by Gordon Hempton
+ Brain Quest Workbook
+ A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars by Seth Fishman 

14:45 What are you watching/listening to? 

16:47 What are you playing? + Mariocart 8 Deluxe + The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 

22:42 Listener Questions

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Matt Vancil's Coddiwomple! Join Matt Vancil as the conversation meanders to a vague destination. Guests include family and friends who discuss what's currently on their minds as well as casual reviews of what they've been reading, watching and listening to.

Coddiwomple 04 - Some Idiot Packed the Coffee

Guest: Camille Vancil

Matt builds a ziggurat. Camille hits the bottles. Dead rats are removed from the crawlspace. Our first guest host has appeared! 

Coddiwomple 04: Some Idiot Packed the Coffee 

0:00 Intro

16:00 What are you working on? 

32:50 What are you reading?
+ The Stray in the Hole in the Stars by Matt Vancil
+ Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office by Lois P. Frankel
+ Divergent by Veronica Roth
+ The Man They Wanted Me to Be by Jared Yates Sexton
+ The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley 

42:15 What are you watching?
+ Golden Girls
+ Jane the Virgin
+ Stranger Things
+ Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 

51:47 What are you playing?
+ Betrayal Legacy
+ Plants vs. Zombies
+ The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 

1:00:55 Listener Questions 

# # #

Matt Vancil's Coddiwomple! Join Matt Vancil as the conversation meanders to a vague destination. Guests include family and friends who discuss what's currently on their minds as well as casual reviews of what they've been reading, watching and listening to. 

Coddiwomple 03 - An Incision is Made

Guest: Nathan Rice

Matt goes cyberpunk. Nathan fights off a meth head. The boys' secret identities are revealed. Beware the aid of Bonobo Boy. 

Coddiwomple 03: An Incision is Made 

0:00 Intro

13:07 What are you working on? 

25:38 What are you reading?
+ Podcasts: Radio Lab
+ White Rage by Carol Anderson
+ Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James 

35:30 What are you watching?
+ Jessica Jones
+ Boston Legal
+ Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
+ The Meg
+ Upstart Crow 

52:33 What are you playing?
+ L5R CCG 

59:11 Listener Questions 

# # #

Matt Vancil's Coddiwomple! Join Matt Vancil as the conversation meanders to a vague destination. Guests include family and friends who discuss what's currently on their minds as well as casual reviews of what they've been reading, watching and listening to. 

Coddiwomple 02 - It Actually is Recording

Guest: Nathan Rice 

Nathan reads podcasts. Matt violates an NDA. Spoiler: Ned Stark dies. Our longest episode yet. 

Coddiwomple 02 - It Actually is Recording

0:00 Intro; conversation 

16:20 What are you working on? 

26:50 What are you reading?
+ Podcasts: Radio Lab; Wait Wait;
+ Silence in the age of noise 

35:42 What are you watching?
+ Game of Thrones
+ Westworld
+ Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 

55:57 What are you playing?
+ L5R CCG
+ World of Warcraft 

1:08:17 Listener Questions 

# # #

Matt Vancil's Coddiwomple! Join Matt Vancil as the conversation meanders to a vague destination. Guests include family and friends who discuss what's currently on their minds as well as casual reviews of what they've been reading, watching and listening to. 

Coddiwomple 01 - Dancing on the Sawblade

Guest: Nathan Rice 

Nathan talks career change. Matt sucks at Magic. Seleucids is mispronounced. Let's see if Patreon uploads it this time. 

Coddiwomple 01 - Dancing on the Sawblade

0:00 Intro; conversation 

7:18 What are you working on? 

16:12 What are you reading?
+ D&D5e by WotC
+ How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
+ Legion versus Phalanx by Myke Cole
+ Upstream by Mary Oliver
+ The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells

41:10 What are you watching?
+ The Walking Dead
+ ST:DS9 

51:37 What are you playing?
+ D&D5e
+ M:TG 

57:04 Listener Questions

# # #

Matt Vancil's Coddiwomple! Join Matt Vancil as the conversation meanders to a vague destination. Guests include family and friends who discuss what's currently on their minds as well as casual reviews of what they've been reading, watching and listening to.

Here Be Dragons #4 - In a Purposeful Manner Towards a Vague Destination

Guest: Nathan Rice

In which I don't think I condoned drug use, but I can't definitively say I didn't. 

Here Be Dragons #4 - In a Purposeful Manner Towards a Vague Destination 

0:00 Intro; conversation 

17:35 What are you working on? 

25:02 What are you reading?
+ Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith
+ Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King
+ D&D5e by WotC
+ How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan 

39:25 What are you watching?
+ The Americans
+ Age of Tanks
+ Man in the High Castle
+ TURN: Washington's Spies 

52:39 Listener Questions

Here Be Dragons, Episode 3 - No Way to Think in Sentences

Guest: Nathan Rice 

There was probably some witty prose introducing the episode. Since Matt didn't post or send an email announcement, it was lost when he closed his Patreon. Thanks to a helpful shout out from Rob MacLennan on Matt's discord channel, we still have the title. 

Here Be Dragons, Episode 3 - No Way to Think in Sentences 

0:00 Intro; conversation 

8:04 What are you working on? 

16:47 What are you reading?
+ Savage Worlds: RIFTS by Pinnacle Entertainment
+ Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith
+ The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery 

37:21 What are you watching?
+ The Clone Wars
+ Daredevil
+ Castlevania
+ Can You Ever Forgive Me? 

51:59 Listener Questions

Here Be Dragons, Episode 2.2: The Death of Toad

Guest: Nathan Rice 

It took a couple of whacks, but we finally beheaded this turkey. The first time through the audio started corrupting 18 seconds in, but we didn't catch it until we'd recorded the full hour. And by "we," I mean "I." Still no album cover art. I'll work on that. And by "work on," I mean "forget about." On the technical side, there's still a minuscule hiss, but you can barely hear that over my neighbors chatting. Plus I halved the amount of Holst you have to listen to, you uncultured monsters. And yes, I do still have the Toad plushie in my office. See? 

Here Be Dragons, Episode 2.2: The Death of Toad 

0:00 Intro; conversation 

19:31 What are you working on? 

22:22 What are you reading?
+ The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King
+ Iron John by Robert Bly
+ King, Warrior, Magician, Lover by Robert Moore and Doug Gillette
+ Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith 

34:58 What are you watching?
+ The West Wing
+ Daredevil
+ The Good Place 

42:42 Listener Questions