Happy New Year 🎉 Here’s what we’re working on 👷♂️
about 2 months ago
– Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 12:29:15 PM
Hey gang,
Hope you all had an amazing holiday, the TKG team took a good break for the end of the year and we’re all getting back in from being out of office, so let’s dive in!
First off, thank you all so much for making Mothership Month and Wages of Sin such huge successes. It’s been humbling to see all our third party creators thrive and flourish, and really encouraging to see the response to Wages and Megadamage.
Hope you all had an amazing holiday, the TKG team took a good break for the end of the year and we’re all getting back in from being out of office, so let’s dive in!
First off, thank you all so much for making Mothership Month and Wages of Sin such huge successes. It’s been humbling to see all our third party creators thrive and flourish, and really encouraging to see the response to Wages and Megadamage.
What’s the status?
There are a lot of moving pieces to this campaign. Let’s go through each of them:
Wages of Sin
- Manuscript is complete.
- Editing should be done by the end of January.
- Final art should be turned in by the end of January.
- Layout template is built, final layout to commence in early February.
- Once layout is complete, the draft will be turned over to backers for preview and proofreading.
- Final proofreading will commence after backers have turned in any errors they’ve caught.
- Final files will then be sent to the manufacturer.
Megadamage
- Final articles due by the end of January.
- Editing happens article by article as they are turned in. Proofreading for this is handled in house.
- Layout, graphic design, and illustration happen as the articles are turned in.
- We will send out a preview to backers once the pre-press draft is assembled.
Pledge Manager
The basic pledge manager is up and running. You can add Add-Ons to your order now. Shipping will be charged later, closer to when the books are finished printing, as will applicable VAT and Taxes. As this is a book, VAT shouldn’t affect too many of you. We’ll be adding more products to the pledge manager over the next week or two (like PDFs of our back catalog).
We will start working on downloads for those of you who have purchased add ons in the next week.
Character Cards
The character cards have been designed and written and are waiting for final art, which should be here by the end of January. Take a look! The fronts have a full sized portrait and the backs have all the details you need to run the character. These can be used either as an NPC, or as a pre-generated PC. Finally, we have included an import code for each card, so any of these cards can be imported into the Mothership Companion App as a full fledged PC. We’re pretty excited about that.
The basic pledge manager is up and running. You can add Add-Ons to your order now. Shipping will be charged later, closer to when the books are finished printing, as will applicable VAT and Taxes. As this is a book, VAT shouldn’t affect too many of you. We’ll be adding more products to the pledge manager over the next week or two (like PDFs of our back catalog).
We will start working on downloads for those of you who have purchased add ons in the next week.
Character Cards
The character cards have been designed and written and are waiting for final art, which should be here by the end of January. Take a look! The fronts have a full sized portrait and the backs have all the details you need to run the character. These can be used either as an NPC, or as a pre-generated PC. Finally, we have included an import code for each card, so any of these cards can be imported into the Mothership Companion App as a full fledged PC. We’re pretty excited about that.
Stretch Goals
- The ODC prison complex has been written. It’s an amazing addition to the book. It includes the complete plans for the prison complex, tons of new NPCs, and it makes a great location to throw your players into (or start them out at) to see if they can escape.
- Printable Warden Posters: We’ll work on these once the books are at the printer’s.
- New Ships: These are being designed now and should be done within the next month.
- Audio Briefings: The scripts for these have been written, and once they make it through editing they’l be assigned to our VO team. These should release around when we fulfill the physical copies.
- Poster Map: These will be designed once the book finishes editing.
- Patches: The patches have been designed and should be sent off to print in the next month.
Companion App
If you haven’t heard, the Mothership Companion App recently added an amazing new VTT upgrade: you can run online sessions of Mothership from the app itself, including tokens, dice, characters, map making, and more. Here are two video tutorials about some of the recent additions.
If you haven’t heard, the Mothership Companion App recently added an amazing new VTT upgrade: you can run online sessions of Mothership from the app itself, including tokens, dice, characters, map making, and more. Here are two video tutorials about some of the recent additions.
Update schedule
We’ll release an update once each month (we’ve been bad about this in the past, but our New Year’s Resolution is to correct that.). When shipping and fulfillment commence you’ll start getting bi-weekly updates, and then after fulfillment we’ll do bi-monthly updates.
Until then, stay warm those of you with inclement weather incoming in the US (or in the midst of it). We’ll be back in February with another update. As always, if you have any issues, please e-mail Tyler at [email protected]
Until then, stay warm those of you with inclement weather incoming in the US (or in the midst of it). We’ll be back in February with another update. As always, if you have any issues, please e-mail Tyler at [email protected]
