Brace yourself for Mothership Month—a group-collab project led by Tuesday Knight Games featuring some of the brightest stars from the Mothership third-party publishing (3PP) community. Each 👩🚀 creator has launched a brand new adventure filled with criminals, smugglers, and rimspace pirates.
Mothership Month Supply Pods
🚀 Back 5+ projects at the physical level and gain access to the SUPPLY PODS. Every five projects that fund, you get ANOTHER Supply Pod with more free goodies.
🌟 Supply Pod 1 (Unlocked!): 1 pack of Mothership CHARACTER CARDS. Each pack contains 13 pre-made character cards ready for use as pre-gen characters or NPCs. Each pack comes with at least one FOIL card.
🌟 Supply Pod 2 (Unlocked!): +1 pack of Mothership CHARACTER CARDS, 5 foil campaign project stickers.
🌟 Supply Pod 3 (Unlocked!): +1 pack of Mothership CHARACTER CARDS, +5 foil campaign project stickers, and an exclusive Mothership Month 24 pin!
🌟 Supply Pod 4 (Unlocked!): +1 pack of Mothership CHARACTER CARDS,+11 foil campaign project stickers, and Shadow of a Doubt a brand new "reverse murder mystery" pamphlet adventure by Ian Yusem (Hull Breach, The Drain).
All in: if you back 5+ projects you're getting 4 Character Card packs (an entire deck of cards), 21 foil project stickers, an exclusive Mothership Month 24 pin, and a brand new adventure pamphlet.
Are there more Supply Pods to come? We're looking into it now!
Streams, Interviews, and more!
All month long, we're diving into the void with daily streams, unsettling interviews, and exclusive, heart-pounding reveals. Whether you're a veteran spacer or new to the Mothership, join us in celebrating the universe’s bravest survivors…and those who didn’t make it back.
Thanks for joining us on our first ever Mothership Month! 👽
PSA: What about shipping?
While it would be amazing if we could bundle all the shipping together, currently with each project's different location, fulfillment timeline, and process it's not feasible for everything to be shipped together. It's a difficult logistical problem to solve and we've got some ideas for next year to help relieve shipping burdens. A few projects may ship together based on the publisher, see each project's page for details.
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Thank you all so much for making this my most backed and funded project ever. A whopping 2009 of you believed in Awaiting the Burning Gods and your sheer force of collective will has brought it to life! As are all the creators of Mothership Month, I'm deeply grateful and humbled by your support of my project and can't wait to deliver it into your hands. Plus, with the funding you've provided this thing is going to ROCK.
So, What’s Next?
Wrapping Layout: Over the next month or so DAI and Daniel will be working on completing layout and art for Awaiting the Burning Gods and The Smuggler’s Guide to 1365. I'll be writing the last few pieces of content for the Smuggler's Guide and working with Joel Hines on his cross-collab entry of D100 treasures and contraband goods to smuggle.
Pledge Manager: We’ll open the Backerkit Pledge Manager soon, once open you’ll be able to confirm your pledges and choose any additional add-ons.
PDF Release: As soon the PDFs are ready I'll release preview copies to backers for a first glimpse of the horrors delights to come!
Stretch Goals Recap
Because of your amazing support, and a record setting crunch time push on the backer train here’s what we’ve unlocked:
Custom Dice: Beautifully designed to evoke the lost treasures and culture of Ma'at.
Immersive Audio Aids: Distress calls, creature sounds, and more to enhance your sessions.
The DeluxeSmuggler’s Guide: A standalone zine packed with outlaw missions, ports of call, and DG Chapman's bonus adventure “Shoot the Messenger.”
Monthly Updates
From here on out I’ll be posting monthly updates to keep you informed about progress on the zine, share behind-the-scenes glimpses of the project in motion, and maintain transparency throughout the process. Expect the first of them around this time next month.
Thank you again for helping make Awaiting the Burning Gods a reality. This campaign is a high water mark for Magnum Galaxy Games and an awesome adventure and I’m honored to have you all aboard for the journey. As always, reach out in the comments with questions, requests, or just to share your excitement! I love to hear from you all. Here's to much more to come!
Hope you're all enjoying your holiday season, we certainly are at Mothership HQ! We're entering the final few days here and we've got a few stretch goals still up our sleeve.
We've just unlocked the brand new ships, which we're really excited about. These will be high quality renders with full stats and deckplans like entries in the Shipbreaker's Toolkit. They'll include:
An Interdictor: An "affordable" (think in the Raider range) combat based ship perfect for bounty hunters.
A Prison Transport ship: Perfect for planning breakouts. We picture the players may end up on these a time or two and so it's the perfect thing to keep a deckplan handy for.
A Pirate Ship: a very specific one built for “Pirate Queen” Shoshana Berahthran (one of the bounties). It's built out of other ships and it's the perfect ship for pirates or stranded colonists who have had to make do with what they can scavenge.
We're super excited about these. We're always trying to add new ships to the game to expand your library.
Mothership Companion App adds Virtual Tabletop
If you haven't heard we have an amazing Mothership Companion App for iOS, MacOS, and Android. The free version allows you to make a character and use the dice roller, but we've just added a paid upgrade for a Virtual Tabletop. It's, frankly, amazing.
Using the Mac App with my iphone mirrored to show the mobile version.
You can (very quickly) build maps in it, add tokens for other characters, see public dice rolls, send equipment, etc. Also, you can send out a code so that other players can join the session (including players with the free version!). We have a LOT more in store for this app, so if you haven't already, this is the perfect chance to give it a try.
Audio Briefings
Our next achievement/Stretch Goal is for Audio Briefings. These are high quality audio recordings of the "briefings" for the d100 Bounties performed by professional voice actors. These are the perfect prop for your game to play before the mission begins.
We can’t thank you enough for the phenomenal support you all gave to our project and the rest of Mothership Month projects! And what a backer train! Seeing our funding hit 495% of our goal is quite something—we’re able to bring you the best version of Devil’s Due with all of our stretch goals hit and then some.
More than 70 folks pledged during the overtime on the backer train, helping Mothership Month raise over $1,000,000 over all projects! At full count, 701 hardcover books pledges have been made!
Our Pledge Manager will open soon. All of our backers will be able to see their pledges, and anyone who pledged the “Get it Later” tier can choose to upgrade their pledge then. Expect another project update letting you know when this opens up. We’re considering making the unlocked second patch and temporary tattoos available to buy separately if you want more of them.
We have a few different parts of the project moving at the same time. Here’s a quick summary of where we’re at and what’s planned next. Over the next few months, expect regular updates!
Illustrations: Most are complete, but we’re planning for the rest to wrap up across January. We’ll also get started on the new full-spread illustrations for each mission that were unlocked as an achievement, the second patch design for all Physical and Deluxe pledge tiers, as well as the tattoo design.
Writing: Small tweaks and adjustments might still happen, but the book’s content is written. Writing for our radio broadcast audio files is underway, and production on that will start soon.
Editing: Some initial developmental editing passes were completed before our BackerKit campaign started. Now, the copyediting grunt work can begin and carry on into the new year.
Graphic design and layout: Crew and mission test layouts were created ahead of the campaign. This will pick back up towards the middle of Q1 as we finalize content with editing, and turn in all illustrations.
Thanks again for sticking with us through this campaign.
We're seeing absolutely wild dedication from Mothership fans as overtime for the campaign approaches 48 hours! Crossing threshold that will break an all time record for overtime on Backerkit!
This overtime has allowed several creators to reach more stretch goals, meaning even more awesome content being made.
Not much else to say except this is just about the very last chance to get in on the campaign for Death Pays All Debts or any of the other wonderful creators before it ends. Thank you all so much for all your support!
Thank you, thank you, thank you for all the support for The Dose Makes The Poison, and for getting the project up to exactly 1000 backers when the backer train finally finished. 1000!
I was stuck in a work thing for much of the afternoon yesterday so completely missed the final hours, but it looked like a wild ride towards Mothership Month crossing the $1,000,000 mark in total pledges. $1,000,000!
Next steps here are:
Finish the TDMTP script - I’ve got quite a bit of new ideas and content to add to the current script, along with the new additional pages of factions content. I want this complete before the end of the year, so it can be sent over to DG Chapman for…
Editing in January. I’m going to earmark the whole month for this in case there’s a lot of back and forth or the need to play test anything before the edit. We’ll also finalise design elements like the illustrations for the Hope’s Serum TV ad, poster and sticker in this month before we get into…
Design and layout in February where Norgad gets free rein to knock the whole zine into shape. Will also get my animator Austin Temby on the case to make the TV ad.
In the background, I’ll be working on recording the Hope’s Serum jingle properly, and getting in-game voice notes audio files recorded with some actor pals.
I’ll aim for at least monthly updates to let you know we’re all on track, and keep you abreast of any cool stuff as it happens.
Thanks for putting up with all the emailing and messages from me and for making this crowdfunding such a success for all the projects.
Big thank you to Tuesday Knight Games, too. It’s been an absolute honour to be a part of the inaugural Mothership Month.
Now let’s go make some zines!*
Andrew
*Jk now I’m off to look at 20 pledge transactions come off my credit card 💸😭💸
Thanks again for making this campaign such a success. Here's what's going to happen over the next little while: - I'm going to get the unproofed pdfs off Eric and release them to you all. I'm also going to upload the remastered version of Alone in the Deep - Meatcastle Gameware is going to proof the PDFs over the next few weeks. The shipping survey will be released to you all. - Proofed pdfs will go out to backers and the printers.
More information on the stretch goals coming soon as I get it/have stuff to show.
Wow, this has been an amazing and overwhelming experience. I can't think you all enough for the huge levels of support Death Pays All Debts has received, and Mothership Month as a whole.
Now it's time to get to work on the module. Next steps are to get the manuscript into shape for the dev editing process, and continue drawing up the maps. I'll be posting regular updates as the creation and fulfillment process goes on. I'm excited to make this module the best it can be thanks to all of your support!
