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The time has officially come and Mausritter Month is over!
And boy oh boy! What a ride has been.
Hugh and I will send out a more detailed update in the days to come but wanted to take a couple moments this evening to say thank you to the 631 backers who made this happen!
From the bottom of our hearts, thank you so much. We are so excited to bring this to you.
I wanted to show off some of the sticker illustrations for Mechritter in more detail. My favourite is the Park Trash one because I love the little water bottle helmet. Which one is yours?
Don't forget anyone who backs the project at any physical tier gets access to all the sticker sets we produce!
In our last update we communicated that we would release the digital files that very month. As you may have noticed, that did not happen. My apogolies for the delay. As mentioned, that was the month when we heard that the deadline for physical production of Mausritter Month Group Shipping had moved, giving us more space. Our intention was to release the digital files according to our original deadline anyway. This would give us more time to take in feedback. In reality, I filled that time with tweaking the adventures a bit more here and there. This has led to the present delay. In this update, I want to share the new deadline for physical release with you, and let you know what we've been up to.
Digital release
We will release the digital game THIS MONTH. That means at the latest, you can expect to receive the game on October 31st. We will not release our game via the mass pledge manager for Mausritter Month. So if you receive a large collection of files across various Mausritter Month projects, and you notice ours is not a part of that, that is correct. The reason for this, is that we want to release the digital game on Itch.io and give you a digital key. This way, if we make any updates to the game in the future, you will automatically have access to them via Itch.
Update your physical Feathertail Falls guidebook
Flights of Fancy can be used as a standalone adventure collection, but is also written as an expansion to Feathertail Falls, plugging perfectly into that setting. In the last months, we noticed a little quirk. We looked at the Feathertail Falls setting and at what we absolutely needed to update about that setting to add the new Flights of Fancy content. What we realised, was that we could limit our changes to the middle spread of the booklet (both on the front and the back). The physical copy of that booklet is staplebound, which means that you can bend the staple open, take out the middle spread and replace it with something else. This means that we have a unique opportunity to do something I think is pretty darn neat: allow people who own the original Feathertail Falls campaign booklet to update their physical booklet.
Our general approach is that if we see an opportunity to do something neat, even if it's a bit weird, we'll do it. So we abandoned our original plan to include a separate campaign leaflet. Instead, the middle spread—and only the middle spread—of the Feathertail Falls campaign guidebook has been updated to include the content from Flights of Fancy. This spread will be included in the physical release of Flights of Fancy.
If you have the original physical guidebook, all you have to do is bend the staples and replace the middle spread.
If you don't have the original physical guidebook, you can print it for free: when Flights of Fancy releases digitally, we will update the guidebook of Feathertail Falls with the added content from Flights of Fancy. You can download and print the guidebook for free on the Feathertail Falls Itch.io page (https://fanterland.itch.io/feathertail-falls), in the demo section.
Double sided item cards
Another new trick we added to Mausritter, is including item mechanics on the back of item cards. Traditionally, things like magic swords have abilities that require you to refer to the book. In Flights of Fancy, we aimed to include everything on the back of the item cards. But in further playtesting we noticed people were confused about when there was something on the back or not, so we added little triangles on the bottom right to let players know there's more on the back.
Tonal rewrites
Once layout and illustrations were done, I noticed that Max did such a good job adding a unique tone or vibe to each adventure, that my hands were Itching to match that. I did some extensive re-writing to adjust the voice in which each adventure is presented, to better compliment the great work that Max has done.
Room key tweaks
We have played more Feathertail Falls since the last update, which lead to some cool ideas. Just some tiny tweakes to room keys to make them even more distinct. Of course we made sure to add these to the final game.
And now for the real fun part—Soul Food is at the printers right now! I was there yesterday looking over their shoulder, to make sure everything comes out nice and clean, and couldn't be happier with the way it's shaping up. Soon they shall be shipping the finished results out to the Group Shipping partner's warehouse, where they'll rest until all the other projects make their way there.
I'll share a few pics as soon as I get my hands on a few copies!
Games Omnivorous sent me some copies at the beginning of September. So I've recorded an unboxing and walkthrough of the book just for the backers. But first...
Digital development
I'm about to send the digital fulfillment files to Games Omnivorous. So you'll have access to Mausolympics very soon!
Unboxing & First look
It took me longer than I thought, but below is a 5-minute video showcasing the physical package elements and the whole book's content.
Hi everyone. Sorry for the delays. After a few hiccups, I managed to set up the digital files on itch.io as download keys. In any case, if you don't use itch.io, Games Omnivorous / Exalted Funeral are arranging to also distribute the same files soon, together with the other Mausritter Month projects.
Thanks for your patience. Any questions, just let me know!
Hello all! Sorry it's been so long since the last update.
Last time I wrote, we were prepping everything for the final editing pass. Well, now that's done! We've been busy finalising the Junk City files and getting everything ready to send to the printer and send to you.
Three rounds of editing later, we have stamped many typos, re-written the final adventure, tweaked campaign structure and have a hopefully-pretty-free-of-mistakes package!
Digital release
The digital release for Junk City is now ready! You should receive emails soon with instructions for how to download the files from BackerKit. Here is a link to your survey to access them as well. I'm super excited for you all to get a first real look at the campaign, the adventures and what we've been cooking for the last 3 years.
As part of the digital release, I'm trying something new: A digital edition of the adventures. This re-formats & lightly edits the adventures so they fit onto a normal A5 page sized book. It's a bit more friendly to digital reading and printing at home than the original premium pamphlet format. Let me know what you think! Should I back-port this to the Estate too?
On to the printing process
We've also finished prepping all the files to go to the printer. The next step will working with the printer on a "white box" sample. This is a 1:1 sample of what you'll finally get in the box, but without anything printed on it. Reviewing this gives us a chance to make sure that all the components are the right size & shape, and that everything fits in the box and feels great in the hand.
As we receive this sample, and move on to the next phases of production we'll be sure to keep you posted.
Thanks for sticking with us! We'll be in touch soon.
The summer turned into a blur of activity on our end and I want to start by acknowledging and apologizing, I missed our initial deadline for getting out PDFs.
But the good news is we wrapped everything on the core products at the beginning of September and have sent the files to the printer. Hopefully within a month I will be holding a physical copy of the setting you all made possible! Hell in a Hog Waller is part of the massive pledge manager so books will be shipped at a later date.
For those eagerly awaiting the digital copies the last thing we have to do is hyperlink the PDFs and get them all packaged up. Our graphic designer Bullfrogjam (James) will be working on this in the very near future and once I have met with him will send out another update regarding timing.
Once the core digital products are out in the wild we will start work on the stretch goals.
Again we can't thank all of you enough for your support on this project!
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