Hey all I just want to very quickly let you know how the project has progressed over the last couple of months as I've been working on getting as much done as quickly as I can. I got really busy today and over the last week and didn't have the time to put together much in the way of visuals for you but I will have a bunch of previews and nice things to look at on the next update. Anyway here is where we stand so far:
Terrain Packs Draft 100%, Line Art, 90%, Paint 40%, Assembly 10%, Review 0%, Release X Maps Draft 90%, Line Art, 80%, Paint 50%, Assembly 20%, Review 0%, Release X Adventures Draft 75%, Review 0%, Release X
To elaborate just a bit on the above, I have nearly finished the maps I have just a couple left to sketch out and plan a bit more before getting the final line art done, and about half of the painting remains to be completed. The adventures are nearly complete and I'm pretty excited to share some of the silly and strange stuff I've cooked up for that little book. The review stage will occur once I have completed or mostly completed the "final" versions of each reward at which point I'll go over everything and see if any elements need to be revised and ensure that everything is cohesive.
I want to thank you all again for your incredible patience. I know that this has taken me a very long time and I really look forward to getting this project to you as soon as I can.
I want to quickly update you all on the progress that I have made on the project. As you know I have had a number of delays and setbacks due to personal health issues. However, I have been working on getting everything back on track and I want to give you an update as to the progress I have made thus far. I took a quick stock of where I am on each stage of development and I have the following rough progress to share with you.
I want to break the whole project down into stages which I will illustrate a bit better with some easy to read at a glance graphics but for now, I'm just going to give you some raw percentage-based estimates for where we are right now. The stages I've broken this down into are as follows, Draft, Line Art, Paint, Assembly (printables, asset packs, etc...), Review, and Release.
Terrain Packs Draft 100%, Line Art, 75%, Paint 30%, Assembly 5%, Review 0%, Release X Maps Draft 90%, Line Art, 80%, Paint 40%, Assembly 20%, Review 0%, Release X Adventures Draft 50%, Review 0%, Release X
I hope that makes sense and like I said I will put a graphic together for subsequent updates which will make progress tracking much simpler.
I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to each of you for your support of this project and I want to apologize for this extended period of silence. I feel it's crucial to provide transparency about the unforeseen challenges I've faced in recent months, which have affected the project's progress.
I hope you're all doing well. I wanted to give you a quick update on the status of the project. As you know, I've been working hard to get this project closer to the completion mark and providing you all with a massive set of test pieces. Unfortunately, life has thrown me one curveball after another, which has impacted my schedule.
Recently, I had an unexpected trip to the hospital for several days due to a cough that caused an internal bleed. But the good news is that I avoided having surgery and am home, mostly recovered, and getting back to work. I'll be meeting with an allergist on Friday to finally get this cough sorted out and under control. Unfortunately, I'll also be getting scheduled for a much-needed abdominal hernia surgery, which was caused by this chronic cough.
I want to thank you all for your continued support and patience. I'm doing my best to make up for lost time and get back on schedule, but you should expect some delay in delivery. Based on my setbacks and revised schedule, I'm expecting to deliver the rewards by the end of June of this year. I apologize for how long this project has taken compared to my original projections.
To try and reduce the sting of these delays, I'm tentatively planning to release each pack individually as it is completed. I'll work on completing and delivering the terrain packs based on their popularity going from most ordered to least, until everything has been completed.
Thank you all again for your understanding and support. Let's keep moving forward together.
Hello everyone. I want to apologize for my lack of communication and absence of updates. I have had a rather unfortunate last month or so which has set me behind schedule on all of my projects. I have been experiencing one issue after another in my personal life. Shortly before Thanksgiving I and my family all got sick for the entire remainder of November then as soon as we recovered I had a series of family emergencies crop up shortly followed by my wife and I contracting Covid. I and my wife are thankfully doing just fine. I have finally begun to recover from everything and resume my work.
Unfortunately, due to these setbacks, I have not been able to provide you with any other previews or progress updates. This is something I will rectify next month where I will provide a nice chunky update for you to test out and provide feedback on.
Thank you for your patience with me while I get everything back on track.
I have arrived with our first Monthly update. I am starting out small with this first reveal but will provide much larger sets for your review in subsequent updates. I have decided to release some amount of terrain pieces and dungeon tiles to you all each month to give you an opportunity to test the pieces out and provide feedback. This will serve two purposes, the first being the most obvious you get to have access to some of the pieces early. The second and most valuable in my opinion is you get to provide some early feedback on the product before we get too far along to be able to make any changes without causing any extreme delays to the final delivery.
Since Halloween is just around the corner, here are some asset previews primarily from the Spooky bonus set. Next week-ish I'm planning to send a link through the pledge manager for you to download one of the maps as a printable pdf with a few format variations for VTT use. Additionally, you will find one printable page of tiles and scatter terrain pieces included. I will hopefully include a few of the VTT-ready images as well as a dungeon draft asset pack with this download and will try to do so in future previews as well.
Spooky Terrain Bonus Set Teaser
Thanks again for your support and please let me know what you think about this little teaser. As you may or may not notice from this image I am using a mix of fully top-down views and some slightly tilted views. I am utilizing one "camera" angle or another based on what I think presents each asset in the most readable way.
I want to quickly thank you all for supporting this project. I have just a quick update for today to let you know that the smoke tests have been run and I found no issues with the surveys so I sent the survey emails out to everyone a few moments ago. You should see an email from Backerkit about these surveys showing up in your inbox soon if you have not already. If for some reason you don't see the email in your inbox check the usual spam folders and if you still don't see it try using the link below to access your survey. If the very unlikely situation occurs that this still does not work for you please leave me a comment or send me an email, addressed to [email protected] and I'll get things straightened out for you as soon as possible.
Also as to the determining a winner for the last Terrain Takedown. I decided not to add this question to the survey after all and simply declare them both the winners since they were both equally popular and produce both sets!
Thank you again for your support. I can't wait to share more about this project with you as it continues to develop in the near future.
