Hey folks,

We hope this email finds you well and enjoying the coming Summer, staying cool, safe and hydrated.

It's been a somewhat difficult time for team Deepest Dark - Ella's Nan passed away, and Ella herself has been in and out of hospital with various severe medical issues.

Luka has also had some trouble hitting our layout deadlines due to issues with his other projects (though do check out his duet ttrpg, Shadow/Giant, coming soon as a print edition through PlusOneExp!)

This means The Deepest Dark digital zine is delayed, but will be with you by the end of June. We're hoping it'll be with you much sooner than that, and we're really grateful for your patience.

However, it's not all bad news! We have a lot of goodies to give you, including:

We're also very excited to be welcoming the wonderful Fio Trethewey on board. Fio is going to be doing some detailed character sheet layout design for us. The character sheet pack will be sent out as a digital file with the main zine, and thereafter will be available for free through my Itch page (gejwatts.itch.io).

*Regarding the Soundtrack Album: when you get your digital download through Backerkit, you'll need to redeem your code at this link.

This will take you to Bandcamp, where you can download the album. If you have a Bandcamp account, you can also add it to your collection on Bandcamp.

Please note that your order must be locked in order for you to claim the soundtrack album. If you haven't filled in the survey and locked your order, and your card hasn't been charged, you will not be able to claim the album until you've done these things.

As always, if you have any issues redeeming or finding any of your rewards, please don't hesitate to get in touch.

I'll leave you with this very cool stream - the A side of our soundtrack album is 5 tracks that Amber composed and which you can watch them composing on the TinCanAudio Youtube archive of their Twitch channel. The B side of the album, however, is a live performance that Amber did on stream. It's so cool watching the magic of it come to life, much like it did during our actual play streams which they live scored.

P.S Amber is a stretch goal composer for friends of the team, Macguffin & Co, on their recently launched Kickstarter campaign, The Bad Year. It's 52 inter-connected horror oneshots written by Jonny Sims and it's going to be great. Check it out!

Hi everyone!

Thank you so much for your patience whilst we set up your backer surveys behind the scenes. For the unfamiliar, these surveys allow us to collect your information - like emails and shipping addresses for distributing rewards, and they also give you an opportunity to add additional items to your pledge.

Our 'Smoke Test' surveys have gone out first to about 5% of backers, and the remaining surveys will follow in the next week. If you haven't received a survey by the end of April please let me know. 

A reminder, we'll be charging shipping fees closer to the date that we actually post physical items - likely in late July.

We're aiming to deliver all digital rewards by the end of May this year (2026), and to have posted all physical rewards by the end of August 2026.

In terms of Solo Mode - this will be included as part of the main text of The Deepest Dark digital and physical zines. This means you don't need to add it as a separate item, it'll be included if you've ordered the zine.

If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to reach out!

Thank you again for your support.

Ella and Georgia

Hello everyone!

First and foremost, a huge and heartfelt thank you to all of you for supporting this campaign. It means the world to us and, even better, it means we get to keep making independent art.

Apologies for a slightly delayed update, because we're UK based the campaign ended late Friday evening and we needed the weekend to rest.

Our goal is to have all digital rewards - including Solo Mode and the album - ready to share by the end of May.

Physical rewards will take a bit more time - for both printing and shipping, but at the moment we're planning to have delivered all physical rewards - including cassette tapes - by the end of August.

The game itself has been playtested and the text is 90% locked. Now that we know we can pay him, Luka, our layout designer, wil be getting started on formatting the text so that it looks beautiful in the full zine. Georgia has done the vast majority of our illustrations, but she's going to be available for any additional pieces - as well as illustrating the cassette tape covers.

Amber has begun composition on the first three tracks for the album and you can actually watch them composing the album live on their Twitch channel @TinCanAudio over the next month or two.

Meanwhile, now that Ella's happy with the base game, she's going to be reaching out to our cross-collaborator Matthew Ayers to fine tune the solo mode - thank you all for making this happen!

Overall, I'd put our progress to delivery currently at about 60-65%, and I'm very confident we'll hit our targets on time. I really can't wait to share the finished game with you all.

For now, thank you again, and if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch.

- Ella

Thank you all so much! We've hit our stretch goal, which means we'll be releasing 20 more cassette tapes which you can get as an add-on to your pledge for £9 at 9am EST / 2pm GMT today (27th Feb 2026).

Thank you so so much for supporting this campaign, we're all really excited to create and deliver The Deepest Dark to all of you, and we can't wait for you to play the game too!