$60,000+ Funds Raised. The Rescue Campaign is Complete!
That's it, we've reached the end of the rescue campaign. I am proud of the community who banded together to push Eldritch Automata to the four corners of the world and muster enough support to save it from the brink. The game has been breathed in new life and for the first time in over a year I can finally take a seat for just a few minutes and look upon everything we've done.
I couldn't have done with out my team or friends behind me who rallied behind and gave me the avenues in order to go out there, pick up the pieces. To Hexed, who believed in the project and became my partner in this ordeal in order to bring Eldritch Automata to the masses. This day we will remember as the day we step out of Gehenna Gaming's shadow and righted the wrongs.
We'll be getting to work on the pledge manager through BackerKit and work through their process for combining as much of the shipping with the original campaign and the rescue campaign backers. Art continues to be worked on, as I just got some WIPs of new Seraphs, our first round of editing (developmental) is complete and we'll be moving into proofreading. The goal is provide some form of Beta PDF that has most of the art in it, and without the final round of editing in order to showcase more substantial progress as we get ourselves locked by February and then off to the printers of aim for May/June. Titans of the Deep should also be in that boat, and Renegade Alpha will most likely be in a similar boat as I'll be doing most of the work on that.
Now immediately upon receiving of the funds, we'll be separating out the funds for printing, production, and logistics and paying our immediate debts, as well as expected invoices for remaining production details. Any money left over we'll be 100% dedicating to either improving one of the three books or using that as forward for new products. Something we'll be asking in the beginning of the new year is a huge survey about what you'd like to see from future Eldritch Automata supplements.
Hello Backers! We are less than 16 hours left in the rescue campaign, what an exciting conclusion to cross the finish line of $55,000 raised. So in honor of the Kickstarter coming to an end here are some last minute updates!
At the beginning of the rescue campaign we showed off the new Automata logo and Seraph logo. I'm happy to show off the new faction logos for Eldritch Automata. This includes (from right to left): the Nordic Dominions, Neo Sinaloa, the Kingdom of Reformation, Turtle Island, and the Army of the Eternal Rose.
New Layout Samples
Also wanted to show you some of our newest looks at the core rulebook, including a look at some of the special create your own pilot art that we had created for those special backers of the previous campaign. Designing something that felt like creatively fulfilling but also practical and still accessible to read was the balance line we were looking at. Our art director really wanted to push the envelope and addition of micrographics and supporting pieces in order to bring out the main key art and make it pop. With sleek high contrast of black and white, the art particularly bursts and pops on darker backgrounds.
Another smallish update, the rescue campaign was successful and we now have the funding to fulfill the original book orders. On top of that we will now be able to produce the dice and fulfill the dossiers orders as those stretch goals has been released. Please keep the campaign on your radar, as stated before you do not have to interact at all with the original campaign to have your order rescued.
We've also had some estimates about the current state of the game and what our timeline is looking. As you can see below, we're looking for end of the year to get the Beta PDF which is most of the PDF minus a few pieces that are wrapping up by Feburary, along with the second round of editing. Developmental editing is set to be complete by first week of November. Art is continously ongoing now with our publisher funding the art and will eventually switch to the Kickstarter fund. Layout is just waiting for art at this point.
We're looking on some tight turn arounds when the art is complete, and the gap from February to June is due to printers taking that long to process and print the books. Once physical copies ship, we'll most likely target next GenCon as the first full public release.
Thank to everyone who has shown support and has shared around the campaign. We've looked at our marketing and see how well the community has shown up for us so far, you truly made a difference.
This is it the final update before our finest hour. The rescue campaign for Eldritch Automata. It has been a crazy ride to get to this point and thankfully, with our new publisher we managed to get a lot of help on the Kickstarter and aiming for a generational underdog run. I will save the sappy words until after the Kickstarter hits the goal but there is a lot of blood, sweat, and tear from our team and the community in the DNA of this project. No longer has Eldritch Automata was the scrappy game when I first brought it to a certain publishing company, now it is a rallying cry for all of our creative dreams and hopes.
We pushed back the Kickstarter by a week, so now we will launch on October 13, 2026 roughly at 10AM EST. We pushed this back because we had a few delays on our ad campaign and wanted another week of build up while we got things just right. We're currently a little over 700 followers.
You do not need to pledge to the new campaign to get your books if we're successful, if you want to get the extra stuff please support us. But if that is not your thing, simply sharing the campaign, word of mouth, keeping the hype alive is useful and necessary for us.
Please follow the campaign here if you havent yet.
Alright, pilots. Let's do this. One last time, prepare for launch.
Update 7# - Upcoming Crowdfunding & Working Updates
Hello Backers,
Just wanted to give you a small update and a quick rundown about everything that we've been doing since we've signed with a new publisher and in preparation for our upcoming rescue campaign. Our new publisher, Hexed Ink, has allowed us to make leaps and bounds of progress into the production of the PDF. Final budgets for the remainder of the book have been sent to them and art and editing should be really kicking up into production this week.
Majority of our remaining art really relies in the Seraph and the environmental art, in terms of when the PDF will be complete. We're looking to release a mostly done beta PDF in December with the full complete version of that PDF coming in February. Reason that being is that the final stage of editing has been estimated to take that long and our artist for the Seraphs won't be done till the end of January due to prior commitments and the quality of the art we're contracting from them.
We've been also given the opportunity to do some refreshes of some of our logos. Here are some new things I can show off to you!
New Logo
New Automata & Seraph Logo
La Llorona Automata from Neo Sinaloa
It feels good to be working with art and everything else flowing again. I've been writing more of Renegade Alpha, a mega-dungeon for EA and the third published operation for Eldritch Automata. Once the Kickstarter is over we can share more of what the future holds for us.
Once more please join the Discord if you haven't yet, and good day pilots!
Incredibly small update, but the preview page for the Kickstarter rescue campaign is up! You can check it out here!
If you're unsure about what I'm talking about when I mention a rescue campaign, please read Update 5 the one before this for all the information there.
We are aiming for the last weekend of September to the first weekend of October to launch the rescue campaign.
Thank you everyone for your continued patience and support! As always please come join the official Discord: https://discord.gg/cuEwTcP2T7
$60,000+ Funds Raised. The Rescue Campaign is Complete!
That's it, we've reached the end of the rescue campaign. I am proud of the community who banded together to push Eldritch Automata to the four corners of the world and muster enough support to save it from the brink. The game has been breathed in new life and for the first time in over a year I can finally take a seat for just a few minutes and look upon everything we've done.
I couldn't have done with out my team or friends behind me who rallied behind and gave me the avenues in order to go out there, pick up the pieces. To Hexed, who believed in the project and became my partner in this ordeal in order to bring Eldritch Automata to the masses. This day we will remember as the day we step out of Gehenna Gaming's shadow and righted the wrongs.
We'll be getting to work on the pledge manager through BackerKit and work through their process for combining as much of the shipping with the original campaign and the rescue campaign backers. Art continues to be worked on, as I just got some WIPs of new Seraphs, our first round of editing (developmental) is complete and we'll be moving into proofreading. The goal is provide some form of Beta PDF that has most of the art in it, and without the final round of editing in order to showcase more substantial progress as we get ourselves locked by February and then off to the printers of aim for May/June. Titans of the Deep should also be in that boat, and Renegade Alpha will most likely be in a similar boat as I'll be doing most of the work on that.
Now immediately upon receiving of the funds, we'll be separating out the funds for printing, production, and logistics and paying our immediate debts, as well as expected invoices for remaining production details. Any money left over we'll be 100% dedicating to either improving one of the three books or using that as forward for new products. Something we'll be asking in the beginning of the new year is a huge survey about what you'd like to see from future Eldritch Automata supplements.
Hello Backers! We are less than 16 hours left in the rescue campaign, what an exciting conclusion to cross the finish line of $55,000 raised. So in honor of the Kickstarter coming to an end here are some last minute updates!
At the beginning of the rescue campaign we showed off the new Automata logo and Seraph logo. I'm happy to show off the new faction logos for Eldritch Automata. This includes (from right to left): the Nordic Dominions, Neo Sinaloa, the Kingdom of Reformation, Turtle Island, and the Army of the Eternal Rose.
New Layout Samples
Also wanted to show you some of our newest looks at the core rulebook, including a look at some of the special create your own pilot art that we had created for those special backers of the previous campaign. Designing something that felt like creatively fulfilling but also practical and still accessible to read was the balance line we were looking at. Our art director really wanted to push the envelope and addition of micrographics and supporting pieces in order to bring out the main key art and make it pop. With sleek high contrast of black and white, the art particularly bursts and pops on darker backgrounds.
Another smallish update, the rescue campaign was successful and we now have the funding to fulfill the original book orders. On top of that we will now be able to produce the dice and fulfill the dossiers orders as those stretch goals has been released. Please keep the campaign on your radar, as stated before you do not have to interact at all with the original campaign to have your order rescued.
We've also had some estimates about the current state of the game and what our timeline is looking. As you can see below, we're looking for end of the year to get the Beta PDF which is most of the PDF minus a few pieces that are wrapping up by Feburary, along with the second round of editing. Developmental editing is set to be complete by first week of November. Art is continously ongoing now with our publisher funding the art and will eventually switch to the Kickstarter fund. Layout is just waiting for art at this point.
We're looking on some tight turn arounds when the art is complete, and the gap from February to June is due to printers taking that long to process and print the books. Once physical copies ship, we'll most likely target next GenCon as the first full public release.
Thank to everyone who has shown support and has shared around the campaign. We've looked at our marketing and see how well the community has shown up for us so far, you truly made a difference.
This is it the final update before our finest hour. The rescue campaign for Eldritch Automata. It has been a crazy ride to get to this point and thankfully, with our new publisher we managed to get a lot of help on the Kickstarter and aiming for a generational underdog run. I will save the sappy words until after the Kickstarter hits the goal but there is a lot of blood, sweat, and tear from our team and the community in the DNA of this project. No longer has Eldritch Automata was the scrappy game when I first brought it to a certain publishing company, now it is a rallying cry for all of our creative dreams and hopes.
We pushed back the Kickstarter by a week, so now we will launch on October 13, 2026 roughly at 10AM EST. We pushed this back because we had a few delays on our ad campaign and wanted another week of build up while we got things just right. We're currently a little over 700 followers.
You do not need to pledge to the new campaign to get your books if we're successful, if you want to get the extra stuff please support us. But if that is not your thing, simply sharing the campaign, word of mouth, keeping the hype alive is useful and necessary for us.
Please follow the campaign here if you havent yet.
Alright, pilots. Let's do this. One last time, prepare for launch.
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