Odin’s Key Gaming
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about 1 month ago
Project Update: Indominant 1 Year Funding Anniversary & Updates!
Hello everyone, it’s officially been 1 year since our campaign ended and the Indominant Superhero RPG: Super’s Information Codex was successfully funded!
With such a big milestone we figured it would be nice to take a look at where we are at, how we held up to our plans, and what we learned from everything so that we can improve on the next crowdfunding campaign (more details on that campaign at the end!).
Super’s Information Codex Progress
We are currently working through finishing the Editing of Powers and Talents! After that, we just have the lore sections and other appendices to finish, which won’t take long! All of the art for the SIC is also complete, and ready to go for the layout!
This does mean that, as you may have guessed, that we are having another delay past May 4th for the Layout work to begin, and for the final PDFs to be delivered. We are very sorry for having a few delays on this project! Even though it is our first project, we really wanted to prove that we are a professional team and provide an excellent experience for out customers.
In order to still provide our Backers with something, we have decided that we will provide the Manuscript for the SIC to all Backers that got access to the PDF or Physical copy! This will mean everyone will get to see the final content of the book, and give us additional time to catch potential mistakes or errors before going to print. It also means we may be able to hold our date for going to print in early to mid July.
So now, let’s take a look at our roadmap and where our failings were, so we can see what we learned, and how we plan to mitigate delays on the fulfillment of our next crowdfunding campaign!
How Did We Hold Up To Our Roadmap?
So, we want to take a look at our development roadmap, see what dates we didn’t meet, and what we learned to prevent that issue in the future!
- June 2nd, 2025: Playtest Packet #1 Release – Playtest Packet #1 was sent out on June 4th, 2 days late.
- September 2nd, 2025: Playtest Packet #2 Release – Playtest Packet #2 was sent out on September 9th, 1 week late.
- January 2nd, 2026: Playtest Packet #3 Release – We did meet the updated date! (Original date was December 2nd, 2025)
- March 2nd, 2026: Manuscript Editing Begins – We discussed with our layout artist and realized that the Editing pass needed to come before Layout, so we decided to start Editing a month ahead of Layout.
- April 6th, 2026: Book Layout Begins – Date not met. Editing was taking much longer than we first anticipated, so we shared a one month delay. All following milestones were not met due to this. As stated above, this has been delayed further, and we are now planning for Editing to be complete by June 1st.
- May 4th, 2026: Draft PDF Delivery – Date not met. Now planned for July 1st, 2026.
- June 4th, 2026: Final Digital Rewards Delivery – Date not met. Now planned for July 14th, 2026.
- July, 2026: Physical Reward Fulfillment – Date not met. Now expected to begin in August-September, 2026.
Lessons Learned
We learned that we need to play it more safely with our scheduled plans. Our main lessons are:
- Due to our team being part-time working for Odin’s Key Gaming, Ltd. we need to plan some “float” in our schedule to plan ahead for possible disruptions to our workflow caused by our personal lives.
- Editing is a difficult, and time consuming task when it is done properly. Our Editor has been kind enough to track their time working on our project, so we can much more accurately project the time needed to complete the Editing process in the future. In addition, we will include some float in our schedule, again to account for personal lives disrupting the process and discussions we have with our Editor.
Other than that, so far we do not have any other mistakes we made in the planning process for the schedule of designing and developing a book. We now have the experience to give our Backers (you!) much more solid expectations and experiences.
We can’t wait to get the SIC PDF and book in your hands, and we thank you all for your support and patience during this process!
The Next Indominant Book!
So, this may be what you have all been waiting for (except the first Indominant RPG book of course)! Those of you that had seen and heard out plans about the next campaign including 2 additional books, to complete the full 3 book set of Core Rulebooks for Indominant, will be excited to hear that we have changed our plans for what the set of Core Rulebooks will be. Instead of having 3 Core Rulebooks, we have changed our plans to have only 2 Rulebooks be required to get started playing the game! The full set of Core Rulebooks will be the Super’s Information Codex, and the Comic Editor’s Compendium.
This means that the Comic Editor’s Compendium will include a list of around 100 Threats for your Supers to face AND it will have the rules and guidelines for you to create your own Threats! In addition, the Threat Index will now become a true supplement to the game, instead of feeling like it is required for our beloved Comic Editors to easily run the game. We still plan to produce a Threat Index, with a larger list of 300+ additional Threats, but it just won't be something you need to get started running the game, and reduces the barrier to entry for Indominant.
When will this campaign launch?
We plan to launch the campaign for the Indominant Superhero RPG: Core Set in late September, or sometime October after all of the Backers have received their physical copies of the SIC. The Core Set will include reward tiers for either the Super’s Information Codex or the Comic Editor’s Compendium, or both together! There will also be many other add-ons for you to expand your Indominant collection of products, merchandise, and materials!
We believe that we need to earn your trust that we will fulfill our crowdfunding campaigns before we launch another. So until we prove that we have the track record of doing so, we will not launch any crowdfunding campaigns until our previous campaign has been fulfilled! We will let you all know once we feel confident that we have earned the trust to do so!
Thank you again for your support, and for sticking with us on this amazing journey! Until next time,
- Zarek Odynski – Project Lead and Lead Designer
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