Work on the production end of Flatline on the Blocks continues on schedule. Violet from RV Games has ordered all the components—zines, pamphlets, stickers, and patches—and had them sent to ShipBob, the project's fulfillment partner. ShipBob is currently kitting the Spinal Crux bundles for shipment to TKG's warehouses. We on track to achieve the end of August deadline.
As I've mentioned before, once the pledges are in TKG's hands, they will be the ones to send them out to everyone via the megapledge manager.
You must complete the megapledge manager to receive your pledges, even digital ones!
Julius Karajos, author of the H-4: Warship Museum and G-11: Anthill blocks, is contributing to a high fantasy city setting book, Kalusa: The Enchanted City, translated from the first time into English!
We're fast approaching the end of the regular update cycle. Once the zines go to Tuesday Knight Games' warehouses in August, the ball will be in their court.
However, the Spinal Crux Warriors are committed to sending an update on this project's progress on the second-to-last Monday of each month. What's left on our end is to complete the plaintext documents, and deliver The Mote Keeper to y'all. Other than that, it'll be a quick sign-of-life updates pointing folks towards Tuesday Knight Games' updates. And like this month, we'll be sure to share any other projects the Warriors are working on.
Chris Airiau, here! I am very proud to announce that Flatline on the Blocks, Organ Failure, Min's Unending Bowl Menu, and Rival Racers: MAGENTA EDITION are all on their way to print, and the PDFs into your hands via MM25 Digital Distribution soon!
All Flatline on the Blocks zine backers will be happy to know they'll also be getting the two pamphlets in their digital forms: Min's Unending Bowl Menu in its Clean/Dirty/Printer-friendly versions and Rival Racers: MAGENTA EDITION, alongside the digital-only The Mote Keeper in a future update via gdrive link.
This Flatline package we've put together for you is the best work I've ever had the luck to dedicate myself to. During this last crunch, I'd especially like to give special thanks to Scragend for being an absolute boss delivering a huge amount of illustrations, Carson Brown for all the thorough and valuable color proofing and proofreading, and Reece Carter for support and advice during revisions for Organ Failure.
Organ Failure
Organ Failure is the adventure supplement to Flatline on the Blocks, containing five adventures to run in the Spinal Crux. This zine expanded from its initial 12 pages to 20 pages. Three adventures are four pages long, now: Health is Wealth (formerly titled MindOrb Heist), Prime Pursuit (formerly Phagocytosis), and Error: Reboot (formerly Escape the Maze).
As an additional bonus, Ripley Matthews came to the rescue to illustrate maps for three of the site-based adventures: Health is Wealth, Error: Reboot, and A Slug Problem.
And for folks who didn't get a chance to snag the Spinal Crux Bundle, an adaptation of the monobike racing rules from Repo Rumble are making an appearance in Rival Racers: MAGENTA EDITION.
Spinal Crux Warriors projects
Kyle Tam has two games out this June:
First there's MORIAH, winner Indie Groundbreaker Honorable Mention in 2023, which is now crowdfunding for its first physical release with a gorgeous hardback printing. Check out the BackerKit!
Amanda P. has built out The Eternal Empress, their Appendix N. Jam submission, into an 8pg zine release. Grab it from Cairn Press!
Future Updates
We're fast approaching the end of the regular update cycle. Once the zines go to Tuesday Knight Games' warehouses in August, the ball will be in their court.
However, the Spinal Crux Warriors are committed to sending an update on this project's progress on the second-to-last Monday of each month. What's left on our end is to complete the plaintext documents, and deliver The Mote Keeper to y'all. Other than that, it'll be a quick sign-of-life updates pointing folks towards Tuesday Knight Games' updates. And like this month, we'll be sure to share any other projects the Warriors are working on.
Just wanted to send a quick update sharing more of scragend's illustrations. I put together these quick collages and thought y'all would appreciate seeing them first:
Chris Airiau here, back for your monthly Flatline on the Blocks update.
I'm so deep in layout editing for finalizing the zines and pamphlets before our big fat HIT PRINT date for June 1st that I nearly forgot to send this update today!
Scragend has been on a spree finishing the characters, scene illustrations and spot art for Flatline:
The Organ Failure team has been working with me on finalizing the drafts for those single spread adventures:
Dev on this one took a lot of MotoGP research, haha
Phagocytosis turned out to be a two-spread adventure. That big box is gonna be a Laux News feature, a fun nod to OVER/UNDER courtesy of Just Kaylee, :)
Just a little drug den dungeon
And for our cross-collab with Breathe Easy, I met with Marco Serrano to hammer out the racing procedures for the Rival Racers: Magenta & Turquoise Editions. He whipped up these maps for those mini-game adventures:
Spinal Crux Warriors projects
Kyle Tam'sMORIAH is seeing a print run for the first time! Her game won an Indie Groundbreaker Honorable Mention in 2023, and the book is crowdfunding for a hardback tome in June. Follow the BackerKit launch!
Amanda P.'s Orestruck was recently featured on the popular OSR Actual Play show, 3D6 Down the Line. Check out the first episode here!
We're fast approaching the end of the regular update cycle. Once the zines go to Tuesday Knight Games' warehouses in July, the ball will be in their court.
However, the Spinal Crux Warriors are committed to sending an update on this project's progress on the second-to-last Monday of each month. Like this month, we'll be sure to share any other projects the Warriors are working on.
Tuesday Knight Games sent out the megapledge manager about three weeks ago to all Mothership Month 2025 backers. All backers must complete this pledge manager in order to receive their rewards, even PDF backers! If you cannot find your megapledge survey, use the link below to have BackerKit send you a new one.
If you need any support contact Tuesday Knight Games and BackerKit. Due to the immense complexity of the megabundle manager, only the TKG and BK teams have access to the pledge manager information and management. This includes upgrading pledges.
For support, add both addresses to the same email. Be sure to add relevant screenshots, when necessary:
support <at> tuesdayknightgame <dot> com
support <at> backerkit <dot> com
Production & Art update
We've ordered the sticker sheets for the Spinal Crux bundles, and we've entered the the process for getting the the early bird Spinal Crux and NERC patches. The Organ Failure team is working hard on refining those five Spinal Crux adventures for layout, too. But what's most fun to show off is the art, right?
Check out these pencils scragend has been working on:
Spinal Crux Warriors projects
Our creative team has been busy these last few months! Check out what they've got going on this April:
S. Murphy released a new Mothership adventure, Outpost 33, set on an iceball planet (I hear they're all the rage these days). Check it out on itch!
The snow is poison. There is something under the ice.
Finally, if you're interested in listening to a sci-fi ttrpg module review podcast, I release new episodes of Ansible Uplink every other Wednesday. I invite game designers on the show with me, like Spinal Crux Warriors Reece Carter, Christian Sorrell, and Waco Matrixo.
The Spinal Crux Warriors are committed to sending an update on this project's progress on the second-to-last Monday of each month. Like this month, we'll be sure to share any other projects the Warriors are working on.
