The Gauntlet
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18 days ago
Project Update: Timeline Update
Hey everyone, Jason here. I had a meeting with Harald this morning to get a sense of what our revised timeline looks like. These are rough estimates, but he says Shadow Society book layout should be complete by the third week of June. I haven't chatted with Ben yet about the handouts, but they'll be along at some point after the book (they're much more extravagant and detailed than the book layout); I'll let you know when I learn more. The most important thing is the book layout getting finished so we can start at the printer.
I should have the Ready for Layout texts for Suns of Another World complete by the end of June/early July. As with Shadow Society, I'll share those texts with you as I turn them in to Harald. In the past, I've done that on Discord, but going forward, I'll share them in BK updates, too (get ready for a lot of update emails!). We're going to do Companion App implementations for the Suns games, too, so you'll be able to start playing right away.
It's too early to say with much precision when the Suns PDF will be complete; Harald says late September/early October at the outside, but hopefully sooner.
The real trick is when to go to the printer. In the past, it takes about 3-4 weeks to get the offsets ready—there's a period of back and forth with the printer to make sure things like color, margins, image quality, etc. are exactly the way the printer needs them (it's a very detailed and precise process). Our plan is to start the process while we're in the middle of laying out Suns. It's not something we'd normally do—we usually wait until everything is complete, layout-wise—but in this case, since the books are physically and stylistically the same (essentially just the hero color is different on each book), we can save ourselves a lot of time by having the printer get started, and then just plug and play with Suns once it's done. There's another, more minor timing issue related to the dice and cards. Our fulfillers will hold things for a time while we wait on everything to be done, but not indefinitely, so ideally the cards and dice are finishing up around the same time. Fortunately, our Chinese agent is great at coordinating all of the above.
We've decided to delay locking down Backerkit, and charging for shipping and preorders, until we're at the printer. There's really no reason to do it earlier. In any event, we'll give you plenty of warning before we do it—at least a few weeks.
That's what I've got for now. I'll let you know as I get more precise info. Tomorrow I'm going to share The Queen of Hearts text, so be on the lookout for that!
-Jason
I should have the Ready for Layout texts for Suns of Another World complete by the end of June/early July. As with Shadow Society, I'll share those texts with you as I turn them in to Harald. In the past, I've done that on Discord, but going forward, I'll share them in BK updates, too (get ready for a lot of update emails!). We're going to do Companion App implementations for the Suns games, too, so you'll be able to start playing right away.
It's too early to say with much precision when the Suns PDF will be complete; Harald says late September/early October at the outside, but hopefully sooner.
The real trick is when to go to the printer. In the past, it takes about 3-4 weeks to get the offsets ready—there's a period of back and forth with the printer to make sure things like color, margins, image quality, etc. are exactly the way the printer needs them (it's a very detailed and precise process). Our plan is to start the process while we're in the middle of laying out Suns. It's not something we'd normally do—we usually wait until everything is complete, layout-wise—but in this case, since the books are physically and stylistically the same (essentially just the hero color is different on each book), we can save ourselves a lot of time by having the printer get started, and then just plug and play with Suns once it's done. There's another, more minor timing issue related to the dice and cards. Our fulfillers will hold things for a time while we wait on everything to be done, but not indefinitely, so ideally the cards and dice are finishing up around the same time. Fortunately, our Chinese agent is great at coordinating all of the above.
We've decided to delay locking down Backerkit, and charging for shipping and preorders, until we're at the printer. There's really no reason to do it earlier. In any event, we'll give you plenty of warning before we do it—at least a few weeks.
That's what I've got for now. I'll let you know as I get more precise info. Tomorrow I'm going to share The Queen of Hearts text, so be on the lookout for that!
-Jason
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