Quick update: All our files have been sent over to TKG and should be distributed by now, hope you enjoy them!
Printing Progress (We're so close!)
We're just about ready to send the zine to the printers, but we need one last push from our Mall Boss tier backers.
Here’s the situation: your survey was supposed to include two questions (one for "Your name in the content" (already locked into the content!) and one for "Your name in the credits"). Unfortunately, that credits question didn't originally make it into your surveys.
We were told the issue was fixed and the question went out, but we're still missing 6 out of 20 responses. Please, please check your inbox if you haven't already, we really don't want to send this to the printers without your chosen names!
The Deadline (Sunday, July 26th)
Because TKG has given us a cutoff date to get our stuff to their warehouses, we can only wait for these answers until this Sunday, July 26th. On that day, we'll pull the final survey data from TKG. If we still don't have your reply by then, we'll use your BackerKit display name in the credits so you aren't left out. We hope you understant, we have to keep the production moving!
Sticker Sneak Peek!
That's all from us for now. But if you want to see how the stickers turned out, we sent some photos over to TKG, you just have to go check out their latest MM25 Project update to see them! Here!
I'm so happy to inform you all that every piece content is finally done! Last night I was going through exporting to send to the printers, once that's sent to them, I'll go ahead and do hyperlinking and triple check everything, as soon as that's done, I'll send those files over to TKG and they'll get those to you.
When? Either this or next week
also, LD finally has a voice
and tags were delivered so the back of both covers now have cool patterns
Charity Bundle!
So Venezuela, my home country, recently got hit by 2 big earthquakes and it needs as much help as it can get.
Everyone is helping from their trenches and TTRPG and indie production is mine, this is why I'm rallying up creators for the Venezuelan Earthquake Relief Bundle
Anything goes! Games, TTRPGs, art, assets, comics, all digital creations are welcome.
100% will go to charity, I'm contacting Cáritas Venezuela to be our charity of choice, as itch offers the option to link them to the campaign so that they get 100% of the proceeds (after fees)
I've organized this jam to gather projects that are interested in joining the bundle https://itch.io/jam/venezuela-earthquake-relief-bundle-creator-jam over 260 projects have already joined! The response from the TTRPG community has been incredible! Both english and spanish content
It has a FAQ and community for anyone that has any questions, I'm also updating the status of our charity of choice.
First and foremost, the reason why the early access wasn't sent is because we (as in MM25 participants) weren't too aware on how file distribution was going to be, I thought it was going to be each on their own project but turns out it's a bit more nuanced than that, I could've maybe done with through itch but BK strongly suggested doing it through the main pledge manager. This last part is recent info, and the main content is so close to being done that I'd rather just wait until it's done and distribute it.
Production
The Cross-Collab reward, DO NOT REMOVE, is already printing (and I'll see to distribute them soon)!
As for the rest, I was waiting for the preorder store to close to have clearer numbers before entering production, Tar Pit Protocol is done and 3pp license has been approved, Lucid Dreaming Zine is on it's last stages, it was waiting for the names you sent, I already got them and some of them fit so perfectly into some descriptions I already had!
Patches
They're here!
Love how they came out, ironing them on is recommended since the antennas could be annoying to deal with otherwise
Stickers
First batch, 3/9 stickers
First batch of stickers already in production, I have bad news about Weist, Plasma (who's the graffiti artist wrangler) told me he didn't send much or anything :( I did promise 1 sticker per new artist that joined and this would leave us without one of those stickers.
HOWEVER!
To make up for this, I'll be making 3 new stickers in a holo/iridescent, in a very Y2K racing/tuning car scene style
These 3 stickers! Glitch Gardens, LDM and the main logo
Everything's going great, we'll be able to fully fulfill digital backers very soon!
Hey hey, this is just a small update to remind you:
Answer your surveys! Particularly if you're a Mall Founder or Mall Boss backer, we need your names! Once we go into production, there's no turning back!!
We will get our questions from the mega pledge manager down on June 1st. After that date, you won't be able to send us your name.
Pulling our products out of the mega pledge manager
Since we pushed the surveys half a month, we are going to push these half a month as well, you have until June 15th to get anything Lucid Dreaming related!
So a few weeks ago the mega pledge manager got sent to everyone from TKG, in there you'll do everything MM25 related, including answering questions for every single project you pledged for. That includes Lucid Dreaming, if you pledged at Mall Boss or Mall Founder pledge levels, please go ahead and send your names, if we enter production and you haven't sent your name yet, it's impossible for it to make it, maybe on digital, but if you want your name on your printed Lucid Dreaming PLEASE answer asap.
We are going to start production by mid may, you have until then!
This month was way too hectic for me to do anything significant, I'm better from the sickness I went through (which I was even tested for tuberculosis, and I'm still recovering from some muscle chest pain), I'm gonna move (wasn't planning but the following will explain why), I'm gonna get married (nothing big yet but the paperwork of a foreigner to do this is insane), so yeah, I did open the project a few times and was doing my best to get it to an early-access-ready state (which idk what that means) but ultimately couldn't get more than 5h this month.
May looks, at least, healthier, that's a lot of downtime I won't have to deal with.
Plasma still needs to send me and specify which art is going for stickers, lotoelote was doing some fixes on the patch design, as soon as those are up, production will start on that end.
Will try and send another update in May once we start production or get something in hand
