Timeline

• ✅ Bill of Materials: We've submitted our component specifications to Panda, our manufacturer. This will let us pick order quantities and ensure that Panda is ready to configure the machines that'll assemble the game as soon as we submit files.
• ✅ Game Design: Game design is ship-ready, including the stretch goal characters and mini-expansion. For our process, we always continue testing even after it's ship-ready just in case — but we're happy with the game, and don't have anything remaining to design.
• ⏸️ Writing: We're almost complete editing: we've gone through components, rulebook, box text, etc for the first round of copy editing. After feedback from the community and team, we'll make final adjustments and lock in.
• ➡️ Graphic Design: Graphic design is complete for almost everything except the box sleeve, rulebook, batch code and legal elements like the little CE thing that shows up on the back of the box.
• ➡️ Pledge Manager: Concurrently with game completion, we've been collecting shipping info and names so we can enter manufacturing as soon as possible after Gen Con.
• 🎲 Gen Gon: Speaking of which: I will be at Gen Con next week running demos of the prototype version of The Big Squeeze. Come find me at the Outset Media booth and say hi! This does mean email replies will be slightly slower than normal, but we will still be checking our inboxes.
• ⏩ File Completion and Manufacturing: In order to fulfill by our projected timeline, our file completion & manufacturing cutoff is start of September. That being said, we're aiming to be zippy with an early-August submission time so we can enter manufacturing with plenty of buffer.
• ⏩ Manufacturing and Shipping: This stage is largely out of our hands. It'll be our partners building the game and shipping them out to depots around the world. The part we can control, however, is sending consistent updates so you know where we are in the process.

Rulebook Update