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The money from the crowdfunding campaign has arrived, so it's time for another update with everything you need to know about getting your zines and PDFs!
🐱 Status of the game
In the past two weeks, the translation of Catcrawl was with Marx Shepherd, our proofreader. I've also set up the PDF with screenreader tags, image descriptions, clickable links, and internal references so it's comfortable to use for as many people as possible. After getting the file back from Marx, I've made all necessary corrections and finalized everything. In other words: Catcrawl in English is ready to print!
The German version with the print error (see previous update) is currently being reprinted and should arrive here within the next week or so.
🐾 Backerkit pledge manager is open!
Now it's your turn! I've set up the pledge manager on Backerkit so you can choose additional add-ons (if you like), pay your shipping fees, and give me your shipping address!
I've just sent out the Backerkit survey to a small portion of backers to make sure everything works as intended. The rest of you should get your survey link within the next 24 hours.
The pledge manager will only stay open until Monday, March 17th, so please make sure to fill in your survey as soon as possible so you can get your zines and PDFs. You won't be able to add any other items to your order after that date, but you'll still be able to change your shipping address until I actually start the shipping process in April (you'll get another update from me then).
I'll charge your credit cards (for shipping costs and newly-booked add-ons) through Backerkit right after locking your orders.
🐈 Pre-order store is also open - for one week only!
I've also set up a pre-order store for everyone who has missed the crowdfunding campaign and still wants to get their hands on a printed copy of Catcrawl. Please share the link around!
The pre-order store will only remain open until I lock the orders for the crowdfunding backers - that is, about a week from now.
🐱 Digital fulfillment through Itch.io
Once orders are locked, you'll receive your Itch.io download keys for your digital files shortly afterwards. They will be sent to you through Backerkit. You will need an Itch.io account to claim your PDF copy.
At the same time, the community copies that were donated by all of you will go up on Itch when the game becomes available for everyone.
🐾 Printing and shipping physical zines
I will send the Catcrawl files off to the printer's next week, right after I lock orders. I expect to receive the printed zines 2-3 weeks later. I will then pack and ship everything myself, since that gets all of you the best deal in terms of both time and money.
I expect to have everything shipped out by mid-to-late April. I will send another update then.
What about tariffs for shipments to the U.S.? You may have heard that Trump has threatened to also hit Europe with a bunch of tariffs for imports into the U.S. soon. Right now, no one knows if these tariffs are coming, and if so, when or how high they will be. Based on the available information, here's what I currently know: Packages with relatively low monetary value (like the ones from this campaign) will most likely NOT be affected by any tariffs Trump may introduce for imports of EU-made products. Yay! But I'm a very cautious cat in matters like these, so I still recommend that U.S. backers brace themselves for additional fees upon arrival of your zines, just in case.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me any time!
Well, unfortunately, after getting a bit of layout work done, I have another quick update about a setback. We were juuust clipped by the tornado that moved through St. Louis a bit over a week ago. An already troubled city is going to have a rough, costly road ahead. We are very lucky to be in a neighborhood that only took a little damage, but a significant amount of that damage was a few large trees coming down from our neighbor's yard, knocking down a utility pole, transformer, and lines in our lot, and smashing the back of our car.
It took days to get our car out, thanks to the help of a generous co-tenant and his chainsaw, and it took a week to get power back, thanks to the dedicated work of the numerous power company contractors. We're still without internet service. I was able to keep from falling too far behind on client editing work with the help of slow library internet on days we could get out, but I didn't have my desktop computer to do any more layout work with. And of course, this hit right before the weekend I was gonna use to wrap up Devil's Due editing.
However, the power was recently restored, and we've been loaned some wi-fi by a neighbor. So, I'm slowly starting to get up and running again while we wait on the insurance assessor to tell us if our car is totaled or not. I'm hopeful things will be back on track soon!
I added 2 more spreads ^_^ (which makes to 48 pages Zine)
Received a hard cover sample and it's looking great, sooo we're doing it!
We're in mass produciton stage now🤩
💣Jinx plushie update
We've got a new version with the right hair colour yaay! (The colour of head and strands is still an old one here, will be fixed)
I added some sparkles to her eyes and more depth
hairline fixed
The hood is going to be held by a velcro! She's looking very cute wearing it ^_^
Next steps:
fixing strands colour
fixing eyebrow colour
We still need to move strands to the middle but it's a bit tricky because of the hair, so we're looking for a solution right now
new outfit (pants, top and a wristband)
We're getting close to the final, my friends🥰
🖼Posters update
Here are all the final poster designs to pick from. You can comment here and let me know which ones you want or you can also send me an email ([email protected]) stating your name and which posters you want c:
Have a wonderful weekend everyone, so excited to finally ship you items soon!!💕
I just changed my shipping address as I will be moving within a month or two so there isn't a guarantee that I will be here at the original address used. Will the updated shipping address be for this project or am I too late?
Hey gang, I should've sent this a couple weeks ago but my spouse and I own a coffee shop and are moving locations, construction and move has been overwhelming to say the least and my brain is all over the place. BUT
Shipping is complete!
Everyone who filled out a survey had their rewards sent. Thanks again to Peregrine Coast Press who handled the EU & UK deliveries. If you didn't get your order, please email axv at worldchampgame dot CO. not dot com. I'll try to help you there.
I've also got a juicy, fleshy, pulsating solo body horror TTRPG coming to Kickstarter this summer called THE NEW FLESH! I'm teaming up again with Black Coffiend/Justin Valliere (who did the art for my competitive slasher rpg 1978) to bring you something gross and beautiful and violent. Click here to follow along with the new project which is launching in a couple months.
Thanks for backing my creepy little game books, I appreciate you all very much.
It looks great! I love the material and printing quality, colours look great! There are some small things I'm addressing to the printing company now, for exmaple a thicker cover. Zine turned out to be much more pages than we initially planned and I'm taking another day to think if I want to add snother spread to it 👀
✨Let's choose a foil for the cover!
I ordered 4 types of foil for the cover to see which one fits better. There is a poll (attached to this post) so you can vote which one you prefer! I'm more leaning towards the iridiscent one, because it fits the arcane theme and I just like it :p
💣Jinx plushie update
We've finally figured the correct colour for the hair! (there was some mess with orders because a company we ordered from provided wrong colours that looked different in reality :/ But it's all over now, we've got the perfect colour for the toy, yay!) The fabrics is working on her second outfit now (the hooded one). We're figuring way to secure the hood on her neck now, trying a button or velcro). I addressed more feedback to the last iteration: - I think her eyes are a bit dull and need some sparkles - strands are gonna be moved to the right - she lacks some hair on top :D - arms need to be longer
this hair is wrong colour, but next iteration will finally be the right one!
🚚Shipping dates
I'm ordering mass production of the Zine on 14th of May and the production takes 5-7 days. I will be shipping all orders around 25th of May.
‼️Those who ordered plushies will get their plushies separately, because plushies production takes much much longer time! But everyone will get their Zine shipped together with stickers/posters/cards❤️
I will update you guys on last posters and cards in 1-2 days, working on finalising them :3 Have an amazing week and see you soon! Don't forget about the poll please :3
I can’t believe it’s already the end of April. This will be a short update. Jordan has been playtesting and revising the middle section of the module. Our editorial meeting had all of us agreeing that some big revisions needed to happen to this section to make it work as well as the rest of the book. Greenspore is concurrently working on copy and line editing of the more finalized sections, they’re working on honing the language to make it a little tighter and a little more terse. Amanda is working on some full spread illustrations for us, and then we’ll start to work with her on spot art. We are totally on track to start layout this summer. I’m going to leave you with one more illustration from Bride of STAR Station.
Self-portrait or FOLK? Both of course. It's always both!
Dearest Friend,
Despite the sunglasses, the creatures living in our hair, and a steady diet of Synak Bio-puffs, it's looking like our initial goal of shipping in May is going to have to be pushed back.
The drawings are approaching completion, the writing is building up momentum, but has a ways to go, and we have not yet begun layout. We're now hoping to ship in June.
We thought that we were built different, and that we could be the rare crowdfunding project that ships on time. But alas, we are, as always, more like the other girls than we like to admit.
That's it! I've finished all the pages (including the cover). Here's a preview of the Zine. Secret pages are censored 🥰 It turned out even more than 40 pages in the end.
🌞 Next step - a sample
I've ordered a sample now with 4 variants of foiling on the cover. When I get the samples, I'll choose one that fits best and we'll start mass production. According to the factory, mass production takes around 10 days.
There's only the last card left to be designed. Also, just a reminder, the cards will be double-sided with a different print on each side. These are not 2 separate designs 😙Just in case, because some people got cofused!
We're getting there!! So exciting 💖 Wishing you all amazing rest of the week and holidays~
