*For posterity's sake I'm going to keep the update titled by month, just see how out of sync the time in my head is vs the time IRL.
Hello backers, Hope yer all good!
Update to let you know where we’re at / that I’m still alive:
Writing - continues! I’d probably say I'm a bit behind on this now, but this is generally part of my process: get behind / create undue pressure / blurt stuff out. It routinely makes things that should be fun less enjoyable, but that’s just the way it is. We’ll get there though!
Test print - While I hold up layout somewhat, I had a good call with Lone Archivist a couple of weeks ago to run through what needs doing, and to keep things ticking along I've ordered a test print of the zine - featuring image assets and page layouts we have so far, and dummy text - so we can assess things like colours and paper thickness are to our liking. That should be with me next week.
Production - The patches have been made in the USA (its v expensive here in the UK as far as I've found, plus tariffs etc), but I've elected to print everything else here in the UK and ship from here to the two TKG warehouses. It allows us to send shipments at the correct time for delivery to warehouses, allows us to make test prints quickly and just a whole bunch of other stuff that makes me feel more in control of things 😬
Oh, and the patches have already been made and have shipped to the USA warehouse already, below is a pic of one of them, taken by someone at the warehouse. It's quite odd creating a product I probably won’t see IRL here in the UK!
Stickers - hoping to get these printed this month, below is some designs for these:
Rimwise Wanderer - I’ve also been pulling together the copy for the additional Rimwise Wanderer player facing zine, featuring ‘100 things to do on the Dream’; that’s been a fun diversion from the more serious work of making the Hippocrene make sense.
