Hello everyone!

I've just got a quick check-in today to let you know things are moving along!

As we mentioned in the last update, the only prototype we had was the black & white cube, but we needed to wait to order a color version until after the campaign and vote ended. Over the past month, our cartographer has been finalizing the color adjustments to Dyson Logos' map.

In talking with the manufacturer, there is a small concern that with such a severe edge to the colors, the "boxes" of color may vary slightly in their placement and not look perfectly even when viewed up close. That is obviously not what we want, so we're ordering two slightly different border prototypes to see if we can mitigate that potential issue.

Hard Borders (original concept)

Softened Borders

Through this process, we also may have had a little fun and worked on a surprise third option that we're pretty dang excited about. More on that soon!

Things are also chugging right along with the adventures. As soon as the campaign ended, Lazlo's Cubed Crypt entered sensitivity review. Our reviewer, Anna, flagged a few things needing another opinion, so we quickly found another consultant with that specialty. Nathan is finalizing those revisions, and then it will be ready for the first round of edits!

Alan also immediately began writing his stretch goal adventure and knocked out the first draft SO FAST. It's in sensitivity review now and should be ready to enter the editing stage soon.

Once all the prototypes come in, we'll share photos so you can see how things are looking. As long as there are no glaring issues with them, we'll also open up surveys at that point.

Thank-you, thank-you, for all your support everyone! We are so excited to get these cubes and stories into your hands.

We're going to catch our breath while we wait for BackerKit to process funds. If you don't notice a charge on your account in the next few days, keep an eye out for any BakerKit notifications in case they have trouble processing your payments. It should take around two weeks for payments to settle, and then the fun can start!

Cubes
In the campaign poll, the color option with a border was the resounding victor. With that, we will order a prototype of this version. We know which company we're using, and the Black & White prototype looks great, but we want to ensure that everything looks good before we move forward with placing the order.

Once we're satisfied with the color prototype, we will share photos and open up the survey! We want you to be able to compare the actual cubes, not just the mock-ups, when deciding between black & white and color.

Adventure Book
As mentioned on the main page, the first draft of Lazlo's Cubed Crypt is already written. Now that we've successfully funded, it will move into a sensitivity review and then edits. Alan is ready to start writing Curdan's Cursed Catacombs, so we're excited to see where this adventure takes us. 

We're nailing down our timelines now that the campaign is over, so stay tuned!

Thank you all again for your support of this project.

We did it! Thank you all for your support as we hit our first stretch goal! We will now have two adventures in the book that allow you to use your puzzle cube map. But we're not done!

We are in the final stretch of this campaign, so let's keep the momentum going.


When we hit $10,500, we will bring in Morgan Eilish to contribute the following adventure:

A level 2-3 adventure

A group of kobolds dreamed of building and maintaining a dungeon and serving a great dragon. They found and hatched an egg, populated their dungeon with various dungeon monsters (gelatinous cubes, their dragon wyrmling, some mimics, etc) and built various elaborate traps.

Unfortunately, it quickly became more than they could handle. Their lead engineer was eaten by the dragon wyrmling and they don’t know where all her dungeon traps are or how to bypass them. They’re also having trouble containing their gelatinous cube, and the mimics took up residence in their food stores (as hungry kobolds make for easy snacks). They would like to hire the adventurers to clear their dungeon out so they can start over and are offering weapon inventions as payment for their services.

Morgan is a Canadian TTRPG designer with a passion for telling dramatic and emotional stories with complex characters. She's worked on third party content for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition, Monster of the Week, Spire, Heart, and Apocalypse Keys and designed a number of indie games. Her titles include The Lich-King's Laboratory, Dragged Beneath, and Legendary.