I'll try to maintain monthly project updates so you can keep tabs on Fear of a Daily Planet until you receive your copy.
I've finally got some art for the map of the colony and the maps of the 10 locations, which of course required some reordering and adjusting. All maps use a fairly simple typography-based layout to look a bit in-universe. Here's a bit of the colony map as a teaser:
Close-up portion of the colony map art.
The location map art uses dashes and bars for walls, slashes for doors, dots for windows, and a couple other stamp-like icons.
Location map legend
I am, however, considering further inking the walls of the location maps a bit to help them stand out more clearly, and I'm curious which version you all would find easier to use. I'll be checking with other wardens to get more input, but feel free to comment below on which you'd prefer, not inked or inked:
Not inked version
Inked version
I'm continuing to fill in other missing art and implement the layout design. I'm trying to make the background of each spread into a unique collection of paper textures, and layout and graphic design are probably my least developed indie publishing skills. So that takes some time to implement, as this is the first I've attempted this kind of approach. With the layout as tight as it is, the project's at that stage where even small adjustments often require a lot of rejiggering or trimming to make sure everything still fits.
I've got a bit of involved client work currently (editing the upcoming board game World Order), and the editing for Devil's Due is really gonna ramp up soon. So progress before the next update will probably be slow, but after that, I'll have more time to dig into this and try to get it ready for test-print proofs.
