Well, it’s unfortunately clear that this campaign will not reach its destination, our first endeavour to miss the mark. To be honest, some medical issues in the past week have lowered the volume on this setback, so I’m sure it will hit me in a couple weeks.

 

Alas, there are some brutal truths we need to address regarding the future of the company. Dias Ex Machina has always been a grass-roots organization, basically three people with no investors or wealthy backers. This has created issues where we get overshadowed by larger companies releasing thematically similar products after us, often claiming novelty with achievements we previously reached years prior. 

 

We still plan on a bestiary (which currently sits at 390 pages), an armoury, an adventure and a new campaign guide in the next four months (the latter two as part of the previous crowdfunding campaign), but we’ve also realized that certain past rewards likely won’t come to pass, placing additional financial issues on our shoulders as we attempt to compensate these backers. 

 

I may release smaller campaigns based around just the novels, encouraging me to continue Affinity and Amethyst in their literary continuities. Nick Greenwood and I still want to pursue an illustrated novel / RPG-DLC with the Ruinrose series, of which the Spark Plug Chronicles is the inaugural effort.

 

I’ll be addressing this and other topics at a later date, but for now, I am going to continue working on current projects. Thanks to everyone, past and current backers. We’ve loved all the support you’ve offered thus far and hope to come back with something new in the near future. 

 

Chris.