Hey y'all! Nora here!

You can expect this to be the last update on Despair Dilemma until we have another project ready for crowdfunding, and we wanted to take this chance to give an overall update on the year! We have a more detailed EoY wrap up in our discord server going over everything if you want more details - but we decided to keep this one brief! 

Firstly, we wanted to let you know that Despair Dilemma is entirely shipped out and we've gotten confirmation that at least some number of books have successfully crossed the border into the USA despite the issues we were having earlier. We have discovered a slight issue with some backers receiving their second tracking codes, so if you haven't received one please feel free to get in touch with me so I can send it your way. 

There have also been some delays due to the holiday season, so we're sorry if you don't get your copy until the new year. 

With that said, we can finally wrap a bow on this project, at least for now!!

People keeping an eye on the projects we've been playtesting will already know about Mugen Taikai, a drafting autobattler card game we've designed to replicate the experience of a shonen battle tournament and TCG draft in less then an hour! We're happy to announce that the game has been signed on by Level 99 Games, the team behind Millennium Blades and BattleCON. They'll be finishing the development, while we work on other projects! If you've played their games in the past, you'll know this is something to be excited about.

Speaking of, we've been hired on by their team to develop a TTRPG set in their World of Indines universe. This is incredibly exciting for us as huge fans of the setting. Most of the work for this game has already been done, but we'll be finalizing and refining things in the background over the next year or so. I hope you'll be there to see how things turn out!

We cant share many more details on either project for now, but keep an eye out for further updates in 2026!

Other then those projects, we have a lot of ideas for things we want to work on. Last year, to help us make decisions, we did a consumer survey to find out what people in our audience would be most interested in us doing.

These were never a promise of course, and we don't believe in working on something we're not passionate about (I don't think you can make something good in the way we do if you're not). But they did help us a lot in making decisions and understanding how feasible certain projects might be.

So for 2026, especially since our audience has grown so much since that point, we wanted to set up another one: https://forms.gle/sRADTBSWPqYwkPDG8

All of the questions are optional, so don't feel too stressed about answering everything. That said, we want to hear from you! If you have any questions, we have a "Survey Discussion" channel open in our community discord. 

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Thank you so much!!
Nora Jean Haynes