Hi everyone, I'm back with this month's update on our progress on Junk City.
Item Cards
We're nearing the finishing line in terms of getting everything ready, with only a few larger tasks outstanding. The focus this month has been on finishing the remaining adventures. All adventures bar one are fully laid-out, play-tested and ready for the final proof-reading & editing phase.
In the Truth Machine, you'll explore an ant-haunted printing machine, running automatically to print the Truth and only the Truth.
And 2 Remote 2 Control is now fully complete, with four race tracks to face down.
I've also been very busy completing all of the other things we need to do before the box set can go to print. Designing the box cover, finalising the guidebook and last but not least, compiling the Item & Condition card sheets for each adventure. There are 120 (!) unique illustrations for the multitude of trash, treasure and terrible conditions you can collect on your adventures through Junk City.
Pledge Manager Survey
We expect to have the Pledge Manager Survey out to backers by the end of next week! It has been more complex than anticipated with the group shipping, so that you so much for your patience while we make sure we have everything set up correctly. We will send out another update next week when surveys are sent out!
Hi everyone! We've been working hard this month on finishing off the guidebook for Junk City. It's a densely-detailed setting, with so many nooks and crannies to explore and mysteries to solve. Even without the adventure modules, the Junk City setting guidebook could act as a great campaign starting point.
And we're not forgetting the many mice and other creatures who inhabit the City. Each district includes a guide to the notable residents.
And on top of this, we including a full set of tables for generating new city NPCs, and for rolling up new city-born player mice when your mice inevitably succumb to Junk City's many dangers.
Thanks for your patience, we'll be in touch soon with more progress and more exciting things to share.
Hi everyone, January is over already and we're racing into the new year!
We've been working hard behind the scenes to work with the folks at Backerkit to prepare the Massive Pledge Manager. It's so massive they're having to build some custom features to make it work! We'll have more updates on this soon.
We're also back to work on finishing adventures. I've been spending my time focusing on 2 Remote 2 Control. In this adventure your mice will take control of remote control cars and race across Junk City for the biggest prize of all: A shard of the broken gate to the Faerie lands.
Sketch of one of the race maps
Because I love minigames, the racing is handled in a custom ruleset which I've been focusing on perfecting. Like Mausritter, the racing rules are fast, flexible and exciting. You'll use a standard set of polyhedral dice to act as your car's gears, trying to roll the perfect value without spinning out of control.
Preview of the RC racing player sheet
Thanks for your patience while we work on getting everything done. We're excited to share more about the adventures we're working on, and getting the pledge manager finished and out to all of you!
With Mausritter Month now wrapped up, I just wanted to write a quick note thanking everyone who's been part of making it such a success.
It's genuinely humbling to see the love, support and community that Mausritter has found. I never dreamed the little game I cooked up to play mice with my friends would reach so many people and see so much creativity bloom around it.
So thank you everyone for being part of Mausritter Month, for helping us bring these 16 amazing projects to life, and for continuing to be one of the friendliest, joyful and creative role-playing game communities out there! We couldn't have done any of this without all of your support.
We'll be in touch soon with more updates on the project, but for now it's back to the writing and drawing mines for me, getting Junk City finished and making it as great as it can possibly be.
You've unlocked the 5 Character Standees! The Junk City Boxset will now include the 4 faction-boss and 1 party standees. Yaay!
On to the FINAL Stretch Goal of the campaign: $175k GLOW IN THE DARK INK. We'll add a glow coating to the already premium-puzzle, making it, errr, premium-premium? square premium? double premium? extra extra premium? :D
There are less than 48 hours left in the campaign! Tell your friends! Let's unlock this last stretch goal!
Thank you so much everyone for continuing to make this campaign and Month a success!
