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MCDM Productions

about 1 month ago

The End of the Beginning?

Folks, your enormous patience will soon pay off! Hey everybody, Matt Colville at your service. We’re getting close to the release of DRAW STEEL and we figured now was a...

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MCDM Productions

6 months ago

Backer Packet #2 Playtest Survey

Hey Backers! James here! Thanks to all of you for supporting Draw Steel. I wanted to give you a chance to fill out a survey to give us your feedback on the latest playtest ...

MCDM Productions

6 months ago

Draw Steel - Backer Packet #2

Hey folks! Want to play some Draw Steel?! Click Here to Download Backer Packet 2 Thanks to your patience and support, we are happy to present to you…a huge chunk of the f...

MCDM Productions

10 months ago

Backer Playtest Survey

Hey Folks! It’s James, the Lead Game Designer of Draw Steel. I wanted to thank you all so much for supporting our RPG. I know many of you have read the rules and ran some ...

Jerod Bennett

10 months ago

Both Packets have the same download

We appear to have some confusion about the downloads. Let me do my best to clear it up. We wanted to make sure every backer got access to the backer packet. Unfortunately, Backerkit only allows us to send a file to a person who has a particular reward. Some of our backers on...

MCDM Productions

10 months ago

The Draw Steel Backer Packet is here

Hey folks! Welcome to…DRAW STEEL! All backers should already have received an email with a link to the first Backer Packet! (Or you can just click here) It includes ever...

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PROJECT UPDATE

MCDM Productions

CREATOR

about 1 month ago

Project Update: The End of the Beginning?

Folks, your enormous patience will soon pay off!

Hey everybody, Matt Colville at your service. We’re getting close to the release of DRAW STEEL and we figured now was a good time for an update to give you some idea how things are going to go, and what state everything is in. Plus a little exclusive sneak peak of some art….

Draw Steel Heroes has been edited, Draw Steel Monsters will be out of editing soon. The layout has been designed and temp passes on each chapter are complete. This is a process whereby the layout artist drops the non-final version of the text into the finished layout template, and starts figuring out where all the art should go. Because the non-final text isn’t that different from the final text, when the final text is finished, the books can be reflowed quickly with only minor tweaks to make everything work.

That’s happening now! Which means we are very close to the end. Or, depending on how you view Draw Steel, very close to the beginning! 😀

Once both hardcovers have finished, edited text, and all art and text have been flowed into the layout, we have a Release Candidate (RC). The RC goes to the testers in June and they’re going to look over it and find all sorts of little bits of nonsense we missed. I can’t speak for others but in my experience with any sufficiently large project, the number of typos increases to fill however much time you spend looking for them.

So the testers and patrons will find all (not all) of the stuff we missed, we’ll fix those typos and then YOU will get the finished, polished, complete PDFs for both Draw Steel Heroes and Draw Steel Monsters. We are targeting July 17th for that release.

The physical books then go to preflight, which is just the process of ingesting the PDF for print and reviewing what it should look like in a preview before pressing the big red button at which point the books start printing! We already ordered the paper and ink!

That should happen in August. We do not know when those books will start shipping, it’s a complicated process, but we’ll know more when we get closer to the date. We’ll be printing books in both the US and Italy. Viva l’Italia!

We’ll run any outstanding credit card charges for folks who backed only the PDFs when the PDFs are released. So for instance if your credit card failed, we try again, or if you preordered the PDFs after the backerkit campaign closed, all y’all will get charged when the PDFs drop on July 17th. (If you need help email [email protected].)

We will wait until the last possible moment (within reason) to charge for shipping & taxes because we want to avoid a scenario where shipping is $10 on the 1st of the month, we charge everyone, and when we go to ship on the 25th of the month, shipping is now more expensive! That may seem like a ridiculous scenario but it’s happened before!

So once the books are really well and truly ready to ship, then everyone gets charged for shipping & handling. We think that will happen around August, but it could be September. We’ll see!

If you ordered the Limited Edition or the AJAX EDITION, you’ll get the PDF at the same time as everyone else, but your physical order will ship after the normal hardcovers. We are doing everything in our power to get you your Cool Version of the books as fast as possible, but especially with the Ajax Edition, there are a lot of different companies working on this and they need to get all their cool stuff into the same warehouse at the same time so it can all be assembled and shipped to you.

Things can still slip, all kinds of problems could rear their ugly heads, but the fact that we got to this point and everything’s basically on time? Is a bit of a minor miracle I think. I’ll save my praise for when things actually go out, but a LOT of people worked incredibly hard just to get us to this point. Fingers crossed!

As always if you have ANY questions about any of this, we strongly urge you to contact us at [email protected]. You’ll get a personal email response pretty quickly, often in less than a day. Folks sometimes have an issue and they go into the comments somewhere to raise it, or jump in the community discord, but the actual, official, way to get a real answer is: email [email protected].

I think that’s it folks! As a thanks for your patience, here’s an exclusive look at the final covers for the books! :squee:

Cover Art by Nino Vecia and Polar Engine.

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Brian Murphy

12 days ago

Question about my pledge

Hi there, in my pledge recap it says I have 2 x Backer Packet #1. I didn't mean to select two of them, just wondering how I should edit this before my pledge is locked. Thank you for any help provided.

2me

about 1 month ago

Physical Items shipped?

I am a dummy and forgot to update my address. Has the physical part of the campaign shipped? Who do I talk to in order to find out if I missed out on my shipment?

Brett Abraham

about 2 months ago

Project Update?

Just wondering if there's any update on the project since the last backer packet. Planned release of the PDFs is in June - is this still the expected release? The last update here was 4 months ago. The MCDM Youtube channel hasn't had any new uploads in 4 months either. There have been a few posts on the Patreon, but as far as I can tell they aren't about the status (I'm not a patron, so I can't read them fully). I assume there's a lot of work going into it after the last backer packet, but I'd love to know if you still expect to be able to release the PDFs in June. Thanks in advance!