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Project Update: January 2025 Update
Happy New Year!
Some minor news-worthy items:
- I've asked the co-writer of our 2024 ENNIE nominated adventure Luna Petra Giannotta to take the lead on writing the adventure that will show off the mechanics in GMROM. My day job has occupied too much brain space for me to finish that one up alone, so she's going to be doing the majority of the lifting there.
- Our mechanics are now finished, barring some additional work from me and Austin to tie them all together. Let's call it 95%!
- Essayists are writing our essays.
- Our additional content section is being worked on.
- Artwork is moving forward.
Thank you everyone for your patience and we are looking forward to shipping this to you soon in 2025.
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Project Update: November Update!
Art
- About 50% finished!
- Per the vision of our Art Director, we are working with a very large and diverse team, which means that organizing everything takes longer!
- We have a large variety of different styles being presented in the book intentionally.
- Our Romance System (tracking, dating, dispute, serenade, intimacy) is 80% finished with 4 of our designers having turned in their drafts. Sensitivity/cultural checks and then editing are our next steps.
- Essayists have begun their process of writing!
- Additional "splat" content will be drafted soon. (NPCs, date locations/ideas, gifts, conversation/dialogue.)
Additional Add-Ons
- Backers who chose the Art Deco Card add-on with their pledge are currently being worked on. If you have not responded to our email about this, please reach out and we'll get you sorted.
- Letters From A Romantic backers please reach out via email so we can get you sorted! Drafting these will begin soon and we want you to receive your reward.
New timeline
Due to some chaos on our backend and the overall state of the world, we are expecting that our timeline might be pushed slightly later than first anticipated. I had initially estimated that we would be finished with production by the end of December, but now it is looking more like February for post-production. From there Metal Weave Games will begin layout and pushing our book to printer in the Spring of 2025, if not sooner. Digital fulfillment will occur before printing. Again, I apologize for the delay.
All that being said: thank you for supporting our project and we are looking forward to delivering a quality resource for GMs everywhere.
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We'd love to ship you this wonderful project soon. Please support queer art with a pre-order of How To GM Romance today. It's not too late!
I was wondering what the current timeline looks like it will be for the Hopeless Romantic Tier. Since the Essayists have just started off, and adding those characters seems like it will take time. Surveys were sent out a bit ago with preferred emails to reach out about them, so I just wanted to be sure nothing's been missed! Excited to see more of this project!
I am wanting to change from Digital Pledge to the Tools of a Romantic Pledge. Can you tell me any more details on doing it.
