It's been about a month since our last update, and that's about the schedule we can expect for my projects after they have completed their funding. Though I'll admit normally I also then have cool things to share a month later. Unfortunately for the moment, there's nothing to share.
I've seen back to back this year that projects are doing much worse than I expect, financially. I think politics, economics, and the general world situation with wars, genocide, and the not-so-slow rise of very bad powers has really affected so much. And so many job losses, business cuts, the uncertainty of global trade, tariffs-- it's a rough time for small creators and everyone else.
Due to this, my focus of late has been hugely on my oracle dice project. I won't plug it more than mentioning it here, but it's live and a big focus from me because of the above reasons.
As I shared at one point here, the funds raised here on HISTORIC did not pay back the art costs, but more just focus the manufacturing and some of the art. As a result, HISTORIC and the pin project before it were very narrow margins, or just didn't pay back the costs entirely at all. That was a surprise to me. ZOETROPE and WHAT WE POSSESS both made a good 23-25k a piece, and I thought HISTORIC could as well.
The Oracle Dice likewise have underperformed massively. 2nd edition of the dice brought $180k in the first 24 hours. This time for the third edition here, we barely did $60k in the first 24 hours, and then spent the first 72 hours just reaching the base goal of $75k.
The leadup to, and now the support of that campaign has been massively important for the future of Publishing Goblin as a business. So HISTORIC has not been touched until now, but Salty Water and I are moving forward with the art as of today. By the time we reach our next update, we should have a bunch of cool things to share from the game, including the Body Keeper boss, which I talked about in the launch stream, the main tools of the remaining classes, and more! We will also start talking next update about what was included in the Backerkit exclusive pack that many of you got for free as the 48 hour early backing incentive.
So stay tuned delvers, I'll be back with awesome stuff to take a look at here soon!
