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PROJECT UPDATE
Minerva McJanda
CREATOR
3 months ago
Project Update: Funded!
Thanks so much for all your support! We'll be in touch soon about what happens next (and I think Maz is writing a big post about the current US tariff trash fire), but for now we're going to take a bit of a break. Thanks again – I'm so happy that we're able to do this together!
Best wishes,
Mina
PROJECT UPDATE
Chant (Voidheart Producer)
CREATOR
10 days ago
Project Update: Burn It Down
This month’s title is broadly applicable to a lot of things, but I chose it because we’ve done a load of work on the Burn This City notebook.
TIMELINE
Voidheart Symphony is queued behind one of our other books for editing. That book’s proved to be a bigger technical challenge than we expected, which means it’s taken longer to do. It’s worth the wait: when in-house editor extraordinaire Maz is ready to tackle it, we’ll get a thorough layout review as part of the deal, to make sure all these bold graphic design choices pay off.
Shifting the timeline would mean, in theory, that we should start shipping books out to you in December. Since packages have a greater tendency to get lost, banged around, etc. over the holiday season we’ll probably just… wait until January.
MANUSCRIPT
Still in editing.
OTHER PRODUCTS
While the core manuscript’s in editing, Minaerva has been working on the other material. Primarily this month, that’s meant the Burn This City notebook. We’ve been bouncing ideas around, balancing structure (that helps you use the notebook the way we think you will) against freedom to use it however you want to. We’re pleased with the result, and I’m extra pleased with Mina’s decision to design it so that, as far as possible, complete sections are on the front and back of a page - so if you want to cut them out and keep them separately, you can do that.
The pages above are a spread from the rebel part of the book (in blue) and the architect side (in red). Take notes about NPCs, the progress of the rebels' investigation into the latest castle shard, and manage your antagonists and their goals. Why is the architect side upside down? Because you flip the book to read it: each section starts from a cover and works in, so the architect side is, well, upside down.
HAPPY PRIDE WRATH MONTH, PLAY SOME VOIDHEART
OK, I may be overselling it a little bit there: this isn't quite a playable version. But we do have a gift for you!
Shortly after this backer update goes out, I’m going to upload some digital files to Backerkit:
- Rules reference handout sheets
- Updated rebel playbooks
- The entire Covenant chapter
If you’ve already done your survey, you should get immediate access to all these files. You may already have them, depending on when you read this. If you haven’t done your survey, consider this a reminder it’s worth doing!
Bye for now.
Chant
Hi there, proud everything backer but unfortunately, the everything to your level does not actually have everything. It is missing the settings in and the GM kit. My pledge manager is showing I would have to add these as extra add-ons. Can you please clarify?
PROJECT UPDATE
Chant (Voidheart Producer)
CREATOR
about 2 months ago
Project Update: We're Winning
Everything’s going to plan. Which is suspicious, frankly.
TIMELINE
Really short and sweet update here: we’re still on track.
MANUSCRIPT
As scheduled, Mina’s finished the rewrites. We’ve officially moved Voidheart over to editing, which in-house Editor In Chief Maz Hamilton will handle. Maz is tremendous: their editing’s like a deep tissue massage, in that it’s very firm, very thorough, and extremely good for you. We’ve left time in the schedule for them to give Voidheart Symphony the full treatment (even though it’s been development edited twice already; I never say no to more editing).
PLEDGE MANAGER AND SURVEYS
The book’s on track but the pledge manager’s slightly delayed. Bad producer. Sorry. It’s all set up, we’ve sent out the smoke test to a handful of backers, and I’ll check the data and send the rest of the surveys on 19th May.
BIT OF VOIDHEART, AS A TREAT?
The nice thing about having an award-winning graphic designer as an author is that the book’s not only written, it’s laid out and ready for public viewing.
This month, we’re showing off the Kick in the Door chapter. Kick in the Door’s one of the biggest revisions to the original Voidheart Symphony, without being completely new. Mina’s pulled together rules and gameplay advice into a chapter that works almost like a quickstart, giving new Architects a step-by-step, learn-as-you-play way to start running Voidheart. It’s not quite zero prep (we do advise reading the rules first) but it’ll get you up and running real fast.
Pick up your preview here:
Bye for now!
- Chant
Silver Tier
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The update post that introduced the Setting Zone add-on said it was going to be included in the Everything tier, but I'm not seeing it show up as part of my pledge in the pledge manager. It's letting me add it on, but neither the physical nor PDF versions are part of the base pledge.
