Big Important Update: Backer Preview Coming Today!
We interrupt your regularly scheduled timeline and production updates to inform you that the backer preview PDF of the revised Voidheart Symphony is ready for you!
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Chant (Voidheart Producer)
about 2 months ago
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 ...
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Chant (Voidheart Producer)
3 months ago
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...
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Chant (Voidheart Producer)
4 months ago
What Happens Next?
The dust has settled from the somewhat dramatic conclusion to our crowdfunder, and we can see the road ahead. It’s actually a pretty spectacular view: Mina’s close to finishi...
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Minerva McJanda
4 months ago
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 ...
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Minerva McJanda
4 months ago
The Blood of the Covenant
20 hours to go and I'm feeling optimistic about that AP stretch goal! But that's not what we're here to talk about today. Instead, I'm going to talk about the members of your...
We interrupt your regularly scheduled timeline and production updates to inform you that the backer preview PDF of the revised Voidheart Symphony is ready for you!
Depending when you see this update, you may already have received an email from Backerkit with a link to the download.
From the very first spread, each part of the game has received attention from our team.
Now, there are some things you should know.
FEEDBACK PLEASE
This is very much a preview PDF. We've edited, proofed, revised, shaken, and inspected this book under UV light but there are always a handful of errors that escape our notice. We are, alas, only human.
We need your help to catch the rest. If you spot any typos, or indeed anything that's confusingly worded, please let us know. We've made a feedback form to make this as easy as we possibly can. You can access it here: https://forms.gle/huAQQGH1sAo6WU1FA
The flow of the investigation has been refined to make sure every vassal you take down feels vibrant, dangerous and exciting.
FEEDBACK WINDOW
We're eager to get this off to the printer, so we can start making books. That means we're going to keep taking feedback until Wednesday 13th August. After that, Mina will start revising the file and we'll move on to production.
BACKERS ONLY
Please don't share this PDF. Mostly because it's a preview, and we'd like to get those last errors sorted before it makes its public debut. If you want to share it with your group because you want to play it together, that's fine.
Vassals have received a tune-up: each one now has a specific Reflex that'll ramp up pressure on the rebels.
OTHER PRODUCT PREVIEWS
We are planning on releasing the quickstart, notebook and GM kit for you to have a look at too. They're still in layout (in the quickstart's case, still in editing). Those will have significantly shorter feedback periods, and if any of them take longer than planned, we might whoosh them straight off to the printer. But for now you should expect to see these in a couple of weeks.
THAT'S ALL!
Chant will be back after the feedback period closes with an update on timings. For now, if you haven't done your surveys please do (you probably won't be able to get the PDF download if you haven't, for a start), and brace yourself for us to start shouting about locking addresses and charging shipping.
Thanks for coming on this ride with us.
Chant & Mina
PS - if you have trouble picking up the files, we'll be checking in right here tomorrow morning to help resolve any issues!
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!
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?
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.
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.
