Oh how time flies. As the winter months creep across the land and the sunlight outside our windows is replaced by perpetual gloom, work continues apace on Ways and Means and I'm here once more to give you a rundown on what's new.
Vote Now for New Special Edition Covers!
More people than we were expecting have requested a special edition of the Heart: The City Beneath core book - which means that we have an opportunity to create a new colourway to join the original Red Wet Edition and the more recent Echo Edition. If you’ve already said you want a special edition, you will soon have a separate email in your inbox asking for your opinion on what you’d prefer. We have three options: create some more Echo editions, or ask our bindery to create the Hive or the Grey Edition.
We’ll update you once our materials are finalised, and we’ll also make sure everyone who’s ordered a special edition has the option to change your pledge if you don’t like the eventual outcome.
The Snail Pilgrim Arrives!
We know you've been waiting patiently to see the final illustration for the stretch goal class added to Ways and Means, but honestly you can't rush a Snail Pilgrim.
Felix has once more done an amazing job at depicting a truly bizarre class. In this case, a devout wanderer who literally carries a Haven on their back deep into the heart (albeit rendered down into a protean goo and poured into their sacred shell to be decanted at a later date).
Timeline Updates!
We've been pushing hard on development and I can now happily confirm that all the text for Ways and Means is currently with our editors and Sar is working on the final batch of illustrations as I type. All this means we're preparing to be fired like a wild shotgun into layout over the coming month.
We set ourselves a big milestone of getting preview PDFs out to backers some time in mid December. While we're still looking pretty good for that milestone, there have been some delays around polishing certain parts of the book, which means it's looking TIGHT.
We're talking a matter of days between getting the PDFs sent out before the RRD team take their well deserved Christmas break. So there's a non-zero chance that backer PDFs will land in January after the holidays instead. Rest assured, we'll keep you posted either way!
That’s all for now folks, you’ll hear from us again in a few weeks!
