Hey everyone,

It's time for another monthly update for The Company's New Groove, and this is a big one!

It's nearly finished!!!! With the final book coming in at 44 pages long, °Hummelgrafik is putting the final touches together as we speak, and it should be done in the next couple of days! Handouts, Character Sheets and a Warden Sheet are all locked text-wise, °Hummelgrafik will start on those once he finishes with the Module.

In terms of next steps, I'll need Tuesday Knight Games to approve the finished module and then I'll organize a test print of the book. I expect that I'll have it in my hands before the end of April so look out for that in the next Update.

Here are some finished pages from the Module as a little sneak peak:

You should have gotten an email from Mothership Month 2025 Team about filling in your order survey. Not only are you able to confirm what you've already ordered but you can also add any items from the other amazing projects from MM25.

If you have any issues or questions, feel free to get in touch with me and I can pass it on to Tuesday Knight Games.

Jsp delivered the last track to me this week! The soundtrack consists of three atmospheric tracks as well as three music pieces to use within the abandoned PA FACILITY - C. 

The test print from the patches arrived and they look great! We've decided to go with a sewn style for the 'Dance Till You're Dead' patch and a woven style for the 'Drunken Monkey' patch. We do lose some detail from the design in the 'Dance' patch but I find that the texture and feel of the sown patch more than makes up for it! See for yourselves:

(excuse my camera, it does weird things with the colours. The colour of both the 'Ape' patches match, even though it looks like a different pink.) 

The Test Prints for the T-Shirt also arrived, but there are some logistical aspects I need to work out with these so I'm not quite ready to show it off yet. 

'Work' has been slowly progressing on the Cocktail Pamphlet and we're a little behind, unfortunately. I can safely say however that we'll have the text lock and handover to °Hummelgrafik done before we get to next month's update. Here are some pictures we took so far:

That's it for this month's update!

Hey everyone,

February has been a successful month for the project and we were able to hit several milestones!

At the beginning of the month, we finished the final play test for the module. It went really well and the players had a blast with this disco nightmare. There was valuable feedback on how to make the module even better, which I'm thankful for.

Around mid to late Feb, My editor and I sat down and locked in the text for the module into it's final form. It's both exciting and a little nerve-wracking to think that this is now the finished text for the module and no more big changes can happen! 

This upcoming week, I'm going to get test prints of both Patches and the T-shirt ordered, then afterwards move my focus onto the Cocktail Menu. I hopefully should have more information on both of these things next update.
 

Earlier this week, I've passed the finished text over to HUMMELGRAFIK, who is going to do his thing and make this module come to life. I can't wait to see what he does and show you all!

 As a bonus, here is a little sneak peak at some new art:

That's all from us this month, see you in next month's update.

Hey everyone,

First off sorry for cutting it so close with getting January's update out :/ 

This will be a very small update this time as January is the busiest time of the year for my work and it wasn't possible to focus on the project because of it. This was factored in during planning however and we are on schedule. 

So what's the status on the book?: 
 - I'm in the middle of my final playtest of the module before we move to text lock. I expect that we'll have text lock by mid-end Feb.
 - I'll then hand the text over to HUMMELGRAFIK who will start on Layout and the rest of the art.
 -  While HUMMELGRAFIK works on the zine, I'll put all my focus on the Cocktail Menu . 

That's it for this month's update, see you in the next one!

Hey everyone,

The team has been working hard on the book in this past month with playtesting, iterating and new art pieces. Things have been running smoothly as the Pledge Manager gets worked on behind the scenes by Tuesday Knight Games and Backerkit.

Two weeks ago, we ran the module for my regular Mothership group and it went really well. Obviously we found some problem areas and things that would need to change but overall it was a big success. I’ve already done another pass on the module and will be testing it again with new players in January. In the meantime, I also have several other groups who I’ve given access to the book and all the materials who will be running their own sessions for me. Between all of the playtests groups, we’re going to make sure this club-crawl really sings.

Over this month I’ve also started to do a prototype pass on Layout before I hand it over to HUMMELGRAFIK. This has been really helpful to see where everything needs to be, what space we have and how best to present the various info. The biggest takeaway from doing this has been that the goal of 32pgs for this book was not realistic and we’re now looking at closer to 40pgs. That just means more Module for all of you!

HUMMELGRAFIK has been working away at getting some more art pieces done for the our major threats for the book. The majority of the work on Art however will wait until he has the locked text and begins Layout proper.

But here is a sneak peek at his design for The Charisma and the Drunken Monkey Night Club!

That’s all from us this month. I hope every one has a great holiday period and we’ll be in touch with a new update in January.

Hey Everyone,

From all of us working on 'The Company's New Groove', thank you so much for all of your support and making this book happen! WOOH!! we did it!

So this year's Mothership Month is going to be a little different when it comes to fulfillment and shipping. Rather than you receiving an individual pledge manager for each project you backed, we'll be instead making one big 'Mega' Pledge Manager that covers all projects. So in that respect, I'm waiting on Backerkit and TKG for more information before I can get to work on the Backer Surveys.

Here is my team's internal timeline for this project:

November 2025 - February 2026:

February 2026 - May 2026:

June 2026 - July 2026

Obviously things can change, and some of these parts could be done quicker than others, but I wanted to make sure that I gave myself generous windows in case anything goes wrong. 
As soon as we have the final finished product then I'll send out the PDFs through the Pledge Manager before we go into Print.

I'll be doing Monthly Updates from here on out, so until then, that's all from us for this update!