We are popping in with a more in-depth production update for Tea Pets! Read on for an update on each item and for the project overall including an on-time deadline for digital fulfillment and a slightly delayed timeline for print fulfillment. You’re also always welcome to email us or jump in our Discord for questions, comments, feedback, or just to hang out!
Core Rulebook
All creative work on the Teatime Adventures Core Rulebook is done! The digital version of the PDF went through its final accessibility checks over the past few weeks, and we are happy with how the book and new adventure have come together. Check out some of the new art below!
Tea Pets
The Tea Pets book has taken our team a little longer than expected due to extra playtesting. Tea Pets has been designed for both solo and group play, and required some adjustments to ensure quality play in both settings. The additional playtesting wrapped up last month and the book is in final layout. Here are some of the new tea pets you can expect to find in the game as well as one of the habitat maps! Player’s Craft Book
The Player’s Craft Book (aka the Player’s Pack) has a majority of the content completed, including journal prompts, trackers, maps, and more. You can see one of the new forms below. We are adding a few more craft pages to give you more options to celebrate Verdant Isles holidays, and then that book will be wrapped up as well.
Tales from Oakenbend
The Tales from Oakenbend adventure pack has had new content added, including a history of Oakenbend, a listing of mayors, and new seasonal maps for all of your holiday needs. See the cherry blossoms blooming in the springtime map below! You’ll notice a few new locations marked on the new maps as well.
Now that the Tea Pets book has finished being balanced, the four adventures inside are being revised to match the updated Tea Pets rules. Those revisions should be finished in the next two weeks.
Other Fun Stuff
Of course, you’ve already seen our Rose Possum plush, and if you’ve stopped by our booth this year you’ve likely had a chance to roll some of our new Astra dice as well for the new Harmony magic system! Sticker sheets, box art, and the field guide poster are also prepped and ready.
Cozy Companion
We hope that those of you have already accessed your Cozy Companion subscriptions have been enjoying them! We were thrilled to include some early Tea Pets content in April’s New Beginnings volume. We are super excited for the in-depth look at the city of Starsong in June’s Constellations volume. Check out a sneak peek of the cover below! Also, if you have not logged into your Cozy Library subscription recently, you should hop on by to find more Teatime Adventures content set in Starsong and elsewhere in the Verdant Isles!
Bonus App!!!
We did NOT include this in our original timeline, because we weren’t sure if we were going to be able to pull it off… but the development team was on a roll (wooo, Danielle!) and so we are super excited to introduce you to the new Snowbright app which includes a Teatime Adventures dice roller, character generator, quick references for players, and more!
We hope that the new app makes it even easier for you and your players to get up and running with Teatime Adventures right away! Look for this free app to be live on the App Store and Google Play by the end of the month. Overall Timeline
While the digital pieces of the project are on time for fulfillment, the print components are running behind schedule. Based on current progress and the three month delay around the Tea Pets book, we are now expecting creative development to finish this month. Once the files are all in the hands of the printer, we expect* a 90 day turnaround to get from the printer to our warehouse. (*Depending on customs and freight.) That means that if we have files to the printer by July 1, then 90 days after that would be about October 1st for shipments to start being sent out from our warehouse. Our warehouse processes orders quickly, so once packages start to ship they should all be in the mail within a week.
We have had some requests to fulfill PDFs to all backers first before the physical components ship out. We think that is a great idea too, and so we plan to complete digital fulfillment by August.
This has been our biggest project to date, both in terms of crowdfunding and in terms of scope. The four books and other components have been a real joy to work on, and we are really looking forward to getting them to you. Thanks again for your patience, and expect another backer update from us here by the 4th of July!
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us a [email protected] or join our Fan Discord where we post frequent updates on our work.
