Hey everyone! This update took a bit longer, why? Well, as many suspect, I'm (Abrah) human, and due to that condition, I'm susceptible to such phenomena as "The Big Sad." Sin...
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about 2 months ago
[0007] April: the beginning of Q2
HELLO EVERYONE! Already 9 days of April gone, wild. So what we've been up to?
ART!
Riki (@lesmestiar) has been working on the art for the criminal syndicates, you can see so...
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Wicked Oni Publishing
3 months ago
[0006] It's March already!
Update update update!
What happened in February and what is happening right now?
Meeting with the Comic artist and writer
That was fun, I lore dumped on both of them and i...
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4 months ago
[0005] Early access PDF OUT NOW!!
One of the cool days is finally here! Safe to say I'm nervous :) but excited
Digital File Distribution has started!
The Early Access PDF has just been sent along with the Ja...
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4 months ago
[0004] SURVEYS OUT!
WEE WOO WEE WOO
Smoke test was a success, so now everyone gets them!
QUICK REMINDER!
Shipping will be charged at a later date, read more about that and surveys in update
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[0003] Smoke Test! And then: Surveys!
We did it! We figured out the Pledge Manager! And we've been approved to send out our Smoke Test, this will take a lucky 5% of you to receive the survey at an earlier date, t...
Hey everyone! This update took a bit longer, why? Well, as many suspect, I'm (Abrah) human, and due to that condition, I'm susceptible to such phenomena as "The Big Sad." Since the last update until now my mood has been atrociously low at times, with better days than others but ultimately the average is not the same as it was during Q1. It has nothing to do with the project, just my personal life, but, sadly, it permeates to all other areas in my life.
Even though that's the case, I've made my best effort to keep the ball rolling, and delegate what I can and keep contacting the people in charge of production.
Comic!
@cruzarte shared some cool concept art for the main characters of the comic! Along with two possible designs for the Ruzt Ratz. @gorgona.comics got his draft approved and he came up with something cool! The comic will have parts where it'll give you the option to stop reading and continue the story in a Mothership session of your own!
Patches
They gave me the prices for the quantities we want for the two patches that are ready as well as a timeframe, there's one patch design that still needs to be done by @lesmestiar. Preview for the Ruzt Ratz patch included below
The Iron Hive Art
@lesmestiar is working on backgrounds, on the image, it's planned as Temple, Mines and Black Market
Editing
It's practically done for the main content (80%) and the cross collab is done, Ruzt Ratz catalogue is the only one missing on a spreadsheet where I can get some percents but it's been started and that doesn't have a lot to edit to begin with.
Printing
They finally got back to me! Prices are looking fine for all the content we have, I can't lock them for more than a month but they told me it shouldn't change that much from here until Q3!
What's missing?
I still need to meet with @alexrojas_monstercorner for the art for the Ruzt Ratz Catalogue, he was on a trip to another city to work in SPFX makeup for a production but he's now back
HELLO EVERYONE! Already 9 days of April gone, wild. So what we've been up to?
ART!
Riki (@lesmestiar) has been working on the art for the criminal syndicates, you can see some previews she sent on the middle of the image down below, I myself (Abrah) have been working on art for the cross collab content, there's still one to go, but the sketch and idea are already down, these are the ones on the lower left corner of the image below.
Content!
Content for the Ruzt Ratz Catalog is about 90% done, layout as well, it needs art but haven't been able to meet with Alex (@alexrojas_monstercorner) yet :'(. This content is, as a preview, on the right of the image below.
As for the cross-collab content, the three index cards are content complete! Layout is almost there, I just have to finish that last pic and a few final touches on big texts, I REALLY like how they turned out. These are on the left of the image below.
I haven't touched much of The Iron Hive itself, since it's the most content-complete one out of them all, I wanted to explore a bit of more creative layout, buuuut that'd probably add a lot of more time to everything, so let's see how things go.
this is the image below
Survey!
We are at 95%! That means there are still 35 backers that haven't completed it, please do! This will not incur in any immediate extra charges.
If you are among the HiveCorp Industries Representative or Iron Hive Meister backers, pleeeeease complete the survey! Remember I need a name from you to include in this campaigns content! This name, btw, is going in both the main content and the extra content (not on the Cross-Collab though).
Comic!
Rodrigo (@gorgona.comics) sent me a draft, I returned it with some notes, but have passed the character concepts to Andres (@cruzarte) so he can start working on those as well, there are 4 characters, one of each class.
Timeline
It's all going well, I'm taking some days off from my corpo job to get some rest but also to get more The Iron Hive work done. I really wanted to upgrade my GPU to get the scenes out easier, but hehe :) GPU prices right now. I'll be focusing on the content that's going to be printed first, this means that those scenes will be on a secondary priority, why? To progress everything that needs to be printed and shipped first, and then the digital stuff.
The digital content being sent on Q2 is still looking good! Again, putting PDFs over the scenes first, I can work on the scenes while the printers are working and logistics are getting stuff to you.
What happened in February and what is happening right now?
Meeting with the Comic artist and writer
That was fun, I lore dumped on both of them and ideas started to fly around, it was fun to see all the things they were coming up with, some of them I hadn't even thought of! That's the kind of spirit I want to bring with this module and it was nice to see it happen live. The writer already gave me a draft, turned it back with some notes to tie it more into the Mothership RPG feel.
One of the ideas that came up was to have the comic as an intro to The Iron Hive, an intro that you can continue by playing, the party in the comic will comprised of one of each class, it'll ship with character sheets for each of them and your trusted warden will be able to continue where the comic left off! I personally love the idea a lot and can't wait to have it realized. I'm not planning on writing a loooot on how to continue the story, and I want it to be open ended enough for there to be a lot of options for the wardens
Operation Golden Cut Cross-Collab Content!
We are around 70% content-wise, 50% on the graphics, it's coming along really nice and I'm liking the index card-sized format, here's a sneak peek on the image for one of them:
HiveCorp Industries Exploration Pod, made by Abrah Nassiff
The Iron Hive Content
The content itself is not really supposed to suffer a lot of changes, some of you requested for it to have a map of the station, and I think I found a nice middle point. The initial idea was for everyone to map it as they imagined it, but it is also fair to have a starting image, but then I thought, why have only one map? I was thinking on just making a lot of sketches of how The Iron Hive might look like and include them all on the Index page, with a little note saying something about how the station doesn't have a predetermined shape and you can pick, choose and do whatever you want!
Other than that, I asked the printer how much the price would change if we added 4 more pages for us to have a bit more room to do creative stuff like sections and have fun with layout and design, I should've had an answer by now so I might need to ask again.
Timeline!
March is the end of Q1, so how are we looking? Fine, I'm juggling between trying not to think too much about it and keeping it present, the pace we have feels right, I'm still needing to meet with Alex about the Ruzt Ratz catalogue and we should do that this week.
Small oopsies
We had an error with digital content not being delivered to those who had bought it through the Pre-Order Store, that was fixed as soon as we found out it was happening, if you bought anything that included the PDF and you haven't received it yet, feel free to contact us!
One of the cool days is finally here! Safe to say I'm nervous :) but excited
Digital File Distribution has started!
The Early Access PDF has just been sent along with the Jade Market Floor Sheet (renamed from Sector sheet to avoid confusions with the actual sectors)
Be aware it's an early access PDF, which means that the layout, design and some of the content are not final! The content itself—the core of it—will not change, so the sectors will remain the same, The Iron Hive will remain a space station built from scraps on top of scraps. But the details, extras, and small little things might change.
In case you don't know how or where your digital downloads are, go -> here.
What's been going on after we could touch the money you amazing people gave to us?
Meetings, meetings and more meetings!
Met with Andrés and Rodrigo (the comic crew) and Rodrigo is already writing the content for the comic (we came up with a really fun idea to mix the comic with the booklet and I can't wait to have it more fleshed out so it can be shared)
Met with Riki, she's all over the place with content, she'll be doing portraits for the criminal syndicates, background for some pages, improving the cover, the XY-90 Expedition patch, and maybe even more
Missing the meeting with Alex Rojas for the Ruzt Ratz Catalogue but we're gonna get that going ASAP as well
As for me, once the money hit, the ball started rolling again, the PDF suffered a massive overhaul in terms of design and will keep evolving, I did a whole course on layout and immediately put everything into practice, I'm waiting for the printing company to get back to me and see if we add 4 more pages, these I envision as section spreads, so it'd be a lot of form over function, but the form in my head looks really nice.
Smoke test was a success, so now everyone gets them!
QUICK REMINDER!
Shipping will be charged at a later date, read more about that and surveys in update [0003]
That's all for this update, as money is finally out of the crystal box, things are flowing, meetings are being held and Early Access PDF still aimed for early Q1! (Let's say early February while aiming at next week)
That's probably the next time we'll write, so see you then!
