A science-fiction roleplaying game of bringing the family back together for one last job.
Jammi just put this together and I absolutely had to share this preview of the new Keeper playbook with you. We are excited to see the dynamic of the captain's relationships beyond the Crew and the Keeper should help us tell more diverse stories.
Hello Everyone,
I just wanted to give a quick update on our collective progress for Once More Into the Void. Jammi has thrown himself into the design work over the past month and the three of us (Jammi, Christopher, and I) had a video call on Thursday Morning to do a review of the text so far. We have our new playbooks, new recruitment montages, and new mini-games prepared at this point. We decided to invest a bit more time and effort into revising the token economy so that it's properly optimized for our desired endgame outcomes. To that end, I put together a rather complex spreadsheet to help him crunch the numbers and find the perfect mechanical balance.
We expect to send the full mechanical design to Avery within the next week. While Avery reviews the game rules, Jammi will work on the new setting/fictional information such as some planets, stations, gear, and other useful resources for play. It's taken a bit more work than we originally expected, but we are certain you will like the end result.
Cheers,
Jason Pitre and Jamila Nedjadi
Hello folks,
Just a quick update on Once More Into the Void. Jammi is hard at work designing all of the new content for the game, wrangling the art direction, and incorporating some new playtest feedback. As soon as the text is done, it will be sent off to Avery Alder for some detailed review and design feedback. I will be working with Jammi after that point to pull this together so it's ready for editing.
On the publication side of the house, things are fraught with difficulty. As some of you might be aware, international shipping has gone completely off the rails due to the combination of COVID 19, shipping container shortages, labour disruptions, and knock-on effects from various shutdowns over the past few years. We are hearing reports that certain printers are running out of paper, have minimal staff, and are having an impossible time shipping goods out the door. Anyone who is interested might check out this article featuring our friends at Atlas Games.
We are monitoring the situation closely, but this may lead to some unforeseen delays in getting the print versions out the door. We are doing our best to give you the PDFs ASAP and will be researching various solutions to these industry-wide problems.
As you are likely aware, Jammi is absurdly prolific as a designer. He has just announced that one of his next games projects titled "Our Haunt" will be publishing by our friends at Possum Creek Games. You may know Possum Creek Games as the publisher of the beautiful game Wanderhome. While Once More Into the Void is Jammi's top priority right now, we thought you might be interested in hearing what's next in the hopper. Check out this excellent article from Dicebreaker for more info!
Till then, keep safe and watch out for alien dreadnaughts.
Jason Pitre and Jamila Nedjadi
Just a quick update on the progress for Once More Into the Void. Jamilla is currently hard at work developing the additional playbooks and minigames which we unlocked as stretch goals during the campaign. As soon as he finishes that additional content off, we will pass the text along to Avery for a full developmental editing pass. We are hoping to get something to Avery by the end of August according to our schedule.
In the meantime, Cam and Adrien(ne) are hard at work on the illustrations for the book. We have a couple of those pieces below for you to enjoy.
We look forward to giving you another update in a month's time. Till then, keep saving the galaxy!
Jason Pitre and Jamilla Nedjadi
Hello Everyone!
We hope that the last two weeks have treated you well. Jammi and I have been recovering from the whirlwind that was the kickstarter campaign while the payments have cleared after the standard 14-day window. I expect that the funds should reach us sometime this week and we will quickly send out a pile of funds to contributors.
For clarity, we are planning on sending out approximately $19,030 to our various people for developmental expenses, art, editing, consulting, addon sales, and Backerkit fees. This will leave us with a considerable nest-egg of $30,310.96 for the printing, fulfillment, and shipping of all kickstarter rewards. Any funds that don’t get spent fulfilling the kickstarter will be sent as profit to Sword Queen Games to help them with their future projects.
Given the scope of this project, we absolutely needed to use a pledge manager to handle fulfillment. We have chosen BackerKit as our solution to send out surveys, gather mailing addresses, and generally facilitate the process of putting games in your hands.
The surveys are ready and we will be sending them out shortly. As per Backerkit procedures, we start with a “smoke test” to send surveys to 5% of you and catch any last-minute issues. Once those are out of the way, we will send the surveys to everyone else. We won’t be locking addresses or charging cards for Backerkit in the near future, but we would appreciate your info at your earliest convenience. We will be sending out PDFs of any addons using the survey info.
One of the major advantages of using Backerkit is it allows folks to also pre-order copies if they missed the campaign. If you have any friends who are disappointed they missed the kickstarter, please send them over to https://oncemoreintothevoid.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders
Thank you all for your attention and we will get back to work!
Jason Pitre & Jamila Nedjadi