Heckna! Carnival Horror Campaign Setting: March Update - Design Preview and Message from the Team
Hey backers!
In your update this month, we have the usual progress report (along with some excellent spread previews!) as well as a message from the project team. Take a look!
Message from the Heckna Team
Hey all, we personally want to thank you all for your continued patience. We appreciate it more than we could say. I’d like to give a peek behind the Big Top curtain and share what’s caused these delays.
A few months after the campaign had ended we had concluded our initial drafts of the book. Upon close review with the team we decided that the book wasn't where we wanted it to be and made the hard decision that we needed to rework it in order to bring you all something we felt was to the level of quality we aim to produce. This resulted in another 6 months of rewrites/adjustments and another 3 months of edits. The world was more fleshed out and more regions were added to the book, and we even managed to finish the Dastardly Disco side quest earlier that year which meant we could include it with the final book.
As most of you know, we also have another project, our second Animated Spells/Tarot Kickstarter which also has its own set of add-ons and books. The timing of these two projects with the rewrites meant that a bunch of content hit our design team all at once. Though we tried to prioritize as best we could, unfortunately that means bits and pieces of the projects slipped through the cracks.
As we get closer and closer to finishing these books our focus is on polish; we’re working hard on multiple revisions to ensure the books you receive are as good as can be, because that’s our goal. We want to bring you the best we can.
Regardless, we completely understand any and all frustrations. If you would like to discuss your pledge with us, please reach out to kickstarter@hitpointpress.com. One of our support wizards will be glad to help. Thank you again for sticking with us thus far. We look forward to bringing you amazing content in the future.
Production Progress
- We’re still neck-deep in the final design and review sprint and while we were optimistic about our previous mid-March estimate, there is still work to be done before it is ready to be released. Based on our current progress, we expect to be able to do so within the next couple of weeks. We know this isn’t the news you wanted to hear, but we hope sharing some preview spreads from the book will tide you over!
- Files are still being prepared, finalized and completed for our manufacturers. At this time, we expect to be able to provide you with a timeline as early as April’s update!
Spread Previews
As promised, here are some first looks of a couple of pages from the book! We're so excited to see it come together thanks to the hard work of our incredible design team. Check them out!
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Cheers,
The Hit Point Press Team