Shout-out: Project Biomodus
over 7 years ago – Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 06:16:21 PM

Hey folks!

While we're hard at work finishing up our book for you, one of our backers and good friends, BEAR, started his own Kickstarter today! You can find his kickstarter, Project Biomodus, here.

It is a post-apocolyptic sci-fi "action-heavy, semi-classless tabletop roleplaying game, set nearly a millennia in what we would call the future", to quote the project's Kickstarter. We highly recommend you give it a look and hope you enjoy his world as much as we do!

Thanks,
The INDE Team

Surveys and Editting Update
over 7 years ago – Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 03:35:08 PM

Hey everyone,

Thank you all for your responses! There’s still 45 of you who have not answered the Kickstarter survey. We hope to get your response soon! In addition, there are still 19 of you who have not filled out the Backerkit Survey from last year! In addition, there’s 1 Kickstarter backer and 5 Backerkit backers whose credit card was declined. All in all, not bad responses for everyone! We hope that the stragglers will fill out their surveys soon.

As of this morning, we’ve received 203 proposed edits, of which 182 have either been resolved or require simple punctuation fixes (that’s nearly 90%!).

We would like to thank everyone for all of the editing responses!

Sincerely,

The INDE Team

Physical Preorders Close Today
over 7 years ago – Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 08:59:01 AM

Hey everyone!

Just a quick update to remind everyone that physical book preorders via Backerkit close today September 16th, 2016 at 5PM US Eastern (9PM GMT). You will still be able to purchase collectors cards, digital Book PDF, and Child's Play Charity until we publish. (Please note that the art prints and the dice have all been bought up!) After that, we will open a store on our forums as well as look for other sales opportunities online. This will allow us to focus on editing the book and putting a spit shine on the world background.

We would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the editing process thus far! We've gotten nearly 150 responses and have taken care of most of these in our internal documents

Thanks
The INDE Team

A Release of Sorts
over 7 years ago – Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 02:19:07 PM

Hey folks!

So it’s been a bit since we had a proper update for you. In this case, it’s a release...of sorts.

Wait! Don’t panic! Here’s why.

Finishing Airships took quite a bit longer than expected. By that we mean it took us 5 months to hammer out the details and after a multitude of re-writes we finally have something we are confident in and not feel like something tacked on. It’s in a state where a GM could run an entire game as an Airship crew. Our world background (colloquially, “fluff”) got pushed back as a result.

Now, here’s where the good news comes in.

We will be (re)release the playtest with the complete ruleset next week! This will include all crafting systems (yes, alchemy) and airships. This is a release to not only let you playtest, but see the final book layout and design. In addition, some of the world, race, and Pulse (city) fluff are included! In the mean time to whet your appetite, You can find the download links to the character, monster, and airship sheets here:

In addition, if you have registered on our forums before, you’ll be able to find this playtest in the Resources section when it is released (right now the old one is still up). Please note that if you haven’t been on the forums in a long while, we did get new forum software and that requires a password reset. While we would like to believe that we devs are infallible and perfect, we do anticipate some mistakes be it grammar or clarification. As such, we have two ways that we would like you to report your findings.

A Google Form. You can view what others have submitted here (read-only)
The forums via this thread

We look forward to seeing any and all suggestions and hope to continue making Shattered a better game with your help!

Wrap Up Those Preorders

In addition, we will be closing the preorders via Backerkit as of the 16th of September, 2016. All sales after this date will be handled via our Store which is connected to our forums.

We apologize for any inconvenience or disappointment, but we will do our best to finish the fluff soon and then send the book to the printer.

Tex, INDE

We Sent a Test Book to Print!
almost 8 years ago – Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 10:28:46 PM

Hey folks!

Late last week we received a test print from our Chinese printer. Now before you ask, no it wasn’t the whole book, but an agglomeration of elements from the various parts of the book so that we could better judge and assemble the it to print quality standards. As a whole, we’re quite happy with the result! We’re making a few adjustments, most notably increasing the inside margins, so that the book looks great in your hands! Please note that the cover shown is not finalized yet and we are still tweaking that final layout.

Now, as for the actual printing of the book, we’re still aiming for the end of this month (August) to do a “soft” release where the PDF version of the book is available to backers of the appropriate tiers. While we would love to send it to the printer then and there, we’re going to hold off for a few weeks so that we can better edit it with your help! Once it's it a place we like, we'll send it to print.