Lumberjills, a War Birds game

On Production Track - Additional Content & Timeline Update
about 1 month ago – Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 08:42:35 AM

Hi all! 

Received all the production proofs from the printer, and Robin and Claudia's work is full colour gorgeous! Part of the production proof vetting process for me is always arts-and-crafts cutting and gluing cover prints to the blanks to get a feel for the game's final state - and so that I can show you of course! My crafting game isn't perfection, so the final will look even better than the pic below. 

Everything looks great, all the production proofs are approved, the deposit paid and we are now on the production queue. 

Timeline Update

Sadly the printer has a bit of a backlog waiting ahead of us, so we will have a delay until it ships onshore for distribution. We are due now to finish printing and ship to Canada/US in December. This makes me a bit nervous as we'll be in shipping after the US election which created some importing concerns on our last game - but fingers crossed there will be no impacts there. Depending on shipping state, this means that the final product could be received and start distributing as early as January or as late as March. I'll keep you updated as I know better. 

Additional Content

Thanks to our generous and gracious Deluxe backers, a handful of additional content will be distributed to you! New playable Lumberjills and new wooing Suitors based on the delightful input of our backers have been made, and those folks have all given permission to send them to you! 

I will be issuing digital versions to everyone who backed a copy of the game digitally once done, and for those with physical copies, I will send out codes where you can print them on demand, at cost, to include in your game if you'd like. I've made sure there is extra soace in the box to accommodate them. 

That's all my news for now. I'm off to peep some colourful leaves! 

Best, 

Mo

Final Digital Release & Approved to Print
2 months ago – Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 11:24:16 AM

Hello folks, 

Happy fall! I just came back from a week in the colour-changing woods and am feeling particularly Lumberjill inspired, even if I personally chopped up nothing but vegetables while away!

I am delighted to update you that we have been through final adjustments and all the files have been finalized with the printer, and proofs approved. As a result, I just uploaded and distributed the final digital edition on Backerkit. If you had already downloaded the early access version, please note that the decks remained the same, but the Guide has important changes. So if you have already printed a deck, you can hang on to it, but please do download the new files for the updated rules!

I'm now hard at work on wrapping up the physical rewards for the Deluxe and Benefactor tiers. If folks in these tiers have not yet communicated with me about their rewards, please check your inboxes! I sent surveys for custom characters and options for benefactor rewards at the end of August. I am eager to hear back from you, and will issue another reminder soon. 

Hope you are enjoying yourselves! <3

~Mo

Shipping Reductions - Important Please Read
4 months ago – Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 02:00:59 PM

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Early Access Digital is Out! Off to the Printers!
4 months ago – Fri, Aug 09, 2024 at 12:47:05 PM

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Smoke Test is Out
4 months ago – Thu, Aug 08, 2024 at 01:59:43 PM

Hi folks, 

Two very quick updates:

• I've just issued the smoke test for backer surveys. This means Backerkit has selected a random and small sample group of backers to receive the first few surveys to make sure everything is running smoothly. If you have received one of them, please help me out by completing it soon! If you encounter anything odd or upsetting in the process, please reach out to me with details.   Once I have seen the majority of smoke tests complete and am sure things are working well, I'll push to the whole community except...
• ...My Benefactors! Because your rewards are variable, I can't set your surveys up yet. I'll be reaching out to you personally in the next week to start the process. 

Thanks for your patience folks! I'm so excited to be about to release the digital!

Cheers,

~Mo