Inevitable: dystopian tabletop gaming
A Board & Card Games project in Boston, MA by Dystopian Holdings ·
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Update #9: Timetable of Mass Awesomeness
Posted on June 14, 2010
There's been a lot of curiosity about when exactly the game will be done and ready to ship. With that in mind, Jon and I put our heads together and banged out this schedule. It is subject to change, but there's a fair amount of buffer time in there, and I think the odds are good that we'll stick to this schedule or something reasonably close to it. (Knock on wood.) If there are any big changes we'll announce them here and on the Facebook page.
RECENT EVENTS
May 28-30: "Final" round of playtesting, phase one: three days at Protospiel South. COMPLETE
June 1: Kickstarter Fundraising campaign ends. COMPLETE
June 4-11: "Final" round of playtesting, phase two: seven days with the Spring Forum for Alternative Community. COMPLETE
June 12-July 16: Integrating playtest data. A few assorted "cold" playtesting events. Continued solicitation of printers for price comparison purposes. COMPLETE
July 17-29: Visit to Chicago. Intensive meeting with CJO, the Chicago member of our Design Team, for final QA review of graphic elements. COMPLETE
Aug 1: To Print (may have different dates for different components) COMPLETE
Aug 2-30: Proofing / Corrections / Approval cycle (of initial elements from printer(s)) COMPLETED IN OCTOBER
FUTURE EVENTS
October 15?: Printing. IN PROGRESS
October 20?: Receipt (may have different dates for different components)
October: Collation and packing (of all elements into complete games and of games with other backer swag (T-shirts, etc))
October: INEVITABLE ships to Kickstarter backers first and then to folks who pre-ordered.
Thanks for reading!
Jeremy (and Jon)
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The Dystopian Holdings Team
Jeremy P. Bushnell (Lead Designer)
Jeremy P. Bushnell, age 38, is an award-winning fiction writer, educator, and illustrator who lives in the Greater Boston Area. He is the designer of the dystopian tabletop game "Inevitable." Prior to his involvement with Dystopian Holdings, he co-designed casual Flash video games for Hybrid Mind Studios (Blinkout, Worderfall) and print-and-play games (Peep War, Treefort Nations) for Invisible City Productions.
Jonathan A. Leistiko (Co-Designer, Inevitable)
Jonathan A. Leistiko, age 39, is an instructional designer who believes in the use of games as powerful and robust teaching tools. He lives in Austin, TX with his wife, Sharon. In addition to his work on Inevitable, he released over 100 free print-and-play games at http://www.invisible-city.com/play/ and has had one board game (The Isle of Dr. Necreaux) licensed and published by Alderac Entertainment Group.
Crystal Olesh (Co-Designer, Clownpocalypse)
Crystal Olesh performed Pandemonium Control on Inevitable, and was brought in to work as a full co-designer on Clownpocalypse.
We'll message everyone to get current addresses right before the shipping drop. :)
Hi, I'm really interested in pre-ordering, but I'd be splitting it with friends and I want to know where I can point them to to get them jazzed about the game (what it's about, how it's played, etc.) Do you have a page like this already set up?
Thanks for asking, Ariel. We have a bunch of media on our official website: http://inevitablethegame.com/
You'll find the most nifty information in our "leaks" section: http://inevitablethegame.com/blog
...though the "About" page also provides a little info: http://inevitablethegame.com/content/about-0
There's also our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Inevitable/192682438697
...and our Twitter feed: http://twitter.com/dystopiangames
Keep an eye on the "Leaks." We're going to release the free PDF version there in installments over the next two months.
If you have any additional questions, don't hesitate to ask – either here, or in our Forums: http://inevitablethegame.com/forum