Kickstarter

Thank you, one and all, for pledging your hard-earned money to make these products a reality! Throughout this funding drive, your contributions have blasted beyond my every expectation, and successfully funded all three products mentioned at the very beginning.

I am simultaneously honored and humbled by your support.

So, what happens next? Well, I need to have some discussions with my printer (who is going to be very happy with us, I assure you!) and crunch some numbers. You see, you folks got so very close to the goal to rerelease my first terrain card set that I might be able to go ahead and get it printed at a smaller quantity and still offer it you folks as an option to choose from when picking your rewards!

Once I know for sure, I'll send out your reward surveys through Kickstarter and you can use them to tell me what map products you want. Anywhere in the rewards where it says "a copy of Mass Transit IV", you will, in fact, be able to choose any one of the three (or possibly four!) products that will be printed as a result of your support.

Then I need to put the final touches on, and upload, the PDF files of these maps and the bonus rewards you unlocked! Those will be ready for download in just a few days.

That brings us to the Mystery Map--which must remain a mystery for just a little longer. I had intended to provide you with a poster map and matching terrain sheet that I created a few years ago but never published. However, the original files are proving...elusive. If I can't track that down in the next day or so, you folks will be receiving a brand spankin' new poster map PDF just as soon as I can get it finished for you!

And what about the bonus terrain cards for Deck Space? They are now revealed in full in the graph below. You've got some benches, a bit of cargo, a couple of elevator lifts, a pair of computer consoles, and a bunch of different floor sections that you can use to add, or remove, crossing points on the Deck Space railways. Thanks to your phenomenal level of support, every copy of Deck Space will include these additional 5"x8" terrain sheets!

Oh, and I figured out why my graph was off by a day at the end. It turns out, I can't count. I somehow managed to include an extra day in February, on top of the already-unusual day added due to the leap year.

Thank you again, everyone! These products will be a huge boost to my business, and I hope that you will find them highly enjoyable on your gaming table!

Expect your reward surveys to start arriving in your email over the next day or two, and links to your PDF rewards shortly thereafter. The printed products may take several weeks to return from the printer, due to volume, so please be patient. Also: be sure to let me know if your mailing address changes between the time I post the survey and the time the rewards are ready to ship. I'll keep you updated as that time draws closer and things start to come together.

Thank you once more, for everything!

-Chris

P.S. When you get your printed copies and start using these, I hope you'll take a photo or two and send them along or tag me on Facebook. I love to see what you folks do with the stuff I make!

Hi, folks!

We have exactly one hour left in this funding goal, and I've been dared to raise the stakes one last time. So, I've done the math and decided to go "all-in":

If this Kickstarter hits the goal to print the Railway Outpost Tiles ($12K), then I will not only add them to the reward options, I will include a *free* printed copy with every pledge of $14 and higher.

Do I think it will happen in the next--what, 54 minutes?

Probably not, but...if it does...everyone scores a free card set.

I mentioned earlier that I'd expand and reprint my very first terrain card set if the funding of this Kickstarter drive hits $12K. At the rate pledges have been coming in today, that might actually be possible! So, here for your viewing pleasure is a look at the covers of that product.

Consider this a glimpse of what may be if we can punch this Kickstarter through the roof in the next 5 hours...

A terrific surge of pledges on this, the penultimate day of the funding drive, has pushed us within $500 of the goal needed to print the third brand new product: Deck Space!

Yesterday you passed the goal needed to earn free PDF files of the Mass Transit IV maps showing a passenger module attached, instead of the cargo pod that will be shown on the printed poster. Images of the maps can be seen below; the only piece yet to be revealed is the hull surface view.

The graph below has been updated as well. Somehow I managed to lose a day during the updates, or I planned the graph poorly--either way, I had to bump the progress line over a day in order to match up to the correct date. Even so, we look likely to meet the goal for Deck Space if we can gather just a bit more support in the gaming community! If we pull that off, there may yet be a chance of unlocking the bonus terrain or the Mystery Map...

In any case, this will be the final graph before the end of the funding period. Thank you for your continued support, and for your belief in these products!

Check out this graph! The surge of support today has been incredible, and clearly puts us on course for Deck Space if we can keep it up! If you know anyone who's on the fence about pledging, remind them of the free dice that will ship with backers' maps, and the newly unlocked pair of bonus map PDFs that will be available to all backers!

I'm still fine tuning the details, and will post a look at the final map images later today. You folks are amazing!