Brace yourself for Mothership Month—a group-collab project led by Tuesday Knight Games featuring some of the brightest stars from the Mothership third-party publishing (3PP) community. Each 👩🚀 creator has launched a brand new adventure filled with criminals, smugglers, and rimspace pirates.
Mothership Month Supply Pods
🚀 Back 5+ projects at the physical level and gain access to the SUPPLY PODS. Every five projects that fund, you get ANOTHER Supply Pod with more free goodies.
🌟 Supply Pod 1 (Unlocked!): 1 pack of Mothership CHARACTER CARDS. Each pack contains 13 pre-made character cards ready for use as pre-gen characters or NPCs. Each pack comes with at least one FOIL card.
🌟 Supply Pod 2 (Unlocked!): +1 pack of Mothership CHARACTER CARDS, 5 foil campaign project stickers.
🌟 Supply Pod 3 (Unlocked!): +1 pack of Mothership CHARACTER CARDS, +5 foil campaign project stickers, and an exclusive Mothership Month 24 pin!
🌟 Supply Pod 4 (Unlocked!): +1 pack of Mothership CHARACTER CARDS,+11 foil campaign project stickers, and Shadow of a Doubt a brand new "reverse murder mystery" pamphlet adventure by Ian Yusem (Hull Breach, The Drain).
All in: if you back 5+ projects you're getting 4 Character Card packs (an entire deck of cards), 21 foil project stickers, an exclusive Mothership Month 24 pin, and a brand new adventure pamphlet.
Are there more Supply Pods to come? We're looking into it now!
Streams, Interviews, and more!
All month long, we're diving into the void with daily streams, unsettling interviews, and exclusive, heart-pounding reveals. Whether you're a veteran spacer or new to the Mothership, join us in celebrating the universe’s bravest survivors…and those who didn’t make it back.
Thanks for joining us on our first ever Mothership Month! 👽
PSA: What about shipping?
While it would be amazing if we could bundle all the shipping together, currently with each project's different location, fulfillment timeline, and process it's not feasible for everything to be shipped together. It's a difficult logistical problem to solve and we've got some ideas for next year to help relieve shipping burdens. A few projects may ship together based on the publisher, see each project's page for details.
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Hope you all had an amazing holiday, the TKG team took a good break for the end of the year and we’re all getting back in from being out of office, so let’s dive in!
First off, thank you all so much for making Mothership Month and Wages of Sin such huge successes. It’s been humbling to see all our third party creators thrive and flourish, and really encouraging to see the response to Wages and Megadamage.
What’s the status?
There are a lot of moving pieces to this campaign. Let’s go through each of them:
Wages of Sin
Manuscript is complete.
Editing should be done by the end of January.
Final art should be turned in by the end of January.
Layout template is built, final layout to commence in early February.
Once layout is complete, the draft will be turned over to backers for preview and proofreading.
Final proofreading will commence after backers have turned in any errors they’ve caught.
Final files will then be sent to the manufacturer.
Megadamage
Final articles due by the end of January.
Editing happens article by article as they are turned in. Proofreading for this is handled in house.
Layout, graphic design, and illustration happen as the articles are turned in.
We will send out a preview to backers once the pre-press draft is assembled.
Pledge Manager The basic pledge manager is up and running. You can add Add-Ons to your order now. Shipping will be charged later, closer to when the books are finished printing, as will applicable VAT and Taxes. As this is a book, VAT shouldn’t affect too many of you. We’ll be adding more products to the pledge manager over the next week or two (like PDFs of our back catalog).
We will start working on downloads for those of you who have purchased add ons in the next week.
Character Cards The character cards have been designed and written and are waiting for final art, which should be here by the end of January. Take a look! The fronts have a full sized portrait and the backs have all the details you need to run the character. These can be used either as an NPC, or as a pre-generated PC. Finally, we have included an import code for each card, so any of these cards can be imported into the Mothership Companion App as a full fledged PC. We’re pretty excited about that.
Card back
Card front
Stretch Goals
The ODC prison complex has been written. It’s an amazing addition to the book. It includes the complete plans for the prison complex, tons of new NPCs, and it makes a great location to throw your players into (or start them out at) to see if they can escape.
Printable Warden Posters: We’ll work on these once the books are at the printer’s.
New Ships: These are being designed now and should be done within the next month.
Audio Briefings: The scripts for these have been written, and once they make it through editing they’l be assigned to our VO team. These should release around when we fulfill the physical copies.
Poster Map: These will be designed once the book finishes editing.
Patches: The patches have been designed and should be sent off to print in the next month.
Companion App
If you haven’t heard, the Mothership Companion App recently added an amazing new VTT upgrade: you can run online sessions of Mothership from the app itself, including tokens, dice, characters, map making, and more. Here are two video tutorials about some of the recent additions.
We’ll release an update once each month (we’ve been bad about this in the past, but our New Year’s Resolution is to correct that.). When shipping and fulfillment commence you’ll start getting bi-weekly updates, and then after fulfillment we’ll do bi-monthly updates.
Until then, stay warm those of you with inclement weather incoming in the US (or in the midst of it). We’ll be back in February with another update. As always, if you have any issues, please e-mail Tyler at [email protected]
Hello and Happy New Year! Now that funds have cleared and we are past the holidays I’m starting back in on Death Pays All Debts.
We are about to begin a Dev edit pass on the manuscript. I’m excited to get other eyes on this project and to work with Christian on the module.
We are also in the initial phases of getting the interior illustrations done, once Brandon is able to start on those I’ll share more progress.
I have also been continuing to create more floor maps. I have a good idea of what the layout for each floor should be, just needing minor adjustments and decorations once we finalize the manuscript.
I will also be planning on starting the patch creation and proofing process this month, to ensure those are ready to go when the rest of the project is complete.
I hope everyone had a restful holiday season and I’m looking forward to sharing more as we develop Death Pays All Debts!
Surveys have been sent out and most have completed them. There are about 25% of Backers however that have not completed their surveys. Please take a moment to fill it out. I'm adding one extra week before I lock orders to finalize counts so if you're keen on picking up any add-ons or adjusting your Pledge, you'll need to fill the survey out before the 17th (you can still update your information after this date).
Not much to say otherwise at this time. I'll send out a real update when I have something interesting to share!
I hope everyone is kicking along well after a few weeks of festivities and new years celebrations. I know I feel tired and socialed out. And probably a kilo or two heavier let’s be honest.
Where We Are At?
Pledge Manager. I’ve just sent out the Smoke Test for the pledge manager. This is a little behind schedule as I left it a dash to long to send off to the Backerkit team and had to wait till they were back from holidays.
A Smoke Test is simply sending the survey out to 5% of each pledge level to check for any errors. Easier to fix with a few dozen people than a few hundred.
Once that’s come back all gold, I’ll send the survey out to everyone else.
Syndicate Wastrels. At the moment I’m pouring through Stretch Goal creation and some re-designs on the main book. I’m quite hopeful for the end of the month for digital delivery. With that said, there is still art to finish and editing to go, so things could change.
Goodie Arrivals. I’ve actually had some goodies arrive. The Early-Bird Magnet and Bookmark, as well as a test run of the Bounty Cards to see how they look. We’ve changed a few small things from what you see below, but in general it’s the same. In general, I think they all turned out awesome!
That’s it for now. Keep an eye on your emails for the Pledge Manager invite. If you have any issues, feel free to shoot me a message. Here or [email protected]
Next update will be in a few weeks once the digital files are ready.
Hello everyone, we hope your week is going well! We're just dropping a quick update on the following:
1. The BackerKit Pledge Manager is under review, so look for more info on that this week as we get ready to send out surveys.
2. The art and writing have been completed and are all installed in the layout file. Look for a preview version of the digital files some time in the next two weeks.
3. We're ordering a sample of the card deck next week so we will have some cool pictures to share with you all as to what the final product will look like.
Okay, thanks for reading, and cheers until next time!
I understand there is some sort of Discord Server where everybody else is getting updates and information.
I could not find anything in the Backerkit Campaign that suggested that is how we would get information.
Can we get a bumped link or perhaps some cross pollination of information?
The holidays are over, and it’s time to jump back into action with some updates on what’s been happening during the Christmas break. I hope you all got a chance to rest, spend time with loved ones, and enjoy some RPG sessions or gifts! 😊
🚛 Vehicle Art 🚛
I’ve been hard at work finishing the vehicle illustrations. Only two (and half - you can see the unfinished mech down there :D ) pieces remain, and I’m on track to complete them by this weekend. After that, I’ll let the artwork sit for a week or two, then return for final polish - adding extra details, adjusting colors, and fixing any mistakes. Before that, I’ll go over the text again and give each vehicle Mothership stats. With that, this part of the Stretch Goal will be complete, and I’ll move on to layout of it.
📚 Text Editing 📚
The text is currently with MeatCastle Gameware for editing, and progress is going great as always with him (I had a pleasure to work with him in the past and he always delivered fast and great). Once it comes back, I’ll start integrating it into my layout template, bringing the zine to life.
🎨 Other Art 🎨
I’ve also commissioned additional color art pieces. These include new pieces from the cover artist and a other from different artist.
One draft I wanted to share with you is the view of Bonnacio Moon with the mercenary invasion fleet in orbit. This art will be used on a spread, providing information about Bonnacio’s location, gravity, atmosphere, and other planetary details.
Also, notice the planet in the background? That’s from another project I’ve been jotting down notes for - working title: “Gorilla Dragon Hunt”. 😁
And the asteroid belt surrounding the planet is the setting for three other ideas I’ve worked on in the past. My goofy work titles are: “Ice Station Tower Defense”, “Exploration of an Alien Morphing Ship”, “Military Corvette Skin-Imps Tomb”.
So, if you like in the future what I’ve done with Operation Golden Cut, there’s a whole sector of adventures waiting to be developed. Maybe we’ll make them a reality in the future! 😉
Cross-Collab Reward Poll 🤝
Shortly after this update, I’ll post a poll with three options for a bonus pamphlet. This is a reward for backers who also supported “Iron Hive”, my cross-collaboration partner during the campaign.
Here’s a quick overview of the options you’ll be voting from:
1️⃣ Wonders of the Void – A gritty space dock pub and lodging that doubles as a secret recruitment center for the mercenary company CLF - mercs in charge of an attack in Golden Cut.
2️⃣ Lost in Mines – A faction of street kids who’ve lost their parents to mining accidents, now surviving with retrofitted mining equipment. Some of the parents of the childs were took away by Lás Medulas to work on Bonnacio.
3️⃣ Porcelain Centipede Church – A dungeon featuring a sect worshipping a cosmic Goddess from behind the Black Hole, one of Her holy places are located in Golden Cut square-crawl.
I’ll provide more details in the poll update in the comments section. You’ll have two weeks to vote, and once the results are in, I’ll get started on creating the idea with most votes. Again, I have notes for all of them, so I dont expect too much hurdle in making the chosen one a reality.
Thank you again for all your support and trust! I’m excited to keep you updated as we move toward bringing this project to life. Stay tuned for more progress reports and updates!
Happy holidays everyone! This is our first ever update! ♥
Moving hell is over
First and foremost: I (abrah) finally moved, that whole process was a nightmare and I'm so glad I finally found a place, for the past 2 weeks I've been unpacking, painting, fixing, setting up stuff, so if you thought I was resting from the campaign, let me tell you something: I don't know how to stay still, so no, just this weekend I finally took some time to sit down and do something fun for myself (painting minis) (@_wicked_oni_art on ig if you're curious).
A new hell is upon us
Why can't we just have money and transfer it around without issues? WHY!? Funds rolled in this past Wednesday, we are using Wise to get the money from Stripe, and we were hoping to just wire transfer it to Colombia, however, Wire Transfers using Wise balance are turned off for Colombia! How fun, so we contacted support to better understand the situation, we may need to open another bank account to transfer there and then back to us, what a mess.
What does this do to our current timeline? Nothing. Well yeah we can't pay the artists their cut just yet, but we'll figure it out, at least we have the money somewhere, even if it feels like it's inside a crystal box and we can just admire it and not touch it or use it, luckily big boy production money is not needed immediately so we can make do right now.
Pledge Manager
This is the current thing we are setting up, we were talking with BK and looking into the "Charge Shipping Later" option, since we want to give you an accurate price and not just an estimate on that, BK already replied and we will be going through that setup and send them as soon as we can! There's some info we need from some of you (names from HiveCorp Industries Representatives and general contact info from Iron Hive Meisters) so it's important to us that these go out asap!
When to expect the early access PDF?
As stated on the campaign story, the PDF should be going out "Early Q1", we are aiming for somewhere between the last week of Jan to the first of Feb. By then we will have figured out the surveys.
PREORDERS ARE UP!
Some of you already figured that out, but if you missed the campaign, there's still chance to get it! Just go to the campaign itself and click on this, it'll take you to the Pre-Order Store!
NEWSLETTER!
I (abrah) haven't had time to set this up properly (I actually ended up doing a lot of that setup while writing this) but I already have some content planned for the newsletter, Encounters with the unknown, reports for new horrors, little short stories to use as a seeds for you to include new fun stuff for your players! Heavily inspired in the way Unconfirmed Contact Reports is presented.
For the time being, you can subscribe to it right now! There are no plans on spamming anyone with 5 posts per week, or making super long posts (yet), my goal is to have something you can open and read right away without feeling you have to sit down and make time to read. Encounters with the unknown will most likely be a future content so take this opportunity to get an early look at what the horrors will be!
