Nora Haynes
CREATOR
14 days ago

Project Update: The Last Leg of a Long Journey


Hey Everyone!! Nora Again!

Happy New Years!! I hope you'll all have a great 2025. 

Last February, we launched our campaign for Perfect Draw! and it did so much better then we ever could have dreamed. Admittedly this success made a few things difficult - we originally intended to use printing services and warehousing that just turned out to be impossible at this scale. We wanted to get people their core books printed shortly after the book and booster pack finished, but at this scale things got a good bit more complicated and we wanted to make absolutely sure people got the best product they could.

  • In May, we announced our collaboration with Japanime Games for a retail release of Perfect Draw! This was something we were in talks with for almost the whole time since we realized the project had gotten too big for us to handle alone, but we'd finally gotten everything sorted through at this point. 
  • In June, we released the core game on Itch.io to major success! We're still one of Itch.io's best selling TTRPGs ever - not quite breaking past things like Lancer, but still doing awfully well compared to what we had expected even with the success of the crowdfunding.
  • In July, we announced the exciting news that thanks to our collaboration, we were able to not only get a color cover created for the book, but also vastly improve the quality of both the hard and softcover versions of the game.
  • In August, we finally released the Booster Pack, the expansion containing all of the exclusive content unlocked from the crowdfunding campaign - we even included a few other cool ideas we wanted to add in but weren't technically "unlocked". I'm still deeply deeply proud of some of the design in this book and believe it's some of my personal best work. 
  • In November, we finally sorted out the production issues we were having with our printers and resolved the communication issues where they incorrectly assumed a size for the book that created some frustrating delays. Nonetheless, this meant we were finally getting proofs made and sent our way!

And now, just hitting January of the following year, we're finally in the last leg of things. In only a week or two, we're expecting the final proofs to reach our doorstep so we can approve them - and from there, books will start arriving in the shipping yard. This process can be its own confusing one (carriers can be difficult), but there's a golden lining on missing the holiday shipping season.


Last Chance to Finish Your Backer Survey

I wanted to take this chance to give one final reminder that this is your absolute last chance to finish your backer survey and change any details. If you've moved address, your card has failed to charge, or you never completed your survey at all - this is the last time that I can do anything to help even in extreme circumstances.

If you need to change your address, are having issues charging your card, or otherwise need assistance, please contact me directly at [email protected] and I'll do my best to help.

If you'd like to confirm whether your details are correct, you can check your survey here: https://perfect-draw.backerkit.com/


Try Despair Dilemma out now for FREE!!

Download the Free Demo Kit by Clicking the Image Here.

As the design portion of Perfect Draw! begun wrapping up, we began working on our next project - Despair Dilemma: A Death Game Mastermind TTRPG. This new TTRPG is designed to replicate the kinds of Death Game stories you see in DanganRonpa, Squid Game, or Zero Escape, with victims putting their lives on the line to win, argue, or scavenge their way to survival.

The crowdfunding campaign for Despair Dilemma will be launching this March alongside Backerkit's upcoming "Pocketopia" campaign. However, just like we did with Perfect Draw! we want to make sure everyone gets the chance to play the game early so they can decide if our project is something they could be interested in! To do this, we've released a completely free Quick-Play Demo Kit featuring the Locke Mansion Death Game in the same style as Perfect Draw!'s Rising Star Tournament.

You can download the demo kit right now and begin playing with friends by following the link here: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/double-summon-games/despair-dilemma-a-death-game-mastermind-ttrpg

We have a ton of extremely exciting news to announce about this game later as we get closer to Pocketopia. We're really excited to see the kinds of terrible despair-filled stories you create in our new game.

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That should be all for now, so thank you all so much for your time and may this year be better then the last in every way imaginable,

Nora Jean Haynes
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