Woooooooo! Okay, so we promised an update in July and here it is!

EVERYTHING is at the manufacturers!!!!

This deserves a celebratory Winged Lobster!

Thank you all for your support as we went all hands on deck for the final edits and reviews of all four books. We even had our programmer going over all of the books looking for missing punctuation and issues with the documents (programmers can be great editors!). We are happy to say that we wrapped up work and now all our files are at the printer and have started the manufacturing process.

We are also excited to let you know that the covers of the Teatime Adventures Core Rulebook, Tales from Oakenbend, and Tea Pets books have been upgraded to now come with gold debossing. So smooth! And the Teatime Crafts & Journals books now has perforation on each page to make it even more “rippable” when you use it for crafts and journaling in your Teatime Adventures and Tea Pets games!

What about all of the other bits and bobs, like the new “venti-sized” D20 tea dice and the Rose Possum plush? Those are also with their manufacturers and are being worked on as I write this! And for our 21 wonderful Snowbright Star backers, we can’t wait to get that extremely exclusive Art & Lore of the Verdant Isles hand-signed collector’s book over to you, which was only available through this campaign. Can you believe there actually used to be humans in the Verdant Isles?! Here’s a peek at some of the earliest WIP sketches from the world of Teatime Adventures, many of which will be included in the Art & Lore book.

The last item that will go into production will be the tea blends. That waits until the last step to ensure it is fresh and tasty when our backers receive their orders in the mail. 

What’s the print book timeline? Our ocean freight logistics show that there is a possibility that we may have everything in our warehouse by Halloween, but ocean travel can be fickle so we are anticipating a November fulfillment period for printed books and boxes. We will keep you all updated as we hear more from our manufacturing and shipping partners. Our goal is to get you all playing Tea Pets as soon as we can!

What about digital fulfillment? We have just one more step for the PDF versions of each of the four books. Every book at Snowbright goes through a rigorous accessibility checking process for screen readers and other features. Those checks should be wrapping up in the next few weeks, so we will have PDF versions out to backers in line with the original timeline of August!

We will continue to pop in with updates every so often when we get news from our manufacturers and will share progress pics as we get them. As always, feel free to email us any time with questions or reach out via our fan Discord.

 

Coming to Gen Con? Be sure to stop by our booth (#2134) and give our prototype Rose Possum plush a pat on the head. They’ll have quite a few cousins here pretty soon!

Stay Cozy!

Snowbright