So here’s the Monday Meeting Notes on Tuesday- we actually had the Meeting yesterday, but as I was writing this yesterday I had both my laptop and my Mac crap out. Boom. Scary moment- I thought it was my super anti-electronics power coming back. I’ve got the laptop up and working for now, and the Apple Store just called to say that the “firmware was fixed”. Good to know.
As I cast my mind back to yesterday, I seem to recall that Eddy and I discussed the art and project approvals that should be coming from CCP this week, as well as confirming a few notes from last week’s Approval meeting. All hush-hush, but you’ll be seeing the results in the next few weeks starting with the Onyx Path 10-Sided Dice Pool Dice-Roller App that we’ve been working on. This is a very basic App, but one we can build from. First changes would be skins for the various game-lines. More involved would be upgrading the functionality. We’re starting small and then building, rather than promising the moon and falling short. We’re still testing this and getting set up with the Apple store (but not the one where my Mac is sitting fixed) and we hope to go live very soon.
We also discussed “Elementary”, which as readers of this blog know all too well, was the subject of much discussion last week. This week, Eddy agrees with me: decent procedural, not much real Holmes.
Eddy also says he discovered an unknown bit of creative zip that allowed him to finish his piece of fiction for the Strix Chronicle Fiction Anthology. Looking forward to reading a Noir take on the setting. My creative zip is more along the lines of getting caught up on a great many things- I’m expecting to put up a post on the revised WW Schedule over on the Onyx Path website www.theonyxpath.com later in the week. Check it out.
As for project updates, I’m cutting and pasting from last week (with a few added notes), which is not all that bad as we’re in the week I expect to resolve these into the next stage of their development:
– Silent Knife (VtR) and Left Handed Path (nMtA) are in review at CCP. Should be able to be uploaded to DTRPG for PoD approval this week if there aren’t major requested changes.
– Conventionbook: NWO (cMtA) is in layout- some art is getting tweaked.
– The God Machine Chronicle Fiction Anthology (nWoD) is in layout.
– God Machine Chronicle (nWoD) and Strix Chronicle Fiction Anthology (VtR) are getting written.
– Mummy the Cursed is being re-laid out- half of the book is finished rough layout. Drawing up plans for the MtC Kickstarter and will be talking with CA Suleiman later in the week.
– Talking to the EX3 guys all this week. Sig character sketches need to magically get scanned in to my computer so I can share them with the team. Taking a hard look at the schedule.
– Justin continues his development work on V20 Hunters Hunted 2, but has sent me some notes for art. And more notes.
– Last lingering copies and details of rewards for the Deluxe V20 Companion are being taken care of.
– Sent back printer proofs for Deluxe V20 Children of the Revolution, and made correction on PoD proofs. So need PoD hardcopy new proof, and word from printer on CotR status.
– Obviously, the big news has been the amazing success of the Deluxe Werewolf 20th Anniversary Edition Kickstarter– wow! We have not only hit the goal but so far you guys have contributed so that we have blown past 6 Stretch Goals- including the W20 Screen unlock, two upgrades to Deluxe W20 itself, and two new W20 novels being written by Bill Bridges and Mike Lee respectively, and tearing towards unlocking a W20 fiction anthology featuring brand new WtA stories by such awesome writers as Bill, Ethan Skemp, and Stew Wilson. Tell your friends this thing is happening- and how!
– A couple of folks have asked about the Restoration Edition of Book of Nod. This amazingly page-by-page reconstructed edition (there were no original electronic files) will be available from DTRPG as soon as they finish a couple more internal proofing tests- they really want to make sure this version is as perfect as it was originally imagined almost two decades ago. So strangely enough, I’m not the hold-up here- but I stand with DTRPG’s crew in their desire to give you the highest quality and not to rush the book out.
Reason to Drink: It’s mid-October and the leaves are falling here signifying that the world as we know it is dying for another year… if you’re somewhere where Fall is not falling, then just have a drink already.
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13 responses to “My Bytes Bit”
And I’m sure Book of Nod Restoration Edition is going to kick ass.
How about restoring the The Erciyes Fragments, next year? DriveThruRPG’s file (considering its preview) doesn’t really look like some other original electronic pieces (or they just forgot to update the preview?).
I like the idea of a d10-rolling app from OPP, but do yourself a favour and think quickly of doing it for Android, as this is by far the bigger market – http://abuggedlife.com/2012/08/10/android-now-4x-bigger-than-ios-symbian-and-blackberry-each-at-4-market-share/
For Android we’ve got an App already
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.autarkis.nwodice&hl=de
Sad news on the tech. Maybe there’s a gremlin going around… first Mummy lay-out lost, now your comp? Eech. At least you’re not having to do this with cut-and-paste and rubylith!
Super-looking forward to the new art peeks for W20 and concept visuals for the Heavy Metal version. Just 2.5 weeks left until it’s over. Can you believe it’s only been a week and a half so far? Or that there’s only 2.5 weeks left? Crazy!
Blown away by the Werewolf fans for the Kickstart. Assuming the Mage20 goes through. I think they set a challenge for fan support. Seeing how much clamor there has been for M20 it’ll be interesting to see in the far future how it pans out. A lot of thank you’s as well from an annoying Mummy fan. I know there’s been unfortunate delays so I appreciate all the hard work.
Did the title of Mummy change from “Mummy: the Curse” to “Mummy: the Cursed”, by the way?
Any word on the Trinity Continuum stuff?
*Is hopeful*
It’s very early in the process. There probably won’t be any word for months.
😀
That’s perfectly fine, I’m just glad to hear that it hasn’t been forgotten or something, as it hadn’t been mentioned in quite a while. Thanks!
Do the above comments regarding Silent Knife and Left Handed Path mean that the books will be available this week? Sorry if this should be obvious, but I’m not sure how the process works for PoD approval versus PDF availability. Looking forward to pretty much everything. Thanks for the great updates.
When the files are uploaded for PoD approval, that means they need to request print copies from their printer and see how it looks first. For printing and shipping it’ll be another week or two. So no, they likely won’t be available until late October or early November.
So we might be getting Silent Knife and Left Handed Path on Halloween. How very appropriate.
Holy smokes, there’s almost too much to keep up with. 😛
And I’ve a friend who has your same anti-electronics powers. I keep him far away from my gadgets and computer. 😛 My preciouses!