March Update
about 2 years ago
– Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 12:13:01 AM
I know that many have been wanting an update, and we do understand, but for now, we have not been able to make much progress on our current projects. The last thing we want to do is an update for no reason or with only bad news. Yet, we are still slowly building and recovering from the last 2 years.
See the last update for a detailed account of the impact and the sudden pause. That update covers:
- What had been going on
- Funding
- A Plan for Moving Forward
As many know the DDG team has become one, and all the writing, editing, design, and everything else has slowed to a trickle. In addition to being the only person doing everything, Hobie also started a full-time job, which soaks up most of his time. We are getting things done, but it’s slow going at best. Regarding printing and fulfillment, we are still at a pause, and we will be focusing on finishing content for digital fulfillment. We are still between shop locations after moving from Texas to Colorado, and hope to change that soon.
We have a few ideas to help the projects:
- Sell off equipment & funnel funds to fulfillment
- Launch a small-scale digital project with a quick fulfillment
- Find an investor for DDG and our content
- Sell the rights to some of our existing content, and use funds for fulfillment
- Scrape and save and fulfill as we can
- Sell all our content and rights, and use funds for refunds
No great option, but that is where we find ourselves, and we are really hoping that we can recoup some funds to begin fulfilling, but until we do, we are not projecting any progress to fulfillment until Fall/Winter 2022. That is if we can not sell equipment, or raise funds in another manner. I know this will upset quite a few people, but we are still here and while we are only one, we still want to create and world build for you.
Our Current Work
While our time to create, write, and format it all together for you has been cut in ½ or ¾, we have made slow progress.
Our current workings and content creation that we are working on/plan on working on next is as follows:
- Finalize edits/changes for the Seven of Seven: Pantheon of the Chain and send final pdfs and print codes.
- Finalize the Tinkerer’s Tome document for review & proofreading, and once edits are made send final pdfs and print codes.
- Wrap of writing for the Legendary Diception Collection, and put the final file together for print & PDF. A low-cost & easy fulfillment project for possible project launch.
- Begin layout & design for Terrific Terrains & Terrible Travels, while editing is being done for Magnificent Mounts & Where They Go.
- Complete fantasy world-building outlines that layout writing templates, content that should be included, and category explanations to prompt & explain the section.
- Once editing is complete finalize and complete Magnificent Mounts & Where They Go.
It is a decent plan, and work that makes progress towards a future final fulfillment date. To all of you that have been involved with Deep Dungeon Games and our projects, we truly thank you! I know progress and information have been slow, and we apologize. It is so defeating to write an update that makes little progress, and it truly is hard to feel like a failure doing something that you absolutely love. You all have been so incredible and supportive throughout the last 7 to 8 years, and we are not giving up!
As we outlined above, we plan on focusing on completing edits, reviews, designing, and other work for the files for our current projects. This will be done, of course, starting with the oldest, then chronologically addressing each one, with a general plan as above. We are going to work on combing through the plethora of comments/messages. I know that response is limited, but we will get to them one at a time, and with some luck, we will have some good luck soon!
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Updates & Delays
over 2 years ago
– Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 05:42:22 PM
First off, from all those involved with Deep Dungeon Games and its projects, we would like to apologize for the lack of information and updates.
A major update can be found in the previous update of the projects and a decent overall look of what has been going on….
What has been going on?
So as of August 2021, the driving force and figure behind the DDG projects was forced to take up a position. This was due to the impact of covid to the business and a major reduction in funds due to conventions and other events ending abruptly. A lot of this is detailed in the previous update, and for those who know, Hobie Hill is a disabled veteran. Therefore, he relied upon the healthcare the VA supplied, and with the move to Colorado, he was forced to change facilities and doctors. This might not seem like a major deal, but the healthcare provider decided to change the medications that had allowed him to function perfectly.
This change in medication allowed him to fall into depression and despair, and spent 4 months trying different medications due to these providers opinions of medications and healthcare. This lack of desire after spending years as a high functioning person, left him with little or no interest in doing things. Friends and family were not spoken to, emails built up, and he was unable to bring himself out of this slump. There were other things that added to this, one of which was the mass of work needing to be done for the various projects. Normally he would have been able to get some amount of work done, but all his energy was spent back at a more standard job and employment.
After the latest medication change, he found himself constantly sick and decided that these medications were doing more harm than good. It took a couple of weeks for the medication to leave his system, and once he found himself back in some semblance of normalcy. He was able to seek a private healthcare provider through his insurance acquired from his employer, and get back on medications that for years had worked for him.
Funding
Now that he is back and able to find the energy to work a full-time job and get back into the needs of DDG, we need to address the funding issues. Hobie Hill was the first and only full-time employee that DDG had, and for a couple of years before Covid. His salary was paid by 25 to 35 conventions and events that DDG would have a booth at. Well naturally those went away instantly starting around March 2020, and for a year and a half his lively hood and other business expenses where completely reliant on project funds. So, it was not an issue of one project funding another, but rather the sudden lack of outside revenues. As he was a one-man army, the burden of finding other areas of revenue fell on him, but there was only so much that he could do. The plan currently is to stabilize and downsize by selling equipment and becoming an operation that focuses on fulfilment of projects and dedicating funds to fulfill them. This will be done through the personal salary of Hobie, as well as a set of low-cost projects where additional funds will go to fulfilment.
Moving Forward
The primary focus will go to completing current projects, starting with the oldest, then chronologically addressing each one. The next couple of days, we will be concentrating on addressing comments, messages, emails, and other concerns. Once fulfillment begins for a particular project we will update and let everyone know. Never hesitate to send us a message or comment, but please give us a week or so to get to all the various things that we need to address across the projects and platforms.
Deep Dungeon Games
WE ARE BACK!
over 2 years ago
– Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 12:43:57 AM
This post is for backers only. Please visit Kickstarter.com and log in to read.
Quick Update
over 2 years ago
– Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 12:38:35 AM
Hey everyone,
Just wanted to send a super quick update on behalf of Hobie.
Things are traveling with the books (the old ‘no news is good news’), if just a bit slow unfortunately. Hobie is finalizing an interstate move and its understandably caused some slight delays.
The Voyages books are currently still going through the editing/design phase. I can’t give an exact date for finishing atm but each week we are making progress which is good.
For the Mineralogy Manual we are still at the printing stage, nothings been shipped just yet.
Thanks for the patience, its been a crazy 12 months.
Take care and hopefully we can get something in your hands soon.
Cheers,
Daniel.
Final PDF & Test Print Ordered
almost 3 years ago
– Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 12:08:28 AM
Hello everyone!
I hope all is well with everyone, we are currently now waiting on the test print for the final of the book! Also, the digital version is available via download in your backerkit. We ended up only cutting the battlemaps from the book, but we will be sending a PDF file of the maps to everyone. There was really no use for the battlemaps for the book, other than seeing them in the book. Other than that the content is all there for you all to see and admire! Let us know what you think!
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