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Je suis toujours un peu partagé avec mon pledge sur ce jeu, j’ai du mal à visualiser ce que je vais recevoir l’année prochaine, mais en tout cas y’a du matos avec leur 1000 cartes !
Faudrait un classeur ! (private joke pour ceux qui suivent ISS Vanguard.)
Hello hello everyone! This is a nice big juicey update with a lot of progress updates! Here’s a quick overview of what we will cover today:
- Late Pledges & Fulfillment
- Card sizes & quantities
- A Few Gameplay Changes
- World Exploration Development
- Development & Production Timeline
- A look at Some Miniatures
Late Pledges & Fulfillment
We are nearing the end of Stars of Akarios late-pledges! IF YOU HAVE NOT filled out your Gamefound pledge, now is the time to do so! This is where you confirm your shipping address, add-ons and pay for shipping. Gamefound link here.
A few notes:
- Late pledges close at the end of December
- You can still update your shipping information after the late-pledge closes via GameFound until we ship the game (you will receive an email about locking in your address).
We have recently made a change and have signed on with D6 fulfillment services to coordinate fulfillment of Stars of Akarios. We have appreciated their ability to quickly problem solve and their customer support. Really, we cannot speak more highly of them!
This means a few things:
- Indonesia is now included in the Asia pricing (not rest of world anymore)
- VFI is our Asia shipping partner
- For all of the EU/UK backers, OOMM Games is covering your VAT fees. We made a commitment to you and will fulfill it!
Card Sizes & Quantities (1013!!!)
A few of you have been eager to pre-purchase sleeves for Akarios! Let me share with with you the final card sizes and quantities.
44mm x 68mm - (410)
- 40 Pilot Ability Cards
- 30 Ship Ability Cards
- 220 Modifier Cards
- 20 Trauma Cards
- 55 Tech Cards
- 25 Sparrow Ability Cards
- 20 Co-Pilot Cards
57mm x 89mm (332)
- 140 Enemy Combat Cards
- 42 Enemy Cards
- 40 Event Cards
- 55 Engine Cards
- 55 Weapon Cards
80mm x 80mm (216)
- 216 World Exploration Cards
70mm x 120mm (55)
- 52 Space Exploration Cards
Gameplay Changes
As we are nearing the finish line of producing content (stay tuned for the timeline, there is still a decent amount of work for us to do!) we have made a few tweaks to some of the content.
First, we are no longer including item cards in Stars of Akarios. Originally, we were going to include 30 item cards to supplement the World Exploration aspect of the game. But, after testing, we realized that in order to provide meaningful interaction with the item cards we would need to have SIGNIFICANTLY more. It didn’t really make sense to include just a few throughout your journey. This doesn’t effect the quality or significance of World Exploration and the gameplay works great without them. Maybe this area will need to be explored more in a future expansion? Who knows 
Secondly, we are including co-pilot cards (20) in the core box. These represent unique characters who join your crew aboard The Sparrow and provide some pretty neat abilities throughout the game.
Game development is an ever-evolving journey and thank you all for being on this journey with us!
World Exploration Development
World Exploration continues to be painted and written… And I am pretty excited to give you a sneak peak of Jerarch - the home planet of the Yurs people.
(This is a fraction of the Jerarch map!)
Development and Production Timeline
A couple of KEY milestones have been reached in the Stars of Akarios development, but first, let me give you the big picture. We want ALL Akarios assets finished by Christmas 2020 (this means ALL artwork, writing, scenario design, graphic design… everything). We will then spend a few months making sure everything fits together nicely, polishing the rulebook and scenario books before going to print. The timeline will look like this:
- December 7th - Production partner begins the 3d mould process. This is by far the most time consuming process of production.
- December 25th - All artwork & gameplay assets completed.
- December - Continued testing
- January - Testing, editing, testing, editing, testing, editing.
- January - Proofing 3d Samples
- February - Rulebook available for public proof
- February - Final run-throughs of Stars of Akarios. Crunch-month.
- February - Begin language translations
- February - Finalize Graphic Design
- March - Files to printer
- June/July - Production complete
- August - Shipping to your Doorstep!
Posted by Brendan McCaskell
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