Time For Sacrifice: April Update
over 4 years ago
– Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 11:25:50 PM
So much has changed in the last month. The whole country has gone into lockdown. New Comet Games is no different. We are continuing to work but things have definitely slowed down. What does that mean for our release date? We do expect to be delayed, but not by more than a couple months.
Here is our current Status:
- Introduction: 100% complete
- Keeper's Secret Intro: 40% complete
- Adventure 1: An Egg out of Time: 99% Complete - Final Edit phase, need minor changes.
- Adventure 2: Pyramid Scheme: 99% Complete - In Final Edit phase
- Adventure 3: Doorway of the Gods: 95% - Ready for Final Edit
- Adventure 4: The 13th Baktun: 95% - Ready for Final Edit
- Adventure 5: Space Between Time: 100% - Final Edit phase complete
- Primary Art Work: 100% Complete - 13 of 13 pieces complete
- Secondary Art: 95% Complete - Final piece in Progress
- Cartography: 70% Complete - Maps in progress
- Realistic Handouts: 80% Complete - Identified and creating handout packets
- Layout: 10% - Layouts started.
- Printer: Contract signed.
All the adventures have now been completed and I have run 4 of the 5. We are making final tweaks as a result of the play-tests and layouts have begun. We are extremely excited at the way the adventures are running as all the players are having a great time.
We are making 1 change, instead of doing the interior cover pages, we are going to do a ribbon bookmark instead. We think this will be more useful and appreciated.
If we continue we expect to have the final layout completed in early to mid-May. Ready for final reviews and Chaosium approvals. Then onto printing.
We also wanted to let you know our Ultimate Dinosaur Fighting Kickstarter has been delayed until the lockdown is complete. So if you have been looking for it, you have not missed it.
Looking back through some of the updates we haven't posted all the pictures in the book yet, so here is another we hope you enjoy. Until next time, Ben
Time For Sacrifice
almost 5 years ago
– Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 08:56:36 AM
It is March already. We are continuing to move along, but not as fast as I'd like. I feel we are a bit behind schedule but we are still moving along at a good pace.
Here is the latest status:
- Introduction: 100% complete
- Adventure 1: An Egg out of Time: 100% Complete - Final Edit phase complete
- Adventure 2: Pyramid Scheme: 99% Complete - In Final Edit phase
- Adventure 3: Doorway of the Gods: 70% - Writing in Progress
- Adventure 4: The 13th Baktun: 90% - In first edit phase
- Adventure 5: Space Between Time: 100% - Final Edit phase complete
- Primary Art Work: 100% Complete - 13 of 13 pieces complete
- Secondary Art: 70% Complete - Work in Progress
- Cartography: 50% Complete - Maps in progress
- Realistic Handouts: 20% Complete - Identified and creating handout packets
- Layout: 0% - Not yet started
We ran Space Between Time at OwlCon and everyone had a fantastic time! In the end the 6 investigators all lived, though 2 were almost dead and 1/2 were insane and 1 had dropped to 0 sanity. Great fun.
This month we will be at Gary Con running Pyramid Scheme and The 13th Baktun. We will also have a booth there, so come by and say hi.
Finally, later this month New Comet Games is launching a new Kickstarter, Ultimate Dinosaur Fighting. We want to assure you this will not slow down the delivery of Time for Sacrifice in any way. But if this is something you think you would like, please check it out.
We are planning to finish up the last of the writing, most of the editing, art and maps and begin layouts by the beginning of April.
Until next month. Happy Gaming!
Time for Sacrifice: February Update
almost 5 years ago
– Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 01:18:40 AM
It's February already, and things are moving smoothly. We have our Cartographer, Bryan, back working on the project and our 2nd artist, Elizabeth working on the player handouts. One author, Brian, is done with his adventure, and the 2nd Jonathan is working steadily on his making progress. We have scheduled the time for the printing press, we will be using Walsworth printing for this book as we did with our 1st two CoC books. We expect to still deliver on time.
Here is the latest status:
- Introduction: 100% complete
- Adventure 1: An Egg out of Time: 99% Complete - Final Edit phase complete
- Adventure 2: Pyramid Scheme: 90% Complete - Ready for Final Edit phase
- Adventure 3: Doorway of the Gods: 40% - Writing in Progress
- Adventure 4: The 13th Baktun: 40% - Writing in Progress
- Adventure 5: Space Between Time: 90% - In Final Edit Phase
- Primary Art Work: 100% Complete - 13 of 13 pieces complete
- Secondary Art: 20% Complete - 1st piece complete, working on e2nd.
- Cartography: 10% Complete - Maps in progress
- Realistic Handouts: 10% Complete - Identified and creating handout packets
- Layout: 0% - Not yet started
As you can see, we have completed a lot of work, but we still have so much more to do. We are still expecting to be completed on time for delivery. We will keep you updated on our progress every month, and we expect to be much further along come March and be starting with layouts then.
We will be running some of these scenarios at different conventions leading up to the books release this year.
- Owl Con - Houston - Feb - Running Space Between Time (sold out)
- Gary Con - Lake Geneva - Mar - Running Pyramid Scheme & The 13th Baktun
- Chubricabra Con - Austin - May - Running Egg out of Time
- North Texas RPG Con - Dallas - June - Running Doorway to the Gods
So look for my events, and get a pre-taste of the book. My sessions tend to fill up fast, so good luck. Even if you don't get into one of our games, please come see us at these conventions to say hello.
Before I go, a small sample of another of the art. This one for Pyramid Scheme:
Until next time,
Ben
Time for Sacrifice: January Update!!
almost 5 years ago
– Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 10:19:38 AM
We hope everyone had a Merry Christmas, New Year, holidays, and other celebrations, for the month of December. We here at New Comet Games have been extremely busy working on A Time for Sacrifice.
We did have a slight hiccup as our Cartographer we have worked with for the last 5-6 books, had to step away due to time constraints. We are currently looking for a new Cartographer. If you know someone, please have them contact us at [email protected]. We feel confident we will find a replacement in very short order.
Meanwhile, here is the latest status:
- Introduction: 95% complete
- Adventure 1: An Egg out of Time: 90% Complete - In Final Edit phase
- Adventure 2: Pyramid Scheme: 85% Complete - In 2nd Edit phase
- Adventure 3: Doorway of the Gods: 25% - Outline Complete - Writing in Progress
- Adventure 4: The 13th Baktun: 30% - Outline complete - Writing in Progress
- Adventure 5: Space Between Time: 10% - Outline Complete
- Primary Art Work: 80% Complete - 10 of 13 pieces complete, 11th in Progress
- Secondary Art: 5% Complete - Art to be produced being identified
- Cartography: 5% Complete - Maps to be drawn identified
- Realistic Handouts: 10% Complete - Identified and creating handout packets
- Layout: 0% - Not yet started
As you can see, we have completed a lot of work, but we still have so much more to do. We are still expecting to be completed on time for delivery. We will keep you updated on our progress every month, and we expect to be much further along come February.
We will be running some of these scenarios at different conventions leading up to the books release this year.
- Owl Con - Houston - Feb
- Gary Con - Lake Geneva - Mar
- Chubricabra Con - Austin - May
- North Texas RPG Con - Dallas - June
So look for my events, and get a pre-taste of the book. My sessions tend to fill up fast, so good luck. Even if you don't get into one of our games, please come see us at these conventions to say hello.
Until next time, we wanted to tease with one of the pieces our great artist is doing for the book. From the Adventure 'Space Between Time', I give you 'The Pool.' -- Ben
Time For Sacrifice: Campaign Complete!!
almost 5 years ago
– Fri, Jan 03, 2020 at 10:24:02 PM
Thank you all so much for your support and believing in us!! We are so excited about the end result and we came so close to the next stretch goal of the ribbon book mark, we are sure it will unlock in backerkit.
Now time to get to work and make this the best book we can.
Stay Sane Inside Insanity, Ben
