March Update
about 2 years ago
– Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 10:59:12 PM
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!
Deep Dungeon Games
Updates & Delays
over 2 years ago
– Wed, Dec 08, 2021 at 08:05:31 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
– Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 02:57:23 AM
This post is for backers only. Please visit Kickstarter.com and log in to read.
Address Updates - Last Call
almost 3 years ago
– Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 07:42:05 PM
Hello everyone,
I have gotten all the address changes that have been sent to me via messages and wanted to do the last call for any before sending out the main covers for the majority of backers. Send me a message on the Kickstarter messenger, and I will go through them one by one and ensure that the book is sent to the right location, and also mark it shipped in backerkit.
I am hopefully getting an update on the plushes today, and they should be nearing completion. Lastly, I am in process of building dice towers, and shipping boxes for those who received the swag packages. I will begin shipping the main books slowly today and next week. So, please get any updated addresses to me asap!
Shipping to begin!
almost 3 years ago
– Thu, May 06, 2021 at 03:18:01 AM
I know some have been asking for shipping updates, but I have been having some issues with backerkit not importing the covers correctly. Anyways I am working around that by building filters and such. I will be sending those rewards that are the quickest to send out first via print on demand. I just need to figure out how to get the backerkit to export the backers that I am wanting so that I can import it very quickly. You will be receiving an email when your book has been sent to the printers, the backers with multiple items will be handled in-house. As soon as I get the export files done, I will begin with those.
So watch your emails for order confirmation!
Until then please check out one of our writer's projects that they just launched!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dansdungeons/terrors-treasures-tyrants-and-towns?ref=24ski4
