All products connected to Constant Downpour Remastered, a retro sci-fi psychological thriller inspired by Ray Bradbury’s “The Long Rain”. Built for Mothership 1E.
Including the Original Soundtrack CD by Blake Suarez, Patches, Supplemental Zines, and more.
*Preorders ship estimated May 2023
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Constant Downpour is in Production!!
11 months ago
– Fri, May 26, 2023 at 11:07:42 AM
Holy hell…that was much more difficult to get right than I thought…
But, we are approved – finally!!
Delivery Update
Looking like July. The hardcovers will be finished printing June 2nd, but freight from Latvia takes about 4 weeks. The shipments from the printers are split between our UK/EU fulfillment partners, Peregrine Coast Press, and our US fulfillment partners, World of Game Design, so most of the world should be getting books shipped to them at similar times. One of the fulfillment partners will be sending stock to our Australian fulfillment partners, Long Tail Games – which unfortunately will take longer to arrive for Australian backers.
Overall, we’re stoked to get these out and happy everything is in motion and past the rock in the cogs.
We are infinitely thankful for your patience during this campaign. It's been our worst delays yet. We look forward to removing options for delays in the future by only crowdfunding finished books. Luckily, we have the experience with Livonia Press (our printer) now to not worry too much about printer approval in the future.
Thank you again for your support and trust. We’re excited to get you the most beautiful book we’ve ever made!!
Much love,
Marco
Shipping & Survey Updates April
about 1 year ago
– Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 08:08:34 AM
Delivery Update
I have to share the unfortunate news that we are delayed for delivery. We’ve had a lot of back and forth with our printer, who has been extremely helpful. The delay is due to growing pains on our end. Switching from our experience with Digital printing to offset printing has proven operations need to change on our end, mainly changing the software we use.
We have addressed most of the problems with the files…and I believe the version they have now will be approved or with a slight tweak move us into production.
That said, the new update for fulfillment is we're looking at the first half of June.
Printers will have a 5-6 week turnaround including shipment to our fulfillment partners. From there we can assume a few weeks for the beginning of fulfillment to backers.
I apologize for the delays. We pushed back the update to make sure we received as much information from our printer as possible and have the best estimate to share with you.
As always we’ll keep you updated if anything changes.
BackerKit Surveys
We’re locking surveys today and charging cards next week.
Sneak Peaks!!
Yucatan Tech Co Retro Catalog 1 & 2, plus Stims From The Dark Web. Retro Catalog 2 and Stims From The Dark Web were stretch goals and free with each CDR purchase!!
Hex Map for Constant Downpour Remasted. Unmarked version.
Surveys Are Going Out!
about 1 year ago
– Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 09:44:08 AM
Hi, Family!
We're excited that we've been approved by Backerkit to send surveys! They always catch one or two things for us which helps us ensure everything goes smoothly.
A few minutes ago the Smoke Test was sent to 5% of backers at each level, and tomorrow the rest of everyone will receive their surveys if everything goes well.
Be on the lookout for these surveys from BackerKit! I'm excited to see everyone's orders finalized.
I appreciate your patience with everything!
Publishing Snag
As we went to send files to our original publisher two Fridays ago, the final pricing ended up ballooning for one reason or another and we decided to switch publishers. This is causing a delay, but as of now, we are still looking at fitting fulfillment inside of April, although during the later half. We will keep everyone updated as we receive more information.
Till next time! Much love,
Marco
Jan.2023 Advancement Report
over 1 year ago
– Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 01:02:39 PM
Good afternoon, Family! We’re excited to share the Constant Downpour Remastered advancements we’ve made in the month the campaign has been over.
The bad news: We lost three weeks of work from the flu devastating the family.
The good news: We’re still on track!! Here’s where everything is at:
Writing: 100%
Editing: 40%
Art: 70%
Tuesday Knight Licensing Approval: 50%
Layout Style Guide: 100%
Layout: 20%
Rough Dates of Completion:
Editing, Art, and Layout should be done and ready to send the finalized PDF to Tuesday Knight Games for licensing approval by January 20th!!
Progress on Layout. New Bunker illustration style.
More layout progress!!
We have a healthy amount of time set aside for approval since CDR turned out to be 20k+ words!! So we are still planning on printing in the second half of February.
8-Page zines, Retro Scifi Weapons Catalog #1 & #2, and Stims From the Dark Web should be finished around Feb.10th.
2023 Q1 + Q2 SpicyTuna Projects
A Butterfly Dies is a zine for Primal Quest inspired by Mexican Myth and the Mexican Muralist Movement. Launching with ZiMo / Zinequest on Feb.1st. You can sign up for the prelaunch here
We’ve been cultivating A Butterfly Dies for about a year and the weird stone and sorcery with infused sci-fi setting of Primal Quest really brought it out of incubation and the ~20pg zine is looking to be ready to print by the end of February. We’re excited to share more!! Here's a sneak peek of the cover WIP.
Outsourced is a Mothership 1E zine and extension of the Constant Downpour part of the Tunaverse.
The zine details Luko Fin Corp who was (could be) responsible for the crew ending up in Venus 3 from Constant Downpour. The zine features 3 deadly planets, a large mercenary outsourcing corporation, and a bunker escape adventure written by Christian Sorrell (Bloodfields at Blackstar Station).
Eric Hill is on layout, Walt Wood is on Editing, and Evangeline Gallagher is on illustration.
Coming late April/Early May. Project 60% done.
That's all for now!! Much love and thank you again for the support.
Downpour Engaged!!
over 1 year ago
– Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 06:59:41 PM
We are damn grateful for all of you!! Thank you for believing in us to provide an awesome book! It feels incredible to close out the campaign this much further than expected. Now that it’s done, we’ll be head down making sure we make this book as great as we can.
A few notes on what to expect.
Timeline + Pledge Manager
We’re feeling pretty confident about our timeline. The last update has all of the progress we’ve made with the book, and we’re looking forward to being able to focus on writing, editing, art, and layout for the rest of the month.
Here’s the timeline from the campaign: JAN - Backerkit surveys + Pre-order store launched. Surveys collect shipping and allow backers to upgrade their pledge or purchase add-ons. Editing and Layout finished.
FEB - Books and all other items are ordered
APRIL - Fulfillment begins.
Please see the Shipping & Fulfillment section on the campaign page for any questions about the subjects. If you have further inquiries, feel free to drop a line at [email protected]
Rate of Contact
We plan on doing updates every 4-6 weeks and a few squeezed in at the end when shipments are sent to fulfillment partners and when the majority of people can expect to start looking out for their packages.
Much love, Family!! Thank you again. It means the world to be able to make these books and for people to believe in them enough to buy them. We can’t wait to flashflood your tables.
