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For those of you who don't get over to the
Mutant Epoch
blog, here is a copy of the latest post. The release date has
been bumped forward to sometime in December...
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2011
 The
third round of proofs are on their way to the Studio, the
content rich official web site all but done, the free content
PDFs loaded and the forum's being tweaked. This is it. The TME
Hub rules book will be available at Createspace, Amazon.com,
Drive Thru RPG, RPGnow as print books, as well as PDF versions
through your games now, and the previously mentioned outlets. We
will also order a limited quantity for the two game stores here
in
Kamloops,
as well as several to be mailed to reviewers and several
international customers who want signed copies direct from us.
We will be posting much more frequently once the launch has
happened.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 2011
We are edging very close to a firm, fixed release date, and are
just finishing off the last of the free online content, dealing
with our web design guys, setting up the password protected
Society of Excavators members area and forum... and getting
together some art for the many PDFs that users can download for
free.
Excited is no word for it.
A final proof copy was sent from Lulu.com last week. Just need
to give it a quick look through and assure ourselves that he
quality is good ad then as soon as the new site is up and
working, we will releases within days. It is looking like the
last week of January 2011 is the releases date.
The above image shows a mock up of the free adventure called The
Crevice, or at least the earliest online version of it as we
plan to update it with more art once we have a free week.
We have been working so hard that we haven't devoted much time
to advertising, twitter, blogs, art previews and such. while all
these pre-launch promotions are great and highly recommended by
marketing people, I'd rather be promoting once I have a product
to offer. There will be enough chance to arrange pre-launch hype
for other books, as we have several well along in the works
including The Mall
of Horrors and Pitford:
Gateway to the Ruins.
Of course, there is the monthly magazine. We don't have a set
date for when the first of those come out, and would like to get
the first three issues loaded and ready for the market before we
release the first issue of Excavator Monthly. The covers,
articles and much of the art is done for the magazine already,
we just need to assemble them and give them each a final edit.
Thanks to all of you who have been so patient,
Happy New Years!
Will
Creative Director
Outland Arts
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2010
Hi Anonymous, and you others who are
waiting so patiently!
The final edits got turned in and we have
about 60 more pages to go through and then it is good to go.
I'll order a test print copy via lulu.com to make sure the
conversion looks fine, and then make it available as both print
on demand and PDF versions at once. We'll get a shipment of hard
copies sent to the office and deliver these to the local game
shops and book stores, and commence the mail order for those in
Europe and elsewhere who have been waiting for their copy.
The only issue now, besides inserting the
final edits is working with our server host to get the Society
of Excavators password protected area of web site up, and the
phpBB forum inside the members area fully operational. All is
going according to plan but not to schedule. Getting the game on
the market before Christmas seems to be a objective that is
slipping away by the hour, and the Christmas party lat night and
my subsequent hang over today didn't accelerate my productivity.
Still, every hour I work, and press my hirelings and talented
henchmen to work, brings the release an hour closer.
Speaking of henchmen, I have a lot of
talented people helping me with this project, and The Mutant
Epoch could not have gotten to this stage without tons of
feedback, play tester advice, family support and sacrifice.
There have also been a lot of people online, including some of
my illustration client-rpg publishers, who have been very
gracious with advice, resource sharing and camaraderie. I'll be
thanking them properly in the book credits and on the website.
To close off before I settle down to
several hours of edit insertions, thanks to all of you who have
signed up to the Outland Arts Insider newsletter and TME inform
mailing list, this blog and wrote me email asking about the
game. Although Outland Arts hasn't started marketing this Post
Apocalyptic game, other than a few cryptic tweets, some banners
here and there and a teaser ad on
roleplayingtips.com,
we are still getting a lot of attention and it is a huge
motivator toward getting this done as soon as possible, without
sacrificing artwork, rules clarity, game balance, grammar,
spelling or other RPG book publishing challenges.
Thanks and Merry Christmas,
William McAusland
Creative Director,
Outland Arts.com
November 22 2010
Sheer force of will can fuel a person to
work insane hours, draw upon reserves of
enthusiasm, optimism and creativity,
summon self discipline beyond anything
he or she has known before, and get one
very, very close to realizing goals
which fall short by only a matter of
weeks or months. I’m talking about
getting The Mutant Epoch released, of
course. It has been a challenge like no
other in my creative life, and has been
one of those things that sheer force of
will has propelled along for over seven
years now.
The last edits are
being interwoven into the Hub Rules book
day and night. The coffee flows and I
sit alone here night after night getting
ever closer to a final, polished, game
of extreme post-apocalyptic mayhem and
adventure. In fact, I am taking a break
from the last edits to update some of
the Outland Arts social media venues
ahead of next week’s advertising
campaign. We have an ad going out in the
upcoming issue of roleplayingtips.com so
anticipate some traffic from that.
The
anticipated release date back in late
September 2010 was to have the game out
late October, and as that month came and
went in a blur of activity, art, gaming,
and writing of the free material for the
web site, we now find ourselves in mid
November. We’ve decided to provide news
on the impending release and showcase
artwork here on The Mutant Epoch blog to
show a little more of what you can
expect in the book right up to the
release date.
Currently, we are
being more conservative in our launch
date, taking into account the few
challenges still ahead and feeling lousy
about failing to have it on the market
already. We are now confident that the
book will be available sometime in
December and before Christmas and
available in PDF and print on demand
through lulu.com, RPGnow.com,
yourgamesnow.com and onebookshelf.com,
to name just a few sales venues
Thanks to all of
you for the help with getting the word
out and the encouragement. Knowing
people are out there eagerly
anticipating The Mutant Epoch’s release,
not to mention the pre-sales I’ve heard
about from the local game stores and
individuals, has been extra fuel and
motivation to see this game done, and
done right.
In the meantime,
here is the new release notification ad.
Look for artwork here on the blog over
the next weeks as we head down the home
stretch.
Best regards,
Will McAusland
Creative Director
Outland arts.com
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Sept 28 2010
 BigCon was a huge success, even though we only
had demo copies of
The Mutant Epoch tabletop RPG. We've posted to the
TME blog with more news and images on the Kamloops based
game convention.
we had a lot of people wanting to buy
copies of the book and told them that mid to late October, this
year, next month, we would have copies available for purchase in
the local game shops , online and mail order direct from our
headquarters.
The Mutant Epoch hub rules book will come in at
248 pages, and at a retail price point of about $30.00 us and
cdn. Editing, completion of the full page digital grayscale
paintings inside , a few art changes and the index still need to
be done, after which we will order a decent sized box fro local
distribution and mail order, and load the POD And PDF versions
to our online retailers.
If you want to keep up with the latest news on
this project,
sign
up on our mailing list.
Cheers,
Will
Creative Director Outland Arts
June 21 2010
Most of the activity for the
online Outland Arts presence has been
happening on
our
twitter feed and
blog. We have been extra busy these past few months getting
ready for the impending release of
The Mutant Epoch tabletop RPG. Everything else we have put
on hold as we are desperately trying to get the Hub Rules book
to
BigCon 2010 in Kamloops, British Colombia September 25th
and 26th at the Kamloops Convention Centre. Here is
the banner for BigCon which you can feel free to copy paste and
link to the convention website at
http://bigcon.shawwebspace.ca/
We have been
adding a whole new character race to the Mutant Epoch hub rules,
on recommendations from a fellow called
Brutorz Bill. Mutant Animals, called Bestial Humans in TME,
were slated for the expansion book along with a heap of other
new character types, but after much consideration decided to add
them to the Hub Rules book.
As
explained in our blog, this additional race, along with six new
skills, has delayed the release by two months at least but
should be worthwhile and I am very excited to see some of these
half-animal characters in test play.
In other news,
the cover for the Mutant Epoch is all but done, as is the cover
for our first multi-path adventure called ‘Mall of Doom’
(formerly the Village of Walsave or Mall of Horrors). We will be
posting all TME news and updates on The Mutant Epoch main page
as well as the blog and our twitter feed.
If you are interested in
keeping tabs on the game’s progress, why not click on the
sign up for the
mailing list graphic above,
following us on twitter, or
following the blog? Also, feel free to write us with any
questions at
info@outlandarts.com
Sincerely,
Will McAusland
Creative Director
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