Hello Dead Alive Games Community!
September went by quickly, but it was a quiet month with a lot of "behind the scenes" work getting Lunar Rush ready for fulfillment and distribution, as well as getting Cyber Pet Quest's first official prototype made and sent out to content creators in October. The big news is, LUNAR RUSH has started fulfilling (in Asia) and will be fulfilled in US/CAN/UK/EU in the next 2-3 weeks, and Rest of World in 3-4 weeks!
This Month's Topics:
Lunar Rush
Cyber Pet Quest
Essen SPIEL
Lunar Rush Updates
THE GAMES ARE ALMOST HERE! Or in the case of some places in Asia, people already got their games! The fulfillment companies we are working with for each region of the world have been very busy the last month, so even though some of them had the game, they weren't able to get to fulfillment until now. For specific regions, see the update below!
US/CAN: The ship arrived on-time in NYC port, and then arrived to Flat River Group on time on 9/25. Unfortunately they have a few other projects they are fulfilling ahead of ours, but they should be able to get to Lunar Rush in the next 2-3 weeks. We have set a "street date" of 10/20 (for US only) in anticipation of this!
UK/EU: The boat landed in early September, but there were some delays in the UK customs processing. Spiral Galaxy now has all the games and will be fulfilling in the next fortnight if no other issues pop up!
RoW: VFI was busy almost the entire month of September. They did get the game out to backers in China, Hong Kong, and nearby countries where they fulfill directly. For Australia/New Zealand, the product has been sent to Aetherworks and should be fulfilled in the next 3-4 weeks. There are a few other hubs in Taiwan, Japan, etc... that should also be fulfilling in the next 2-3 weeks. With that said, we will be having a "Launch Party" at Gamescape San Francisco on 10/21 to celebrate the game getting to most of our backers. If you live in the SF Bay Area, please keep come for some free demos, food, and raffles!
Cyber Pet Quest
For September, we worked hard on getting a "vertical slice" of the game (meaning, a small sample of the game) made into a prototype, so that we can begin to send the game out to previewers and content creators ahead of our Kickstarter in early 2024. ALL of the art for our Items, Charms, CyMS (enemies) are now done, and we're more than halfway done with the location card art.
Partial completed prototype
If you want to help us name some cards, and have YOUR NAME listed in the credits of the game, pay attention to our Facebook Group every week so you can suggest a name! If we like your name the best, that name will go onto the final card for the game AND you'll be credited in our game rulebook!
New Art
Here's some more art done by our team of artists for the game!
Top 2 images by Maria Zvonkova, middle 2 images by Zach Leo, and bottom 4 by Alex Pei
You might have noticed we mentioned that the Kickstarter is now in Q1 2024 instead of Q4 2023. After evaluating all the polish we want to do with the game, and the art we'd like to include, we decided to push the Kickstarter back a quarter to give us more time to make an awesome game for y'all. So keep checking these monthly newsletters for our Kickstarter update as we get closer to the end of the year!
Essen
Essen SPIEL 23 is coming up, and Dead Alive Games will have a booth there. It'll be in Hall 2, 2B131, sharing it with our good friend Ta-Te Wu from Sunrise Tornado. If you're at SPIEL, come check us out. We'll have Lunar Rush available to demo and purchase (limited deluxe editions), and if there's free table space/time, a prototype of Cyber Pet Quest will be there too!
Booth 2B131
An that's a wrap! Till next month!
Brendan & Bernie