Timelines + Late Pledges + Communications
over 1 year ago
– Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 09:29:36 PM
Thank you everyone!
We're excited to bring the writing of all our contributors to life as we finish art and layout!
A few notes on what to expect.
Timeline + Pledge Manager
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Late Pledges: Available now on Kickstarter. Late Pledges will be available until the Backerkit surveys are sent.
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Backerkit Surveys/Backerkit Preorder Store: January 2025
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PDF Delivered: May 2025
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Physical Fulfilment: May 2025
Rate of Contact
We plan on sending updates about once a month, and as often as anything significant happens.
Keep In Touch
If you want to keep updated with what Spicy Tuna has in the works, give us a follow or sign up for our newsletter, The Guac.
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Thank you again! This campaign was a great ride, and we're excited to deliver a fantastic book as always :)
Marco
New Free Zine For All Backers + More
over 1 year ago
– Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 11:20:53 AM
First off, thank you!
There's a few hundred more people behind this project and we're heading into the final 48 hours soon. With that, I want to share the number of bonus items you get with your pledge (so far), plus talk a little more about what we're doing to give you the most mileage out of The Hands That Feed.
First off, the free zine - Fibers and Threads.
All physical pledge levels will receive a free physical copy of Fibers and Threads. And PDF backers will receive the PDF for free. Fibers and Threads give you more NPCs that work for the corps in THTF and their acquaintances, enemies, and allies that work for organizations in our other Mothership books. Plus, a unique shore leave menace to spice up any of the stations in THTF or anywhere else. More fodder to play with in The Hands That Feed and easy ways to connect your crew to our other books all in one.
Next the Stretch Goals So Far
Physical stretch goals will be included in Sneaking Extra ($60) and all pledge levels above it. PDFs and digital files are provided for the "Eat The Feed", "PDF Trio", and the "PDF The Hands That Feed" pledge levels. At $70k we unlock an additional shore leave menace, "Codename: Silver Ant" named after the fastest ant on earth!
Free Digital NPC Crossovers With Other Publishers
Finally, I'm excited to share some of the first digital crossover freebies for The Hands That Feed and some of my favorite publishers in the Mothership scene – including D. Kenny from Magnum Galaxy, Chris Airiau from 5 Million Worlds Press, and Joshua Justice from staticdistance.com, and more to come!
Here's the link to download the PDFs
https://theguac.substack.com/p/4-new-npc-crossovers-more
If you want to make sure to receive the future NPC crossovers between us we will release them through our newsletter TheGuac.substack.com. *You do not have to subscribe to receive emails in order to read or download the future NPCs.
Why All The NPCs and Shore Leave Menaces?
We want it to be as easy as possible for you to seamlessly move your crew to and from other Mothership modules. We also know a lot of wardens value player agency as much as we do and having access to a web of NPCs with deep connections to others will hopefully help you drop new connection opportunities for your players while they are outside of mission and give them a sandbox of options to move into what most excites them next.
The crossovers with the other publishers above are especially exciting for me because I see a lot of questions and chats about how to get solid hooks into other 3pp modules. These are official connections between us and I hope these crossovers help you move between the Tunaverse, Magnum Galaxy's universe, The Hecate Sector, and the 5 Million Worlds.
We also love making interesting tools to make shore leave feel alive. Our latest hardcovers, Outsourced and The Hands That Feed offer random tables and stations to interact with, and of course the corporations, on top of the included adventures. We want it to be easy for players to interact with these areas while always having something new. We're excited to add to the 40 NPCs inside THTF and give you a crazy amount of options to work with.
We hope this all helps your home games and gives you enough to work with in order to keep things interesting and new, even if you're running multiple games in the space!
Thank you again for being here! We're stoked to round out the campaign and get back to the focus on producing beautiful books for you!!
The Leviathans Eat.
over 1 year ago
– Fri, Oct 04, 2024 at 01:00:55 PM
Thank you, everyone!
It's incredible to be off the ground and running. We funded in 74 minutes and we're thrilled to have the chance to deliver a fantastic book to you! More than that we're excited to deliver the whole package, The Hands That Feed, Broadcasted Violence!, Carved Like a Covenant, and the patches! We've been so fortunate to work with amazing people to make this happen, and although we have a few months of development left, we're stoked to bring something that stands out in the Mothership 3pp.
Here are the first stretch goals to look forward to!
UNLOCKED!! 8× Audio Files! You can now introduce your crew to each of the eight corporations with their very own commercials. I'm excited to breathe more life into these abhorrent corps.
UP NEXT! The "Happiness, Induced" Hypnaxus patch. Hypnaxus is quite possibly my favorite corporation of the bunch. They are hypnotherapists that specialize in memory suppression and increasing personnel engagement. Ie. They make employees forget the awful actions their employers make in the pursuit of credits and they implant audible and visual triggers into employees so their employers can more easily control them. Here's the current version of the patch patch!
Plus, we are building free digital extras for every tier level in the background.
We're doing this in collaboration with other third party Mothership creators, including Dave Kenny from Magnum Galaxy, Chris Airiau from 5 Million Worlds, Joshua Justice from staticanddistance.com, and Violet Ballard from RV Games.
These collaborations are pairs of NPCs that assist each other accomplish their own motives outside of their employers. It offers a bridge between our Tunaverse of Mothership modules and the universes of the other creators, making it easier for you to move your crew between our modules.
The first collaboration is complete! Dave and I created Carter Denin and Ava Arkham. Carter Denin is a Weevil Underling stationed at Roachero's Station while Ava Arkham is an up-and-coming lieutienat within Blackshield on Hardlight Station. Each NPC offers a job for the crew along with their personal desires and fears. This bridges The Hands That Feed with Dying Hard on Hardlight Station, which is getting an anthology edition in 2025.
Here's the Carter and Ava free download
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17HqfnYkd3VaJVePqG3QclII8PPfTTHM_/view?usp=sharing
I'm excited announce more as the rest are tidied up and finished!
Thank you again for being here! We're looking forward to making something beautiful!
Marco
