Progress Update: Things that belong to you

I'm excited.

I'm often excited about something or other, but there's something in particular coming up that just feels huge to me. Yes, for one, there's the worldbuilding list video which rapidly approaching done, but there's also some stuff unrelated to the videos at all that has me giddier than a baby with a smartphone.

Let me explain...

Where are we now?

I usually like the video's progress to take center stage here, but this video has been in production hell for like... five years at this point. It'll be coming out really soon, but the work we're presently doing on it isn't half as exciting as the other stuff going on.

And this is stuff that many of you guys are anticipating, so perhaps I'm not expecting you to be shocked, I just want to share my joy with you for a hot second, here.

Rewards are finally happening. They've been on the backburner for a while, but we're finally climbing into a position stable enough to start sending things out again. We've done a lot of prep work with the formatting of our hand-written letters, I have some spare time for custom avatars now, we've streamlined our taleoid adoption process, and we just had a think tank with our Engineers last Friday about how to approach our promised everyone's-invited AMAs. We're making strides in that sector of the brand's identity, and we're so excited for all of you to receive your well-deserved rewards.

Even cooler though? After some discussion with our patreon engineers in a think tank session and some correspondence with DFTBA, we're moving forward with the new merch line at long last! I've sent out commission queries and we're in the process of narrowing down which artists we'll be using for this work. Felipe is amazing and we'll probably use him for some of the merch as well, but we'd like some diversity and uniqueness across out products.

I think you guys are really gonna like what we have to share with you~ I'll be sure to keep you posted.

What's next?

Really, the video is going to be done quite soon. After all additional this work on rewards and merchandise and stuff, I'm feeling very ready to wrap this thing up and put a bow on it.

What we have left on the agenda for this video: 

• Chloe needs to do some final stuff with the audio
• I need to add the images I've spent forever wrangling and preparing to the timeline
• I need to get the audio from Chloe and sync everything up
• I need to add music
• I need to create a video thumbnail

And then we can call it a day (and/or five-week period)!

Anything else?

The Discord server is positively bumpin' right now. Our community team has started sharing community highlights, they're running weekly competitions, posting daily art/writing prompts, hosting scheduled games, and soon we'll have an organized and guided roleplaying area, as well as a highly innovative collaborative storytelling activity!

Sometimes I honestly wish I could just go chill in the server. So many cool things are happening in there right now. We're so proud of our community team~

And that's about it for now! I always miss stuff, so if you have any curiosities, feel free to pitch a question.

As an aside, are you doing well? Tell me how your projects/life have been going in the comments. Share the positivity~

—Benji