A set of supplements focusing on terrains, transportation, and traveling of any fantasy world all wrapped up in 500 stunning pages.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Updates & Delays
over 2 years ago
– Wed, Dec 08, 2021 at 02:42:11 AM
First off, from all those involved with Deep Dungeon Games and its projects, we would like to apologize for the lack of information and updates.
A major update can be found in the previous update of the projects and a decent overall look of what has been going on….
What has been going on?
So as of August 2021, the driving force and figure behind the DDG projects was forced to take up a position. This was due to the impact of covid to the business and a major reduction in funds due to conventions and other events ending abruptly. A lot of this is detailed in the previous update, and for those who know, Hobie Hill is a disabled veteran. Therefore, he relied upon the healthcare the VA supplied, and with the move to Colorado, he was forced to change facilities and doctors. This might not seem like a major deal, but the healthcare provider decided to change the medications that had allowed him to function perfectly.
This change in medication allowed him to fall into depression and despair, and spent 4 months trying different medications due to these providers opinions of medications and healthcare. This lack of desire after spending years as a high functioning person, left him with little or no interest in doing things. Friends and family were not spoken to, emails built up, and he was unable to bring himself out of this slump. There were other things that added to this, one of which was the mass of work needing to be done for the various projects. Normally he would have been able to get some amount of work done, but all his energy was spent back at a more standard job and employment.
After the latest medication change, he found himself constantly sick and decided that these medications were doing more harm than good. It took a couple of weeks for the medication to leave his system, and once he found himself back in some semblance of normalcy. He was able to seek a private healthcare provider through his insurance acquired from his employer, and get back on medications that for years had worked for him.
Funding
Now that he is back and able to find the energy to work a full-time job and get back into the needs of DDG, we need to address the funding issues. Hobie Hill was the first and only full-time employee that DDG had, and for a couple of years before Covid. His salary was paid by 25 to 35 conventions and events that DDG would have a booth at. Well naturally those went away instantly starting around March 2020, and for a year and a half his lively hood and other business expenses where completely reliant on project funds. So, it was not an issue of one project funding another, but rather the sudden lack of outside revenues. As he was a one-man army, the burden of finding other areas of revenue fell on him, but there was only so much that he could do. The plan currently is to stabilize and downsize by selling equipment and becoming an operation that focuses on fulfilment of projects and dedicating funds to fulfill them. This will be done through the personal salary of Hobie, as well as a set of low-cost projects where additional funds will go to fulfilment.
Moving Forward
The primary focus will go to completing current projects, starting with the oldest, then chronologically addressing each one. The next couple of days, we will be concentrating on addressing comments, messages, emails, and other concerns. Once fulfillment begins for a particular project we will update and let everyone know. Never hesitate to send us a message or comment, but please give us a week or so to get to all the various things that we need to address across the projects and platforms.
Deep Dungeon Games
WE ARE BACK!!!!
over 2 years ago
– Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 04:22:36 AM
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Quick Update
over 2 years ago
– Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 04:42:10 AM
Hey everyone,
Just wanted to send a super quick update on behalf of Hobie.
Things are traveling with the books (the old ‘no news is good news’), if just a bit slow unfortunately. Hobie is finalizing an interstate move and its understandably caused some slight delays.
The Voyages books are currently still going through the editing/design phase. I can’t give an exact date for finishing atm but each week we are making progress which is good.
For the Mineralogy Manual we are still at the printing stage, nothings been shipped just yet.
Thanks for the patience, its been a crazy 12 months.
Take care and hopefully we can get something in your hands soon.
Cheers,
Daniel.
Everything is going smoothly!
almost 3 years ago
– Sat, May 22, 2021 at 01:15:53 AM
Hello everyone, I hope every one of you is healthy and happy!
I know many of you have been curious about the progress with the books. There has been steady progress, and not much reason to update everyone, and that allowed me to focus on the final edits, print formating, and beginning fulfillment for a few other projects.
That being said, I have been wanting to update for a while, but I was trying to wait for The Mineralogy Manual to be finalized and sent off for test printing. I know a few of you have been wondering about addon files in Backerkit, and digital PDFs of products, and this is the only part about being the only person behind the screen that is taxing. I was wanting to upload all but the digital content for this project all at one time, that way I would be able to focus and knock it all out at once. Either way, I will be starting the process tonight, of uploading and prepping all the digital content available for those who purchased them as add-ons. I am doing end-of-school year things with my kiddos, and I gotta say, I love spending every moment I can with my two.
Anyways, let's do a bit of updating for the progress of the project and we are tracking the progress daily!
Writing - There are only minor touch-up writings, and to polish up a paragraph here or there. Dan and I both will be present through the entire process, to flush out, edit, or change writings to better fit the narrative of the books as we progress through the content. Overall, the writing is 99% done, and we have begun writing on the next book.on
We have loved working with Teresa, Paul, Andrew, and our other artists on this project!
Artwork - I cannot speak more highly of our wonderful artists, we were so happy to work with two artists that have had a major amount of work from us. In addition, we also found another incredible artist, and we hope to keep them all as busy as we can far into the future.
The mount art that is coming out for this project is fantastic! We are amazed with every piece!
Editing - The only thing we are a bit slow on at the moment is the editing process. It has now begun to pick up steam, as the editor is becoming more familiar with our wants, and the material. However, we are wanting to add another editor to work on the second book of this project. If this is something that interests you, then please watch the website for when we publish the form for potential editors to fill out and become part of the DDG Crew! As soon as we get far enough along with the editing, we can begin the layout process. We have started the process with the various decks for this project, and those will most likely submerge for the backer first.
Our good friend Dan over at Dan's Dungeons is down to his final week for his very first project! He is funded and they are now making a 5th edition supplement of treacherous terrors, tantalizing treasures, terrorizing tyrants & twisting towns even more fantastic! If you can go check out his project, show him some love, and support him in any way that you can. We are one of the best communities in the world, and I personally am glad to call him my friend.
Thank you, everyone, for supporting Dan and his first project! It is no small feat to even fund when starting out. Anyways, I am going back to updating the website, campaign setting, and exporting endless amounts of files. I believe I got to everyone's questions, but feel free to email, message me on any social media, or poke me until I get the right moment to get back to you.
Stay safe everyone,
Hobie Hill - Deep Dungeon Games
March Update - First rounds of locking orders!
about 3 years ago
– Sat, Mar 06, 2021 at 01:56:26 AM
Hello everyone,
I hope everyone is doing well and we wanted to just bring you an update on the content and the progress we have made so far.
Writing
So just about all of the writing of the planned content of the books is complete. We are just wrapping up some NPC's and other minor details. The only writing that remains for the books is in the form of stretch goals.
The remaining writing left to knock out is:
Caravan Camps
Hag Covens
Hag Contracts
This will not take very long to complete and we are currently working on the above every day.
Artwork
The artwork is of course in full swing and we have made some serious progress on the artwork thus far, we have several artists working on the art for these books. They are bringing some incredible art to the table, and we know it is going to look beautiful.
The remaining writing left to knock out is:
Traveling NPC's (Merchants, Travelers, and Hirelings)
Terrain Hags - 6 images remaining
Nomad Group Leaders
Bandit Group Leaders
Mounts
There may be more that gets added as we find the need, but overall everything is going well.
Ok, that is all I have for now and I will share some more in April if not sooner than that!
