Life Changes / Don’t Panic

I’ve been full-time in the game industry for almost 18 months now. It’s been awesome. I love what I do, I love my friends (I can’t rightly call them fans/customers as we’re all in this together as a community).

But sometimes life throws you a curve-ball, and you have to adjust.

The wife and I have been trying to start a family for a few years now. IVF, hormone treatments, surgeries, the whole thing. No luck. So we are preparing for foster care.

Foster care comes with some life adjustments, primarily kids who will likely have medical needs (both physical and mental/emotional.) There’s resources out there, but they can take time, approvals, or more. If we’re going to take in foster kids, we want to give them the best home possible. While Gallant Knight Games provides the income my wife and I need (in addition to her job), we decided we’d rather have a more secure safety net if we’re going to bring children into our home in the near future.

To this end, I’ve gotten a full-time job back in my old career of data analytics! YAY! It’s a great job with amazing insurance, adoption assistance, parental leave, and great pay. It’s basically the dream considering our situations.

However it does mean some changes for GKG and my game career. Nothing major, but some reorganization.

We have 3 existing projects (3.5 technically) that are outstanding: Cold Shadows, Tiny Dungeon 2e (the .5 in the 3.5), Tiny Wastelands and Monster Hunter International. Cold Shadows is on it’s way for fulfillment. Tiny Dungeon 2e is waiting on two books (one almost done, the other headed for pre-press soon), and then wave two shipping. Tiny Wastelands is moving along on track, as is MHI.

However, a full-time job will slow me down. When I started GKG, I was working full-time outside of creating games, and I’m well aware of the limitations and effort it’ll take as I get back into that.

Tiny Supers was scheduled for a mid-May Kickstarter. We’re pushing it back until the PDFs for all our outstanding commitments at GKG (for our GKG specific products) are out. Once PDFs are out, that means books go to print, and we can start the next project.  (Our partner projects are unaffected by this, as we are not as directly involved in the day to day there.)

Based on our timeline, this will likely push it to late June/early July for a Kickstarter, but we’ll see. We don’t wanna jeopardize our quality or results. Our backers and supporters deserve better for that.

Everything else is spaced out enough that we feel comfortable leaving it on the schedule (such as D6 System 2e in September/October) and we’ve got exciting news coming this month about some new stuff in the works we think you’re going to love!