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2024 Retrospective
🕑 Added 2024-12-30 00:45:45 +0000 UTCIt's been a weird year. A lot of promises needed to be kept, but new obstacles arose, so it was hard to move forward. And I still have some work to do!
Including Swor'nament Episodes, there were 107 new episodes of Swords this year; as well as 46 new episodes of Stars. That's about 1 new episode every 2.4 days, which is hardly my best effort to date, but not terrible either.
The Bread Knight became the King of Hiltshire! We haven't seen much of him lately...
The connection between The Monster Magician and one of the Demon Swords was finally confirmed...
Harpe, Joyeuse and Cutbert went on an adventure to slay a Demon Sword, with a cliffhanger ending...
And Jest Sprout was unleashed...!
The second part of the Patreon Swor'nament happened, finally bringing all 16 fighters into the fold. It's been a long time overdue and filled with logistical challenges, but now there are 4 fighters remaining and we can finally crown a champion in 2025.
We launched 3 Makeship plushies - Kargob, The Everstabbed (Glow in the Dark event) and a return of Pest Sprout (Time Warp event). I quietly think Kargob might be my favourite design yet.
Swords: Cut the Deck went into overtime and money got tight, but I still think we ended up with a better product thanks to having more time to streamline the rules and polish things up. Behind the scenes there was a ton of work re-doing box art, tokens, dice, playmats and making lots of the card art better too.
I have an entire expansion for the game arted-up and ready to go, when the world decides its ready for more cards
Swords was a launch title on the new webcomic platform Fables
We have our first God of Patreon!
The SwordsComic Patreon has risen from #53 to #43 among Comic artists [per Graphtreon]
Hundreds and hundreds of people in the Annual Survey asked for a Chronological Order
We began stocking Swords merch at Caffeinated Dragon and BeaDnD Games in Wellington, NZ
I started taking Sticker Club much more seriously, increasing the quality and presentation of what was on offer each time. I'm enjoying the learning curve and I hope I can keep surprising people.
We took preorders for and printed the first Quest Sprout comic books! Shipping them out by myself was a lot of work! I'll be ordering more in January.
There was an attempt to revive Merciless Dungeon and get it shippable, but it ended up back on the to-do shelf when more pressing things came along.
I prototyped quite a lot of other stuff too... maybe I'll share some soon...
Looking forward, some things I want to commit to in 2025 are:
An awesome Cut the Deck launch!
The resolution of most of Swords errant plotlines on the road to episode 1000
A cleaner, clearer online presence, so everyone knows where to find what they want
A conclusion to the Patreon Swor'nament
Some STARS goodies in the next Sticker Club
Reaching 1000 paid Patreon supporters!
I hope you have a great New Year! See you soon!
Comments
Arwen A.
Am VERY excited about the prospect of Stars goodies. π
Bente SynnΓΈve Bratteberget
Loved my little Swords Comic Book, hope to see more in the future! :D
Matthew Wills
Me too! Slightly terrified at all the feedback we'll get too, haha - there are 60 heroes so there's bound to be some game breaking combos
Matthew Wills
Maybe so, maybe so...
Lisa Munro
Crazy excited for Cut the Deck to start shipping!
InChildlikeWonder
Does that mean that Mama sprout is Nest Sprout?
D'Artagnan Wayland
Awesome
Matthew Wills
Yeah, they have pins, stickers and postcards there! And cards soon!!
PandaMinis
I didn't know there was Swords merch at Caffeinated Dragon! I'll have to grab some next time I'm in! I can't wait to start the Stars comic once the holiday season wraps up. I've seen a few episodes but need to start again in order! π Can't wait to see what you do in 2025 π€©
