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To the backers who supported our pre-production Kickstart: Thank you so much for believing in us!

We made our goal and will be working on character and technical design drawings for the project, beginning in January. For future details, watch this page (or use the RSS feed).

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Lunatics is a story about the first permanent settlement off of the Earth, in a tiny colony on the Moon near Sinus Iridium. Politics are inevitable, physics is implacable, and the colonists are indomitable fanatics. After all, normal people don't really colonize new worlds, do they?

Current Status: Python scripting, model sheets, and some writing

This last week, I mostly spent getting up to speed with Blender's scripting interface for Python. I have to admit to being a little anxious about this, but it's really pretty simple stuff once you get started (that's always the hard part!). Daniel's working on the model sheets. And I'm starting to write the structural parts of the book we're creating as part of the production process. (read more)

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