June 2025 Studio Update

I've been waiting for various events to ensure our ducks were all in a row prior to writing this. We've got a lot going on...

Current Campaign

• Cowboys vs Zombies is a combined campaign in which you can purchase our latest pocket game, or sign up for a 12 month game club. We are extremely excited about the club as it gives backers the chance to vote for what they'd like to see in games and enables us a chance to experiment and innovate with the pocket game format. The campaign ends on June 5th. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thegrinningfrog/zombies-vs-cowboys/

Pending Campaigns

• The Oracle, Issue 50: Lost Places We went back and forth on the topic for issue 50 and nothing seemed quite a fit until after a walk in the country when the idea of Lost Places came to mind. That one thought then mushroomed into a list of fantastical places that might be 'lost' (in different ways) and make for excellent quest or adventure locations. This will actually launch later today! (30 May). https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/the-oracle-rpg/lost-places

• Sinners This is the card game that I mentioned last month. it is now at the campaign set upstage on Gamefound. You can view the preview page and follow it to be notified when it is launched. Exactly when that will be is a little up in the air (due to factors outside of our control) but we are aiming for early to mid-June. The preview page has a full breakdown of how the game works and you can see the rather unique card designs that Ben has come up with. https://gamefound.com/en/projects/thegrinningfrog/sinners

• Final Quest 2 Teased last time, I can now confirm that the sequel to last years game will be coming your way towards the end of June on Kickstarter. At the end of the last game, your escaped the depths of the caverns. Now they need to make it home. Naturally, this is a journey that won't be as easy as it might sound. Expect all sorts of fantastical shenanigans to unfold! There is no campaign link at the moment but I can share a copy of the cover:

Fulfilment

• Zilight: Wild West We completed posting of this campaign last week and if it isn't on the webstore yet, then it will be before the end of next week. We have printed gamebooks and bespoke card decks available. (Although, not in huge numbers.)

• The Oracle 49: Dark and Dangerous Orcs We have partially fulfilled this, having sent out PDF copies and some of the print editions. We are waiting for one item from the printers and all being well, the final copies will be posted next week.

• Rage at the Moon Our editor has been going through this with love and attention for the last ten days or so. She is due to send it back at the beginning of next week when I will get the task of going through and fixing up all the errors she has found! All the ancillary items are either being printed currently, or have been printed and are in our stock room right now. Once I get the manuscript back, and after fixing the edits, I'll be making a final few play tests before releasing this digitally and ordering the prints. This is due for fulfilment in July but I believe it will be early for the digital copies (mid-late June) and bang on time for the print (July).

• Starships Scavengers: Gorgon's Wake Another campaign that is due for a July fulfilment but is currently ahead of schedule. I'm having a tremendous amount of fun with this one although the map did take me nearly eight hours on its own! Still, now I have the map, everything else is falling into place rather nicely. My intention is to fulfil this early, similar to Rage above.

• Frontier Gazette Issue 4, and Starship Sonatas 2 Both of those are components of the above Gorgon's Wake campaign and are coming along nicely. I'm going to rustle around and see if we can get a few more story contributions for Sonatas but otherwise we are ahead of schedule.

  
  

Summary

June is very much a writing month for me, with the intention that I fulfil Rage and Gorgon's Wake early, along with filling out the current draft of Final Quest 2.

Ryan is working on new Side Quests for Final Fantasy (that's the new free content for the game - see the blog post below), as well as providing content for Issue 50 of The Oracle. Meanwhile, Ben, is busy being chatting on social media as well as working on the designs for several new games.

We are also all collectively play testing several draft games and sketching out ideas for the games and RPG content that is due out later in the year.

There is never a dull day at Frog HQ!

Until next time, keep gaming.

Stephen