Big news! The pre-production proofs for the interior layout and the soft/hard covers just arrived! here are some images of what I received.

So far everything I've seen looks good and we should be green-lit in the next couple of days!

=Popples

The playtester page has been updated. Your feedback is being reviewed and helping to shape the final version of the game. Looking forward to coming back in the fall with the new module I've been working on.

=Jakob

That last part is the one I wasn't fully prepared for.

There's something genuinely vulnerable about the moment a creative project stops being yours alone. Everything that lived in notebooks and hard drives and my head is now just... out there. The art direction, the tone, the weird creatures I've been quietly obsessing over — other people are encountering them now with fresh eyes and no context for how long this has been cooking. That's exciting. It's also a little terrifying.

But here we are, and I'm glad.

To make it even more tangible: we'll be at GaryCon next week, Thursday through Sunday. If you're going to be there, come find us. We'll be running demos — and honestly, getting to put this in front of people at a table is a big part of why I made it in the first place.

More updates to come as the campaign runs. Thanks for being here at the start of it.

Afterglow is a post-modern tabletop RPG built on the Dungeon Crawl Classics framework. The Villain won and unleashed their own destructive AI to do one thing and one thing only; destroy. The collapse is happening now, not generations ago.

The world is broken, but it isn’t done yet—and its story is now in your hands.

We’re launching our campaign March 9, 2025 to get all the artwork finalized. As a small local game publisher, we need to show BackerKit there’s real interest before launch day. Click the link below and show your support today - it takes 30 seconds and costs nothing!

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