Of course the canid patrol here seems to be experiencing a little cognitive dissonance, with Dakkan needing to very politely remind them that the reason they assaulted that canid guard was because he was engaging in a little bit of torture on behalf of General Tosch. But hey, these are all just DETAILS.

We’ve been making some absolutely wonderful progress on those extracurricular Western Deep-related activities I’ve been sharing. Here’s some new updates to whet your appetites:

The “Music of the Western Deep: Volume One” orchestra recording session is taking place in Budapest on June 2nd–less than a week away! We’ll be working with the same orchestra that did our previous Western Deep pieces, so we’re incredibly excited to get all that material back and hear it in its full glory. Don’t forget you can still PREORDER THE ALBUM by going here: https://westerndeepmusic.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders

The cover art for Volume 3 (both Limited and Standard Editions) is ready to go, in addition to our OMNIBUS collection, which includes Volumes 1, 2, and 3 in a single paperback. The cover art for this is so much fun, and Rachel really knocked all of these out of the park. We can’t wait to share them with you as the Kickstarter comes together in the next month or so! We know it’s been delayed a fair bit–but we didn’t want to rush into anything, and we also wanted to make sure we had the full orchestral track for Volume 3’s pitch video before we cut our video together.

We’re in the process of recording official voice over for our War of the Western Deep pitch demo! We’ve just finished recording all of our protagonist’s 300+ lines for the demo, making her the very first Western Deep character to be fully voiced. We’re extremely excited to share this once it’s in the game. We’ve also got a session booked for next week with another wonderful voice actor I’ve worked with in the past to handle our hooded felis scoundrel, which should be a lot of fun to record!

As you can see, Mirren’s portraits and animations aren’t quite finished (she’s in the 2D form of a T-pose here), but we’re just a few animations short of having the full pitch demo ready for “primetime” so to speak. While we’re not planning to release it to the public just yet, we’ll absolutely have some video clips to share so you can see how it’s going.

So hey! That’s a lot of stuff! We’re excited to share more in the coming weeks of course. A lot of stuff is coming together concurrently, between the musical album, War of the Western Deep, and the Kickstarter for Volume 3 and the Omnibus.

Stay tuned for more info here and on our social media, which you can find right here: https://twitter.com/TheWesternDeep

See you next time!