Cosmic Dark

Get new add-ons and help upgrade the printing!
11 months ago – Thu, May 29, 2025 at 08:49:24 AM

Hello! We just hit 1000 backers, which is incredible. 

Lots of you wanted me to upgrade the printing! So I've added a new stretch goal: when we hit £60,000, the Cosmic Dark hardback will have sewn binding and high-quality paper. 

To help get us there, I've included new add-ons, including my games Darkenwood, A Taste For Murder and The Tavern, and my book Play Unsafe. Please add them! It'll help us towards that stretch goal.

Finally, I went to a convention this weekend, and the artist Lee O'Connell was drawing instant watercolours. So I had to get him to do an Extracsa ship heading into the Glitch. The final version is beautiful - you can see him drawing it below - and, if you're backing at the Cryo level or higher, it'll be part of the Glitch Files.

Thanks so much again. Go and get add-ons, it'll get us closer to upgrading the printing!

Spread the word.
11 months ago – Fri, May 23, 2025 at 11:29:05 AM

Hello! Thanks so much for supporting Cosmic Dark. I'm an independent creator, so I really rely on your enthusiasm and backing.

Please share this link to the Cosmic Dark Kickstarter wherever you can. That means Facebook pages, Discord forums and anywhere else you can think of. Again, I rely on you spreading the word about Cosmic Dark.

And I've got a question! The Kickstarter is doing so well that I'm wondering whether to upgrade the printing: for example, to give the Cosmic Dark hardback sewn binding. What do you think? Is that something that matters to you?

Thanks again for your support. And here's a little video.

New add-on: An extra book
11 months ago – Thu, May 15, 2025 at 09:25:58 AM

Thanks so much for your support for Cosmic Dark. I'm blown away.

I've added a new add-on, which is an extra Cosmic Dark book. If you do want extra copies - for your gaming group, maybe? - you can add them on now.

And, if you do, it gets us closer to Kieron Gillen's stretch goal, which I really want to hit!

I'll announce more stretch goals over the weekend. One of them is someone whose work I love and, honestly, I can't believe he's agreed to write for Cosmic Dark. Amazing. More tomorrow.

What an amazing first day (and stretch goals)
11 months ago – Tue, May 13, 2025 at 12:49:19 PM

Hello! Thanks so much for backing Cosmic Dark.

We're fourteen hours into the Kickstarter and it's going so well. It funded within the first three hours. As I'm writing this, it's funded two-and-a-half times over, and I think it'll go even higher tonight.

It's time to announce some stretch goals. So...

• When we reach £30,000, Alyssa Griffiths will write The Chorister. Alyssa designed some of the most innovative games in the London Indie RPG scene and I'm so happy she's writing this.
• When we reach £40,000, Kieron Gillen will write Umbilical. He's described this to me as "Superman meets Annihilation", so it's going to be deeply weird.

Thanks again. I'll say this lots of times during the Kickstarter, but...I'm a small independent creator. I don't have a team to support me: it's just me. So I rely on you to support my work.

And please spread the word! If you're on a Discord or you've got a newsletter or there's another channel I don't know about, point people towards this Kickstarter.