Runners! <3

It’s the third weekend of the month, and all is busy at NISEI Plaza still! As is traditional, here’s a little info dump for you as to what we’ve been up to. Before we get into that, I can reveal that the cycle formerly known as NISEI-1 will be called Ashes, and released in two sets that will be named next week.



And now, on with the show… here’s a list of what we’ve done, and what we’re currently working on.

Community

OP Resources section added to site

System Core 2019 added to NRDB

Resolved the issue with duplicate cards on NRDB

CoC and OP guidelines translation ongoing, with some languages complete

International glossary complete

@3N1GM4 has taken over as Lead Web Developer

Patreon in the process of being developed; hope to have it up for review by their moderators this week, with a lovely mix of both sensible and silly rewards

Planned content for Friday articles until March

Creative

Developing alt art templates for promo purposes

Store Championship assets print-ready

Commissioning art for Q2 GNK complete

Commissioning art for Ashes: Set 1 underway

Fixed alignment issues on corp card back

Created Runner card back

Developing new faction glyphs

Frames for standard templates ongoing

Working on Ashes card names and flavour text

Writing stories to go with the Ashes release

Planning setting and story for NISEI-2

Design

Planning release mechanism for Ashes

Discussing setting and story for NISEI-2 with creative

Development

Discussing additional 'saved from rotation' targets excluded from System Core 2019 for inclusion in a future set

Playtesting Ashes

Reviewing designs in Ashes

EDI Team

Finalising initial accessibility survey

Organised Play

2019 Q1 GNKs now mostly dispatched. A limited number of the Q1 GNK is still available for sale though, if you missed out - but only while supplies last! (a second issue with EU customs has caused more delays there; our playmat supplier has assured us there will be no issue with future shipments (they spelled @Vesper’s name wrong on the paperwork), and we are sourcing a card supplier within Europe. The last piece of the puzzle has finally cleared customs and should be on its way to European TOs within a few days!)

2019 Store Champ kits now available to purchase

Writing version 1.1 of the Organized Play Policies

1st Eternal tournament held, and considered a success! Learnings from this are being documented, ready for our next online event, which will be announced soon.

Designing Regional Championship application process

Finalized contents of the 2019 Q2 Game Night Kit

Working with Creative on Regional Kit contents and sourcing token suppliers

Continuing to search for World Championship venues

Created first draft of NISEI Org Chart with the Community team

Various miscellaneous projects, including creating tournament brackets, table numbers, decklists, and more, and revising Draft and NAPD 3-vs-1 rules

Rules

Planned first major Comprehensive Rules update

Discussed how to handle card templating, for both new and old cards

Further work on the 5 year plan; more info to be revealed early 2019

Treasurer

Continuing to sort out our tax and Non-Profit status

And there you have it! Full steam ahead as usual.

Next week, I’ll be bringing you a little retrospective on the game in 2018, both from an internal and external point of view. Until then my dear h4xx0rs,