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Monday, August 23, 2010

This Week at ADB, Inc., 15-21 August 2010

Steve Cole reports:

The weather this week was hot (70s in the morning, 80s and sometimes 90s in the afternoon). We had some rain on Monday and Tuesday (clouds continued into Wednesday) to cool things down. The Spam Storm stayed fairly calm, less than 400 per day.

A marketing meeting on Monday scheduled PD20M FEDERATION for 30 August because we needed more time to get the art done. We got the cover for Y3 done and sent to press.

The e23 project continued, including the rules parts of Klingon Armada and Romulan Armada, Fed Commander Briefing #2 ship packs A and B and the rules+scenarios from Briefing #2.

Steve Cole spent his whole week on PD FEDS, including the index, inserting the d20M stats, the height and weight tables, and most of the missing art. The project reached that maddening point that hours of work produce no checkmarks on the to-do list because they're just fixes on pages already marked finished. By Saturday night, everything for PD20M FEDS was finished except inserting the art, any final typos, cloning the book, and converting the GURPS stuff to PD20M. One of the three artists had his art in on the 22nd, and the second promised his by the 24th.

Steve Cole did other things as well. He continued updating the Wall of Honor, adding two entire pages of new people. He also sent out a Star Fleet Alert, did two starship name certificates, perhaps resolved the contract mess over the iPhone games, and updated the rules for Star Fleet Rescue.

Steven Petrick continues to work on the rulebook part of Y3, now that the SSDs are finished and in the hands of the staff for checking.

Leanna was buried in massive orders all week, but did manage to get stuff put on e23 and began work converting GLORY OF THE EMPIRE into our first Kindle book.

Mike Sparks spent the week shipping orders and quality checking incoming miniatures.

Joel continued the war on copyright violators, getting several sites shut down and torrent menus deleted. He also got the Y3 cover finished.