This is my first attempt at creating a keyset. I figured entering MD's Keycap Set Design Contest would be a good start. I realize the competition will be tough, but if there is enough interest I will continue DSA Season of the Witch as a traditional IC if it doesn't win.
While DSA SOTW didn't win, it was in good company. I feel it fared well in the contest. I'm really happy for all the feedback I've received so far and I'd like to continue to develop it. Bare with me. I'm trying to learn how this whole process works as I go. I wanted to give a better idea of what the keyset would look like so, for now, added is a render by
u/janglad of DSA SOTW on a TKL (Mech27-TKL by 27).
Updated 2017-10-25Updated render by Oblotzky.
Updated 2018-01-31Massdrop poll is up. Vote
here!
Updated 2018-02-24Kits are also updated now. Feedback welcome.
Updated 2018-02-24Hello. As I'm sure you've noticed, things have been slow going for the past few months. This has been due to family matters stacking up during the spring semester. I assure you I haven't dropped the project. Apologies for the silence. Some of you have asked about the project's status. Massdrop will be planning keysets for late 2018/early 2019 and the present aim is for DSA Season of the Witch to find its way into a slot during that timeframe. Is there a backup plan if this doesn't happen? Yes. But first things first. Let's have a shot at dropping this via Massdrop, shall we?
Updated 2018-06-15Apologies are in order. The long hiatus has been due to family matters taking up much more time than expected. Among them, the worst being the family trauma when my son fell severely ill, which nearly cost him his life. I'm so happy to be able to say that he's still with us today and doing well despite his injuries. I realize I should've made some kind of public notification about keyset development being halted and for this I apologize. I'd like to get back in the saddle with this and would like to do so by starting off with a poll to gather community feedback on kit design. I have worked on this with a glacial pace in the background, but feel like I'm at a point when some critical choices need to be made and I'd like your input to better visualize in which direction I should steer the keyset.
Take the poll here. I'll keep it active for a month from today's date.
Updated 2019-03-29Major kit revision. Mono alphas with an optional kit for secondary numerics. Alphas, modifiers and secondary numerics support ISO UK. Consequently the NORDE kit has fewer keys. Ortho and 40s are one single kit. The Ergodox kit also supports the UniGo66. The second ALT key is replaced with ALT GR consistently throughout all kits. Vortex and Minila keyboards supported as a separate kit. Please note that the kit images are downloaded .png files from KLE and as such are meant first and foremost to illustrate the kit layouts rather than being correct renders of key profile and legend sizes. The aim is to add novelties in a couple of weeks. The kit layout poll will close 2019-04-29.
Updated 2019-04-18Everything is moving ahead. Proxies are ready for the EU (mykeyboard.eu), the US (TKC) and Australia (Daily Clack). I've gotten a first quote from Melissa at Signature Plastics. An Asian proxy is hopefully underway soon. Work on novelties will hopefully start during this week. I closed the poll a few days later than planned because I forgot about it. I've gone through your responses and hope I have addressed most in kit rev. 2 already, but there'll be a few more tweaks down the road as well. We have exciting times ahead!
Updated 2019-05-13A quick update on what's been going on backstage. Proxy is ready for Asia (iLouis). OutragedPudding is working on a couple of novelties. Planning more renders from Oblotzky. Looking into offering an artisan raffle as part of the GB. Kits have undergone a few changes and will be up later. The major one being combining the Modifiers kit with the Extension kit. Working on kit pricing. Hope you guys are enjoying summer! Be back with you soon for more updates.
Updated 2019-06-27Hello. DSA SOTW is still alive. Here is the long awaited novelties update. This is a keyset that would've felt awkward to release without novelties. Commissioning novelties took quite some time as the work had to pass hands and real life troubles caused delays. Now they are here and I hope you'll feel it's been well worth the wait. OutragedPudding has done one hell of a job to translate two iconic images from the movie Halloween III, the jack-o'-lantern and the silver shamrock, to doubleshot ABS novelties. Final kit renders by Oblotzky will be added soon. They are getting their final tweaks and with the novelties here, we should be all set to move towards
the final countdown [sings Europe in falsetto].
Updated 2019-11-05Back from the grave! And with Halloween just around the corner, what better opportunity to unleash the final renders by Oblotzky upon the living! Also, deep apologies for going on a hiatus without prior notice. It's been a heavy year, nothing Covid-19 related, but still very much heavy and tiring. From this point on, I'll resume talks with Signature Plastics and resellers. I think a Halloween release would've been awesome, but insanely hard to time right so that was never on the horizon. A related artisan drop was something I really wanted from the very start, but at this point I just feel it could risk pushing a planned GB even further into the future. Still, I hope you'll feel that this update is in the spirit of the season of the witch. Stay safe! The veil is thin!
Updated 2020-10-25Schedule:- Submission to Massdrop's Community Keycap Set Design Contest
- Await contest results
- First render
- Color correction
- Proxies 4/4
- Develop kits Updated 2020-10-25
- Novelties
- (Something special - this means artisans!) Updated 2020-10-25
All feedback welcome!
