The upshot: As of now, we are still on track to fulfill in November!
For more details, read on:
There was a slight manufacturing delay, but after last year, we had already worked in a bit of a buffer to account for that in our anticipated delivery timeline. And then this morning we were informed of another delay.
Now we're cutting it a bit closer, but nevertheless based on current information, we should still be able to fulfill rewards in November, meaning before Hanukkah!
Aside from the games themselves:
The cards are all printed ✅
The stickers are all printed ✅
The enamel pins are ready to go ✅
The upgraded 3D gold menorah turn trackers are printed, assembled, and packaged ✅
We are doing what we can to ensure everything else goes smoothly with the games, but unfortunately, quite a lot is out of our hands. Both the delays mentioned above have to do with the manufacturer, not anything on our end. We're disappointed, but we're reworking plans to ensure everything is set on our end when the games are ready.
Print & Play:
This part is in our hands, and we're happy to share it is almost ready to go! We are testing how the file prints, but it should be ready to send out next month.
PNP files will go out through the Backerkit pledge manager, which is a step we still need to figure out but have seen work many times, so hopefully it will be straightforward for all of us.
On that note: if you haven't completed your survey, you may not receive the PNP!
Surveys need to be complete in order for your rewards to be fulfilled, and to our understanding, that includes digital downloads. So please, please make sure to go fill out your survey if you haven't yet!
BackerKit has been reminding me for 2 months that y'all were due another update, but I had nothing much to show and so didn't want to just send three lines to say I was waiting for things to move on...
Well, now they have moved on, big time! First, I have received a bunch of new illustrations by François, including this gorgeous map which will open the book:
A map of Poppy Valley for you to fill in! Where do you see Frog and Rabbit living?
That's but one of the new illustrations you'll find in the book, which is now looking more beautiful than ever!
Secondly, thanks to François's delivery, I've been able to start prepping the print files for both the book and the stickers. Barring any last minute catastrophes (they do sometimes happen) I'm now expecting to receive everything in the first weeks of October. I know it's later than I had indicated in my previous update and I'm sorry for that; I hope you'll bear with me 'till then.
I'm neck deep in Affinity files right now, but once I'm done (in a week or two) I'll launch the surveys which will allow you to pay your shipping fees and add anything you want to add to your order.
Thank you for your infinite patience! I'm sure you're as excited as I am to see what the finished product looks like, but I assure you I'm a thousand times more nervous ;)
I'll write to you again when I launch the surveys!
Best, Côme
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Bonjour tout le monde !
Ça fait 2 mois que BackerKit me rappelle qu'il faut que je vous écrive des nouvelles, mais je n'avais pas grand chose à vous montrer et ne voulais donc pas juste envoyer 3 lignes pour dire que j'attendais que les choses avancent...
Eh bien ça y est, elles ont bien avancé !
Tout d'abord, j'ai reçu un paquet de nouvelles illustrations de François, qui incluent cet aperçu de Grenouille et Lapin à la pêche :
Quand je les vois comme ça j'ai envie d'en faire des peluches, mais restons raisonnables
Ce n'est que l'une des nombreuses nouvelles illustrations qui seront présentes dans le livre, qui est à présent plus beau que jamais !
D'autre part, grâce à la livraison de François, j'ai pu commencer à préparer les fichiers d'impression pour le livre et les stickers. À moins d'une catastrophe de dernière minute (elles surviennent parfois) je m'attends à présent à tout recevoir dans les premières semaines d'octobre. Je sais que c'est plus tard que ce que j'avais indiqué dans mon billet précédent et je m'en excuse ; j'espère que vous saurez patienter jusque là.
Je nage pour le moment dans les fichiers Affinity mais dès que j'en suis sorti (d'ici une ou deux semaines) je lancerai les formulaires qui vous permettront de payer vos frais de port et d'ajouter tout ce que vous souhaitez à votre commande.
Merci pour votre patience infinie ! Je suis sûr que vous êtes aussi impatient⋅es que moi de voir à quoi ressemble le résultat final, mais je peux vous assurer que je suis mille fois plus nerveux que vous ;)
Je vous écrirai à nouveau quand je lancerai les formulaires !
We just got back from Gencon and Comicon and after 2 super fulfilling but grueling weeks we are excited to tell people about a few of the major updates. We put up a pole to get feedback from fans throughout both of the cons and there was a clear winner for the updated card back.
Life Proof Stool Pigon Back
We made this new back decision for one major reason. Becuase this is going to be your go to backpack deck, we want to protect it from all that life can throw at it so with our chosen white core we thought it best to add a variable pattern in white. With that said, we still wanted to keep symmetry whil mainiting the identity of the game.
Whats next?
At Gencon we spoke to a couple different manufactures to determine the best available plastic clamshell to make sure you can safely take these cards everywhere you go. We should be able to finalize that decision soon.
Check back soon and we will update you when the cards go into manufacturing!
We have some exciting news to share with you all about a rules update that we are working on. While Hare to the Throne is meant to be played with the two pre-made decks, we also wanted to see if we could give some deckbuilding options for players to try as they get more experienced, and with that we landed on our Constructed ruleset!
In Constructed play, rather than using the standard pre-built deck, you get to build your own! Construct a deck in your own time, then face-off with someone who has done the same. Constructed is a good mode for anyone looking for a classic trading card game experience and an excellent mode to explore if both you and a friend have their own copy of Hare to the Throne!
Deck Building Rules
When building your deck, you have to follow these rules:
Your deck must contain between 20 and 30 cards. No more, no less.
The power value of all the cards in your deck added up may not exceed 110 (which is the same power level as the base deck has).
Your deck may contain a maximum of four copies of any card. Cards count as “the same” if they have the same title. For instance, Hazelinde, Heir and Rambert, Heir count as the same card since they are both an Heir.
Game Rules
The rules of play are otherwise the same as usual. When playing constructed, it is recommended to play best-of-three, or best-of-five sets rather than single games. This way, both players will get the opportunity to win information on the contents of their opponent’s decks, so you can effectively try to counter their plays in the later games.
Example constructed deck Above is an example deck that we made, where we added an additional Heir and two additional Theodore's for a lot of additional bursting power, at the sacrifice of the Monk, Trapper, Alchemist, and Jester. This leads to a more focused list, but also missed out on a lot of additional powerful cards.
If you wish to tinker with your own decks, we have created a deck builder for Table Top Simulator that you can use to start crafting decks and face-off against your friends!
Closing We are super happy that we can offer different ways of playing the game to allow everyone get as much value out of Hare to the Throne as possible and play how they like. We are having a blast fleshing out the game more and more and cannot wait to share more in the near future.
It's been a busy summer over here but I wanted to give everyone a quick update.
Design and testing continues over here! Got a little behind schedule but there should be no problem in getting these games to everyone by November, which was the promised date. Been doing a lot of tinkering over here not only with Beetle Battle but with a bunch of other little designs. A few of them family friendly little games for my son.
You can check them out on my itch page. They're all free to download and play.
Anyway, I'll have more updates at the end of the month!
Hope everyone's having a great summer and I'll update everyone soon.
Hello! I'm flying to America tomorrow for Gen Con! We'll be at booth 2844 with very limited copies of each of our games and plushies! Like dozens to a couple hundred of each. Come by fast if you want something!
We've shipped out 96% of Red Panda Surprise and Use Up All Your Sick Days. We'll finish the last few orders after Gen Con. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to message me (it's fastest via https://charming.games or on instagram or discord. Leaving a comment here doesn't alert me for a day or two).
Cheers, dylan Charming Games
P.S. We also got our Spiel Essen booth number: 4E415. See you soon!
Just a small message to let you know that the survey has been approved and we have launched the survey. It will get rolled out over the coming days so keep an eye out for that.
In other exciting news, we have opened up the pre-order store! If you missed your chance to back our project, or want additional copies, you should be able to do so from this moment :D
The Hare to the Throne survey will go live soon! Please be sure to fill it out as it contains important information related to your pledge such as where you live and whether you’d like to add anything to your order.
It’s been about a month since our last update so we figured we’d also let you know what we’ve been up to lately. Right now we are talking to manufacturers, comparing different quotes and options to figure out how to produce the nices possible game for the raised funds. In the meantime the designers are hard at work creating the two alternate formats that will ship with the game: multiplayer and constructed play, as Lotta is working on additional artwork.
Here is a very early sketch of Hazelinde
We’ll post again once we have more to share ^^
Don’t forget to fill the survey,
And as always thank you for supporting Hare to the Throne!
The games are deep into production, and we're working on all the logistics of getting them into the US. We're in a bit of a "no news is good news" situation on that front. But there are other things to discuss:
At this point, 80% of you have filled out your surveys! For those who haven't had a chance yet, please remember the deadline is July 22nd. This is a firm cutoff date due to the logistics of fulfillment.
If you aren't able to fill out your survey in time:
Your pledge tier rewards will still be counted, but we can't guarantee the availability of any add-ons.
If your rewards include cards or stickers, you will receive designs at random.
When it comes time to ship, you will have one more chance to update your shipping address and your payment method, to cover shipping fees and any applicable taxes.
We want you to get the goodies you choose! But the only way we can make that happen is if you fill out your survey.
Plus, Backerkit is very generously hosting some demo sessions at their booth throughout the convention, and one of those games will be Gelt Galore: Pocket Edition!
Here's the full schedule of demos:
So stop by Saturday, August 1st, at 4pm to check out both editions of Gelt Galore and say hi to Irina!
Mention Treats Galore to get a free sticker on the spot!
1 per person
She'll also have some treats for those who play the game. So if you're at GenCon, make sure to come by!
So I received my order packaged with Use Up All Your Sick Day which was cool. But I didn't get my Early Bird item which I'm at this point not even sure if it's a physical item or not. So I'm just wondering did anyone recieve
a poem about red pandas?
