What an amazing two weeks we've had! It's hard to believe we've come so far so quickly and it's all thanks to every one of you. As we don't have any stretch goals with this campaign, we haven't been updating as frequently as some of the other campaigns since we didn't want to bother you all unnecessarily. However, with one week left of Pocketopia we wanted to catch you all up on what we've been up to.

First and foremost, we passed 200% funded yesterday! Incredible! We hope to use anything extra to improve the quality of the materials in the box as well as pay ourselves back for the materials we bought pre-campaign.

Second, Diana has been working super hard designing, cutting, and printing the linocut bandanas and patches. They're looking absolutely amazing, as you can see in these photos of them in process.

Each one of the bandanas is nine separate blocks stamped a total of 26 times. They take about four hours of work each with heat sealing. Our house looks like a little pirate ship galley with all of them hanging around our kitchen and living room to dry. Everything smells like linseed oil, too, which is a plus in my book.

Diana ended up making the CAW! patches larger than originally planned so they could get as much detail into each one as possible. Hot tip, that pink linocut block is really satisfying to print!

Third, we've been graciously invited to have our wrap party at Guardian Games here in Portland. No time set yet, but if it works out we're hoping to run several games of Trinkit at once and pass out prizes for the three players that win the most rounds. Guardian is also hoping to carry Trinkit once it's printed, which will be a dream come true for us. Guardian is Portland's biggest gaming store and I've been frequenting it for years, buying cool games and rpgs and using their live play space for roleplaying campaigns. It would be an honor to see our game on their shelves.

One last thing before we go: Our original plan for our game board was to print it on heavy magazine stock like a number of smaller games do. This would make it nice and light and thinly foldable but it would also crease it. With the outpouring of enthusiasm we've seen here for Trinkit, we were considering stepping up to a thicker game board on card stock, either as four 5"x5" tiles or on a cut and folded board stock like, say, a Monopoly board, only folding in fourths. In order to hear your opinions on the matter, we've created a poll available only to backers. We'd love it if you'd access the poll either at the bottom of this update or in the community section of our page and add your vote!

Here's hoping for another strong week of the campaign! We're excited to see how far we can go, especially in the final 48 hours.

Thank you all so much!
Ryan and Diana