Hello, everyone!

Just a really quick update as I scramble to pack for some overseas travel --

ALL ITEMS HAVE REACHED THE FULFILLMENT WAREHOUSE.

They hope to have the Stretch Goal bundles and such assembled next week and if all goes according to schedule, they hope to start shipping orders either by the end of the week or (more likely) the week after.

As mentioned above, I'm heading out of the country for a much-needed overdue holiday, taking off tomorrow for 12 days abroad. I don't know what my connectivity will be, but if I can report in while gone, I certainly will. Otherwise, I should return to confirm the good news that orders have gone out. 😊

If you have any questions or concerns in the meantime, Chris and Mitch will be able to respond to comments and questions, or you can email [email protected] for technical issues.

Thanks, everyone! See you shortly!
(Hopefully our trip won't be as thrilling as this...!)

Hi everyone!
As we get the physical orders ready to ship in the next couple of weeks, we're happy to report that --

You may have already received an email notification from Backerkit, but if not, check your inboxes or your Backerkit account page (which you can access at https://cassegraincollection.backerkit.com/). You will find all of the links and instructions for downloading your files behind the big blue button in the middle of your account page that says "Get Your Digital Downloads" -- click on that to see your individual links for each item due.

The books are all hosted by Gumroad -- you will have to follow the (simple) instructions to use your unique codes to download your files from Gumroad for free. 😊 If you have any trouble or questions about the process, feel free to ask here or in a direct message, we're happy to help! 

We'll be awarding Ambassador Points next, so stay tuned for another update next week!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Hi everyone!

As mentioned yesterday, we have initiated the Address Lock. Backerkit will now send everyone a final notice email giving you 48 hours to make any necessary address changes. After that 48-hour countdown, whatever address we have on file will be what we use for shipping. 

Please watch for this notification -- if your address looks fine already, you don't have to do anything, but if you need to make any changes, now is the best time to do so! Any changes requested after this weekend will require you to contact us directly so that we can make any late adjustments manually (assuming there's still time to make the change). We are hoping shipping can begin in the next few weeks, before the end of the month (April).

If you're one of the seven backers who still haven't filled out your survey, please do so now! Otherwise, we won't know where to send your stuff! 😊 If you're not sure whether you have completed your survey or not, go to https://cassegraincollection.backerkit.com/ and log in with your Backerkit-associated email address to check. If that doesn't work, email us at [email protected] and we'll help you out.

Hi everyone!

We just wanted to post a quick update to give you a heads up that we're going to LOCK ADDRESSES this weekend! That means you will have this weekend to either confirm or make any final adjustments to your shipping address before we export all order data for our fulfillment warehouse to start preparations. Watch for another update tomorrow once we have initiated that lock process.

We will also begin distributing digital rewards next week! Stay tuned for that update!

In the meantime, we'd love it if you'd check out our latest Kickstarter project that just launched on Tuesday --

By Jordan Mechner, creator of the PRINCE OF PERSIA video game legacy, and illustrator Mario Alberti.

Imagine the perfect life, a booming career, and a beautiful spouse.
Imagine all of that taken away in an instant as you're accused of a crime you didn't commit.
Imagine spending 20 years in a distant prison compound with nothing but time...
...to plan your revenge on those who framed you...

This modern reimagining of Alexandre Dumas's classic novel THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO is brought into post-9/11 America by writer JORDAN MECHNER, the creator of the hit video game franchise PRINCE OF PERSIA!

Add video game history to your pledge with these CAMPAIGN EXCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT DIARIES written by Jordan during his development of the trend-setting video game classics KARATEKA (the first fighting game that inspired STREET FIGHTER, MORTAL KOMBAT, and more) and the very first PRINCE OF PERSIA!

Please check it out! Click any of the images above to visit the campaign! 😊

Hi everyone!

Hope you've been having a good 2024 so far... I didn't realize our last update was LAST YEAR...! 😬 But everything has been rolling right along since then, and we're now at that point where we will be locking orders. We'll be initiating the order lock this evening, which will trigger a final notification email from Backerkit to complete your survey if you haven't done so already or to make whatever changes you may wish to make to your order within the next 48 hours (confirm add-ons, payment method, shipping address, etc). After that 48-hour window, your order will be locked from any further changes.

We will then process credit card charges for any balances due on Monday.

We are still looking good for a late-April ship date. We will leave the addresses unlocked until closer to that date in case you need to update your shipping address before then. We'll let you know when that lock date comes up (but it will likely be around the end of March).

In the meantime, we have received the first hard copies of DON'T LET GO from the printer, and they look great!

All of the books in the collection are of this quality, so you'll be very pleased with your new reading material! 😊

Hi everyone!
We hope you are closing your 2023 with a healthy spirit and sense of fulfillment. It has been quite a busy year for us, and we are happy to say it has, for the most part, been one of exciting projects and growth. And 2024 is promising to be even more exciting! We are kicking off our 10th Anniversary in January with a lot of big projects and announcements planned for the first two quarters... stay tuned! It should be quite a fun ride... 😊

The smoke test went without a hitch, so the rest of the surveys have gone out this morning. If you don't receive your unique invitation link by email in the next few days, please message us at [email protected] and we'll help you out.

Surveys will stay open until mid-February, at which point we will lock orders so that we can set final production numbers for final fulfillment in April/May. We're not sure exactly which week that will take place, but we will be sure to post an update with fair warning a week or two before that order-lock happens.

DON'T LET GO proofs have been approved by the authors and the factory has started preflight proofing. We expect printing of that new volume to begin in the next week or two. We'll be sure to send some pix of the production along the way. 😊

Hi everyone! 
We hope you had some happy holidays this past week and are getting ready for a nice New Year. We're just now returning from holiday travel and getting caught up on everything, including the surveys for this campaign.
 

For those of you who aren't sure what that means: the "Smoke Test" process is a small batch of surveys (about 5% of the total) that are randomly selected and sent in advance of the rest to catch any unexpected technical issues or questions that may come up. If you are one of those randomly selected 5%, you should have already received your notification and link from Backerkit by email. The rest of you will likely get yours later this weekend. Backerkit suggests we wait at least 24 hours or until 75% of those Smoke Test surveys are complete before sending out the rest, just to make sure everything is running smoothly. So, assuming everything is working as expected, we'll send the rest of the surveys out before the weekend is over. 😊

Note: If you use a @privaterelay.appleid.com email address (ie. you registered with Backerkit using your iPhone or other iOS device), then you will need to contact us with an alternate email address that we can use to manually update your Backerkit account. Backerkit has trouble sending messages to privaterelay email accounts, so that is something you will need to help us fix. Otherwise you won't get any notifications from Backerkit and won't be able to log in to complete your survey.

With the surveys going out, the Backerkit store is now open, so if any of your friends missed out on the campaign, tell them it's not too late to join the party! Anyone can now follow the button at the top of the campaign page to place late pre-orders.

Hey everyone!

What a great way to end the week — we hit that second stretch goal with some change to spare! 😄

We’ll get the pledge manager set up quickly, hopefully ready and approved for launch by Backerkit before next Friday since pretty much everyone will be shut down the entire following week. (We’ll be traveling for the holidays, too.)

DON’T LET GO is now at the printer and the other items are either already at the warehouse or on their way. This should be an easy one to fulfill as quickly as the books arrive from the printer.

Hi everyone!
I hope your Monday has been a pleasant start to your week -- ours certainly has!

In addition to exciting progress on a few other projects separate from this one, we officially checked off the first Stretch Goal here in the campaign... now everyone gets a set of stickers with their books! We showed a few in the Stretch Goal teaser graphic, but we've managed to up the creature count in the set: 11 individual stickers in all! You can put a whole flock of pterodactyls in whatever formation you want wherever you want!

Next up, we'll add a SECOND linen cardstock postcard print to each book/bundle! That's TWO linen cardstock prints per book, EIGHT total if you grab the whole collection! (These will also be offered individually in the pledge manager in case you already have some of these books in your collection...)

With only 4 days left to go, it will be exciting to see if we can reach that goal in time. While we have gobs of predictive data from our many Kickstarter campaigns, Backerkit traffic has shown to have a different pattern to it -- there's always a good uptick in the last 48 hours, but it's hard to gauge what that will mean in this case. According to Backertracker's math, we could end anywhere from $26k to $37k... So these next 4 days will be exciting to watch! 😊 We wanna make these prints! Then, if we hit $30k, we'll have something else to reveal before the clock ends.