Hello everyone! Popping in for a quick Teatime Adventures: Tea Pets update! We have some exciting news to share with you...two new Tea Pets are ready to make their way into the ...
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Backer Surveys are headed your way!
Hello everyone, we hope you are staying cozy in what has so far been a very chilly winter! We have the fireplace going and are warming our hands on hot cups of tea. We also have...
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Backer Survey, Dice and more!
Hello everyone! We wanted to pop in and give all of you an update on a few things before we all head out for our holiday break. So here we go!
Backer surveys are drafted and wi...
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Rose Possum plush and Discord news!
Hello everyone and happy spooky month to you all!
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That’s a Wrap!
Woooooooo! We did it!
Teatime Adventures: Tea Pets is a wrap! That’s 14 stretch goals unlocked and over 1600% funded as we now begin bringing these tea pets to life!
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Tea Pets: New Super Last Minute Stretch Goal!! New pet unlocked!
With only 7 hours to go, you all just unlocked the $75,000 stretch goal Tea Pet pair - so welcome to the Verdant Isles, Pocket Otters and Sun Clams!!!
We only have a few more h...
Hello everyone! Popping in for a quick Teatime Adventures: Tea Pets update! We have some exciting news to share with you...two new Tea Pets are ready to make their way into the game! Meet the Tiger Lily and Fluff Bear!
The elusive Tiger Lily should not be hard to spot, given its bright orange and black coloring, yet somehow they seem to avoid detection in most backyards. Like Dandy Lions, they prefer to live solitary lives and have even been known to chase the more extroverted and comparably sized Dandy Lions out of their territory completely.
The humble Fluff Bear has a striking resemblance to the lily known as bear grass. Coincidentally, this is where it can most often be found. Fluff Bears measure only a few inches wide and enjoy spending their days climbing up stalks, nosing through pollen, and slumbering away in the sun.
Hello everyone, we hope you are staying cozy in what has so far been a very chilly winter! We have the fireplace going and are warming our hands on hot cups of tea. We also have some exciting news to share… A first round of surveys are headed your way!
Initial Backer Surveys will come via Backerkit to the email you used to back the campaign. If you don't see your survey, be sure to check your spam folder before reaching out to us at [email protected] as some emails are shy and like to hide.
Once you get your survey you will be able to check out add-ons and add your shipping information. Shipping fees will be charged at a later date closer to fulfillment in a second round of surveys. If you live in the Cleveland area, we are providing a local pickup option, please select local pickup on the dropdown Country menu at the start of your survey. Local Pickup will be available at Superscript Comics & Games in Lakewood, Ohio at the time of fulfillment. Please note that we will not be fulfilling orders at conventions.
If you subscribed to Cozy Companion through the Tea Pets campaign, we will get you codes to redeem your subscriptions after you fill out your survey!
Completed surveys will be locked and cards charged starting on Feb 12. This allows us to get Cozy Companion backer's subscriptions set up as soon as possible. If you need your survey unlocked before fulfillment, please feel free to reach out to us for assistance
Work on the game is going well! We have been very busy having deep conversations about the Astra alignment of each Tea Pet. The Core Rulebook is in final layout and the Tea Pets book is going through a round of testing! I can’t wait to build my sanctuary.
My tea is quickly cooling, so I better drink it up! I’ll be popping by again soon with more updates. You can also join us on our Discord to chat with the team and other Snowbright fans.
Want more Snowbright RPGs? Be sure to check out Time Tails, our new totally rad 80s time-traveling game launching on Kickstarter next month.
Hello everyone! We wanted to pop in and give all of you an update on a few things before we all head out for our holiday break. So here we go!
Backer surveys are drafted and will be going out to everyone in January. We will not be charging shipping at this time, but you will be able to confirm your order or select and pay for your add-ons. We will run a separate charge closer to fulfillment for shipping fees. If you added Cozy Companion to your order, completing your survey will mean that we can get your subscription set up. All Tea Pets backers who subscribed to Cozy Companion will get the Holiday Magic (December) volume as your first issue! You will also be getting the December Holiday Spells subscriber perk.
Harmony Dice Set Prototype
WE HAVE THE DICE! The prototype of the Harmony Dice set has arrived from the manufacturer, and we wanted to share a pic!
Next steps…we are hard at work getting the four Teatime Adventures books ready for manufacturing, the new maps are well underway, the plush is getting some small adjustments, and we are planning to be on time for fulfillment! When we come back from break, it will be all hands on deck as we get all items ready to move to manufacturing.
The team is getting ready to go on our holiday break, so if you need to get in touch with us, please keep in mind that we will be out of the office until January 2.
We hope everyone has a great winter holiday season!
Popping in for a quick update, because we have a few cool things to share with you. First off… we got in the prototype of the Rose Possum plushie! It is soft, cuddly, and a huge hit with the Snowbright kids. We have gathered some feedback and the next version is underway! I’ve included the diagram we used when designing the prototype. We are pretty impressed with how close the first edition looks! If you want to see it in person, stop by our booth #3530 at PAX Unplugged next month!
And in even more exciting news… the fan Discord that you voted for is up and ready for you all to join! Thank you for your feedback and suggestions on what you wanted to see in our server. We can’t wait to continue the conversation over there!
Teatime Adventures: Tea Pets is a wrap! That’s 14 stretch goals unlocked and over 1600% funded as we now begin bringing these tea pets to life!
We just wanted to take a second to say thank you. Not only have you all made this campaign a success, but you have also made it a joy to run. From your comments and social posts to poll participation, we have had a great time with you all in this cozy adventure.
So what's next?
Well, we are wrangling all the tea pets into their habitats for a wee break and brewing up some celebratory tea before we get to work on… that fan Discord server you voted for! Expect an update with a link to join in the near future, as well as more information on when to expect your backer survey. These will open early to allow Cozy Companion backers to get their subscriptions started this year! After that update, we will give your inbox a bit of a break, popping in every month or two to give you updates on progress, share pics, or let you know about a new poll that’s up. We’re also always available at [email protected]
We hope you all have a nice hot cup of tea with us this morning, and once again, thank you so much for all your support!
With only 7 hours to go, you all just unlocked the $75,000 stretch goal Tea Pet pair - so welcome to the Verdant Isles, Pocket Otters and Sun Clams!!!
We only have a few more hours to go, but we just put in a new stretch goal to see if we can unlock ONE MORE TEA PET at $80,000!
You'll have your choice from runners up in polls prior, so if your favorite didn't get in last time... this is your chance! We picked runners up based on voting % and also your comments!
And again, THANK YOU, from everyone here at Snowbright. You all have been awesome!
Which tea pet are you most excited for?? Let us know in the comments!
Wow, after 12 stretch goals and a whole lot of fan votes, we are officially on the last day of the Teatime Adventures: Tea Pets campaign! If you’ve been waiting to back Tea Pets … this is your last chance!
We have had so much fun hearing from you all that we’d like to continue to chat with you even after the campaign is over.
So we have a new poll up:
Should we start a Snowbright Fan Discord?
Let us know in the comments what would be most helpful for you to see in a Discord. Are things like community, rules questions, opportunities to give feedback on Snowbright games, etc. interesting to you? And what other platforms do you use that we should be on?
It’s also our last day to try and hit that $75,00 stretch goal! Which means every share of the campaign page could help us inch our way to a Pocket Otter, Panda, or Chef Bear getting added to the game! And remember, if you @SnowbrightStudio on the post, we can count it towards the Social Butterfly Achievement!
One last peek:
Here’s a page from the October volume of our Cozy Companion magazine (releasing later this month). You’ll see that your Accordion Cat is already tucked away in there! He’s part of a section with fun activities that can be used in the game - or in real life at your table! - to celebrate the Verdant Isles holiday of Evenfall. Like a good old game of The Mayor’s Accordion Cat!
Ok back to final day shenanigans!
Stay Cozy Everyone!
Snowbright
P.S. For backers only, we have a quick reveal of the October Cozy Companion cover!
Happy weekend, explorers! We're now in the last 60 hours of the campaign!
We just unlocked our next stretch goal, so welcome to the Verdant Isles, Pumpkin Tortoise! Should we have been surprised that the hare got out to a quick lead, but was then surpassed by slow but steady voting for the tortoise??
Read more about our two most recently unlocked tea pets here:
Miniature Tiger
This domesticated cat descended from a fierce lineage of Amberhaven tigers which typically grow to six to seven feet in length. These miniature tigers, however, grow only to 12 to 24 inches. They come in a variety of colored stripes, having lost their evolutionary need for camouflage long ago. Despite their often quite comfy lives poking around farms and in the alleys behind restaurants, they still retain many of the hunting tendencies of their ancestors. They enjoy pouncing on dust bunnies whenever they spot them, and flower dragons know very well to keep their distance. Tea pet caretakers also know not to delay a Miniature Tiger's dinner by too long unless they would like to feel miniature claws coming into contact with their ankles.
Pumpkin Tortoise
Much beloved during Evenfall and other autumn holidays, the Pumpkin Tortoise is best known for its Astra-infused illuminations. These gentle creatures tend to grow to about two feet in length, and their knobby shells provide a subtle, flickering glow at night. Depending on the age and size of the tortoise, this effect most resembles the carved turnips, gourds, or pumpkins that many children and adults throughout the Isle carve each Evenfall. It is said in northern Alpengreen that spotting a Pumpkin Tortoise on Evenfall can actually indicate a mild winter between Evenfall and the Feast of Flourish in March.
What's next? We have a brand new vote for TWO tea pet pals! If we hit $75,000 before the end of the campaign, we'll add not one but two tea pets who just so happen to hang out in the same biome together.
For your consideration: Pocket Otters & Sun Clams These otters are known for storing all manner of items in their pockets, especially shiny trinkets like watches and keys. And wherever you find Pocket Otters, you're also likely to find Sun Clams too. These little ocean dwellers change color based on the time of day.
Blue Pandas & Green Pandas No doubt the Red Panda deserves all of the love that it gets, but have you heard of its cousins the Blue Panda and Green Panda? They're just as feisty as their more popular relative!
Chef Bear & Bumble Sloth High up in the Umberleap mountains, you just might happen to smell the aroma of a bear hard at work roasting honeyed vegetables on hot rocks. That's the Chef Bear of course, nature's greatest natural culinary expert, and there's a good chance that they got that honey from a friendly Bumble Sloth and the bees that it carries around on its back.
We're super curious to see where your votes take us next! Don't forget that you can also help unlock the Social Butterfly tea pet by sharing out the campaign page on social media and tagging us in your posts.
As always, thank you for all of your support as we come into these final two days of the campaign. For projects like this from indie publishers like us, we just couldn't make it happen without your support.
It’s hard to believe that we are already in the final five days of the campaign! We have loved hearing from you all during these fan votes and are so excited to get these fan selected tea pets dressed up and ready for their big debut. This most recent poll was probably the closest one that we have had yet, with the Miniature Tiger just barely nudging out the Chaos Chinchilla. The Snowbright Studio cats have been celebrating (with their claws out) all morning.
Next up, we have a special fable-themed tea pet poll for you with foxes and hares… and tortoises too!
Here are your next three to pick from:
Blue Rose Lop: Calm, kind, incredibly fluffy, and renowned for its blue ears.
Peekaboo Fox: Known for its ability to pop up in the most unusual of places.
Pumpkin Tortoise: The Pumpkin Tortoise’s shell gives off a subtle glow at night that makes it look similar to the carved turnips, gourds, and pumpkins that children and adults make for Evenfall each year.
And don’t forget to participate in our Social Butterfly Community Achievement! If you or your friends tag us and the campaign in enough social media posts, we will unlock a deeper 5E compatibility section in the books. Please @SnowbrightStudio in your post body or your Instagram story so that we can find it!
Stay Cozy everyone!
Snowbright
P.S. Do you know which tea pets are the tiniest in the Verdant Isles? Check the Backer Only update below to find out about a never before published piece of lore from the Verdant Isles world. These tiny folks will probably only be shown in the Art & Lore of the Verdant Isles book as concept sketches because their debut game never got going! Poor tiny folk!
We are excited to share our first BackerKit Community Achievement: the Social Butterfly challenge!
We will be adding a new Social Butterfly tea pet to the game AND a new section with full 5E compatibility rules to the Core Rulebook and Tea Pets if 100 or more fans tag Snowbright on Facebook or Instagram posts about the Tea Pets campaign before the campaign ends next week!
All you have to do is tag Snowbright when you share the Teatime Adventures: Tea Pets campaign page on Facebook or Instagram! Happy fluttering - and we hope you make some new friends along the way too!
Thanks for helping us spread the word during this final week!
Good morning, everyone! Can you believe that Teatime Adventures is almost in its final week? We really can’t say thank you enough for all of your amazing support in this campaign. We woke up this morning to find that the campaign hit $55,000, which means it's time to bring the burrowing Tea Pet vote to a close, and my goodness, was this a close one, with the Sugar Pangolin just barely taking the win.
But don’t worry, we have another poll ready and waiting for your vote. While we have been focusing on the wild Tea Pets of the Verdant Isles, we felt that sweet Daffodil needed a friend… so for this poll, we are presenting you with options for a lovable, cuddleable house pet!
Beagle Buddy This peculiar breed of beagle has an extraordinarily long lifespan. They are often adopted when a child is born so that they can be lifelong companions.
Miniature Tiger This domesticated cat descended from a fierce lineage of Amberhaven tigers. Today, it mostly spends its time chasing Dust Bunnies and Flower Dragons.
Chaos Chinchilla It is estimated that 1 in every 1,000 chinchillas that are born end up being Chaos Chinchillas. They can be identified by the markings on their fur and their nocturnal sleep cycle, which is their preferred time to engage in ridiculously mischievous activities.
Oh, and before we go, we got pics of the two new tea blends in from Friday Afternoon Tea: Rains of Starsong and Greenbranch Festival! We also have a backer-only peek at the Teacup Spiders! Scroll down for a link that you can click on to see these adorable fuzzy buddies.
Wow! We really cannot begin to thank you all for your support during this campaign. Tea Pets is now 1000% funded, and to celebrate we have added a new 11x14" field guide poster to all box sets and a PDF copy for all PDF and book backers!
This latest tea pet fan vote was our most lopsided vote yet! The Constellation Jellyfish had a quick jump at the start and then won by a mile... which makes sense because this was a poll to identify the LARGEST tea pet in the Verdant Isles. Thanks to you, we now know that the largest tea pet in the Isles is the Constellation Jellyfish. You can read more about these magnificent and mysterious creatures below!
In the meantime, we have just launched a poll for fans to vote on a new burrowing buddy to add to the Isles! It's a hard one... they're all so cute! More about our new subterranean pals is also included below.
We hope that Tea Pets can inspire folks to learn more about the animals in their own communities. Ready to go out and see some real life animals? Take a look at resources from our friends at the Smithsonian and Journey North to go photograph wildlife in your own parks and help scientists track real world migrations. You can also find more nature-based activities in Snowbright's Cozy Companion magazine. We're really proud to partner with environmental scientists on their important ecological work and proud to have donated over $1,000 in game profits to programs like Journey North this year.
And now... on to the tea pets!
Choose your new burrowing friend wisely. Only one can stay!
Tuxedo Mole Incredibly dapper and talented underground dweller, known for its distinctive velvet-like fur and its polite manners.
Whistling Woodchuck If you've ever been hiking across the plains of Alpengreen and heard a mesmerizing whistling tune coming from a hole nearby, you've probably found one of the famed Whistling Woodchucks.
Sugar Pangolin Armored like standard pangolins, this creature has evolved the ability to grow thin strands of hair around the edges of its scales. The hairs look almost like spun sugar (giving the animal its name), which tangles up into a puff ball that can then be sheared for cloth.
And the Constellation Jellyfish:
Have you heard the tales? As the trawlers come back across Oyster Bay, they say the night sky had flipped upside down. Beneath their ship: a field of stars for hundreds of feet in every direction. The Finfolk of Oyster Bay know the secret behind the rumors. They also know to keep their distance from that celestial sight. It signals a bloom of Constellation Jellyfish! Each jellyfish is 100 to 150 feet long and puts on a dazzling bioluminescent light show at night. Their tentacles trail behind them, delivering a painful sting to anyone reckless enough to jump into the water during such miraculous displays. Witnessing a Constellation Jellyfish bloom is considered one of the great wonders of the Verdant Isles.
We are head over heels for the two celestial aquatic creatures that have been unlocked so far (the Constellation Jellyfish and the Saltwater Star Gecko). Completed version of the Star Gecko included after the jump in the backer only update!
We hit our latest stretch goal last night, which means that Team Teacup Spider is busy celebrating this morning! We are sipping tea out of our most intricately patterned teacups in its honor, munching on biscuits, and I think I even saw a little happy dance happen (ok, that may have been me)! I can’t wait to share more information with you all about this delightfully charming little friend. If you haven’t checked the campaign page this morning yet, put down the tea and grab your floaties because we are taking you to the sea! The next Tea Pets stretch goal is a special one… see your mega-aquatic options in the new fan poll and help us hit 1000% funded!
Just like the newest tea pet, this stretch goal is also mega-sized! If we hit $50,000, we will be adding a new “Tea Pets of the Isles” 11x14” field guide poster to all box sets and as a downloadable PDF to all PDF and Book backers. This poster will highlight common and rare Tea Pets in the wild so that you can better spot them on your hikes through the Verdant Isles! We are really excited to add something to the box that you can hand to your players as they search for tea pets or display on your wall at home.
And for backers only… we have a sneak peek at a sketch of the delightful Potato Dog lounging in front of the fire below.
The Snowbright team believes strongly in giving animals of all sorts a second chance. (Snowbright Sidenote: Did you know that several members of our team have been frequent volunteers at animal rescues and that our own Communications team is led by a former avian rehabilitation specialist?)
So we're giving a few of the previously rejected tea pets a second chance in our latest stretch goal vote. Which tea pet will you save from the rejected ideas pile??? The adorably mischievous cuddlefish squirrel? The mysterious teacup spider? The very fluffy and round pistachio hen? It's your choice! The other options will be gone for good from the Verdant Isles. 😭
If you haven't checked out the other activity on our Tea Pets project lately, now's a great time to take a look. We've unlocked 7 stretch goals so far and continue to keep rolling! Sharing out our project and sharing our social media posts are still the best ways to help Tea Pets grow and add more new critters!
In the meantime, Snowbright was thrilled to be invited out to Washington, DC this past week. We attended the US Department of Education's summit at the Kennedy Center where we were able to share the world of the Verdant Isles, Time Tails, ink, and more with students and nonprofits from around the Washington, DC region.
Grace at our table in the Kennedy Center
We even got to teach a class on game development and computer science to the wonderful students from Riverside Elementary using our Time Tails learning game! We hope you all enjoyed the free dice and coloring sheets that we were able to bring!
Having fun with Ari & Zoe from Time Tails!
Thanks again for all of your support in making this project a success and we can't wait to see which tea pet gets a second chance!!
Good morning. We hope you have a nice hot cup of tea in hand on this fine morning!
We are delighted to say that the Potato Dog has been unlocked! It seems pretty clear from your votes that the Potato Dog not only looks like a potato but is also skilled at finding potatoes! We can't wait to share what I'm sure will be an adorable sketch of this critter with you soon.
But now it's time for another fan poll…this time it's all about birds!!!! So be sure to cast your vote for:
The Ribboned Weaver Bird, snitches ribbons and knots them to its nest
The Pistachio Hen, brown outer feathers with green down and commonly employed as nutcrackers
Or the Pleasant Pheasant, which is very polite
We can't wait to see which one you chose!
Stay Cozy! And maybe eat some potatoes today to celebrate the mighty Potato Dog.
