Hey gang!

Below is a backer-only link to the new PDF, which includes Game of the Year Edition content like the solo rules, world art, and revised Smarts attitude ability.

Enjoy!

Mikey

Hi Everybody,

Ray here with an exciting update about shipping. Slugblaster has finally arrived in our warehouses and we're beginning to ship them out! If you're US based, we are processing your orders through our warehouse now. The first batch is scheduled to go out next week via ground shipping - fingers crossed you will have the game in your hands by the end of July or early August!

If you are somewhere else in the world, we are working with our warehouses across the pond and are gearing up to ship out to you ASAP. We're sending a freight out to Canada next week and it looks like Germany and UK are coming online next week as well. Australia / NZ backers - your goods are already shipped!

FINGERBOARDS

Please note that we'll be shipping the fingerboards separately in all regions. So if you don't get them in one package have no fear! They'll be following close behind.

SDCC + GEN CON

Going to San Diego Comic-Con (Booth 5532) and/or Gen Con (Booth 2669)? So will we! If you're going to be there, please come say hi! And... if you want to pick up your Slugblaster there we're down, so long as we have inventory!  Just please please let us know ASAP (dm us, comment here) so we can prepare it for you and make sure we don't double ship anything. Looking forward to seeing a bunch of you there!

SUPPORT

If you need to reach us, please write us at: [email protected]. We're currently checking inboxes on Tuesdays and Thursdays so please give us a little patience if you don't hear from us right away.


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That's it for now! Talk soon.

Ray

Hey Everybody, 

Ray here with another update for Slugblaster! 

Still waiting on Slugblaster to arrive at our warehouses, so no change to the timeline. Expect all the epic kickflipping in print in July. The games are in a boat somewhere in the Pacific at the moment, but we're about 2-3 weeks away from shipping it out to you. Hang tight! 

With our new partners, we were able to bring down the average price of shipping for this campaign to consistently around $10-18 USD across the board between the USA, UK, EU, CAN, and AUS, duties included. 

You can find the full rates on the spreadsheet here (minus two contigency tiers we added for USA, to cover really large and retail orders).

This may not be as exciting as a backer, but as someone who has been crowdfunding for ten years I'm incredibly proud of our team for the work it took to get here. Hopefully, it's the type of infrastructure that will allow Mythworks to blossom going forward.

Backers, please double check on your BackerKit to see the shipping rate you will be charged. 

We will be locking at the end of next week, so be on the lookout. Once it goes out you will have a 48 hour notice before your order locks. After that closes your order will be fully charged.  

We're super stoked to announce today that for the Fingerboards, we're partnering with Santa Ana based outfit Slushcult to make the finest mini-wheels in the land! Here's a look at what the packaging is going to look like:


In addition, we've decided to offer all three designs as fingerboards to backers!

Backers who pledged at Pizza Part or Delivery Boy Tiers OR bought the Fingerboard as an Add-On - please check your Pledge Manager for a Google Form asking which design you'd like.

A similar survey has also been created in BackerKit, but we're asking people to fill out the Google Form and emailing so we grab as many people's responses as possible. If you see both, fill out both! 

If you don't answer the survey, we'll automatically stick to the Whiff Rabbit Board for your order. 

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Thanks everyone! Can't wait to fulfill soon! 


Ray

Hey Everyone,

Ray with your May update!  

Mostly done with mass production! Here are some pictures:








The factory finished assembling everything - and everything looks great! We were on track to palletize and freight everything by April 27th, 2024. 

We found some issues when we inspected the final copies, just as we were about to confirm the pallet shipments. 

That unfortunately has led to a significant delay of about 4 weeks, as the factory has to cast more dice and print those sheets, then repack everything. Womp womp. It was a big bummer to us but at least we caught it before things got worse. 

Okay, so here's what we're looking at now:

Not ideal, and way longer than we anticipated. Sorry about that, folks. 

We're working out shipping rates so we can finalize those soon. That's the main logistics task for us this month.

If you are a physical backer of both Slugblaster and Wildsea: Storm & Root, could you please do us a solid by filling out this form?

Doing so will allow us to combine your orders so you're only paying one shipping rate. We know this has been requested by some, so hopefully this makes it easier on everyone to make sure that happens. 

Next update we should have shipping rates ready and hopefully the game will be done-done printing as well.

Also, Mythworks has a new comic called Sansha & Blanco! It's a suburban fairy tale about dogs and we think it's pretty awesome. We need about $1,100 more buckaroos to get it funded. Spare a bone?

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Thanks everyone! 


Ray

Hey Everyone,

Ray here with a March update! Apologies for not updating in February - first it was CNY followed by a lot of back and forth between us and the printer, which is still ongoing but we're close! Very, very close. 

Here are some pics of our recent proof samples along with some tales of production samples to go along with them:



The Book looks great in hardcover, though this digital proof doesn't have the Spot-UV layer that will be in the final. The cover image also needs to be nudged to the right around 5 mm to account for the fold on the left.


Interiors for the most part were clean, but we found a couple of messed up pages that had to be corrected.


The Pizza Box looks great, but we had an extensive discussion about the green color on it, and how we needed to key it to a specific Pantone color rather than rely on CMYK which wouldn't be able to express the full quality of the illustration. We also had a couple of issues with the side panels and inside panels printed upside down, but you can't tell in this picture! 



The Dice are nice and glossy and exactly how the renders look. No issues with these!



The Play Surface went through two revisions. We started with a glossy finish (top) but decided to go matte (bottom), which I think just looks a little nicer given the art. We also had to rotate the configuration of the images to make sure they folded properly.



No complaints about The Slugmix, which came out perfectly.


We did have to do a couple versions of the Enamel Pin, as somehow the original ended up being extra jumbo size. Something about inches and millimeters...

And we've yet to see the final proofs for the Stickers, though I'm sure they'll turn up great!


Here's another look at the book with the pizza box, all snug together-like. 

About to go into mass production, hopefully! Each component gets separately approved, and everything has been approved except for the book and the stickers. Then, we approve the final assemblage, and then everything gets packed, freighted, and off to the races are we! All told, we're about.... 60 days out, maybe? 

So, moving! We're moving... 

BONUS: A NOTE FROM MIKEY

Hi gang! While we wait for the new edition (It looks amazing, Ray!), I thought you might want to check out my newest game! It's called Two-Hand Path. It funded early last week and you still have a few days left to back it. Check out these images shared by playtesters!