Hey Crewmates,
As you almost certainly know, we proudly funded in 32 hours and have started unlocking Stretch Goals. Now we're heading into our final two weeks and hoping to unlock more Big & Nasty content before the mad rush of our final 48 hours, when we expect several more Big Nasties to crawl out of their dark corners. So if you haven't done so already...
If you've already read our latest Update on Gamefound, you can ignore this as we're mainly repeating that information here. Otherwise, read on to find out about our Tell Us a Story Competition, new Fulfilment Rates and Crewmember Add-Ons.
Yes, we’ve hit the next Stretch Goal and unlocked the cards from our Tell Us a Story competition.
Because we hit this sooner than expected, we are going to give everybody one last chance to get in their stories before we take it to the vote. So you have until 8am BST on Wednesday 23rd (Midnight Tues 22nd PDT in California) to submit your ideas on BoardgameGeek. We’ll post a shortlist of our favourite ideas for you to vote on in a Gamefound Backer Poll at Midday BST Weds 23rd (4am PDT Weds in California) and we’ll announce the winner on Thursday 24th after 6pm BST (10am PDT California).
There are already some brilliant ideas up there, so it’s going to be a tough decision—but that’s the way we like it!
Lynn has been working diligently to get our fulfilment costs down and we have good news.
We’ve been able to reduce our estimates to many countries—most notably Canada, Australia, New Zealand and parts of Asia—as well as Europe and Switzerland. This does mean working with some lesser-known fulfilment companies and subsidising certain zones from our own margins. Plus there is no guarantee that shipping rates won’t rise again over the next few months. But we’re pretty confident that we can honour our Stable Pledge guarantee with these rates. And we remain committed to scrutinising quality of packaging throughout the game’s whole journey from factory to your door.
We have added the new rates table at the bottom of our campaign page. Keep an eye on these, as we think we may be able to improve the rates to Australia & NZ even further but need to double-check on some figures before we commit to this.
One of the surprising and exciting parts of this campaign has been how many people have reached out to chat to us about the Crew and characters of Pandora Celeste. People really like them and want to upgrade their Crew! They don’t want to wait for the stretch goals to be reached – and we feel their pain - Mike wants Keni to be a part of the Crew just as much as you do!
So we’ve decided to rejig our campaign slightly. At certain times we’ll release a new crewmember as an add-on for you to purchase. You’ll get an acrylic standee and 9 crew cards. And if you’re part of the minis fan club – and who wouldn’t be - then you’ll be able to buy the mini as part of the Stretch Goal mini package at the end of the campaign. We may decide to swap between Crew and Nasties further down the line, so that people who don't want to buy Add-Ons can still get an extra Crew.
And we'll still run our other stretch goals – how else will you get the other Nasties and tools / weapons that we’re itching to give you? Those will pop up every £5000 or so. The next one will now be a Big Nasty Smackdown between the Garr’Goyle and a Flurry of Fluffies.
But it does mean that you can add Keni to your pledge right now.
That's it for now. If you haven't already seen it, Professor Meg recently gave a good breakdown of the game on BoardgameCo - and Mike posted a True Solo Playthrough of the Full Game, where he gives a masterclass on how not to be Ripley 😆. It gets really tense near the end there!
Those dark corners never looked more scary... M<
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