It's time for our first Guest Artist Spotlight: Catmint Studios 🌈🐈 ✨
Catmint Studios is run by an amazing duo team, Aubry (they/them) & Michelle (she/her)! Their combined expertise expands across multiple industries in art including graphic design, illustration, hand-lettering, and merchandise design!
"We are a queer power couple who loves making cute & relatable illustrations and merch! We especially enjoy drawing cats, making queer art, and incorporating silly puns into our work."
💌 Thanks to everyone supporting the project, Catmint's sticker design for Rainbow Boos is already unlocked and you can see their final artwork for the sticker design below!
Aubry & Michelle did an amazing job collaborating on this piece, with Michelle ideating the sketch and hand-lettering the typography, and Aubry giving their unique illustrative flare to the ghost characters and final vectoring.
How do I add this sticker to my pledge?
You can alter your pledge as much as you like before the project ends,
and for all guest artist stickers, you can add them on any time from the
"Add-Ons" menu and selecting "Vinyl Sticker".
Note: You will get to select which unlocked sticker designs you want once
the surveys are sent out after the project ends!
Catmint Studios runs their own successful online shop and social media, so please be sure to check out more of their work below! You can also follow them on Backerkit if you want to keep an eye out for any upcoming projects they might cook up 👀
Your support for Drakonym has completely blown us away! Not only did we hit our funding goal, but you helped us soar past every single stretch goal we had - in less than a day! 🐉💥
From the whole team: Thank you. Truly. We’re beyond excited to be on this journey with you! 💜
✨ The Goals You’ve Smashed So Far!
Let’s take a look at what you’ve already unlocked!
🔓 £25k - If your pledge includes the Core Dice Set, you’ll now receive a free dice pouch, emblazoned with the Drakonym sigil - perfect for protecting your hoard on the road across Akeroth.
🔓 £40k - You’ll get access to a 28-track Original Soundtrack, designed to set the mood at your table - whether you're exploring ancient ruins, flying into danger, or bonding with your dragon.
🔓 £55k - If your pledge includes physical items, you’ll receive a foldable dice tray - to keep your rolls contained (and your table safe!)
🔓 £70k - You’ll receive the Guide to Batesian (PDF) - a detailed introduction to Drakonym’s world, covering regions, cultures, and secrets to help kickstart your first flight.
🔓 £85k - If your pledge includes physical items, you’ll also get the Guide to Batesian in softcover to help you prepare for adventure.
If you’re already a backer, you can check out an exclusive sneak peek at the Guide to Batesia below! 👇
🔓 £100k - The Origin Demo Comic - a fully illustrated rules-lite demo told through story. If your pledge includes physical items, you’ll also get it as a printed softcover comic!
✨ Haven’t pledged yet?
If you want all of these extras in your hoard, there’s still time to join the flight!
Of all your amazing games I still think this one is best suited for solo. The haphazard and random nature of the heart is perfect for generating hex maps and solo adventures! I would like to see you do an official solo mode for Heart. I know I've asked you before (Would love one for Spire as well) but I'm still hopeful that we will get one. Is this the time? I sincerely hope so!
We launched Ways and Means yesterday, funded within 34 minutes, and smashed through the first three stretch goals before we'd even gone to bed. Hell, at the time of writing, we're sitting a scant couple grand short of hitting our £100,000 stretch goal in under 24 hours. Silly business.
Needless to say, the launch has beaten all our expectations and I just want to take a moment to say thank you to all you wonderful backers for showing up in droves like the hungry horde of delvers you are.
With that said, let's look at what's new.
New Add-Ons!
Due to popular demand we've added two new add-ons to the campaign.
A stand alone PDF version of the Delve Deck, for use in VTTs or print-at-home.
A limited number of the Dagger in the Heart Bookmarks packs (There's only 100 packs, so get 'em before they're gone!)
We hadn't intended on selling the bookmark packs, but so many folk have lamented missing out on them during the Dagger campaign we figured why not. (Plus it's a good way to clear out some of the spares we ended up with after fulfilling everyone's orders.) There's only a limited number of them though, and once they're gone they're gone! So get them while they're hot.
Stretch Goals Unlocked!
We've blasted through a bunch of stretch goals in a short time, let's take a look at that pretty pretty graphic to see our progress: As you can see we've unlocked:
£40,000: Four additional pages of gear for the Ways and Means! Giving you literally more bang for your buck (cause I want to channel my inner Ptolemy Bay and create more impossible guns).
£55,000: A whole new calling for Ways and Means written by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan - the author of Dagger in the Heart!
£75,000: Four additional pages of weirdos to the hirelings chapter of Ways and Means! (Might be people, might be animals, we'll see what the Heart conjures up once we get to writing.)
Our next stretch goal on the horizon is a big one!
£100,000: A whole new class for Ways and Means, also penned by Gareth! As I type we're tantalizingly close to unlocking this, and we cant wait to see what Gareth comes up with.
Developer Blogs
If you haven't already, and want to sink your teeth into some juicy behind-the-scenes developer insight, our dev blog series is still ongoing. You can read about two of the new classes already (the Witness and the Blightborn) and expect the Crawler dev blog to go live some time tomorrow.
Launch Stream Catchup
If you missed out on our launch stream yesterday and want to catch up, we've uploaded the VOD over on youtube. Take a look if you want to watch Grant and Elaine (that's me!) gibber away about the campaign. Including some behind the scenes chat, Grant speculating about a Heart skirmish game based around trains, and Elaine lamenting how difficult it is to get a specific Pokemon plushie. Riveting stuff!
The campaign is shaping up to be a great one, so keep an eye out for more updates soon.
I’m thrilled to announce that not only did we launch yesterday, butwe were funded in just 40 minutes. And when I woke up this morning, I saw we’ve already reached our first stretch goal.
I truly have no words to express how grateful I am for your support, excitement, and encouragement. Thank you so much. I couldn’t have done this without you. I guess I can breathe now… and maybe even relax. Just a little.
If you haven’t backed yet, remember:
👉 You only have one day left to claim the free postcard, which comes with an exclusive random table you won’t find anywhere else.
Yesterday’s livestream was an absolute blast! We played around with the tool, created some wild prompts together, and even had a full two minutes of the weirdest infinite echo bug on my mic. Honestly, it was kind of perfect for a toolkit about generating weirdness.
