WE DID IT!!!

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• Shipping costs for US customers will be increasing a bit from $12 -> $18.
• A new sticker pack will be available as an add on for anyone who wants to contribute some additional support.

Ok depressing news out of the way, what's next for POND?

Road to Production for POND

• Create custom icons for dice and resources (they're all royalty free icons right now)
• Add custom art for the long fwooog cards for each faction
• Create the art for the card shop playmat
• Create a blind test ready rulebook and physical prototype

If everything proceeds smoothly, I am hoping to have polished prototypes ready to show off at Gen Con (I do not have a booth, I'll just be doing ticketed event demos).

I'll be posting monthly updates around the 5th of each month to keep you all up to date~

Thank you all so much for your support. POND received alot more support than I had originally estimated, having even more backers than my first game Re;ACT, despite a HUGE pivot in theme, though for people who have played both, I think you'll still feel my design philosophies of high player interaction with asymmetric gameplay across both games.

POND is now available for late pledge preorders!

For those of you coming to Gen Con, since they were previously sold out, I've added 2 more tickets to all POND Demos at Gen Con!

That said, even if you don't sign up for a demo, come find me at the purple demo tables in Hall B (there'll be a tall POND banner) and show me your pledge or pre-order of POND to get a convention exclusive promo card, the Ming Dynasty Frog! (Get it, cuz my name is Ming?) (Ask me about this card's nickname if you see me.)

I'll be bringing this same promo card to conventions in the future so if you can't get it this GenCon, you'll still have a chance to get it for free at Origins Game Fair and Gen Con next year!

As for updates, this month has been another busy month for myself and PondHQ! I exhibited at Dokomi in Germany, Origins in Columbus OH, and finally Anime Expo in Los Angeles CA!

Despite all of that traveling, alot of playtesting and development was done with the help of Game Weaver Games~

We are changing quite a few things from the current Tabletop Simulator version, which will be seen at Gen Con and will be uploaded to TTS shortly before Gen Con.

• Megaphones are being removed

• Starting decks are being changed
  • Before: 7 faction frogs, 2 frog with a knife, and 1 long fwooog 
  • Now: 5 faction frogs, 1 faction long fwooog, 2 frog with a knife, 2 frog with a net
    • Frog with a net now says: Gain 1 Berry, 1 March or 1 Attack this turn.
    • Frog with a knife now says :  Deploy 1 Frog. Gain 1 March or 1 Attack this turn.

We're changing the starting decks to have some more variety. Because megaphones were so important, frog with knives were basically all players needed to win. We're giving players 2 more starting cards that give you an march or attack to make movement and attacking more consistent throughout the game.

Long Fwooogs are now unique to each faction! HOW CUTE~! They'll have the same effect as before but now feature a small kicker ability unique to that faction that rewards playing into that faction's unique strengths (for example, attacking multiple times in a turn with Cowboy frogs)

• Crowns are being removed

• Recruiting Heroes will now use hibernated frogs

Hibernated frogs will no longer be worth extra VP. Instead, you'll want to hibernate frogs in order to eventually awaken them as HEROES! This will let hero frogs come into play a bit more naturally and won't feel as much like a "win more" button.

Speaking of Heroes, each of the factions have their own EPIC version that will be recruitable as a hero ONLY by that faction, deepening the asymmetry!

Thank you for your continued paitience as I, PondHQ, and Gamesweaver continue to work through POND while also trying our best to survive convention season.

The next 2 months are still filled with conventions so progress will continue to be slow, but I do still believe we'll be able to go to print by the end of the year!

- Ming

Hello POND lovers~

Posting this update a week late unfortunately as the last few weeks has been back to back conventions for me and I just returned from a very successful Dokomi convention in Germany! PondHQ (the artist) and I (Brother Ming Games) are both active convention exhibitors at anime conventions traveling around to peddle our wares, and the summer months are the most intense in terms of conventions, so our progress on POND itself was slow this month.

However we have a couple of great wins! First, all of the game's iconography is done! So instead of the temporary icons taken from free to use databases, we now have our own font icons~

Look how good they are in action:

POND will be at GEN CON this year!

Although I will not have a booth (3rd year applying and being rejected sadly) I will be hosting ticketed event demos of all of my games!

Check out this banner design that'll make our demo events easy to find over in Hall 2 in the purple tables section!

Several of my events have already sold out so if you're interested demoing, grab your ticket here now!

You can also try out the latest version of POND over on Table Top Simulator for free! Make sure to leave us a thumbs up if you like it~

4 player mode is currently being polished and I'm hoping to have it available on TTS by next month~

Thank you all for reading and I'll see you all again next month!

Re;MATCH was named the BEST game of Pax East by Paste Magazine!

Browse available demo events for Gen Con here!