It's been a month since POND funded and we are making some slow but steady progress!

A nicer physical prototype was printed which will be sent off to a professional board game playtesting and development group to help me refine the game and really nail down game balance. (They are known as Gameweaver games and are local to Atlanta and I've been seeing their great work since the very first ProtoATL I attended in 2018!)

There are still a lot of assets we need to get done before we can go to print, including adding the new score trackers to the game boards for tracking player victory points! Before we were using tokens to track VP, but after several playtests, everyone agreed a score tracker that you could move up on (just like in ROOT), was much nicer to use.

This month has been busy for both myself and the artist, Pond HQ, as we are preparing for the upcoming Convention Season and simultaneously getting through flu season where we both got sick.

Still, the first thing we were able to get done this month was the Enamel pin design for the poll winner: Wizard Frog!

He's absolutely ADORABLE and to be honest, we were surprised he won the poll! Good thing we asked haha. Wizard frog is the best~

Next, we were also able to get the token designs created for the Megaphone, Crown, and Lily Flower tokens!

The crown was a token that was in the game at the start of the campaign. While VP tokens will no longer be used to track each player's VP, we'll still have these Lily Flower tokens as a resource for certain cards that want to play VP tokens on top of themselves or leave them in ponds to be picked up. Finally the Megaphone is a new resource allows players to march their frogs and declare attacks! Your megaphone tokens are reset to 2 every single turn, and certain cards can get you more to use each turn (like frog with a knife!).

That's all for this month. If anyone is attending Pax East, I'll be having my own booth for my first original anime IP board game, Re;ACT in the tabletop section, so please stop by!

I'll also be demoing my next board game, Re;MATCH, which will launch around the time POND has been sent off to manufacturing. Its an asymmetric 1 vs 1 marble puzzle fighting game, very unique and SUPER fun~

You can follow it's kickstarter page now!

- Ming