🦔Pledge Manager🦔
The PM is open for everyone now! Please finish ASAP. The PM is a many step process. You give your address and select any add-ons. Then I lock the order (wi...
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charming.games
11 days ago
🦔Park Life: Storm pledge manager opening soon!🦔
🦔Pledge Manager🦔
We need your address and shipping fees!
We were approved to open up the pledge manager! We are doing a 'smoke test' first, sending the survey to 5% of bac...
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charming.games
23 days ago
🦔Merry Holidays from Charming Games!🦔
🦔Park Life Production Updates🦔
The new hedgehog plushie sample was approved and production started last week. They should be done in January. We're racing against Lunar Ne...
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charming.games
about 2 months ago
🦔Happy Holidays from Charming Games!🦔
🦔Production Updates🦔
The Storm cards are all printed and ready to ship!
For the new hedgehog plushie, I did a couple rounds of feedback with the new plushi...
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charming.games
about 2 months ago
🦔Park Life: Storm Fully Funded 1 hour before launching!!!🦔
🦔It's been an awesome day so far!🦔
Apparently, people with the direct page link could back before the campaign went public, so we were already funded whe...
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charming.games
2 months ago
Excited thread!
Thanks for backing! This thread is for little excited comments! :D
The PM is open for everyone now! Please finish ASAP. The PM is a many step process. You give your address and select any add-ons. Then I lock the order (with a 48 hour warning). Then I charge your credit card (with a automatic note to correct payments if the charge doesn't go through). Then I lock addresses (again with a 48 hour warning). Then I ship you stuff! Thanks for your patience as we go through the process carefully!
🦔Playtesting at Protospiel Online🦔
Several times a year, game designers from all over the world gather for a weekend of epic non-stop playtesting! We've attended since before it even went online and can't wait to go back this weekend with some of our upcoming games. If you're a game designer or interested in the process, come and join!
Pintopia is coming soon. The factory finished the mold and I will have the hard enamel sample soon! Today I just have pics of the metal without the enamel Rather than force you to back again, you have the option to add-on these pins in the pledge manager. It will delay your order though. We might unlock other pins in the Pintopia project, so it's worth following along. Here's the link. https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/dylancoyle/park-life-pins-and-plush
🦔Fulfillment Plans🦔
Pledges will be shipped out at different times depending when everything is ready. Park Life games, available now. Shipping ASAP Hedgehog Plushie, available in 1-7 weeks. Shipping ASAP. Park Life Pins, available in 5 -11 weeks. Shipping ASAP. Doom Cat game and plushies, available in or after April, hopefully in April. Shipping ASAP.
Note that Lunar New Years is coming soon and will shut down all manufacturing and fulfillment for a week or two.
We need your address and shipping fees! We were approved to open up the pledge manager! We are doing a 'smoke test' first, sending the survey to 5% of backers to catch any errors in the process. Once we fix those errors, we'll open it up to everyone else! Please fill it out ASAP so we can send you your games when they are all ready.
🦔Fulfillment Plans🦔
Pledges will be shipped out at different times depending when everything is ready. Park Life games, available now. Shipping ASAP Hedgehog Plushie, available in 2-8 weeks. Shipping ASAP. Park Life Pins, available in 6-12 weeks. Shipping ASAP. Doom Cat game and plushies, available in or after April, hopefully in April. Shipping ASAP.
Note that Lunar New Years is coming soon and will shut down all manufacturing and fulfillment for a week or two.
🦔Pins🦔
Wait, pins? Yeah! We are doing Pintopia in a couple weeks and selling 1 hedgehog pin and 1 trick taking pin. Rather than force you to back again, you have the option to add-on these pins in the pledge manager. It will delay your order though. We might unlock other pins in the Pintopia project, so it's worth following along. Here's the link. https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/dylancoyle/park-life-pins-and-plush
🦔Micro-badge🦔 We're working on boardgamegeek microbadges for the hedgehog and teapot icons (thanks for the help 3patatesrouges). I'll let you know when they are ready to grab! Here's a preview:
news: production, PM, other games, qotd
🦔Park Life Production Updates🦔
The new hedgehog plushie sample was approved and production started last week. They should be done in January. We're racing against Lunar New Years, when all of China will shut down. I hope we can ship before then!
🦔Pledge Manager🦔
The pledge manager is all setup and ready to go. I'm just waiting for BK approval to open the PM, but there may be delays because of their holiday break! Stay tuned!
Other games:
🦔Doom Cat -- shipping before May?🦔
The Doom Cat plushies have gone through a couple rounds of updates. Just need to redo the fabric pattern for Star Cat. The game files are not finished or submitted yet.
Cathulhu and Kaiju Cat, new-born for size reference!
🦔Capybara Crush -- coming in March🦔
Capybara Crush is a cute match-3 card game. Each card has three critters your capybaras are helping cross the river. You want to make diagonal and horizontal lines of matching critters. Use special powers to flip or move cards in your tableau. You need to watch what the other players are drafting and time when you score because the value of each critter line goes back to 1 whenever it's scored. Do you rush and score valuable lines now, or build up a big tableau with several lines to score at one time?
Cute shedding game! You start with a big hand of critters you need to put on the bellies of picky otters. If you match the rules of the otter and suit of the last card played there, you can play there again. Draw a card to change the rules of the otters to set up big combos! Play your entire hand three times to win! https://www.hiveinteractive.net/projects/otter-210?ref=storm
Otter art preview
🦔Question of the Day🦔
Charming Games has so much planned for next year! Meanwhile, what are your plans and wishes for 2025?
news: production, home life, qotd
🦔Production Updates🦔
The Storm cards are all printed and ready to ship! For the new hedgehog plushie, I did a couple rounds of feedback with the new plushie factory. Production will start when everything is approved. The biggest change is a slightly darker fur and a bigger more durable zipper hinging in the front instead of the back (so you don't see the zipper from the front.) The ears looked too big and the face less cute than my prototype I gave them, so I'm waiting for the next sample to make sure they can do it perfectly.
I didn't design the hedgehog plushie's butt tag or hand tag yet. That's the next step!
The Doom Cat plushies are making progress too, but I think it will take another couple rounds back and forth until they are perfect!
Art is starting to come together for our spring games: Otter and Capybara Crush. More info on those soon!
🦔Home Life!🦔
It's been a busy two weeks full of surprises. Right before we launched this campaign, a friend called me to see if I could help out a game design class at the China Academy of Art/ L'École de design Nantes Atlantique. That little lecture turned into a job interview which turned into a job offer for next year! I need to look over the contracts, but I might go back to teaching. The job has 2 months off for winter and 2 months off for summer, plus I would have time everyday for family and continuing to design and publish games.
Speaking of family, Thursday morning, we welcomed my first baby into the world! She was due next month, but she was too excited to wait! :D
🦔Question of the Day🦔
How's life? Celebrate Thanksgiving? Playing any good games lately? Get any good games on sale?
news: welcome, storm compatibility, stretch goals, discord, question of the day
🦔It's been an awesome day so far!🦔
Apparently, people with the direct page link could back before the campaign went public, so we were already funded when we launched. Not sure if it was a bug, but I like starting without any anxiety!
We have about 60 backers at the moment. 10 got a bundle with the all the Park Life games. Happy to have you here! 6 people spent a dollar to upgrade the PNP files. 27 got the Storm expansion alone. And 28 got the Upgrade Pack. Thank you for believing in Park Life again! Happy to have you back! Spread the word if you can! :)
We are only live for 2 weeks, so if you haven't backed yet, now is a great time since we'll be over before you know it!
🦔FAQ: Storm Compatibility🦔
Storm comes in a pocket sized box and has hedgehog art, but it is compatible with all the Park Life games before. People, Hedgehog, pocket sized, deluxe sized, it's all good! I'll make a strategy guide later explaining how it changes each game dramatically!
🦔FAQ: Stretch Goals🦔
I'm not planning to run any this time! But there will be some exciting reveals along the way!
🦔Join our Discord🦔
The Charming Games discord is a super positive and fun community! We would be honored if you joined us! https://discord.gg/jEVpkzaJKe
🦔Question of the day🦔
What is your favorite animal that we should consider putting in future games?
