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Hello everyone!! It's been a week or two and suddenly we're in the home stretch!! The campaign ends this Thursday, April 3rd!

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Thank you all again so much for your support so far, now on to a juicy update!!

1. NEW Community Goal: 500 backers!
As of the time of writing, Underleaf is at 443 backers, we're so CLOSE to 500!! :0 If we make it I want to include a free premium 4x6 print of the box artwork with every game pledge to celebrate! Share the project link or any of my instagram posts to help spread the word!!

2. NEW XL Playmat Add-On
I spent a lot of time thinking about game upgrade orientated add-ons for Underleaf and settled on committing to making an awesome playmat/desk mat with the custom leaf shape! Underleaf already has upgraded card stock, spot UV detailing on the upgraded cardboard box, premium tokens and card sleeve sets so focusing on this one big upgrade felt like the right plan.

After reviewing the poll and some very good comments concerned about the playability of the oak leaf shape, I spent a lot of time tweaking the design this weekend to keep it recognizable as a leaf while leaving plenty of space for the player collections. The play-mat will be 32"x18"!

The artwork is still not 100% final but I'm going to make sure there's lots of lovely texture just like the card sleeves and card backs in Underleaf. I am still quoting with manufacturers and will be getting samples so stay tuned for photos of that! The playmat is available in the add-on page for $50 CAD and will retail for $65 CAD after the campaign.

3. NEW Sticker Set Add-On
For the frog art fans I wanted to add a little 3" matte vinyl sticker set featuring the card art for the three frog cards! This sticker set is available in the add-on page for $10 CAD and will retail for $15 CAD/$5 ea. after the campaign.

4. NEW Clear Cards Included with Card Sleeves Free Upgrade
If you've read through the rules for Underleaf (no worries if not lol) you'll know that when you purchase a frog card, it gets assigned to a category - mushrooms, beetles or berries. During play, you have to keep these frogs in their respective piles to remember. To take out the remembering part, I'll be adding some clear assignment cards to the card sleeves! So now when you buy a frog with a mushroom you just slide the clear card over top to mark it as a mushroom! Since you need the sleeves for this to work, I'll just be including them with the card sleeves.

Thank you again and again for all the love, support, shares and comments! Lets get to 500 backers!! 
Laura

Hi! Quick update: I mentioned previously that surveys would be coming this week but I'm going to push that to next week.
There's a beta Backerkit feature that might let me postpone making a decision on the shipping fees while still getting surveys out for item counts for manufacturing. This would be useful for my American backers, given all the madness described in update 2.1.

I'll need a bit of time to see if this will work for Underleaf, how it will work for me for fulfillment and how it will work for you as a backer! If it's straightforward I'll likely go ahead with that, either way I'll update you all next week! 

Have a good weekend! Laura

I want to start off this update with a huge thank you!! We were not only able to make a board game, but unlock all the stretch goals and fund all the add-ons!! I'm sincerely grateful for not only your support but your trust in me as a creator to bring Underleaf to life.

We also achieved the community goal of 500 backers on the last day which means every game pledge will include a nice art print of the box art! ♥

Backerkit Surveys
Surveys are on schedule for being sent out late this week! :)

US Tariffs
Okay so whether you're from the art community or the board game community I am sure you have heard about all of the turbulence for businesses regarding tariffs - specifically on Chinese manufactured goods. Even in the last few days tariffs have gone from 20% to 54% to now potentially over 100%, it's super unstable right now.

The good news is that I should be able to proceed with production and shipping to me without any extra costs as I am based in Canada. The extra charges would occur for me when I try to ship over the Canadian/US border. It's too soon to say exactly how things will play out but there are a few possibilities:

1) If things settle down, I can wait it out and ship American pledges during a pause or following removal of the tariffs. I handle all fulfillment in house (literally) so I can be fairly quick to get these out at the right time. I am prepared to wait it out a bit, and I expect American backers would prefer to wait and see before looking at extra charges.
2) If things don't resolve, or don't appear to be likely to resolve soon, then I'd have to look at adding an extra charge on shipping for American backers. It doesn't make sense to speculate on these numbers right now but I would prefer to split the tariff fees with you vs. pushing them all onto you. Especially as Underleaf is a smaller game and the charges shouldn't be massive. 

I want to wrap up production and fulfillment in a timely manner of course, but I want to avoid rushing into anything that incurs huge extra costs for both you and me.

Production Timeline
Getting all of the artwork and design files together has proven to be a bit too much to do while actively running the campaign (and speed-fulfilling my previous campaign ahead of tariffs) so production will likely be pushed into May but should be wrapped up by the end of Summer like I listed on the campaign page. The manufacturing process also includes approving a final sample so as soon as that arrives I'll probably make a video or at least an update to share that with you! : )

Thank you all so much again and have a great rest of your week!
Laura

Ahh!! We're almost down to the final 24 hours of Underleaf!! A quick update on the community goal, we're at 480 backers - only 20 away from a free art print for all backers of the game!

Thank you also for all the support on the XL playmat/deskmat add-on, I can't wait to see it all come to life and the playmat really ties it all 
together!! Just a quick clarification as I've gotten a few questions, the playmat is not included in the All-In tiers.

Back Underleaf before April 3rd to:

Laura