We launched GOLDEN AGE PARROTS on Tuesday, the 1st. That means we've been active for a whole week. I've been busy tying up all the ends on BIRD CRIMES, and arguing with the DMV about my car insurance. Don't ask. It's going to be hilarious as soon as it's done.
It's pretty typical for campaigns to slow down after the first 48 hours, so, let's do something about that.
First off: do you like free shit? Of course you do! Everyone does.
If you're on Twitter, go enter the giveaway! You'll need to follow both of us, do a couple social media things, and tell us what kind of birds you'd like to see from us next. Who knows? I might add them to the campaign.
Click the image below to enter. There's one big, round bird, and three GAP pins up for grabs. If you win, and you're already backing GOLDEN AGE PARROTS, I'll toss your three pins right onto your survey credit to make things as easy as possible. You've got a little under two weeks left to enter.
Anyways, on to GAP! Let's recap.
In about 4 hours we unlocked our base $2.2k stretch goal. The cockatiels, budgies, green cheek pins are available for backers. The GUNBIRD is also an option for anyone looking for a little more firepower - and, she's free to all BIRD CRIMES veterans. That's not too shabby!
We've cleared four stretch goals so far. Currently, these are the items available to backers:
Male cockatiel
Female cockatiel
Male budgerigar
Male budgerigar
Green cheek conure
Peach-faced gunbird
Lutino gunbird
Dutch blue gunbird
Pearl pied gunbird
Peach-faced lovebird
White-bellied caique
Sun conure
Scarlet macaw
Hyacinth macaw
Male Indian ringneck
Female Indian ringneck
Quaker parakeet
African gray parrot
3" Vinyl sticker for all of the above
So, what's next?
As of the time of writing, we are genuinely two dollars away from our first Color Morphs stretch goal, which is equal parts infuriating and absolutely hilarious. This would add a new color option for all current pins. That's a total of 11 "new" pins for backers to agonize over. Oh, the burden of choice.
Our next milestone after that is the 1" face pins at $6k!
This is an expansion to all existing base pins. So far, we've been unlocking the 2" full artwork pins. But, each bird has two other options: their 1.5" alternate art small pin, and their 1" mini pin.
This will retroactively unlock a 1" pin for every single current bird. For anyone keeping track, that's the cockatiel, budgie, green cheek, lovebird, caique, sun conure, scarlet macaw, Indian ringneck, quaker parakeet, and African gray. It's pretty far out, but, we can unlock color morphs for these guys too.
1" pins will be available as $6 addons to any pledge level the second $6k is reached.
Our next stretch goal at $6.9k is another batch of full birds. Because we're past the $6k, these guys will join the parrot party with both their 2" and 1" pins available right off the bat. There's some big, fat, heavy hitting birds in this bracket, including the adorable (yet awful) kakapo. Nice!
After that comes Color Morphs 2 at $7.3k. Most unlocked pins get a little bit more love with another new color option! Yellow budgies, white face tiels, and another big red macaw are up for grabs here.
The next new birds are these totally normal parrots. If we can get to $7.8k, I'll bless you guys with this trash-dwelling parrot, and this small Japanese parrot I see everywhere. I love parrots. So do all of you. Parrots! Remember: because we're past $6k, all new parrot characters will be unlocked with their corresponding 1" pin ready to go.
As it goes, I am working on further stretch goals. It's a little bit of a spoiler, but our next one is taking a spiritual page from BIRD CRIMES' book: $8k marks 4x4 freebie sheets for backers, with a few different variants to pick from. They'll also be available as stretch goals.
After that, is another bracket of totally normal parrots at $8.8k. The blue jay, crow, and toucan still need artwork, which is cooking as we speak.
There is one more color morph goal at $9.5k, with pearl cockatiels, white budgies, the military macaw, and Major Mitchell's cockatoo, among others.
The most important upcoming goal is $9.9k (or, stylishly $9,999), which is the 1.5" small pins. Just like the $6k goal, this will retroactively unlock all designs' 1.5" design. It also means any further birds, whether they're my idea or yours, will get theirs right off the bat.
Depending on how far we get, I'd like to do a backer vote at $13k. I'll toss a poll up for you guys to vote on the top 3 options... check below, for that.
I should have at least preliminary art for all of these next week. And, remember, we have the $25k griffin mega pin! Corviforms drew this excellent little guy for us. Can we get to him?
