Just a quick reminder that Con Adventurers 2 surveys are locking in roughly 24 hours. You should have received a 48-hour alert from BackerKit yesterday. I'm so excited to bring these to life with all of you!
I also wanted to share one tiny update on "COMPETE" for awareness. Nothing major, but I changed the sword color to black instead of white to help balance out the colors a bit more. Everything else is the same and any other changes from here on out, as always, would be minor tweaks as needed to accommodate the pin making process.
Updated "COMPETE" design - changed the sword from white to all black.
Hello, Adventurers! I’m so sorry for the long delay in updates, but thank you for your patience while I worked through everything! I’m happy to now be here with a pretty packed update, including design reveals, survey updates, and an updated timeline.
Thethree new pins - Care, Compete, and Create - are DONE and being made! These are available as add-ons for all current backers and in the pre-order store for anyone who missed the campaign. Thank you for your interest in more con adventures! If you wanted to add one or more of these to your pledge, please make sure to add them before surveys close! Supporting them now still helps support their creation, and I appreciate all the support in advance ❤️❤️ (Pics of the new pins are below!)
Surveys will close the morning of June 26, cards will be charged June 28. You should receive a 48-hour warning tomorrow, June 24, and the surveys will automatically close 48 hours after that. You should also receive a 48-hour warning for cards to be charged later on June 26, with cards being charged on June 28.
Orders with my manufacturers will start to be placed this week. This shifts our timeline just a few weeks, with fulfillment beginning roughly mid-July. I’ll keep you all updated with production updates as we go!
And, without further ado, here’s the three new pins!
CARE, focused on giving back to our communities.
COMPETE, focused on video game competition.
CREATE, focused on the painting and creation of mini figures.
Hello, Adventurers! I am pleased to share that the smoke test is now live!
Smoke tests involve sending the survey to a small group of people before sending them out broadly to everyone. The process helps identify any mistakes in the survey process earlier on so they can be addressed quickly and early.
I'm going to give the smoke tests at least a few hours before launching the survey to everyone, but you should see them soon!
On to a few quick updates:
I've added three new possibly unlockable pins: Care, Compete, and Create. These are available as add-ons for all current backers and in the pre-order store for anyone who missed the campaign. The designs for these are not done, but sketches/WIP photos of each can be found in the survey/pre-order store (and below)! I'm working to wrap these up as quickly as possible and will share another update when they're fully complete.
IMPORTANT: These pins will only be created if we reach the minimum order needed to create them. If we don't reach that number, these pins will be removed from your order before cards are charged.
Surveys should close on May 15, cards should be charged May 18. I'm planning on starting the proofing process for the pins earlier so that I can (hopefully) start getting these sent by early to mid June.
Here's a little peek at the WIP designs for Care, Compete, and Create. More to come soon!
Sketch for CARE, focused on giving back to our communities.
Sketch for COMPETE, focused on video game competition.
WIP for CREATE, focused on the painting and creation of mini figures.
Hello, Adventurers! Thank you so much for your patience! I went from Pintopia immediately into a series of back-to-back events mixed with wrapping up proofs from my previous campaign (Mythical Bards 2) that were being a little finicky.
However, the Mythical Bards 2 pins should be in hand soon (if you backed this campaign, I have tracking and they should arrive any day now!) and I'm pleased to share that the survey for Con Adventurers 2 has now been drafted and is pending review!
Here's what to expect over the next couple weeks:
Launching surveys and pre-order store early next week (aiming for Monday, April 6, pending setup approval). I'll send another update when we reach this stage! Surveys do need to run through a smoke test first, which means they are sent to a small group of backers to make sure there aren't any errors before they're sent to everyone. In any case, we're aiming to get through the smoke test quickly and launch surveys to everyone early next week.
There will be a couple additional pins we will try to unlock through pre-orders/surveys. There were so many great convention activities brought up in this campaign that I wanted to design a few more to try to unlock now. These will be available as add-ons for all current backers and in the pre-order store for anyone who missed the campaign. I should have previews in next week's update.
Surveys will close near the end of April, which keeps us very much on track for having pins in hand and shipped out to you in May/June, per our estimated timeline.
I'll be at a convention in Minnesota this weekend and then you should hear from me again as soon as the surveys are approved. Can't wait to get these into production and to you!
Hello, Adventurers! Our time on this campaign has rushed by and we're already near the end! Con Adventurers 2 ends *tomorrow* in less than 30 hours. Thank you so much for your support of this project so far! I so appreciate each and every one of you for your love and support for my art and our shared love of conventions. Let's take a look at a few more updates:
All core campaign pins have been unlocked!
We are a little shy of the goal I'd been aiming to reach for all six core pins (plus the mini pins), but we're *so close* to reaching it and I don't want to cause any undue worry over the next few hours to see if their favorite will be unlocked. So, we did some re-evaluating on my end and I'm going ahead and unlocking the last two! All six core pins, plus the mini pins, are unlocked!
All the pins!
What does this mean for some of the new designs I was asking for input on through the surveys? The preference had been for a "COMPETE" pin that I haven't sketched yet, but I don't want to over-pivot on a design that doesn't exist at this time. So, my current plan is to wrap up three new designs: CREATE, COMPETE, and a third charity-focused one (maybe DONATE or CARE) that will be available to unlock during the survey process but would likely not be part of the main campaign.
If we do some jumping in funding over the next few hours and reach at least $3500 I may be able to pre-unlock one (I'd run a quick survey to confirm which, based on final designs), but don't want to bank on it right now, especially without even sketches of most of the designs.
So, stay tuned! I'll try to provide another update as quickly as possible.
Reveal: Badge Ribbon Sticker Sheet (Now Available as an Add-On)
Badge ribbons - little ribbons with fun sayings on them that can be attached to your convention badge - are a fun tradition at some conventions and one that I, personally, adore! The badge ribbon sticker sheet includes ten stickers that look like badge ribbons, roughly 1" x 2" each, all in colors that match this pin series. The sticker sheet will be given automatically to returning backers but is now also available as an add-on for $5!
I want to call out the details on the "adhesive cover" part of each sticker (on a regular badge ribbon, this would be the waxy paper protecting the adhesive until you're ready to attach it to your badge) in particular, which are also on theme for this series. Sometimes it's the tiny details that bring me the most joy 😊 I hope you love these, as well!
Remember to check out Piles of Plush!
My collab partner this Pintopia is Robot Dragon Studios with her Frankencorgi project! If you haven't visited her campaign yet, please do! Backing both of our projects gets you a free pin from each of us, plus her corgi plushies are SO ADORABLE :D
