And now for something all new...

Hey everyone, we have lots to report and so little time so I will do it in the form of a whole bunch of bullet points:

• We're assembling May and June packages now. We expect them to start shipping this week.
• $20 supporters will see a post any day asking to choose their wallet games
• We are moving into a new space! It's going to be wonderful but an incredible amount of work. Will share images as we go.
• Personal Space has been the most fun I've ever had in anything tabletop related. Both as a designer and as a participant. The community is amazing, and I've never played a tabletop game 40 days in a row. Today will be 41. If you haven't joined us yet, come check it out.
• We've had a few requests for T-Shirts and we're well due for the next round for newcomers. The T-Shirts just add a lot of time to fulfillment, so we're waiting for the right moment to launch that. 
• We have so much planned and only so much time, so that brings us to...

We are going to have some new content around here, driven by a few of our great community members. The first is going to be something from Tyson Mertlich every Monday. If you don't know Tyson, we met on the Button Shy discord via the 18 Card Challenges and his game Temple of Xibalba caught our eye in the recent Legacy challenge. Tyson also works as a consultant in the industry and has done some great interviews on his YouTube channel, Inside Game Design with Tyson Mertlich (https://www.youtube.com/user/PKTyson).

Hey everybody! Happy to be on board to help out with some Patreon content. As Jason said, my name is Tyson and I am a huge board and card game fan. I've been playing games my whole life and started playing Button Shy games as of Origins 2019 where I first played In Vino Morte and fell in love. I've started working on a few board games as a designer, developer, art director, marketer, and just about any other role you can imagine for a few different publishers. I'm so happy and excited to help be a part of all the wonderful things that Button Shy does and am looking forward to bringing you all some behind the scenes content. If you have any questions or suggestions please let me know!

Note: Tyson can't post directly (as you need 100,000 social media followers to have a Patreon team account - we're still like 95,000 followers away from that), but he is a Patron and will be able to see and reply to comments.

We're going to have something new every week, mostly on Mondays. Here's the upcoming schedule (that we will refine as we go)

Monday 8/10 (today!)
Skulls of Sedlec Tabletop Simulator Module

Monday 8/17
Behind the Scenes Interview with Dustin Dobson, designer of Skulls of Sedlec

Monday 8/24
Secret content release - some new images and info about upcoming games.

Friday 9/4
Community Event - We're going to run Skulls of Sedlec live and will be bringing in some Patrons to play as well. 

All of these are going to be exclusive to Patrons, at least for a certain amount of time before they are released into the wild. 

Skulls of Sedlec Tabletop Simulator Module 

Tyson will be bringing some of our games to Tabletop Simulator, starting with Skulls of Sedlec. I should note, and repeat that these are exclusively for Patrons, so it's a little bit of a workaround to get these out to you. I'm sure this process will become easier as we go but baby steps.

If you have Tabletop Simulator follow the steps below. If you don't have it, it's a Steam program that's usually about $20 (but can go down to $10). It's a solid way to play and test games remotely, which has been more and more necessary in recent months. Unlike most apps, Tabletop Simulator is mostly in your control. It'll shuffle cards and things like that, but the majority of it is you moving cards around the table and enforcing the rules. There's slight learning curve, but we're starting with some of the better games for the system.

Before anything else, please keep in mind that these games are for Patrons only, so please do not share or distribute the modules. Thanks :)

Instructions:

After you've completed that (and here's where we'd eventually want to narrow this process down), add your Steam name to this form - we will accept the friend request and start sharing games with you!

FORM: https://forms.gle/gSGxSjgdp6xdrhtt6

Eventually we'll have a nice library of games, from released favorites, to new and upcoming games that we may be testing. 

Other things in the works

We are planning on more behind the scenes video chats, including a series of short videos with me (Jason) and Lazslo Korossy. If you caught our recent Gen Con panel, Lazslo was a great host and we're going to continue that discussion with some deep dives into the inner workings of Button Shy.

We're also looking to do some group sessions of Chain Mail. Still finding the format (likely something like me running it on video stream - Twitch? - with others directing me how to play their characters. If anyone is interested in joining in, let me know.

I think that's it. Gotta get back to work, but I think we have some great new content heading your way. :)

Any questions let us know!