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Button Shy Black Friday

Good morning everyone! We didn't go all out for Black Friday this year, but we did add a few cool things in limited numbers. :)

3 games are 50% off at just $6 each. We have 200 copies available at this price.

• An Otter Won (brand new)
• The Second Most Perfect Moment (new-ish)
• Wild Cats (old and back in stock in small numbers)

All other games are 20% off for Black Friday if you use the coupon code  "shyday". Note: this code is for Black Friday...

Time for a timeline!

Hey everyone. It's been quite a few weeks here since Agropolis blew up. We've received no less than a million emails, and have probably been able to reply to 500 of those. It's been intense and we're looking to fill a few crucial roles here ASAP.

With that in mind, we have 5 packages that have been held up and should be in and starting to ship within the next 30 days. This is pretty optimistic on the mail side, but on the production side, it's pretty realistic. We only have a few thing...

Agropolis is live on Kickstarter! Here are your discount details.

First a quick update on everything else: Still pushing forward on our next few packages. I think ideally, we'll see 3 packages go out in October. We have parts of July, August and September all arriving.

Our newest game, Agropolis is live on Kickstarter. As a member you will receive a discount, and all of the details are below. Any questions, just ask!

The first important thing is the link.

LINK: 2020-09-29 13:55:23 +0000 UTC View Post

Agropolis PNP, Lucas Gentry Interview and more

Hey everyone!

I should preface this with a quick note that I am scrambling here. I'm juggling Kickstarter fulfillment, school at home, Personal Space events and so much more this morning, so I'll just right into it. I apologize if it is brief. 

The Agropolis PNP is in the dropbox! 

Please don't share the file - the non-member version only has half of the cardbacks. :) But feel free to share photos and thoughts and anything else.

2020-09-25 13:40:39 +0000 UTC View Post

Antinomy on Tabletop Simulator for Patrons only

Here's another Tabletop Simulator update from Tyson, but first a quick update of everything else on the horizon. Expect an Agropolis PNP here very soon, as (if it gets accepted), the Kickstarter is going to be on Sept 29th. I'm trying to get it together this week. Also, we anticipate Agropolis to come to TTS just before the campaign, but for Patrons only. And other than that, the last of the May/June packages went out yesterday and we're shifting focus to July/August and Sept/Oct. Hopefully s...

Behind The Scenes - Insight: Delegating Work

It's time for our second Insight video (and again, for Patrons only at this time). This time we learn about how I do (and mostly don't) delegate work! Laszlo Korossy keeps the hard hitting questions coming. :)

And another reminder: Our Skulls of Sedlec Tabletop Simulator live session is in just two days on Friday (September 4th) at 8pm EST. If you are interested in playing Skulls of Sedlec with our host Tyson, me, and other patrons, let us know in the comments. We'll have some small pri...

Behind The Scenes - Insight: Juggling Projects

Today we have another video in our Behind The Scenes category, and this time it's me and Laszlo Korossy (moderator and megafan) talking about how I juggle all of our projects.

This is an ongoing weekly series and we intend to touch on many, many topics. If you have a topic that you are interested in, let us know in the comments.

While we're here: Our Skulls of Sedlec Tabletop Simulator live session is next Friday (September 4th) at 8pm EST. If you are interested in playing Sku...

The Button Shy Game Haul Bag is live on Kickstarter! Here are your discount details.

First a quick update on everything else: May and June packages are starting to ship. Today I'm going to mail most of the $5 and $10 packages. Hopefully all!

Our cute little bag (and our new game Interceptor) is live on Kickstarter. As a member you will receive a discount, and all of the details are below. Any questions, just ask!

The first important thing is the link.

LINK: 2020-08-25 13:07:14 +0000 UTC View Post

Interview with Skulls of Sedlec designer, Dustin Dobson

For our first interview, we have Dustin Dobson, designer of Skulls of Sedlec. Learn a little bit about Dustin's path from the video game industry to the board game industry, his inspiration for Skulls of Sedlec and his very well thought out prototypes.

We'll be doing many more of these so if you have any generic questions for designers or specific designers you'd like to hear from, please let us know.

Also, this video is exclusive to patrons for a few weeks. Still figuring out o...

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 a...
  2020-08-11 02:34:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Sprawlopolis: Interstate was added to the dropbox

Hey, quick update here as I lose my mind this week. (All is well just scrambling to hit some print deadlines, while scrambling to hit some fulfillment deadlines, while scrambling to deal with kids at home during a summer quarantine stuff).

But...

Sprawlopolis: Interstate, the 4-card, 2-player competitive Sprawlopolis expansion (with solo and co-op rules too!) is now available for PNP. It's also coming to our next packages which start shipping in about a week. 2020-07-24 16:57:25 +0000 UTC View Post

Personal Space is starting to arrive - and the universe is growing.

Hey everyone! Hope those in the US had a great holiday weekend, and those in the rest of the world ate meals as good as ours. The 4th of July has always been about food and fireworks here, and to make up for the lack of fireworks, we just ate more food.

But there were tons of fireworks in Personal Space this weekend. Here's a screenshot of District 3, my little corner of the universe.

...

Packages start shipping tomorrow!

Hey everyone! It's been a few weeks but we're happy to announce that the March and April packages are heading out, starting tomorrow. (For the $20+ patrons, we'll be asking your preferred games in a follow up post).

We have been making these next packages non-stop here forever it seems. But as the last pieces arrived, it's been the whole family pitching in with all 5 million steps it takes to get these out. They've been sorting and sleeving cards, cutting stickers, stuffing envelopes, ...

Food Chain Island is live on Kickstarter! Here are your discount details.

First a quick update on everything else: I think the next TWO packages will be heading out of here starting in <2 weeks. Just waiting for some last pieces to arrive here. Will post more in a proper update later. 

Our newest game, Food Chain Island, is live on Kickstarter. As a member you will receive a discount, and all of the details are below. Any questions, just ask!

The first important thing is the link.

LINK: 2020-05-26 13:23:06 +0000 UTC View Post

FAQ for February Packages

Hey everyone! I've been seeing some questions pop up and wanted to answer them all at once. 

What is The Second Most Perfect Moment?

This is a new standalone game of The Perfect Moment. It's 18 cards, all of which have been given out here in the last year or so. The 18 cards are made up of these three expansions: A Job Interview Gone Wrong, A Little Espionage Gone Wrong and An Escape Plan Gone Wrong. The wallet was made to collect all three of those and house them as a comp...

Package status and some FAQs

Hey everyone, just a quick update here regarding the most recent packages that have shipped (and are still shipping). It feels so good to see these arriving. 

January Packages 

The $5 and $10 level have all shipped out, and now we are prepping the $20 level. The $20 level will come along with February inside one mailer. 

FAQ: What are the 4 cards that look like this?

2020-04-21 13:37:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Button Shy Garage Sale - Today at 1:30PM EST

Hey everyone, just a quick notice that we are doing one of our annual-ish garage sales, where we dig into our stock of games that aren't currently for sale and put them up on the site. Some of these games are harder to find. Some have just a single copy remaining. Some are heavily discounted. So while there isn't a ton to go around, we still want to move them, clear out some space and get them to some of the people that want them. 

Here are the details.

There are a bunch of w...

Tuesday March 24th Check In

Hey everyone, it's Tuesday March 24th and it's been a week since we talked last, so it's time to check in. The story is the same, still waiting for parts to appear for our upcoming packages, but they are moving, just slower. During this time, we are going to take advantage of some of the less physical way to get you stuff, and today we have two gifts. 

Why I Otter - Color Your Own PNP

This is one for the kids, the adults that want to de-stress, and the PNPers that want to m...

Skulls of Sedlec is live on Kickstarter! Here are your discount details.

Our newest game, Skulls of Sedlec, is live on Kickstarter. As a member you will receive a discount, and all of the details are below. Any questions, just ask!

The first important thing is the link.

LINK: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/239309591/skulls-of-sedlec/

Also, if you want to check out the game now, the full color print and play (with solo preview) is avail...

Catching up, staying safe and a peek at something new

Before the update, a few links (and potentially helpful ones while you might be stuck at home):

Our dropbox with lots of free print and plays - plus 6 new ones today: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4i4xnkhw1kakdjj/AADgomR_xfZNYCPFjO7UxvBNa?dl=0
Our discord server where we all chat daily about Button Shy games and much more: 2020-03-16 14:52:10 +0000 UTC View Post

Universal Rule: Singularity / Solo is live on Kickstarter! Here are your discount details.

Our newest game, Universal Rule: Singularity (and Solo AI), is live on Kickstarter. As a member you will receive a discount, and all of the details are below. Any questions, just ask!

The first important thing is the link: 

LINK: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/239309591/universal-rule-singularity-solo-multi-4x-micro-game 

Playing the waiting game a/k/a updates on everything!

Hello everyone! We have some updates for you, some good, some frustrating but turned good. 

Let’s go with frustrating first:

The  frustrating is that the cards for our January packages (along with the 2020 welcome kits) are with a factory in China waiting to reopen due to the terrible coronavirus issues going on over there. We got the order in just before the Chinese New Year and they didn’t get to print it before the break (my fault, I did...

Diving into 2020

Holy moly. Last time we talked I asked for your feedback without pulling any punches, and it was both extremely helpful and extremely eye opening (and somewhat painful too! But I asked for it). I learned a lot that was implemented immediately, some that will take a little longer to get in place and some that we;re still unpacking.

Here are the few immediate takeaways:
1) Getting things out on time is very important to a large amount of Patrons.
This is somethin...

2020 Preview PLUS an optional questionnaire

Hello everyone! It’s time for a 2020 Board Game of the Month Club Preview, and a questionnaire. Every year we learn from our mistakes and try to fix them in the next. I know of a bunch (getting items out on time is the biggest), but I want to know your thoughts as well. Some fixes will be happening in January, but we want to make sure we are CONSTANTLY fixing the issues, not just at the passing of each year. One of the issues is going to be helped (but not resolved) in the following blurb t...

Random Stuff for Black Friday 2019

Good morning all and I hope the US had a great holiday yesterday and everyone else had a great day as well. 

We have a simple Black Friday item today. It's not for everyone, but we hope it's a fun solution to our problem. The problem is that with Kickstarter add-ons, many games are in an ordered, but not yet delivered state. Any big discounts wouldn't be fair to those customers, as they are waiting on the games. So we decided to do something a little different. 

For $10 ...

Our reprint campaign is live on Kickstarter! Here are your discount details

First a quick update (as always): I’ve written this update 3 times now and it crashed twice, so I’m over an hour into this update. I’d blame Patreon, but launching a Kickstarter means I have more windows and photoshop files open than anyone ever should, so it’s probably my fault. 

Anyway, August packages are sent, September are up next and Oct-Dec will follow. But no matter where we are, January is shipping in January, even if it’s before December goes ou...

Hierarchy is live on Kickstarter! Here are your discount details

First a quick update (as always): October is ridiculous. That might be all I need to say. But to add to that, we should have the last parts of our August packages here in about a week to 10 days and start prepping them for mail. The REAL TRICKY PART is that I'm heading to Germany for our very first Essen so it'll likely be right in the middle of getting these out. So expect August to go out from now until the end of October. September may go out right around the same time, as...

Catching up and teasing October

QUICK NOTE FOR NEW SUBSCRIBERS: If you don't already know, the dropbox with a bunch of downloadable PNPs is located here: http://tinyurl.com/bgotmcfiles Enjoy!

Hey everyone! It's been too long, but we are knee deep in Tussie Mussie fulfillment here. We received TONS of games last week and have spent the last few days assembling them at the quickest speed we've ever ...

September Preview!

September starts on Sunday, so we should get in our preview before it's too late, right? Whew this was a tough one, but I'm happy to say that we are really starting to see some progress in getting our packages caught up. The last piece of July is in today, which means we're starting to ship July tomorrow! That puts us one month behind, and if we can get out the next two in the next 30 days, we will be on time again. That would be wonderful. It doesn't solve all of our problems, but one at a t...

August 2019 Preview!

Hey everyone, 

As the summer races by here (and my 40th birthday approaches rapidly UGH), we have gotten ahead on some things and falling behind on others. The monthly previews have taken the hardest hit. So before August 1st hits, and I’m a few days into my forties - DOUBLE UGH… here is the preview for August’s packages. :)

$5+ Level

Chain Mail continues bringing us into the Swamps of Sorrow map a map with a whole bunch of skulls, introducing danger right from ...