It's Friday, so that means time for a new Art Preview! This time we have some updated Barataria art and some Naturopolis for you.
Here we have some finished artwork for Naturopolis. We cant wait to get these printed. The fun thing about the -Opolis games are all the little details hidden in the artwork. You can see boats, campers and cars. These little details just make the little w...
2022-08-19 14:48:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone. Just a quick update on this weeks status. We are just now finishing up the very time consuming task of completing the rules for Battlecrest. Since it ran a bit longer than expected I had to push back some of the dates. We apologize for this but we should have a better understanding of when we will be ready to ship now. We don't want to bump the dates back each week so we gave ourselves more than enough breathing room.
2022-08-16 19:23:40 +0000 UTC
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Hi, welcome back to our Friday Art Preview! This week we have some expansion images so share with you.
This image has all four of the new fish in Fishing Lessons: Fabled Fish. We decided to pick uncommon and rare fish that would be hard for the family to find. Researching this was a lot of fun and we came up with 4 really unique fish. My favorite is the Piebald Catfish. (that's the spott...
2022-08-12 19:38:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, here is this week's status update. As mentioned earlier today we will be shipping the June RPG with July or August's package. Nearly all of June is complete. We will be sending the games to our UK hub on Wednesday so we can fulfil those packages shortly after.
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Hi, everyone! We're back with another Friday Art Preview. This week we have some card elements as well as a few cover pieces to share.
Here we have a few rocky mountainous zones from Naturopolis. They're so tiny on the card but when zoomed in you can really see the detail that goes into these little illustrations. Danny and Marty have really worked hard to make all the rocky c...
2022-08-05 19:54:12 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been a year since Leland Williams passed on. A year later, his family remembers his humor, warmth and – especially – his love of fishing.
In Fishing Lessons, you play a member of his family going out on a solo fishing trip. With a specific sporting goal in mind, you'll recall lessons and memories from Leland. If you piece together the lessons in just the right order, you'll have a great day on the lake!
The first important thing is the campaign l...
2022-08-02 12:31:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone. We are busy working to bring you your monthly games! We have sent out all $5 and $10 June packages. Due to some wallets not arriving yet, we had to push some dates back by a week. We're trying our hardest to stick to these dates but sometimes things slow the process a little.
2022-08-01 19:37:20 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone, welcome back to another Friday Art Preview. This week we have a few announcements first.
Fishing Lessons, the newest solo game from Scott Almes, is now available for you to download on the dropbox! Just follow the link here: Fishing Lessons PNP
For our second announcement, the Fishing Lessons Kickstarter goes live Tuesday. To follow along t...
2022-07-29 19:32:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone, we're back with our weekly Status Update. We have completed May packages (with the exception of the international that will be shipping with June). We will begin June packages this week.
Hi there and welcome back to another Friday Art Preview. This time we have some completed cards to share with you.
If you recall, a while ago I shared some rough concepts for At the Helm. Today I have a few cards that are ready and going to print. This one is one of the item cards. In the earlier version the layout was a bit more rough and the item was not colored in. We feel ...
2022-07-22 19:06:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, here is this week's status update. A lot of packages went out today so check your email inboxes for those shipping notifications! Everything else is still on schedule.
Hello and welcome back to our Friday Art Previews. This week we have some super rough sketches for an upcoming game as well as a more complete near ready card. Today's theme for the images is the sea!
Here we have a layout sketch for our upcoming game Barataria. You may recognize this as the winner of our legacy game challenge. This one is super early in it's illustration stage so t...
2022-07-15 18:49:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the Status Update for the week. We are still on schedule to meet the dates on last week's update, so not much has changed on these. This week we will be sending out the remainder of the May packages with the exception of the international packages that will be sent with June.
Hi, welcome back to our Friday Art Preview. This week we have some works in progress to share. Everything here is getting closer and closer to being complete!
Ok, first up is an update on the Fishing Lessons cards. We have here the Carter card and an assortment of fish cards. We're really happy with the way the artist was able to add so much character to the fisherman as well as the fish themse...
2022-07-08 17:57:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I have an announcement, we are now adding a few games to the dropbox! Available now on our Dropbox is our second roleplaying game: The Family Dinner. Also added today is the newest Agropolis expansion, Seasons. Both of those can be downloaded now.
Link to our dropbox: https://tinyurl.com/bgotmcfiles
There will be some games leaving the dropbox soon. The following games will be leaving July 15th, so...
2022-07-07 19:47:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, sorry for the delay on our status update as the office was closed for 4th of July. In this week's status update you might notice some dates shifted by about a week. As components ship to us it becomes more clear when we'll be able to ship them to you. May $5 and $10 packages were assembled today and are shipping tomorrow. All other May packages will begin shipping next Wednesday. See more details below.
2022-07-06 18:09:55 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone. Michelle here with a short update about the Reprint Campaign over on Gamefound. Backers have voted for Ragemore, Tides and Mint Julep to be reprinted in addition to the opening collection (Revolver Noir, SpaceShipped and Wonder Tales). The Tides: Fun in the Sun and both Mint Julep expansions are also available as add-ons. Please note that these will not be coming in future club packages as they are not new expansions. You can find out more about all of the games on the campaign p...
2022-07-03 10:34:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi, welcome back to another Friday Art Preview! This week we will be showing off some artwork and cards from some upcoming expansions that are part of our Reprint Campaign and coming to future months here.
First up is the cover for SpaceShipped Lockdown. One of the thing's I really love about the SpaceShipped art is how unique each planet is. Our artist painted so many planets so we...
2022-07-01 19:55:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Before anything, we want to let everyone know that tickets for Shycon Nashville go on sale tomorrow morning at 8:30AM EST. Shycon is our very first convention and it's limited to 75 people total. (I know Nashville isn't doable for everyone - and at 75 people too, but if it goes well next year we will do this again in a total different area of the US.) More details at this link, it's going to be awesome. 2022-06-29 18:04:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi, here is the current status for April, May, June and July packages. As always, the status can be viewed on our web site and our discord. If you have any questions please go ahead and ask in the comments.
2022-06-27 13:01:17 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone, today we have another art preview. This one will focus a little more on the graphic design end of things as we have a lot of cards laid out and ready for print.
For The Family Dinner we have 3 new expansions coming soon. This one is all about meat, so we decided to go with a stencil font that looks as if it is stamped right on the page. We wanted the text to feel...
2022-06-24 18:22:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi, starting today we have a new format for giving you status updates. As mentioned last week, we will be posting weekly status updates right here on Patreon. They will also be posted on our web site as well as Discord. Unlike our older status images this will give you a more direct update on each of our patron tiers. It'll also be telling you what you will get in your packages. I hope you find this useful,...
2022-06-20 19:15:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi, welcome to another Friday Art Preview. Not much new artwork came in this week but we still have some stuff to share. Let's jump right into it!
I've shown you some art from Exploring Galapagos before but now I have a 99% there full card. We had a difficult time deciding how we wanted to design the top of the cart. This went through many revisions, some of which had text at the to...
2022-06-17 18:36:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone, Jason here. This is our first week of full staff after a bit of COVID in the office, so I apologize for not having this ready last Monday. It was just bare minimum staff working in different locations, so we had to work on the most urgent items. Anyway, after posting our questionnaire two Friday's ago, it seems like the two biggest information struggles are onboarding and status. We are working on both here, and I have an update on status for everyone.
First of all, ...
2022-06-13 14:22:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, welcome back to another Friday Art Preview. This week I have some completed art and some in progress stuff to share.
This illustration is for an upcoming chapter of AdvanceQuest. Our artist, Edgar Gómez, specializes in creepy illustrations like the above. This will be the cover art and as you probably guessed, yes there will be a few spiders in the que...
2022-06-10 18:42:38 +0000 UTC View Post
We're having some COVID issues in the office this week and nobody is there today. Everyone is either sick, maybe sick, or staying home to avoid being sick. So instead of the normal art preview, I figured I'd jump in with something different. But I am showing one piece of art. We have a near final cover for Fishing Lessons. Just wrapping up textures and all of that, but this is so close to being done. It's such a great one, really capturing the tone of the game.
So if we aren't pre...
2022-06-03 17:04:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Friday, welcome to another Art Preview! This week we've had some progress on some games I've shown previously.
Here we have a card from an expansion for The Family Dinner. We have 3 expansions in the works and each one is based on a different theme. This Chicken Nugget card is from a kids themed expansion. In keeping with that theme we decided to make the text look like it was hand...
2022-05-27 19:15:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, welcome to another Friday Art Preview. We didn't get a whole lot of new artwork this week but with so many games in progress there will always be something to share.
First up we have Naturopolis. Marty has been busy working on this and now we have some card backs to share! The card backs follow the same format as the other "Opolis" games. Each card back has a scoring condition. Th...
2022-05-20 19:33:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, welcome back to our Friday Art Preview! I just got some new art in this morning so you're the first to see these. So let's just jump right in.
In our first art preview I mentioned At The Helm. This game is still pretty early in it's development but there are still a lot of art assets. Our artist sent us 20 illustrations, each with this hand drawn style. When desig...
2022-05-13 18:43:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Button Shy Games Battlecrest is live on Kickstarter! Here are your discount details.
Battlecrest is a card-based tactical skirmish game for 2 players (1-4 with expansions), unlike any other. With perfect information, players must truly outwit their opponent to win. Players take turns maneuvering their ch...