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Got word from the accountant we had help us with the KS. Looks like we will be able to do some great "Early bird" deals and our deck will most likely hit at 8 as a standard price. Not as low as I would want(I wanted 7) but it just isn't really doable and the early bird deals lets some people get in for that quick 1-2 deck start.

However we also got some great news. Locally a tee shirt company is going to do our art for our teeshirts. Which means we step up the shirt in quality and get the shirts without shipping and can customize them more than originally thought. We got to drop it down to 15.00 for a double printed shirt with custom sleeves if a long sleeve one.

We also got a look at our custom dice and poker chips. Both are amazing. It is all coming together.

Are the dice d6s or will there be a polyhedral set? I know it's usually a d6 for these but since it's tied to an RPG I figure it's worth asking.

neongrey wrote:Are the dice d6s or will there be a polyhedral set? I know it's usually a d6 for these but since it's tied to an RPG I figure it's worth asking.

D4's, 6's or 10's.

Oh, I like you.

Got some art bits.
Queen of Hearts on the card, Spades without the spade(still under redesign) Also a couple others in various forms that will be finalized tonight. Looks like Wednesday is our go day.
Also a first pass out one of our Dragon Jokers.

Whoops.
Here is the Dragon Joker draft.

Once we get the black dragon joker I will then decide if I am keeping dragons as jokers or not. I have 3 sets of Jokers to decide from.

That Dragon joker is pretty nifty! By "Black Dragon Joker" did you mean that red smoke will be black? Because personally I think that would look amazing.

That would look good. We will actually have a unique joker for the black joker that is another dragon and most likely it will have blue shading with the black and white to continue our tri color shading on the face and Ace cards. I will show it. I am assuming the artist will be done soon.

Our new Spade

When you launch your project on KS !? Thanks

Oswin wrote:When you launch your project on KS !? Thanks

November 1st if everything falls together correctly. It should. I don't see much impacting us. We have one person helping us on the east coast so the Hurricane Sandy may slow us down by a day or so.

malanthrax wrote:Our new Spade

LOVE IT!

MagikFingerz wrote:

malanthrax wrote:Our new Spade

LOVE IT!

Thanks Magik. I really appreciate the ideas and pushing to get that done that you personally did. I could have really bumbled that and thinking about it, reading your comments and a couple others, then going back to the drawing board really helped us.

My pleasure

I always enjoy contributing with what I can to a deck design. It makes it all the more enjoyable and personal to back and own the decks.

Ok all.
Here is the preview KickStarter. We are missing Spades cards in various places(to be put in tonight or tomorrow) editing needs to be done, and final art has yet to be posted. The general rewards are placed, and a section for managing pledges has been placed as well.

Things I am thinking about changing:
Full size cards for kings and samples. Makes the KickStarter look HUGE.

Feel free to hammer away.

Link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/117 ... n=ec682a3e" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Some notes:
Pricing has been specced out. If you see something really amiss feel free to post it and I will check it out. I could have copied a price wrong.

Card prices. We have 3 offerings. 2 early birds and the normal price at 8.00. We tried to lower our international prices to the lowest possible cost without impacting any other rewards but if you see something amiss point it out.

We didn't go nuts on rewards. We have a couple unique extras but many are limited because WE are producing them. So instead of 1000's of card boxes we have a couple dozen that will be boosted if we get a large number of pledges at those levels.

If that sounds idiotic, feel free to say so.

Yeah, I'd probably thumbnail and link full versions on the cards. It's really good that you're offering the images of the full cards because it really shows off the great detail, so I wouldn't lose them entirely, but they don't need to be in people's faces.

You've honestly got the best rate on shipping to Canada I've seen, so I have to say that's very much appreciate.

Got a typo when discussing the pips: "a razer sharp weapon for the Spades," -- should be 'razor'.

I have to say too that the steel cards are a really neat idea, I'm definitely interested in those, price permitting.

THanks Neon!

New 9 of spades mock and Ace

How does the 2 different colored back designs fit into the rewards? Can you specify which colors you want in a PM or something?

And is the early bird for single decks only?

The early bird is "currently" for 1 deck. There are variations of that reward. Some with unlimited and some with 1. So we went with 1. But you aren't the first to ask. So I am going to go change it to unlimited.

IF...IF we hit the stretch goal for the other back than those who pledged would be able to exchange 1 for 1.

Changed early birds to unlimited amount of decks.

Oh, it's a stretch goal. Coolio

MagikFingerz wrote:Oh, it's a stretch goal. Coolio

Thanks for pointing out that I wasn't making that clear. I now made a heading for it.

Well, I DID just skim through it

But I'm sure others will/would have too.

Thanks guys. Make sure to spread the word if you can! I will try to post here and get it added to the KickStarter list as well.

Looks like we will be launching tonight unless something comes up. I will post here when we do.

When is this KS campaign launching?

CBJ

CBJ wrote:When is this KS campaign launching?

CBJ

Most likely tonight. I will post here and throw a post into the KS thread as well to alert you guys.

What I think CBJ meant, considering you said tonight in your previous post, is that it would be nice to have a set time to go by. Especially for those of us who are in different time zones, "tonight" isn't very specific.

MagikFingerz wrote:What I think CBJ meant, considering you said tonight in your previous post, is that it would be nice to have a set time to go by. Especially for those of us who are in different time zones, "tonight" isn't very specific.

I will try to find out. It is not entirely up to me. Though I do give the final go ahead. I am waiting on 2 things. I will post back as soon as I know that exact time.

Yeah, I meant time.. sorry


I play poker every Tuesday night, just want to make sure I'm in for the early bird

CBJ

The tuck box on the project page does not show Bicycle branding but the title says that it is a Bicycle deck. Will it be Bicycle branded?