a thrilling rock-scissors-paper dueling card game for all ages by Pat Casao & pabloKM
Latest Updates from Our Project:
ONE week left for Reward Surveys! Photo campaign, GotchaCenter, and more!!
12 days ago
– Sat, Nov 09, 2024 at 09:06:37 AM
Hey y'all!!
At the time of this writing, 94% of reward surveys are completed! Only 16 left to hit that 100%, but to keep things moving we've gotta start moving forward. In one week (Saturday 11/16), we'll be locking the existing surveys and preorders and kicking off production.
If your survey isn't completed by then, we'll do our best to deliver it as soon as possible but you'll be losing queue priority and might not get processed until early 2025.
If you're having issues with the survey, please send us a support message or leave a comment and we'll help out ASAP.
Our support email is: support [at] hyperheartcomputing [dot] com
We'll be keeping the preorder page up for a bit longer, so if you missed the campaign and want to grab a deck the PREORDER price, you can grab a deck on our BackerKit HERE:
[Who Wins?] Campaign!
Did y'all catch our photo campaign? We collaborated with the incredible Serrandononthis set, and they look like they'd fit right into a 90s gaming magazine.
To introduce new players to GotchaCards, we produced a set of short videos! We break down the concept of the game, show off a demo game, and introduce a few of the early cards.
Foil Decks
Check out the final deck box for the foil decks! Pablo did a fantastic job sprucing up the box design for this special edition of the game, and it CLEARLY indicates that this deck's got a little somethin else goin on inside.
shiny cardboard..
At this point we just need to tally up the final counts and place our big order so we can kick off production and shipping! Super lookin forward to getting these games OUT of our hands and into yours.
Thank you to everyone that's supported GotchaCards so far, and please look forward to the next update!
-Pat & Pablo HyperHeartComputing
Rewards Surveys & GotchaCards Progress!
about 2 months ago
– Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 12:24:16 PM
Hey y'all!!
At the time of this writing, 76% of reward surveys are completed! THANK YOU to everyone that's completed them so far. Only 80 more to go!!
Help us out by completing your survey as soon as possible! The sooner we get these orders in, the sooner we can ship these out. If you're having issues with the survey, please send us a support message or leave a comment and we'll help out ASAP.
Our support email is: support [at] hyperheartcomputing [dot] com
If you missed the campaign and want to grab a deck the PREORDER price, you can grab a deck on our BackerKit here:
Artist Kickback for Merchandise
Remember those cool acrylic charms we talked about in the last update?
shiny paperrrrr
We've implemented an artist kickback for the acrylic charms! For each guest artist charm sold, that artist is getting $1. Going forward, our plan is to make sure extra merch featuring guest art includes a cut for the artists.
let's get these artists PAID babeyyy
We love the work we've done with our collaborators, and what better way to show our appreciation than throwing them a piece? Add the charms to your order via backerkit survey, or place a preorder HERE.
Final Boxart
Check out the final boxart for a standard deck! We're really happy with how these turned out, and we're just waiting on the foil deck test print to get here for review. We should have them ready to show off in the next update post!
let's GOTCHAAAA
Reference Cards
Each deck will include a pair of two-sided reference cards. Starter Tier cards on one side, Advanced Tier cards on the other! Players can quickly (and subtly) review the card effects without letting their opponents know exactly what they want to know.
cooler than a cheat sheet
Pat & Pablo Signed Cards
With our last test print, we also got stacks of cards for us to sign! Should make it easy to pack them into the survey rewards (and they ARE first-come first-serve) so make sure you make your choices ASAP.
give me a sign
Overall Progress
We've completed our work on the game tokens, foam playmats, and paper playmats! Once we get our foil deck test prints we can finish up our final review for everything included in a finished copy of GotchaCards. Feels incredible to get this far!
we're almost there...!
Now that most of the design work is done, we should be able to start working through the sketch request cards and sharing our progress as we complete them!
Collaboration Project
We've been cookin' up a sick collaboration project to promote GotchaCards into the end of the preorder period, so definitely keep an eye on our socials!
Reward Surveys Sent Out & Late Pledges!
3 months ago
– Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 10:26:07 AM
Hey y'all!!
All Reward Surveys have been send out! At the time of this writing, 44% of surveys have been filled out. Not too shabby for the first week!
If you haven't gotten a survey email yet, please reach out via comment or support email and we'll figure out how to get that to you ASAP. The sooner these reward surveys are completed, the sooner we can get our final orders placed and deliver the rewards to y'all. :)
Late Pledges
If you (or someone you know) missed out the campaign, you can place a late pledge.. HERE! All add-ons are available, except for the free promotional goods we offered while the campaign was running.
Foil Card Keychains
tiny shiny cardboard
Foil card keychains are now available as add-ons! We were originally making these a personal thing, but worked out a deal and figured we'd offer them to backers at a discounted rate. :9
If you've already filled out your reward survey, you can still modify it and add these to your order! There's still plenty of time before we lock the surveys and make charges.
not gonna lie... these rock
Local Pickup Address
This only applies to backers in California's Central Valley OR friends/family that we would expect to see in-person around the end of the year.
We went through all the surveys and marked as many as we recognized, but found that the option was easy to overlook. In case we missed you, when setting your address, you can find the option under the Country dropdown options:
I'm from around here, I swear
If you're having trouble finding this option, please reach out and we'll make the change manually!
GotchaCards Tokens
Over half of the game-counter tokens have been printed, and we'll start packing em up this weekend! We may have been a bit overzealous with this offering, but it's getting done and we're pumped to start prepping them for your reward packages.
that's a lotta tokens
Project Progress
Right now we're focused on finalizing a few more project-critical designs (boxart, foam playmat, paper playmat), and we're planning on sharing them in our next update. Please look forward to it!
-Pat & Pablo HyperHeartComputing
Progress Update & Backerkit Surveys!
3 months ago
– Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 06:38:56 PM
Hey y'all!!
We're getting ready to send out the reward surveys! Keep an eye on your email inbox for a GotchaCards survey request from backerkit. The sooner we get all your responses, the sooner we can get these reward packages put together and shipped OUT!
Project Progress
Here's a rough idea of our progress on each of the GotchaCards reward items:
much to do..
Once we finish up the Game Box design we can start ordering the product test-prints, and from there we're hoping all these items hurtle towards being READY TO GO! (fingers crossed)
In the interest of getting the main rewards out on time, the Sketch Request cards will be handled separately from the main rewards. If you placed a request, your cards will be sent out to you at no additional shipping cost at a later date.
Product Updates
We've added a name badge to each of the cards! This is a small change, but it'll help players learn exactly what they've got in their hands.
what'cha got there? a rock??
Check out all the updated card fronts on our CARDS PAGE!
In addition to the updated instruction booklet, each deck will contain two (2) handy reference cards so players can discreetly refresh their memories on the more complex effects without giving away exactly what they're looking at.
Like the game cards, these will be the same size as a standard playing card!
huh? why am I looking at the advanced cards? no reason...
Reward Surveys
We mentioned it up top, but we'll be starting to send out the reward surveys as soon as this update goes live! Please make sure you fill those out as soon as possible, and feel free to reach out if you have any questions.
Please make sure to select Local Pickup on your reward survey if you're in the California Central Valley area or if you're in our friends/family group and would expect an in-person delivery. We'll do our best to catch the ones we recognize, but it'll help us out a ton if you use that setting.
Support Email
We've created a support email! If you have any issues with your survey or Kickstarter rewards, please reach out to:
support [at] hyperheartcomputing [dot] com
Future Plans . . .
We're cooking up some cool collaborative stuff in the near future, with a partnership we're SUPER excited to get started on. Hoping to share news about that REAL soon, but for now please sit tight. ;9
-Pat & Pablo HyperHeartComputing
GotchaCards: A Month (and some change) Later!
4 months ago
– Fri, Jul 19, 2024 at 06:07:59 PM
Hey y'all!
We've been mostly working on behind-the-scenes administrative stuff, but we'd like to share a quick update on what we've gotten done and a rough roadmap towards GotchaCards production and release.
Pledges & Surveys
Out of 388 backers, only 8 pledges ended up getting dropped. If this happened to you and was by accident, please send us an email at hyperheartcomputing [AT] gmail [DOT] com and we'll work on a way to resolve it.
Once we're a little further along, we'll be using backerkit for the post-campaign surveys. The surveys will collect your final shipping address and additional costs for shipping. You'll also have an opportunity to add more items to your pledge, or even make late pledges on the campaign-exclusive items.
Artist Bonus Payout - Complete! ✅
As of this week, we've delivered the artist bonus payout to our commissioned guest artists! Before we spent money on anything else, we wanted to make sure they got paid.
This project couldn't have gotten here without their incredible work, and it was a critical to reward them for working with our budget.
Final Revisions
Pablo's working on a final pass on the card fronts, product box, and playmat. We'll show off the changes as soon as they're ready, and around the same time we'll be able to begin our final round of print testing.
We're still on track to deliver our rewards by the end of the year, so please look forward to future updates!
