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Recent Shipments and Black Friday 2023 Details
🕑 Added 2023-11-21 16:23:28 +0000 UTCHello everyone! Hope all is well.
I wanted to jump in and give you an update on recent shipments, how things are moving for 2024, and Black Friday 2023 Details.
Recent Shipments
If you are a new Patron, this might be new news, but with all of the different reward levels and products offered here we fell quite behind this year. We've minimized things for 2024, but we are wrapping up everything for 2023 in some bulk shipments, with a ton of catchup games. We started sending whatever was in just to get caught up - (this nonsense will end soon, I promise). You may have gotten some, none, or all, depending on when you started subscribing and your reward level here. But just to give an idea, here's everything that would have gone out.
The next shipment was due in November, but rules have been slowing us down, so it's looking to be December and will have more than we planned. We might make a cutoff and send everything that's in stock at some point, just incase any of these games are dragging along. But here is the plan for that.
This still leaves a few things to wrap up 2023.
There are 4 bonus level slots that everyone at $10+ receives. Those slots will consist of one micro word game called Word Bubbles, and we are inserting Moving Pictures: Marked for Mystery into the final 3 slots. So everyone at that level will receive an additional wallet game. These will ship in January.
There are 6 more postcards for everyone at a limited postcard level. These will ship in January and it'll be the end of the postcard level. :(
There are 3 more role playing games for everyone at a role playing level. These will probably ship in February and it'll be the end of the role playing level. :(
How things are moving for 2024
Things are moving very well so far for 2024. The January cards will be here in December, so January can be out in January. The following months are all on track as we have a great plan thanks to some new team members and the reduced amount of products. That last part is crucial to keeping this moving.
January 2024 Package Details
Championland: Wrestling (wallet game - 2P) - this is the second in the Championland series bringing wrestling to the players. It uses the same great hand mechanic - you can only play the cards on the edges of your hand - but plays completely differently otherwise. This series is made up of great 2P travel games because they are so light on rules and quick to pick up.
Grandma Theseus (9 card game - 2P) - this was the winner of our "design a game about the ship of theseus challenge, where the ship's parts are replaced so often that it's questionable whether it's the same ship or not. In this game, one player is Red Riding Hood and the other is Grandma Theseus who is slowly turning into a werewolf throughout the game. Red Riding Hood is trying to prevent / catch her in the act in order to win.
It feels great to be this ready for January, as well as the following months. Hope to keep it on time, and super fun next year.
Black Friday 2023 Details
We have a lot of fun stuff coming to our store on Black Friday, and as a patron you will get almost all of it (as always, depending on your level and when you started subscribing). Here are the games coming to Black Friday and the details on who will receive them. if you need details and player counts on these, just check out the page listings that we're building. It'll all be there.
Pizza Pizza Yum Yum - Wallet level patrons as of August 2023 will receive this.
Guesswork - Wallet level patrons as of September 2023 will receive this.
Apropos of Movies - Wallet level patrons as of November 2023 will receive this.
Picky Pixie - Wallet level patrons as of December 2023 will receive this (note this has not been charged yet).
Championland: Wrestling - Wallet level patrons as of January 2024 will receive this (note this has not been charged yet).
Moving Pictures: Marked for Mystery - $10+ level patrons from October, November, and December 2023 will receive this. If you are only a patron for some of those months, we can make some arrangements.
River Mild & River Mild: Mildscapes - No patrons will receive this, sorry. It's a retheme of an existing game with no new mechanics so I didn't want to force it on anyone. Please let me know if you think it wouldn't feel forced in the comments. I just don't want to send you the same game twice and feel like I'm taking a shortcut.
The Walking Dead: Surrounded & Expansion - No patrons will receive this, sorry. This one is a licensed IP and we have some specific requirements on how we can sell it. It's going to be a super cheap pre-order price through Black Friday weekend, then a slightly discounted price after, then eventually full price. You can take advantage of the discounts or wait until it's on the site and use your normal coupon code.
The sales go live at 8AM EST on Friday November 24th and the new stuff will all be linked at the following collection: https://buttonshygames.com/collections/black-friday-2023 Note: games are showing as sold out, but that's just so nobody orders them ahead of time.
Coupon Code: If you want to make any web purchases on Black Friday, we will have the new games above (some in very limited numbers) as well as everything else on the site. The new games above are discounted and not eligible for further coupons. But the rest of the site will be on sale. Your special Black Friday coupon code is toomuchturkeypatron and will get you 30% off of your entire purchase (except the discounted items above). Please don't share this code. Non-patrons only get 25% off. Also note that you can only use one code per order, so please choose this or your standard patreon coupon code, whichever is better for your order.
PNPs: If you are into PNPs the best place to get our older games is PNP Arcade, and all Button Shy PNPs will be $1 on Black Friday there - with the exception of a few brand new releases. It's the lowest you'll see them all year, and they can all be found at this link - prices will drop late Thursday night or early Friday morning: https://www.pnparcade.com/collections/button-shy-games
Also if you are into PNPs, I have personally co-designed a game that's going up on Kickstarter on Friday. I don't like to advertise here for non-Button Shy products, but I don't design a lot of non-Button Shy nowadays and I'm very proud of this product. Dangerous Space is the solo, roll and write, single page PNP sequel to Dungeon Pages and the deals are quite incredible - much of it is way over 50% off at the campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jasongreeno/dangerous-space
And finally if you are local to South Jersey, we will be having some great sales in our shop! If you mention you are a Patron, we'll make sure to give you some extra goodies.
We're located at 55 Haddon Ave, Haddon Twp, NJ 08108 and we'll be open from 10am to 10pm on Friday. We have a nice selection of Button Shy, a small selection of other games and a big gaming space. We also make all of the games in the back, so if I'm around I'll always happily bring you to the back for some of the extra games we have back there.
That's everything for me, sorry for the huge dump of what should have been 3 posts in one. It's been quite busy prepping for Black Friday here!
Comments
Anika Henke
I've been a member for over 2 years and they used to update the Dropbox much more often. I noticed that they haven't updated it for a while and was quite disappointed. But today I've read the "January 2024 Preview" post which explains that they are moving away from the big Dropbox to individual expiring links within Patreon posts. It all makes more sense now.
T3knshn
Still haven't received any of the items listed for my past/current membership level as listed in this update... Can you confirm the status of these shipments(or shipment)?
Liz Cohn
Grabbed Guesswork and Apropos of Movies at Pax because I couldn’t wait😎. Any chance I can switch my choices for those months?☺️
Marcel de Jong
Have fun at Pax!
Button Shy
The update is coming this week after we return from Pax Unplugged. We didn’t send it out previously because if you remove your payment before December 1, you won’t get the December limited package.
Marcel de Jong
I just double checked it. I was charged the 30usd for the month of December on December 1st. Even though the tier doesn’t exist anymore. So I strongly suggest an update for all members to check their tiers.
Marcel de Jong
I just noticed the update to the tiers, guess that answers that question. Thanks for the games Button Shy. It’s been fun while it lasted. To all people still on the everything international tier, you may want to change that, before you’re charged in January. (As that will happen if you don’t change it yourself) To Button Shy, I’d recommend writing an update about this so all non-US and non-UK members know to change the tier to pnp only, otherwise you might get some angry customers who are going to get charged the full amount on the first of January.
Marcel de Jong
Any news regarding people who are not in the UK or the US and who are on the Everything (INT) list?
Jacqueline Stewart
Thanks for the reply. Will look back through my postcards!
Michelle Skevington-Carter
We can't add anything else to a monthly package. But both of these will be available at the UK hub once they arrive, just not preorders at the offer prices.
Michelle Skevington-Carter
The Rumors of Gold cards are expansions for a postcard game that you should have received in a previous package. There will be 2 more cards coming before the end of the year.
Jacqueline Stewart
Hi - just received my postcard level package. There are 2 Rumours of Gold cards. Just wondered if we are going to get any more before this level closes? I do not have any other cards for this and wondered what the game actually was? Thanks
Siobhan Henn
Hi, Any idea when the pnp folder will be updated with new games. I've been a member for a few months now and already owned the games in the folder, so haven't seen any new pnp content since I joined. I'm really happy and keen to support buttonshy but I'd also quite like my pnp game each month. ;)
Natasha Eley
Trying to order the walking dead and river mild but for walking dead it says £7 with £13 postage to uk. Is that right? I appreciate it is a preorder but would it not go in with our monthly bundle in March? Thanks
Alexandre
Does the new games will be in the patreon PNP folder or should I buy them on PNP arcade if I want them?
Josh
I'm not opposed to having River Mild in the club packages. I wouldn't want the majority of months to be re-skins / re-themes, but I don't see a problem with it every once in a while. I think it's partly a question of how much the upgraded/swapped graphics affect the feel of the game. You build a landscape in River Wild/Mild, so the different art will have a notable impact on the feel even if it's not a mechanical change.
Charmaine W.
I had hoped Picaresque would be available as preorder to buy. But I snagged Picky Pixie and The Walking Dead surrounded! Looking forward to playing these games. 🙂
Will Templeton
It should be listed at https://www.patreon.com/buttonshy/membership - you may need to unroll it.
Joseph Lee
Ok, thank you. Regarding the sale, where can we find the details on our Patreon discount code (including the code itself)? I don't mean the black Friday code but the normal one. Thanks.
Button Shy
That one will be the first week of December after the December payment is pulled. Still doing a little trial and error here on it and we want to make sure we have instructions out at the right time.
Joseph Lee
Any updates on what the options will be for folks currently on the various postcard tiers? Thanks.
