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Pledge Manager & Flower Cards Add-on
about 1 month ago – Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 01:21:03 AM

Hello to all our Sakana Stack backers, we hope you're having a great start to 2025! With mass production now underway, we're happy to confirm that the pledge manager from Backerkit will go live over the next few days. Expect an email from Backerkit with details of how to log in, and you will be able to manage your pledge from there. We are still on track to hit our timelines so please choose the Local Pickup option when selecting the shipping destination if you would like to collect at UK Games Expo 2025.

For those who have not used a pledge manager before, this is where we transfer your pledge from Kickstarter so we can finalise shipping details and make sure we have your correct address. We also collect the shipping cost and any taxes if you are EU-based. You can add an additional copy of Sakana Stack if you like with no additional shipping cost, and you can also add something new...!

We are excited to announce that we are releasing Flower Cards and want to allow our Kickstarter backers to add to your existing Sakana Stack pledge! 

Here are some additional details about Flower Cards, which will be available in the Backerkit pledge manager as an add-on to your pledge.

‘Hanafuda’ means ‘Flower Cards’ and originated in 18th-century Japan. Much like Western playing cards, a wide variety of traditional card games can be played with Flower Cards. The most popular games are Koi-Koi and Hachi-Hachi.

Our Flower Cards are inspired by the fauna and flora of the British Isles and follow the same format as ‘Hanafuda,’ so you can play these popular games yourself.

Flower Cards consists of 12x suits of 4 cards, giving a core deck of 48 cards. There is also an additional blank card. 

Each suit represents a month of the year, and each month has a flower representing that month. We have used flowers representative of those you would see in each month of the year.

There are four main types of cards which are:

As Flower Cards can play several traditional games, rather than including a lengthy rulebook in the box we will instead provide an online rulebook. 

When the game is delivered we shall have an online breakdown of the cards along with rules for the most popular games Koi-Koi and Hachi-Hachi. We will also include rules for a variation of Rummy which can be played with Flower Cards.

The rules will be accessible by QR code and website details printed on the box. If you decide to print any of the rules, you can download them in full colour and low-res.

Joss has hand-drawn all of the artwork to create 48 cards with unique designs. This project has been thoroughly researched, and it was important to pay homage to the style of traditional ‘Hanafuda’ and European card history to give the designs their own identity and style. The colour palette is that of the British countryside, with some greens, browns and purples, but also other pops of colour.

When managing your pledge in Backerkit, Flower Cards is an option in the Add-on section when you complete your pledge for Sakana Stack. Flower Cards will then be delivered together with Sakana Stack when we fulfil pledges.

You will be able to add Flower Cards to your Sakana Stack pledge for just £10.00 per copy with no additional postage cost! Up to two copies can be added for each backer.

We wouldn’t have been able to prepare Flower Cards for publication so quickly without you, Sakana Stack backers. Thank you for all your support!

Joss & Mike

December Update
2 months ago – Mon, Dec 23, 2024 at 07:09:45 AM

Hello everyone!

We wanted to give you one last update before 2024 finishes to tell you where we are with Sakana Stack manufacturing.

The good news is that we have just hit the button to go into mass production! Joss has worked really hard to get the files ready and work with Hopes and we are currently on schedule.

In respect of the pledge manager, the good news is that we are all signed off with Backerkit and ready to send out. We have taken the decision to postpone sending until early January due to the festive period so will provide a further update then. 

And lastly thanks again for making 2024 really special for us in making Sakana Stack a reality! We hope you all have a lovely festive period with family and friends with lots of games to be played and we’ll update you all soon in the new year.

Joss & Mike

Timeline Update
3 months ago – Mon, Dec 02, 2024 at 01:27:52 PM

Hello everyone!

It’s been one month since our campaign for Sakana Stack finished, so we wanted to give you all a quick update on where we are regarding our timeline.

We had been working hard in the background on the refreshed rulebook during the campaign, with lots of playtesting and feedback from several established designers and publishers. The good news is that we were able to get straight into the design work for the rulebook, which is now complete.

Along with a couple of final tweaks to the cards and ensuring everything we needed to add to the back of the box was correct, we are happy to say that the files are now with manufacturers and we are on schedule! We’ll be working with Hopes Games to check through all the files and get test copies before getting ready to hit go on the main manufacturing run.

The backer survey has just gone into Backerkit for checks and we hope to be live very soon so we can arrange shipping details, etc.

Thanks again for your support and we’ll keep you updated as we hit our next milestones!

Joss & Mike

We did it!!
4 months ago – Fri, Nov 01, 2024 at 03:41:38 AM

We did it! Over 200% funded - absolutely amazing, thanks so much to all of you for backing Sakana Stack!

So now we go into the busy job of getting all our files ready to print and working with manufacturers to hit our timeline.

We shall also be opening the pledge manager with Backerkit soon so expect an email from them with details of how to get setup.

As always, any questions at all please get in touch.

Thanks again and we’ll keep you updated as we progress getting Sakana Stack out to you!

Joss & Mike

Almost at the finish line!
4 months ago – Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 03:14:20 AM

Hi to all of our brilliant backers!

A really quick update today just to say we are going into the final 48 hours of the campaign. It’s been an incredible journey and we still can’t believe we are over 200% funded!

So just a quick message to thank you all for your support, we are so grateful for you all to be a part of this journey with us and we can’t wait to get your copies of Sakana Stack to you next year.

In these last 48 hours if you wanted to share the campaign and help get the word out that would be really appreciated, or even up your pledge to double Sakana Stack for additional saving and shared postage if you know someone else that may enjoy a copy.

Thanks again and we’ll be in touch soon.

Joss & Mike