Calling all Lil Nas X Fans
over 1 year ago – Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 09:01:09 PM

Hello Golden Backers:

For those of you who are fans of Lil Nas X, I'm sure you've seen the Montero M&Ms coming out.

I've created a table for you to play Golden Mart and any of the featured campaigns with your special Lil Nas X M&Ms! You can get yours for free on my itch.io page here: https://alicedgames.itch.io/golden-montero

I'm also considering writing a special campaign for these M&Ms. What are your thoughts?

Enjoy!!!

VERMINUM HONORATE

Mike

PDFs Sent!
over 1 year ago – Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 12:37:22 AM

Hello Golden Backers!

The sacred work of The Rats have paid off, and you all now get to reap the benefits of their blessing! I just completed sending out the PDF for the expanded Golden Mart Employee Handbook to those receiving digital rewards. You should receive these from sender "DriveThruRPG.com." If it isn't in your inbox, check your spam or junk mail. This is not the golden dumpster we want your games to end up in!

Here's a pic I tweeted after I hit "send" on DriveThruRPG. I'm really excited to get this project out to you all!

 PDF Features

Working a night shift during a magical apocalypse might be a catastrophe, but navigating the PDF won't be a disaster; It's clickable!

I also figured out how to renumber the PDF pages to align with the document page numbers!

Enjoy! And let us know all about working your shifts on Twitter! I'm @MichaelsLore and Carly is @sparklebliss. We would love to hear about the wild encounters on your night shifts! 

Shipments

Your packages should all be in the mail, making their way to you now! Keep a lookout for them at the address you provided on Backer Kit.

For Sale

If you know anybody who is interested in opening up a Golden Mart franchise, they may purchase a copy on DriveThruRPG here (https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/410382/Golden-Mart-Expanded-Edition). The digital version is currently up, and printers are reviewing the print version. That one will be up soon and available for purchase! It might make for a great spoopy season gift (along with some M&Ms).

Thank you all once again for your support. It has been such a pleasure to work on this game and ship it out to you all!

VERMINUM HONORATE!

Mike Vaquez-DeAnda

SHIPPED!
over 1 year ago – Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 12:42:05 AM

Hi everybody!

I'm writing this update after sending the funds to our production assistants via Zelle and PayPal for all of their hard work today getting rewards shipped!!! I'm oh so, so ecstatic to announce that all material rewards have been shipped!

What about my Golden PDF?

There have been a lot of questions about PDFs being sent out. We will send these out as soon as we get them uploaded to DriveThruRPG! Carly and I wanted to make a quick edit to credit all of our astounding production assistants who helped prepare all of the rewards that got shipped out today! They did such a fantastic job, especially when we hit a couple of issues. 

A Special Thank you to You, Golden Backer!

Today made all of this entire process so completely wonderful! I was able to share some experiences of running a Kickstarter project with aspiring game designers and have some Q&A while we packed rewards, hopefully so that one day they too will be able to fund and send out their own projects. My heart is so full, and for this, Golden Backers, I extend such a joyful thank you! These moments are exactly why I love teaching and designing games!!! Again, thank you all so much for your contributions to help us have these moments with designers. May the blessings of The Rats be upon you!

And so that it is visible on the Kickstarter page, I want to credit all of the people who made the expanded version of Golden Mart possible:

Credits

Golden Mart is designed by Michael DeAnda and Carly Kocurek.

Playtested by Stephen Bohanon, Rebekah Shultz Colby, Richard Colby, Caleb Foss, Jennifer Legaspi, Alice Maldonado, and Madeline LaPorte.

Copyedited by Jes Klass.

Sensitivity readers were Samantha Mayne and Seb Pines.

Cultural consulting provided by Wendi Sierra.

Map designed by Ryan Lynch at Outrider Design.

Sticker designs by Izzy Lima, Sophia Muir, Vinison Hobbs, and Carly Kocurek.

Assistant Production Manager was Lauren Watson.

Production Assistants

Anabelle Watson, Angela Petrone, Arlene Park, Casey Stowe, Crane Benson, Immanuel Downs, Madeline LaPorte, Rowan Blair, and Santiago Posada-Jaramillo.

Campaign Writers

• "The Consumer is Always Right" by IM Shulman 
• "The Empty Hole" by Allison Kyran Cole and Jordan Osterer with special thanks to Dee Rogers 
• "Shadow of a Doubt" by D.E. Chaudron 
• "Call of the Karen" by Lynne M. Meyer 
• "Moony Desert Nights" by Jess Elizabeth Reed 
• "Symmetrized City" by Alexander Blechman 
• In Memory of Dean M. O'Donnell 

VERMINUM HONORATE!

Mike Vazquez-DeAnda

Golden Shipment
over 1 year ago – Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 01:06:52 AM

Hello Golden Backers!

We are excited to say that our Golden Mart Employee Handbooks have arrived and will soon be ready to send out for all of you to open your own Golden Mart Franchises (or, you know, play the game)! I pushed this card down a city block from my schools mailroom to my office! HAHA! 

We hired several game students to assist with packing. We will be meeting this Friday to pack the envelopes and prepare to ship them! 

This is very satisfying!

It is amazing to hold this book! And I'm even more stoked to send them out to all of you!

Thank you again for all of your support! We are putting some of the money to paying the students who will help us pack the mailers and get all of you your Golden Rewards!

Verminum Honorate!

Mike Vazquez-DeAnda

Off to the printers!
over 1 year ago – Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 12:30:16 AM

Hello Golden Backers,

The Rats have been hard at work outback diligently manifesting energy into this project to move it along!

I am extremely excited to inform you that I have sent the formatted, completed, reviewed, and edited (basically all the reasons Carly and I ran this Kickstarter) Employee Handbook to our printers! It was totally exciting to see a preview of the printed layout on the site!

I am delighted to say that we are on track to have your pledges mailed out in September! 

We will have the PDF copy out to backers soon! Thank you for your patience.

If you need to update your shipping address, please do so via your BackerKit Survey. I will be locking shipping addresses on August 31. If you cannot find the survey, you can try this.

Thank you once again for helping us materialize this weird little game, and pay people to write weird and creative adventures.

Verminum Honorate!

Mike Vazquez-DeAnda