New Year, New Monsters!
over 4 years ago – Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 02:22:18 AM

Good morning, agents! It's time to debrief you on the next phase of your Unusual Suspects assigned mission!

For starters, some of you agents signed up for a very special pledge level last year, allowing you the important task of designing your own monster! We'll be reaching out to those backers very soon to get descriptions for the monster you have in mind, and then some of our artists will work hard to bring to life your adorably horrific, chaotic creation. What monstrous joy! 

The art that will get created from these backer-created prompts will be the last that we need before shooting the game files over to the printer! Once that whole process kicks off, we will let you know when each step happens. 

While you wait for those production updates, we also want to find the right balance of showing you exciting upcoming bits of the game without spoiling full monster cards, as we all know how important it is that each creature be a new mystery while playing! So, what we'll be doing over the next few months is teasing you with little snippets of card art, starting with one of the designer's favorites!

What an adorable little grump! We love the idea of people trying to do their best impression of this face to describe it to the other players. The rest of this little critter's body has attitude to match. You'll see!

More updates coming soon!

THE DAY THE CAMPAIGN STOOD STILL
over 4 years ago – Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 12:32:21 AM

28 (give or take a couple) Days Later

That's a wrap on the MonsDRAWsity: Unusual Suspects Kickstarter campaign!  At this time of giving thanks, we really want to thank you again for believing in our game and making it a reality. Not only did you 904 brilliant backers help us fund the game, but we were also able to unlock every one of our stretch goals with your support. More monsters for everyone!

Obviously, there's a lot for us still to do between now and fulfillment, and we are moving as quickly as we can behind the scenes to get MonsDRAWsity: Unusual Suspects to you as quickly as possible.

Keep an Eye (or 2 or 3 or 7) Out

As we move forward, watch your inboxes for more campaign updates. You all have given us some great responses to our surveys during the campaign--like the one where you requested the Mythological Monsters promo pack--so we may be asking you for some more input down the road as we make some other decisions. 

We also had 10 people back at the "Back for More" level, which means 10 of you should be hearing from us soon with directions for how to design some monsters to be included in the game!

Thanks again, everyone!

THE END IS NEAR
over 4 years ago – Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 09:18:16 AM

28 (give or take a couple) Days Later

The MonsDRAWsity: Unusual Suspects campaign is almost over and what a ride it has been! Your continued enthusiasm for the project has us positively glowing. And speaking of glowing, with a little over 24 hours left, we've got a little bit of time left to unlock our final stretch goal, the glow-in-the-dark box!

We'd love your help by sharing the campaign one more time on your social media channel of choice to help us unlock that last stretch goal. Let's make it happen!

Mytholo-gee-thanks!

As a special thank you to all our backers for your help making this campaign a success with your questions and suggestions, everyone who backs at the "I Want to Believe" tier and above will receive a Mythological Creatures promo pack for free! This was the winning promo pack theme that was voted on by backers earlier in the campaign, so we had Carly AF design some cool riffs on mythological creatures to make it a reality. Here's a sneak peek at one of her creations!

More Monsters!
almost 5 years ago – Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 02:57:34 PM

Hello, wonderful Backers!

Eric Slauson here, designer of MonsDRAWsity, coming at you with some more info, updates, and surprises.

More Monster Games!

I’m obviously a huge fan of all things monster related, so when I heard about Exquisite Crime, I knew I was going to love it. Exquisite Crime is a collaborative storytelling game where you build monsters bit by bit as you try to piece together a mystery. If you dig the playful vibe of MonsDRAWsity and love how much the game gets people around the table talking, I feel like you’d be really into Exquisite Crime as well. Their Kickstarter campaign has a little less than a day left, so head on over, take a look, and consider supporting a project as weird, wonderful, creative, and monster-infused as MonsDRAWsity: Unusual Suspects. In the campaign’s own words:

"Exquisite Crime comes from the amazing minds of Banana Chan (Jiangshi, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium RPG), and Sen-Foong Lim (Batman The Animated Series - Rogues Gallery, Scooby Doo: Escape From Haunted Mansion). It’s a new, game master-less, storytelling game: where players play as Paranormal Detectives in a surreal world, taking turns transcribing their 'visions' to another player who renders their words into a drawing."

More Stretch Goals!

Y’all have been steadily unlocking stretch goals and making Unusual Suspects a better and better package. You recently unlocked the Bathroom Oddities promo pack illustrated by Will Jones and featuring monsters that you might find hiding in your bathroom trying their best to blend in with the rest of the stuff scattered across your counter or shower shelf. You also unlocked some super spiffy spot UV on the box (shiny!). I’m happy to report that with a little more than a week left in the campaign, we ain’t done yet! It’s my pleasure to announce the next two stretch goals: My Little Monsters and a glow-in-the-dark box!

People of all ages love playing MonsDRAWsity, but it has been a big hit with younger players especially. Across social media, videos, podcasts, and blog posts, I keep hearing stories of parents playing MonsDRAWsity with their young children, and I LOVE IT. For this reason, we are making the next stretch goal an expansion pack called My Little Monsters, a sort of “D.R.A.W-agent-in-training” pack featuring monsters that are a little less scary, a little less complicated, and a little easier to describe, perfect for easing younger players into the MonsDRAWsity experience. These cards will have a slightly different card back so the adults can recognize them when all the MonsDRAWsity cards are shuffled together. This expansion will be free to backers backing at the I Want to Believe level and above!

The next stretch goal is a glow-in-the-dark box! This one is more self-explanatory, but still pretty neat! If you’ve got a few minutes and very strong feelings about it, I’d love to hear your thoughts in the campaign comments about how you’d like this glow-in-the-dark box to work. Do you want to whole box to have glow-in-the-dark embellishments? Do you just want the sides to glow so that they light up a section of your Kallax at night? Do you want just the MonsDRAWsity logo to be glowing? Let us know!

More thank yous from me!

Seriously, I can't thank you enough for your continued support during the campaign. One week left!

Coloring book unlocked & new stretch[ REDACTED ]
almost 5 years ago – Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 11:25:11 PM

Good morning, Agents.

Wow y'all are crushing these stretch goals. We cannot thank you all enough!

There's even more coming so stay tuned.

FREE COLORING BOOK UNLOCKED!

We would love to hear from you about the coloring book! We've created a survey to get feedback about what kind of coloring book you'd like!

Tell us what you'd like to see in the coloring book

A monster has been spotted!

Join Diana in drawing the anomaly spotted!

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FAQ

Will a donation pledge give me access to the pledge manager?

Yes! Backing at higher pledge levels will help up unlock stretch goals faster, but everyone who backs at any tier (even the "Pledge Without a Reward" tier) will have access to the pledge manager.

Is the "MonsDRAWsity: Robots" expansion included in the Everything New tier?

The Robots expansion is not included in the Everything New tier because it is not new as of this campaign. The physical version of the Robots expansions has been available for preorder for some time and the digital version has also been for sale on Roll20 for many months.

What is Best of the Bestiary?

Best of the Bestiary is an expansion illustrated by some of the top names in board game and comic illustration. It's kind of an "All-Star" or "Dream Team" illustrator pack.

Does the "I Want to Believe" tier include Best of the Bestiary?

Best of the Bestiary is not included in "I Want to Believe" because it is an expansion (30-40 cards), not a promo pack (3-5 cards). I Want to Believe includes promos unlocked during this campaign, not expansions.

What are the "Technically Difficult" and "Bring Your Kid to Work" decks?

These are explained in more detail in Update #2. Each pack provides optional challenges to add even more silliness to the MonsDRAWsity experience.

Bring Your Kid to Work makes drawing more challenging and Technically Difficult makes being the witness more difficult. Integrating one or both of these decks into your MonsDRAWsity games is totally optional, but they do provide some fun ways to change things up a bit. One way you could use them is having the player(s) in first place draw one on their turn to create some fun catch-up opportunities.

Each set will also be available individually in the future, but you get them both as part of this campaign!