Kickstarter dés personalisés

[Chicagork]

Super! Bonne nouvelle!

[Heinrich]

Nice

[Gulix]

Pour info, y a eu une grosse update aujourd’hui :

kickstarter.com/projects/cu … ts/1000740

En gros, du retard pour la livraison du laser, du retard pour tout le reste ^^. Mais le laser semble calibré, les premiers tests sont faits. Ca avance !

[Gulix]

Nouvelle update aujourd’hui :

kickstarter.com/projects/cu … ect_update

En gros, le design du site avance.
Il a réalisé plusieurs tests pour vérifier certains trucs (visibles dans l’update).

Les points importants, à suivre pour créer un design (traduction rapido de sa conclusion) :

1. Pour être sûr de tout bien « imprimer », il faut réaliser le design d’une face dans un carré de 14mm (marge de sécurité)

2. L’image doit être en pur noir et blanc (pas de teinte de gris), vectorielle ou pas. Le noir sera gravé (profondeur), le blanc ne le sera pas (dessus). A noter qu’ensuite, on peut mettre la couleur désirée en fond / dessus.

3. Epaisseur de trait recommandé : 0.3-0.5mm. Une ligne moins épaisse risque de ne pas s’afficher, surtout en vertical (voir les tests).

[Croco]

Merci Nico, j’avais pas encore vu l’ update du jour. Et merci pour les traductions
Bientôt enfin les commandes alors, c’est que j’ai 100 balles qui trainent dans le warp moi

[Croco]

Anne ma sœur Anne ne vois-tu toujours rien venir ?

Non toujours pas mais j’ai crée un dé Croco

Et pis 2 versions de Choco aussi pour faire plaiz à mon président

[Chicagork]

Merci Croco!
Par contre n’oublie pas que les pow s’opposent et les skulls aussi!
J’aime bien le choco avec les étoiles!

[Croco]

Oui je n’ai pas regardé l’ordre des faces mais ça se change en une minute
Et puis on est pas encore au stade de l’envoi

[Chicagork]

Tiens nous informé de l’avancé du projet!

[Chicagork]

Des nouvelles?

[Gulix]

Nope, visiblement, le site est en ligne pour uploader et tester les designs.
Mais pas de nouvelles « officielles »

[Croco]

Pas mieux que Gulix
Il dit que les mises à jour vont venir dans les jours ou les semaines à venir … enfin il dit ça depuis un an quoi

[Croco]

Update du jour

Breaking the silence
Posted by Custom Game Lab

Hey everyone.

I know it’s been a long time since I’ve posted an update and especially since I mentioned being close to taking orders last time it has been unsettling for many of you to see that much time pass.

So I want to start this out by saying I have not forgotten about this, I have not moved on from it, and I am still completely committed to fulfilling this Kickstarter.

Not long after my last update, my health began to rapidly deteriorate. In retrospect, I believe I began getting sick in November, but at the time I just thought it was lack of sleep and stress from trying to push through with the project. It gradually got worse through December and January, but it wasn’t until February that my body began to fall apart – and even then it took me a while to figure out what was going on. I hadn’t had to make a trip to the doctor for nearly a decade, so I guess this level of health problem just caught me off guard. I get sick periodically, but I’ve always bounced back… that didn’t happen this time.

The doctors have tried several different types of medication, and so far none of them seem to have really addressed the problem fully. Some have helped certain symptoms, but some symptoms have continued to get worse. I got some different scans done a few days ago which they’re hoping will give them a clearer picture of what’s going on.

Hoping to find out more from the doctor this week, but at this point I honestly don’t even know the full extent of what’s wrong with me yet. All I know is that I find myself dizzy and gasping for air after doing something as simple as blowing my nose (just one example) or climbing a single set of stairs (when normally I could go up and down a dozen flights of stairs with no problem) – sometimes even just sitting or laying down it hits me or I’ll get chest pains… or both. That’s certainly not the full list of symptoms, but gives a bit of an idea of where I’m at right now.

I don’t yet know enough to say what exactly that means for the future of this project. As I said, I am still fully committed – but I’m not sure exactly what everything will look like moving forward. Best case scenario, the doctor will look at the scans, immediately see what’s wrong, and inject me with a cure. Probably the worst case scenario would be that it’s something not curable, and I have to figure out a way to get someone else to do the labor of producing the dice.

The project was not designed to get this business far enough to hire someone right away – though that was an eventual goal. There wasn’t much net profit in it at all, most of it went into the equipment and inventory with the idea that I would provide free labor to get it up and running at which point the business would have nice equipment and inventory to run with and make profits with which to pay myself and potential employees.

Which means IF that worst case happens to come true it’s not something that would be able to take place immediately, but I believe it is something we could work towards if that is what is necessary to fulfill my commitments.

I am expecting things to fall somewhere between that best and worst case scenario, but I want you to know that either way I don’t take the commitments I’ve made lightly.

There is more I want to say, but I need to stop and get this posted. It’s already taken me several days to write this because it keeps getting interrupted with waves of dizziness when I try to work on it.

Just know that my silence has not meant that I abandoned this project or my commitments to it. I will try to update you as I know more about my health and what that means for things moving forward.

If you believe in prayer, I could use your prayers now – it’s somewhat of a scary place to be not knowing what’s wrong with your body.

[Gulix]

J’ai vu ça ce matin, aussi. Ca sent pas très bon, en fait. Le gars est malade, fatigué, personne sait pourquoi (Dr House style), et donc le projet est en stand by.

On verra ce que ça donnera, mais c’est un projet qui rejoint la colonne « pertes » pour ma part (le 4e, heureusement que des petites sommes à chaque fois).

[Croco]

J’espère pas, j’ai 100€ dans la nature moi

[petitgars]

Je pense aussi qu’à l’heure actuelle, on peut considérerer que c’est perdu.
Je ne suis pas certain qu’il n’ait pas monté un bateau avec son état de santé. Mais si c’en est un, c’est perdu; et si ce n’est pas des bobards…faut croire en la prière).

[Croco]

et vous pensez qu’on est remboursés ?

[Gulix]

Nope, je pense pas qu’il y ait de possibilité de remboursement.
Sauf à lui demander et qu’il le veuille / puisse.

Déjà, Kickstarter se dédouane complètement une fois le projet financé. C’est le côté « risque ». Ensuite, c’est pas une grosse structure derrière (style Conan, Reaper, Zombicide, …). Enfin, il l’a acheté son super laser, donc, je pense que les sous ont été dépensés.

Donc, soit on aura rien, soit un jour, ce sera bon, et on pourra commander nos dés. Mais quand ???

[Croco]

Bon ben voilà c’est mort !
Plus qu’à attendre l’espoir d’être remboursé.

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I don’t know what else to say other than that I have failed myself, this project, and you.
I see three ways primarily that I failed:
1) Inexperience in doing something at this scale left me underprepared for some of the obstacles I ran into. Were it not for the other two failure points, I am confident this one could have been overcome, but it did contribute nonetheless.
2) My failure to recognize the problems with my health before they cascaded out of control was by far the biggest contribution to my failure to complete this project. In retrospect, I can see some of the warning signs, but at the time I just thought I was tired and stressed right up until my body began to fail catastrophically.
3) When failures 1 & 2 crippled me and therefore this project, the issue was exacerbated by poor communication. This took place in part simply because I’m not good at communicating, partly because I wasn’t sure how to explain what was going on, and partly because even at this late point in the game I am torn by the decision of whether I should keep pressing on or wave the white flag.
With each update I gave toward the end, there was an increasing number of people finding ways to contact me by digging up phone numbers, personal email addresses, etc simply to curse and make accusations.
With everything else going on, I could not handle the stress and was forced to set it aside as much as I could until I got back on my feet. Even now, it’s hard to bring myself to post this not knowing what other areas of my life it will bleed into.
I say none of this as an excuse… it is more accurately an admission of several of my weaknesses which brought me to the point of writing this update.
It’s been about 3 months since I moved my family to Idaho for less humid climate so my lungs could recover. The vast majority of my energy during that time has been spent in therapy to correct the issues with my body.
I’m doing a lot better now, but I still have a long way to go. A few months ago I was bedridden and unsure if I would make it to the end of the year let alone see my daughter’s 2nd birthday next year. I’ve come a long way from there and my stamina is getting better- but I still can’t predict what level of work I’ll be able to take on at any time. I still have plenty of days when I’m just utterly exhausted and/or incapable of focusing.
Some of you had offered to help with the website, and I genuinely appreciate that, but I haven’t even been at a point where I could manage something like that right now.
So here’s my plan: As much as I would still really like to see this project out to the end, I cannot predict with any level of certainty when I will be capable of doing that. And plenty of backers have made it quite clear that they are not interested in waiting for me to recover.
So the only way I can see to proceed with this is to work towards sending out refunds.
For that to work, I will need to liquidate as much of the supplies and equipment that were purchased as part of this program as possible.
Based on the level of improvement I’ve seen over the past month, my expectation is that I will be strong enough by the end of the year to begin focusing a significant amount of energy on selling the laser (that being the most significant piece of equipment needing to be sold) and to begin working on refunds.
That’s the best that I feel I can realistically say.
On a mostly unrelated note, there is something else I feel should be addressed.
There have been accusations floating around that I took the money to run off and start a different business. The catalyst for this idea was a website someone found discussing one of my other businesses - but that business has operated completely independent of any funds from this project.
I’ve mentioned several times in other updates that I had other businesses operating aside from this one. I didn’t see it as any different than someone running a project while working another job. Before launching this project, my primary source of income was from selling things on Amazon via something known as « online arbitrage ». It made money for me, but the system I had in place for it was incredibly tedious, it was scaling very slowly, and I didn’t enjoy it. So I launched this project as a way of eventually replacing my other income streams with something I would enjoy. With the launch of this project, I also shut down my online arbitrage because it was too time consuming and I needed to focus on this.
This past Spring, when my health was beginning to fail but before I was bedridden, I realized that this project was not going to get to a point where it could pay me a salary before our personal funds ran out. So I invested money from our personal tax return, applied some of the knowledge I gained from importing things for this project, and imported some products to be sold on Amazon. This was something that took WAY less time and scaled a lot faster than the arbitrage I had done in the past.
Meanwhile I’d been getting emails, phone calls, and Facebook messages telling me to keep my personal life out of the Kickstarter updates. But I also knew there were some people who wanted to hear what I was up to (I actually got far more positive feedback than negative on the personal content in most of the updates, but I still let the negative feedback rattle me to an unhealthy degree). So I attempted to set up a website documenting where I was at with everything.
My intention was to eventually post a link so those that were interested could read it and those that weren’t didn’t have to - but I wanted to see if I could sustain it before I posted anything on here. I didn’t want to set an expectation and then have to abandon it. Around the time that I moved to Idaho and started therapy, I realized that I didn’t have the strength to keep it going, so I stopped updated it and didn’t say anything about it on here. A while later it was « discovered » as evidence that I had stolen the money. I’m truly sorry if it came across as me hiding something, it was not my intent.
For the sake of hopefully clearing the air, if you’d like to see the website it can be found at brandingblitz.com - I have not altered or updated anything on there since well before it was uncovered. I structured it in a way so it could hopefully eventually be a resource to help someone else wanting to start a similar business. So not all of the posts will be relevant or interesting to you - but I clearly explained in early posts (and I believe mentioned it in later ones as well) that the primary goal for the new business was to get to a point where I could make sure this Kickstarter project got finished even if I couldn’t do it myself (that goal has since changed to helping me refund more money than I’d otherwise be able to).
I’m sure many of you are wondering how I was able to run this new business if I couldn’t keep up with what I already had going on. I did most of the legwork in short bursts before my health completely fell apart. Over the past couple of months I’ve spent an average of 1-2 hours per week working on things related to the business but for the most part it operates itself (I was very intentional in choosing my main product to make sure it would require little intervention on my part) since the inventory is produced and packaged in a factory in China and then storage, shipping, and customer service is handled by Amazon.
Since the laser and other equipment/supplies will likely have to be sold at a lower price than they were purchased for (being lightly used rather than new) my hope is that I will be able to use some of the profits from this other business to help supplement the amount I can refund to you.
In case anyone skimmed to the bottom and missed it, here’s the summary: The plan now is to offer refunds, but it will still be a little while before I’m capable of executing that plan. I haven’t disappeared, but it is going to take quite a while to put the pieces of my life back together.

[petitgars]

Depuis le début, il altermoie et demande du temps pour son projet.
Vu les délais, je pense qu’il aurait pu tenter de tenir ses engagements plutôt que de choisir cette voie qui est une perte pour tout le monde - sauf si c’est une arnaque, ce qui y ressemble beaucoup.

Personnellement, je trouve ça malhonnête de se réfugier derrière une maladie. Il se dit trop épuisé pour travailler, mais à réussi à déménager entre temps, et à utiliser les fonds récoltés pour en faire autre chose sans trop le spécifier.

En gros, la prochaine étape, ça va être un truc du style « j’ai bien vendu mon laser, mais mon enfant est tombé malade, et j’ai utilisé l’argent pour le soigner ». (ou la variante, je l’ai fait soigner et on a saisi mes fonds ensuite pour payer ces soins).