Final Step of our Deliveries! Interstate and International Orders Coming Soon
almost 3 years ago – Thu, May 18, 2023 at 10:32:44 PM

Hello Friends of Ukiyo, Friends of Foxes, and all other Spirited Critters,

Behold, the next update...

Package Updates

We have packaged almost all the remaining Australian and International orders. Currently Sandy and Nat are working through all the customs forms... (there's a lot to fill out for each order...) so props to them for putting their hands and fingers on the line. It's a lot of writing.

I'm going to post out a big batch with Australia Post today and we'll be finishing off the remaining ones this week. 

Home Deliveries

We have almost completed our Melbourne deliveries, this weekend will be our last home delivery, all the way to... the CBD (lucky last surprisingly).  Thank you so much to everyone who's come out into the cold to greet us. To those I missed, I'm deeply sorry. I'll just have to thank you in person at Ukiyo or our next event.

Thank you to everyone who opened up their homes as well... I've uploaded some of the snaps from our journey. You are all such lovely people and I will ever remember this intriguing part of the journey, doing these home deliveries. 

Shoutout to those who gave us drinks to satiate our thirst, and lolly bags to keep us awake during the late hours of the night. Thank you for the hot tea and fireplaces to keep us warm for short stops, the offers of beers, the friendly (and scarily protective) greetings by your little pets.  The gifts of hand-made ceramics (oh my gosh, what?! you say... yes it was indeed incredible), and the home-made jams which will be very much enjoyed this Winter. And above all else, thank you to the kids for showing me your own unique Spirit Lords, the imagination and talent was just so exciting to see in this young generation.

Lots of Love,

Michael 

PS. Scroll down for some photos, and the discord link at the very bottom:

https://discord.gg/xygyyqjJs7

What to do if you haven't received your Survey!
almost 3 years ago – Sun, May 07, 2023 at 02:16:48 AM

I Didn't Get My Survey / Can't Find Survey

If you haven’t received your survey, there are several things you can do to troubleshoot:

• Double-check the e-mail on file with Kickstarter - Often users have old e-mails still tied to their accounts (Particularly if you authenticate through Facebook).
• To make sure that emails from your project creator don't get caught in your spam filter, add [email protected] to your address book. Avoid marking BackerKit e-mails as spam.
• Check your spam filters/archived e-mails. Subject lines to look for: Response Needed -- Get your reward for Project Name or Reminder -- Response needed to deliver your reward for Project Name 
• You'll be able to reach out to BackerKit Support by clicking the "need help" link from the Lost Survey page:  https://www.backerkit.com/are_you_a_backer. When you write in to Support, please provide your name and your Kickstarter pledge number, which can be found in your Kickstarter pledge confirmation email.
• Email our team directly at [email protected] with your Pledge Number, full name, email address, and contact number. 

Apple ID Backers:

Backers who have pledged to the campaign using their AppleID but haven't completely set up their Apple Pay account (linking their email address to their Apple Wallet) will have issues receiving their emails from BackerKit.

Those backers have a @privaterelay.appleid.com email address and will need to reach out to us at [email protected] to update their email address in BackerKit. Please provide your Pledge Number, full name, email address, and contact number. 

You'll be able to reach out to BackerKit Support by clicking the "need help" link from the Lost Survey page:  https://www.backerkit.com/are_you_a_backer. When you write in to Support, please provide your name and your Kickstarter pledge number, which can be found in your Kickstarter pledge confirmation email.

Discord:

To direct message us, please jump on our Discord with this link:

https://discord.gg/xygyyqjJs7

Important - Please check you've done your Kitsunedo survey
almost 3 years ago – Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 12:21:09 AM

Hello Friends of Foxes,

We are just about to hit the road tonight for another set of deliveries but about 50 backers haven't yet filled out their Backerkit Surveys. If this is you, we have no way of getting Kitsunedo to you as we don't have your address.... and this will be very sad. 

Can you please double check you've filled out the Backerkit survey, I'll resend them again now. The emails may have gone to your spam folder.

Tonight we'll be personally delivering to Preston, Ivanhoe, Fairfield, Alphington, Kew, Deepdene, Balwyn, Doncaster, Templestowe, Donvale, Warrandyte. We look forward to seeing you!

Lots of love,

Michael

Deliveries to Begin Tomorrow
almost 3 years ago – Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 05:15:40 AM

Hello Everyone,

The time has come for deliveries to begin so brace for impact!

Your Kitsunedo cards have gone through an adventure. They've traveled across the vast Ocean to Melbourne, through the winding streets by truck into the darkest recesses of our Ukiyo Vault.  We've laboured with meticulous care to wrap your Kitsunedo sets and tie them up into beautiful gift parcels with cord and ribbon. We have no great machines for such things, so everything has been done by hand. 

Very soon they'll be on the road once more... and I'll be delivering many of them personally. 

I've never worked as a delivery driver so planning all the routes has been a bit of in journey in itself. Tomorrow I'll be doing my best to deliver all the orders around:

Strathmore, Essendon, Brunswick, Coburg, Pascoe Vale, Moonee Ponds, Travancore, Glenroy, Fawkner, Hadfield.

Hopefully you're home for me to say hi!

So you don't get freak out from a random person knocking at your door, the photo below is me with my Lola in the Phillipines.

Warm regards,

Michael

PS. Here's the discord link again, if you haven't jumped on already, I'd highly suggest doing so now. Once the games are all out, it'll be the perfect place for posting your games and asking questions about any weird rules or circumstances you come across. It expires in a week, so get on it :D

https://discord.gg/Bg3BPYqY

PPS: About 50 backers have not yet sent through their addresses, so I can not get your orders to you. Please check your inboxes and spam for Backerkit Emails :)

Kitsunedo Update - Neko of the Veil Update
about 3 years ago – Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 11:23:53 PM

Hello to all the Friends of Ukiyo and other Fox Lovers,

Thank you so much for your support and patience. We hope you've had a lovely January!

A week ago we received the samples from our manufacturing partner. The Spirit Lord cards look amazing in person and we can't wait to share them with you.  I'm so glad we were able to unlock the Tailed Shisu as the sixth character in the base game of Kitsunedo. It's a great addition to the game and adds a pretty unique spin with its resurrection abilities.

In some mixed news, our friends at Bangwee who've been putting so much hard work and effort into perfecting the quality of the final items experienced a couple of timeline setbacks. With Hong Kong's sudden COVID changes earlier this year, many of their team experienced the onset of infections that we had to deal with a while back. This along with Chinese New Year celebrations has lead to a delayed timeframe in terms of delivery which we apologise for.

On the flip side, we have been using this extra time on our end to perfect as much as we can and we are really excited to show you our new Neko of the Veil card.  We talked to quite a few of you at PAX about how the current Neko of the Veil was a placeholder and was under a re-design.  Well... after brainstorming and a lot of extra effort from Sarah (Tea Fox Illustrations), I'm happy to unveil (hehe) the Neko of the Veil at it's current colour mock-up stage. It may not be easy to see from the image I've linked, but the level of precision and artistic detail greatly exceeds all expectations. The new Neko of the Veil is one very beautiful feline. I hope all you cat lovers out there are as excited as me :D

We've also been play-testing some new abilities and I'm super keen to reveal them once they're set in stone. 

Just a reminder, we are still waiting on 56 backers to fill out their surveys and postal deliveries.  A last notice email has been sent from Backerkit so if you wish to add in this beautiful cat, you have less than 48 hours to do so.

Thanks again for your love and support,

Michael

- Ukiyo Team