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Night Parade: A Yokai Cleansing Word Game por IndianWolf Studios LLC IndianWolf Studios LLC
A word-building game about clever word choice, dice management, and set collection. It’s Obon at the Onsen! You are a new-hire for a yokai bathhouse. Your assignment: to cleanse yokai. Greet your guests, manage your tub, build clever words, and become Employee of the Year!

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Hello, everyone! Welcome to our project! If you haven’t met us yet, we are Jason and Antonietta, a husband and wife team with a passion for game design, art, and creativity! We are excited to introduce our latest project, Night Parade: A Yokai Cleansing Word Game! A word-building game about clever word choice, dice management, and set collection.
It’s Obon at the Onsen! You are a new-hire for a yokai bathhouse. Your assignment: to cleanse yokai. Greet your guests, manage your tub, build clever words, and become Employee of the Year!

What's in the Box?

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What Makes it Special?


Unique Word Game. A clever word-building game using letter dice that also has set collection, card drafting, player powers, different play modes, and cool art all in one package.
Flexible and Clever Word Building. With both strategic and puzzle-like word building elements. It’s not always about the longest word. Use a variety of words and word lengths to meet your guests needs.
Engaging. Little to no downtime. Players create their own words simultaneously and there is always something for you to puzzle or consider. Strategize for the next round or help your opponent. You are word-loving friends after all. (^_^)
Art Made by a Human. Beautifully illustrated by Antonietta. Inspired by traditional hanafuda, Japanese folklore, and ukiyo-e artists from the 1700s to 1800s.
4 Ways to Play. Competitive, Cooperative, Solo, and Teams. Human tested, yokai approved! (~_^)

Up to 4 Players with 2 Copies. Each copy of Night Parade supports 1-2 players. Combine two copies to play with 1-4 players.
Player Powers. Who doesn’t want to take on the persona of a yokai working at a yokai bathhouse? 10 unique Employees each with their own Player Powers to diversify gameplay.
30 Custom-Designed Letter Dice! The “soap” for bathing your guests and crafting your words! Carefully balanced for better letter distribution!
Comprehensive Rulebook. Thorough rulebook complete with a compendium of guest abilities and in-depth player power explanations.
Adjustable Difficulty and Player Balance. Rules for adjusting the game difficulty and “Balancing the Workload” for players of different skill levels.
Yokai! Because yokai are awesome! Need we say more? More than 40 unique yokai.
Quality Components. Because we believe in a quality experience.
Made with Love. Made by game lovers for game lovers. We poured our hearts into this. It’s strategic, it’s fun, get it! (~_^)




Review and Run-through


Review - Rahdo & Alex’s Final Thoughts


Alex teaches Rahdo how to play Night Parade (competitive)

Rahdo and Alex play Night Parade (cooperative)



How to Play





Why Back Now?


Support Creativity. Support Independent Game Development.

Our projects are made possible through the support and enthusiasm of our fans and backers.

Your pledges are precious and appreciated!

Without your interest and crowdfunding support, the large financial burden of manufacturing and transporting games would be too cost prohibitive for small indie studios like us. Your support also allows us to estimate demand and to create your rewards with quality components.

By backing Night Parade, you will play a crucial role in bringing this project to fruition!

Thank you for joining us on our game-making journey, for your trust in us, for your excitement in our product, and for your support to bring our project to life! (^_^)

Special Backer Discount!
In return for your trust and support, you save money with our special discounted crowdfunding prices!

Retail Uncertainty.
We are a tiny company.  While we would love to dream, there is no guarantee that our game will ever go into retail. Remember, we need your support to bring the game to print. Backing now means that you won’t miss out on a really great game.

We want this project to happen!
We successfully crowdfunded 6 projects and we are confident that, with your support, Night Parade: A Yokai Cleansing Word Game will become a success as well!! We poured our hearts (and late 30s) into this project. We want it to happen.

Let’s make Night Parade a reality!


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Add-ons

Add-ons are from our previous projects.

Add-ons have limited quantities and are only available while supplies last.

Add-ons will ship with the main project rewards when they become available. See Shipping section for timeline estimates.

If you don't want to wait, our previous projects are available directly from our website or from our Etsy shop and they will ship now.

Thank You!


We are grateful to all our backers for their support and enthusiasm.

Gamefound is an amazing platform that helps small indie companies and individuals like us present their ideas to the world and get the funding needed to bring those ideas to fruition.

Your pledges will not only bring this project to fruition, they will also help pave the way for future releases from IndianWolf Studios LLC.

✧─=≡Σ((( つ•̀ω•́)つ Thank you for your support!!!

Jason & Antonietta

Share the Love ♡


Our projects are made possible through the support and enthusiasm of our fans and backers.

The best way to ensure that Night Parade succeeds is to share this project with everyone you can!
Spread the word on your social networks: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, BoardGameGeek, blogs, everywhere, etc.

We are truly grateful to each and every one of you for your support!!

Thank you! (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ )-♡~(˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ )


All Content Unlocked

All game Content and Material Upgrades are already “unlocked” and included! No stretch goals.

We not only believe in Night Parade, we are incredibly proud of it. We spent years on its creation to make it an outstanding game with solid gameplay and beautiful art. As both designers and fellow board game enthusiasts, we believe in offering an excellent product with quality components to our supporters from the beginning.

This means you get high-quality components, player powers, extended rules, extra game modes, a cool first player token, and awesome bamboo player mats, all on day 1!

Preplanning for these upgrades also helps stabilize costs,  avoid delays, reduce risks, and lets us maintain our focus on delivering you a quality product.



Meet the Yokai


The Bathhouse Staff. You.
Choose from 10 unique Employees, each with their own special Player Powers, to diversify gameplay!! The Staff ID Badges also have star ranks so that you can increase and decrease the challenge and/or balance players of different skill levels.




What is the Night Parade?

The Night Parade is an element of Japanese folklore that collectively refers to all the yokai that enter the human world at night. In some stories it is an orderly procession traveling the roads and in others it is an unruly horde spreading pandemonium.


What are Yokai?

Yokai is a broad term from Japanese folklore. While it is often translated as monster, spirit, or demon, yokai actually includes a whole menagerie of supernatural beings, forces of nature, strange phenomena, and other unearthly mysteries. Yokai even includes humans who have been possessed, transformed, or spirited away.
    •    The tiny creatures that make your floorboards squeak at night? Yokai.
    •    Great granny’s old sandals that run through the halls singing at night? Yokai.
    •    Colored balls of light that float over the ocean at night? Yokai.
    •    Earthquakes? Caused by the giant catfish yokai.
    •    The bumps at the foot of your bed? Your feet…. Probably.

Printing, Shipping, and Fulfillment


We want you to feel confident that your rewards will be manufactured and shipped to you with care. We will be using highly rated and professionally trusted partners for our manufacturing and fulfillment.  



Panda Game Manufacturing is a world renowned tabletop game manufacturer. They focus on industry-leading component quality and service, and are responsible for producing thousands of tabletop game titles.  

Gambler’s Warehouse is a trusted, all in-house crowdfunding project fulfillment center with years of experience in order processing and the packaging and shipment of playing cards. They are well known in the crowdfunding community for their speed of delivery and exceptional care of the items that are being handled. 

Gamefound is a reliable and easy-to-use crowdfunding and pledge management service for creators. We will also be using Gamefound after the campaign ends to collect shipping and to offer add-ons.


SHIPPING

Shipping will be charged via the Gamefound pledge manager after the campaign ends. Charging shipping after the campaign allows us to more accurately charge shipping and to keep the funding goal lower.

Delivery dates are estimates only. This is due to a number of factors including manufacturing, shipping, and fulfillment. We are conservative with our delivery estimates. In the event that a delay occurs, we will communicate it to our backers.



Shipping includes tracking to most locations - see the F.A.Q. for a full list of locations.



Our partners do not currently ship to: Afghanistan, Belarus, Brazil, Central African Republic, Cuba, Iran, Israel, Laos, Niue, North Korea, Russia, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Yemen. This list is subject to change.

 If you are in one of these countries you could try shipping it to a different address or using a parcel forwarding service.

Backers are responsible for any customs duties, taxes, or other fees that their packages may be subject to at the time of delivery.

Shipping costs are continuing to increase. While we are doing our best to keep shipping costs as reasonable/low as possible, we are constrained by the pricing models established by our partners. Thank you for understanding. 

Gamefound will collect applicable EU/UK VAT during crowdfunding. This will be collected in two stages - for the pledge in crowdfunding and for shipping and additional items in the pledge manager.


More about VAT :

We appreciate our international backers and we want to keep being able to offer our projects to you. \(˃ᴗ˂)/ ♡

VAT is a sales tax that is separate from import taxes or duties. For Europe, we are obligated to collect and pay VAT on the value of the total of the pledge and shipping amount according to the VAT rates of each respective country.

US creators are required to collect VAT for goods under €150/£135 being sent to the EU and/or UK. We do not profit from that money, it goes to your country's government. In order to comply with these laws, any pledge total (pledge + shipping) under €150/£135 being sent to the EU and/or UK will have VAT collected and remitted on your behalf by Gamefound.

Gamefound also collects VAT on pledges over the €150/£135 threshold, however, they do not directly remit those collected taxes. Since neither we nor our current fulfillment partner are capable of handling remitting those taxes, our previous policy limited EU/UK backers to below the threshold. 

However, we are exploring other fulfillment options, so that our EU/UK backers can now pledge normally without restriction. There is no need to contact us first. If needed, we will contact you before fulfillment. 

Thank you so much for your support and understanding!  \(˃ᴗ˂)/ ♥︎  As we continue to grow, we will continue to find ways to make this process more streamlined for our international backers. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us.


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TIMELINE
Delivery dates are estimates only. In the event that a delay occurs, we will communicate it to our backers.


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ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITMENTS

Safety, Equity, and Diversity in the Workplace
PandaGM (our manufacturer) adheres to the Amfori BSCI (Business Social Compliance Initiative) Code of Conduct and maintains the BSCI certification. Panda’s factory is fully air-conditioned for worker comfort, meets ISO worker health and safety standards, and follows the OHSAS requirements for occupational health and safety. Panda is also certified in ICTI’s Ethical Toy Program and ISO14001.

They are an equal opportunity workplace that respects and welcomes diversity in race, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age, nationality, and cultural background. They believe in fair remuneration, decent working hours, and measures to ensure their workers’ occupational health and safety. They do not condone bonded labor, child labor, or other unethical business behaviors.

Environmentally Friendly Factories
Pandas’s factory is FSC-certified. They use soy-based inks and water-based varnishes across their products. Their standard cardboard components contain 30% recycled material and their standard shipping cartons contain 100% recycled material. Their waste paper and plastics are reused or recycled as much as possible. 

Long-lasting Design
The game will be manufactured with high quality components so that it can be enjoyed through many playthroughs. Your game will live happily in your game library and on your table, then perhaps passed along or donated to a future game-lover, until one day it becomes a tsukumogami — okay, maybe not quite that long, but you never know. (~_^) 


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RETAILERS
We love FLGS and would love to see our game in stores one day. If you are a retailer and want to purchase our games for your store, feel free to contact us.

Who Are We?


Hello! (^_^)

IndianWolf Studios is a two-person indie studio that creates board games, card games, playing cards, and digital games.

If you haven’t met us yet, we are Jason and Antonietta Johnson, a husband and wife team with a passion for game design, art, and creativity!

Jason is an experienced freelance professional, game designer, and game enthusiast.
Antonietta is a professional artist, illustrator, and designer.
Together, we are a great team! \(^_^)/

We are excited to continue our journey creating more projects and games with the growing support of our amazing backers and fans.

Welcome and thank you for joining us on our journey!!!


What experience do we have?

We have successfully launched and fulfilled multiple crowdfunding projects. We performed many roles and acquired many skills during the process:
  • Designing, developing, and coordinating projects.
  • Acquiring partnerships with manufacturers and fulfillment partners.
  • Raising and managing funds.
  • Fielding, resolving, ensuring, and forging strong communication with our customers.
  • Writing, editing, and proofreading products, communications, and content.
  • Being creative and innovative.
  • And so much more…


Team of two. What does that mean?

We are dedicated to, involved in, invested in, and oversee every step of our project.

Since we are involved in all the work, it means that we might be a little slower in getting out new releases than larger companies. However, it also means that:
  • We treat every step and every release with love and care so that we can bring our best to our supporters.
  • We sincerely and personally listen and respond to each and every one of you. (And we love receiving messages and feedback from you).
  • We are learning, improving, and growing every day!


Risks and challenges


RISKS AND CHALLENGES

This will be our seventh successful crowdfunding project. We are working with industry professionals to manufacture and fulfill your rewards.

That said, all projects have inherent risks. We have gained experience with our previous projects, done our research, and have planned for common issues. While this will minimize any issues that we may encounter, problems can still occur.

Some aspects of the project are a new venture for us. Remember, like all crowdfunding projects, this is a process and details are subject to change.

As backers ourselves, we understand the importance of communication and will keep you updated about any problems or delays that occur.

We are committed to making this work as we have many future projects that depend on the support of backers like you.

Thank you for your trust in us.


PROJECT STATUS AND FULFILLMENT

We are 99% done with the art & design. We can begin the manufacturing process as soon as the project completes and funds are received.

We will be using reliable manufacturing and fulfillment partners. However, given the complexity of manufacturing and world-wide distribution, delays can and do occur.

We are conservative with our shipping estimates. In the event that a delay occurs, we will be open and communicative to our backers.

Terms and Conditions


TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Images shown are prototypes and mockups.

By pledging to the project, you acknowledge that the final product, including appearance, materials, and other content, exclusivity, and availability, are subject to change and may differ from what was presented while the project was active.

This is a process, not a pre-order, all pledges are final once the campaign has ended. However, we understand that things happen, so contact us if you have any problems and we will see what we can do.

It is your responsibility to provide us with a correct address in a timely manner, to ensure that the provided address is deliverable by normal methods and standard regional postal services, and that title and risk passes to you upon delivery to a common carrier for such shipment. Further, you agree that you are responsible for import duties or any other duties, taxes, or fees that may be payable to complete delivery of your items.

We will be using the Gamefound Pledge Manager after the campaign ends to complete your pledge. All backers must complete/confirm their pledge via the Pledge Manager. This includes the payment of shipping and any applicable VAT/GST.

If you do not confirm/complete your pledge within 4 weeks of the notification to confirm your pledge, you agree that we have fulfilled our obligations to you in full for payment or donations received. However, we may, at our discretion, refund (minus Gamefound and processing fees) or ship your pledge if you contact us and confirm your pledge after the 4 week window has elapsed. All pledges which are finalized after the deadline (i.e. late) will ship from the United States, and will incur additional shipping costs and delays depending on your location.

Thank you for your understanding.

Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns.

Refunds and cancellation

Stable Pledge

Este proyecto es parte del programa Stable Pledge. El creador garantiza un reembolso completo a los patrocinadores si cualquier cambio en las estimaciones de precios después del final de la campaña es mayor al 10%. Se concederá un reembolso del 100% a solicitud hecha dentro de los 14 días posteriores al anuncio del cambio. Gamefound devolverá su provision al creador, quien es el único responsable de los reembolsos. Conoce más.

REFUNDS & CANCELLATIONS

We are running this crowdfunding campaign because we are a tiny team who wants to create something amazing and share it.
Your pledges are precious and appreciated.

While the crowdfunding campaign is live:
You can increase, decrease, or cancel your pledge at any time before the campaign ends. You are not charged if the campaign does not reach its goal.

After the campaign has ended:
This is a process, not a pre-order, all pledges are final once the campaign has ended.  However, we understand that things happen, so contact us if you have any problems and we will see what we can do.   

If we grant an exception to our no refunds after the campaign ends policy:
Refunds requested after the campaign will be reduced by any transaction fees that we are unable to recover. Once fulfillment begins, no refund is possible. Any refund exceptions we may make are out of pocket, so please be considerate when requesting a refund.

Please understand, crowdfunding allows small creators to try and make something new. Crowdfunding is neither a pre-order nor a store. Your pledges are put towards processing, production, and fulfillment and are not recoverable. By pledging, you are agreeing to go along for the ride — rain or shine. As with any crowdfunding campaign, please pledge responsibly.

That said, we have a track record of completing and fulfilling our crowdfunded projects. We are invested in this too and have future projects planned, so we want everything to work out satisfactorily too.


REPLACEMENTS

Once your reward arrives, please open and inspect it to ensure that there are no missing or defective parts. Unlikely, but it happens. If this occurs, let us know within 30 days of receiving your package so that we can work towards sending a replacement piece or try to make things right. Replacement requests must be reviewed on a case by case basis. Please be compassionate and patient. Note, we cannot replace boxes, and we do not cover accidental damage, theft, loss, or any other event that is not a manufacturing defect. If your cat chews on your box, we sympathize - it happens, but we can’t replace it. Please talk to your kitty about responsible chewing. /ᐠ - ˕ -マ Ⳋ

Thank you for your understanding.

Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns.



Creador responsable de este proyecto: IndianWolf Studios LLC haciendo negocios como IndianWolf Studios LLC.

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