David Malki !

While my card game Bolted! is being prepped at the factory, there’s a little window of time here for an additional round of pre-orders!

If you missed the first round of preorders earlier this year, Bolted! is available again for a limited time. Reserve your copy now:

Bolted! on Kickstarter

I spent a ton of time on the promo video and I had a lot of fun! I hope you like it.

A couple of things worth highlighting:

• Want this to be a holiday gift? The game won’t ship to backers until the spring, but all backers WILL get a downloadable certificate that you can wrap as a present, if you like!
• I’ll be doing livestreams all month long, playing the game with some of my creative friends! The first one already happened – with Ryan North, Gillian Goerz, and Pat Race – and you can watch it here:

Upcoming scheduled livestreams include:

• Wed Nov 26 • 5:15pm Pacific • Good As Hell Block Already happened!
  🐈‍⬛ Sara McHenry (Your McHenries, Hey Pais)
  🐎 Tom McHenry (Your McHenries, Horse Master)
  ⚙️ Jess Fink (Chester 5000 XYV)
  🍄 Eric Colossal (Rutabega the Adventure Chef)
  ↪ Watch the replay!
   
• Mon Dec 1 • 12:15pm Pacific • Sickos Block Already happened!
  🐶 KC Green (Gunshow, Greatures)
  ✒️Mattie Lubchansky (Boys Weekend, Simplicity)
  💧Tom Harrison (Anime Sickos)
   
• Fri Dec 5 • 10:15am Pacific (NEW TIME) • Webcomics Weekly Block
  🐤 Dave Kellett (Sheldon, Drive)
  😈 Brad Guigar (Evil Inc, The Webcomics Handbook)
  📺 Kris Straub (Chainsawsuit, Local58)

UPDATED TO ADD:

• Mon Dec 8 • 3:15pm Pacific • Very Rude Block
  🥷 Christopher Hastings (Rude Tales of Magic, Dr. McNinja)
  🎨 Carly Monardo (Rude Tales of Magic, Birdgirl)
  🦢 Branson Reese (Rude Tales of Magic, Swan Boy)
   
• Tue Dec 9 • 6pm Pacific • Audio Heroes Block
  🪕 Molly Lewis (Mollylele)
  🎹 Seth Boyer (Skulltenders)
  🎤 Jordan Morris (Jordan Jesse Go, Youth Group)
  
• Wed Dec 10 • 1:15pm Pacific • Atlantic Coast Block 
  🤖 Jeph Jacques (Questsionable Content)
  🦒 Colleen AF Venable (Kiss Number 8, Katie the Catsitter)
  🐐 Jon Rosenberg (Goats, Scenes From a Multiverse)
   
• Thu Dec 11 • 12:15pm Pacific • Super Stylish Block
  👑 Dylan Meconis (Queen of the Sea)
  👻 Kaylee Rowena (Haunts)
  🏞️ Kendra P. (Fairmeadow)
   
• Fri Dec 12 • 1:15pm Pacific • Rad Artists Block
  🤼 Scott C. (Great Showdowns, Cabin Head and Tree Head)
  🪓 Shing Yin Khor (The Legend of Auntie Po)
  🐻 Cat Farris (My Boyfriend is a Bear)

All livestreams will be at: twitch.tv/davidmalki

More are still TBD! I’ll be posting schedule updates on Bluesky!

If you have backed any of my previous Kickstarter projects, be sure to send me a DM and I’ll include a bonus card with your pledge for free!

(If you backed Bolted! on BackerKit earlier this year, the same offer applies! We should already have your details on file from that one!)

Here is a video of me making a puppet! And then performing a little with that puppet!

Some of you may recognize this technique as a callback to another series of puppet videos I made, some years ago. (As demonstrated here)

It’s been a fun idea to revisit, and I plan to do it some more.

This is, of course, related to my Wondermark-themed card game, Bolted!

Which now has final box art:

If you were part of the game’s launch campaign back in the spring, you may have noticed I just posted a detailed backer update about the final printing and shipping schedule.

You can read it if you want LOTS OF DETAILS about the current status & progress of the game! But in summary:

• I’m sending off the final artwork to the printer VERY SHORTLY
• The games will be printed in December/January
• I expect to receive my copies in February/March!

The time it will take to approve the artwork proofs & samples also allows for a perfect li’l window for me to REOPEN PREORDERS.

So if you missed it the first time around, you will now have a BONUS CHANCE to reserve yourself a copy:

Bolted! is coming to Kickstarter!

My (silly but ambitious) goal in this prelaunch period is to gather the same number of “followers” on the prelaunch page, as we had total backers in the original campaign (436). That seems doable, right??

The plan is to launch mid-next week! That’s pretty soon!!

I’m assuming at least some of you reading this are OG Boltheads who jumped on the train early and have been patiently waiting for me to wrap it all up. I’m super grateful for your initial support!

And now that the manufacturing part of it all is in motion, I’m super pleased that the timing will allow for another chance to get it in front of folks for pre-orders.

Since I’m only likely to print this game once, I want to make sure anyone who’s interested will have a chance to grab a copy. So I’ll be talking much more about this in the days to come!!