Dual Dice — 110% Funded on Kickstarter! 100% Done / Completed!!!

I am a bit surprised that with around ~1,000 Backers and 45 Followers that this KS did not get more traction than 6 Backers in the first 24-Hours. We'll we shall see if there are more in the evening (Possibly).

It seems as more KS Backers have either left the KS-Scene or are simply not interested in Custom Designer Dice. I find it strange that what it seems is hardly anyone from the previous TW KS replied except for 4-Backers who are still unhappy with the old campaign. Those who are upset seem to be the most vocal.

Anyways... If ANY of you who read this ... Have a couple of minutes to check out our KS Campaign... I would be very thankful that some of you took the time to read more about the dice and what they can do.

They really are Revolutionary ... In what they can do.

Cheers and enough said.

Made an update to the "Dual Dice" Campaign IMAGE (now it's RED as in red HOT!) and I made my FB/Meta Advertisement Post and we'll see how we do with that also.

Going to be TARGETING some "groups" TBD ... We'll see which ones I can JOIN and Advertise to their Members. We shall see...

Right now things seem to be going BACKWARDS as my Followers have not made ANY pledges and 7 unknown souls have pledged $366 CAD (25%) out of their pure whims and impulse interest. If RANDOM people are INTERESTED... More people should be interested too!

We shall see soon enough...

With the Kickstarter moving forwards with NO TRACTION, I have come to conclude that Kickstarter is NOT the platform for my "Dual Dice". We will continue to monitor the situation, but it doesn't look like there are going to be many additional Backers and as such we will OFFER The current Backers the chance to BUY the dice DIRECTLY from our "Online Store" which will LAUNCH in October.

We're trying to keep the same pricing ... But individual sales are NOT the same as a Kickstarter where there is a "collection" of pledges.

Online sales are ONE-BY-ONE and therefore will probably cost a little bit more... I'm not saying too much higher... But pricing will be in US Dollars and we will be using PayPal as our method to process transactions (on the storefront).

We will have a ~10% Handling Fee: 6% platform + 2.9% Paypal + $0.30 USD.

With USD as being the currency, we will no doubt offer shipping to Canada, USA, Australia and New Zealand at $20 USD, UK & Europe $15 USD (with a $5 USD VAT Tax subsidy to pay for some of the cost of dealing with those taxes).

The products will be again offered with DISCOUNTS on BUNDLES and there will be three (3) categories:

#1> A Pair (2) of Dice $15 USD.

#2> Four (4) dice at $25 USD.

#3> Six (6) dice at $30 USD.

Which is almost identical pricing on the KS, plus or minus a couple of dollars and change (depending on the quantity chosen).

I will of course post an UPDATE for those INTERESTED in BUYING the dice...

We shall see how many people will be interested in getting them at nearly identical pricing given security from our "storefront" and the flexibility to buy any time.

Also this will mean you can BUY MORE that 6 Dice IF you LIKE. You'll just have to pay for 2-Shipments. But hey... The option is there and unlike Kickstarter we don't need to worry about only ONE (1) Reward level or such non-sense. If you want 12 Dice... You can buy 2x 6 Dice and they can be all Black, all White or a Mix of BOTH. Much more flexible that Kickstarter.

Hope some of you make some purchases... Will be good to see who is interested!

Cheers all!

Note #1: Too bad the KS will not fund... We tried and instead we're moving on to the NEXT BEST solution: one-by-one sales via our online storefront.

This will give everyone the opportunity to see the dice and buy them without any worries that we must CROWDFUND the entire set of dice. I'm not sure how many people will buy... But it's using the PayPal Payment option and I've already got that setup already...

Note #2: Quebec buyers will NOW have to pay a 15% tax to cover the GST and PST for purchases made in the Province. Of course that will no doubt discourage some people from buying ... It is what it is ... I am dealing with the challenges as they surface and TAXES is one of the concerns for purchases made in Quebec.

I also don't need to charge Taxes if my annual sales (12-Months) are BELOW $30,000 CAD... Which they are so technically I DON'T NEED to charge ANY taxes but the platform FORCES it locally...

Kicktraq says we are ON TARGET for reaching our goal with 117% over the funding goal. We'll see if that stays true for the next couple days as I await another couple pledge this coming week.

We'll be monitoring the situation... I've only found TWO (2) Dice FB/Meta Groups and the rest are Monopoly... Monopoly dice game codes for unlocking extra rolls and so forth.

I'm still waiting for a Dice Post to be approved on the Kickstarter Advice Group and I've messages three (3) Admins like a WEEK ago and again today. Still not post approval... I wonder what these people are doing???

Anyhow... We'll see how this 3rd (33%) of the campaign evolves over the next few days.

Best.

We are currently at 92% of our Funding Goal!!! That's fantastic with 80% of the campaign done and 6 more Days to wrap up the Kickstarter, we've had some backers who wanted to support us and ordered EXTRA dice (Thanks Steve and John).

Kickstarter has AWARDED us with the "Nearly Funded" Status to encourage people in the last 5-Days to give us a chance and pledge for the "Dual Dice" KS Campaign!

In theory we need 2 to 3 Backers depending on the Reward chosen.

Again maybe in the next few days things move forwards a bit and we manage to make our Funding Goal. That's would be super if we could attain our goal in the next couple of days!

If you know of someone who LOVES dice... Give them these beauties as a personal gift. I'm sure they'll love them and thank you for your generosity.

Sincerely.

Yahoo!!! I will thank all the backers with a Private Update... But FB/Meta should be now advertising that we have REACHED our "Funding Goal" of $1,500 CAD with five (5) more Days to go!

That's great, we've updated our Presentation Image and added a "100% Funded" Banner to enable other Gamers, RPG Fans or Dice Aficionados the chance to get their own hands on these "snazzy" dice... Hehehe.

My next POST will be when the campaign CLOSES and I will explain what the end-game damage looks like! Haha.

I am so very THANKFULL for the way the KS Campaign stayed in the right Categories at the right time. From regular Backing and some strong support for the higher-tier pledges, allowed us to grow the community to over 20 Backers.

Yes we know 22 Backers is not the most impressive amount. But it was HARD to Create the KS Campaign, it was hard to Market it before launch, it was hard to Blog about it on FB/Meta Forums and indeed it was hard to watch it be less fluid than expected... Yeah it might have more slippery ... But we did have some dry spells which required reviving at times!

So we're almost done with Campaign and I will post the final verdict when the campaign closes.

Best!

I'm not sure exactly what you mean... But I'm going to simply state that the 1DD"Face A x Face B" is a unique distribution with equal likely odds on the following values:

Equally the 1DD"Face A" + 1DD"Face B" is another unique distribution with the following values:

Which is a distributed 1D6 (Normal) with a bell curve probability.

So those are some of the more DYNAMIC dice rolls which depend on the the HOW(?) you handle the dice and what dice you use to roll as well.

In any case... We have about 3-Days left in the campaign ... Maybe we get a few extra Backers in the coming LAST DAYS!

Cheers.

Well it is what it is ... And I'm very pleased with the results so far. We've seen a few extra backers in these last 72-Hours and that's positive too! We will see how it ends tonight. Would be nice to squeeze in +1 or +2 Backers before the end... But we'll have to WAIT and see what happens.

We are of course very thankful to all the KS Backers who pledged. Without you all, we could NOT succeed. And I'm not counting my chickens before the hatch... I'm just stating that the Backers have made this campaign worthwhile and it did not get over-crowded in terms of Backers either.

It's a moderate success ... But a success none-the-less!

Cordially.

I am waiting for the FINAL Backer to FIX his "errored" pledge or get bounced by KS in 7-Days (9 October). And then I have to WAIT another 7-Days to get the funds. So 14-Days (2 Weeks) to get the funds and confirm all is good.

So I'm playing it cool and working on the TRANSLATION of my website to FRENCH. That is such a pure pain in the butt... But it has to be done.

I'll let everyone know when I have more news!

Cheers.

So it's been technically 48-Hours since the payment transfer was confirmed. But since it's a BANK, I'm guessing it must be 48-Business Hours. Which means that Thursday's Notification about the monies implies that I would clear TONIGHT. But it has not as there are no indications of a PAYOUT on the KS Website and neither any TRANSACTION in my Business Bank Account.

I double checked and the information is correct (right company name and right account number). My guess it should happen NEXT WEEK at some point in time and then we can begin fulfilling orders and preparing them for shipping.

No doubt the USA orders are a priority because of the November 1st 2025 Deadline with the threat of Tariffs going up by 100% to 130%. Of course what this means is that NO product can be sold or shipped to the USA because it's over 100% meaning a HALT in imports.

Right now we are HAPPY that the Tariffs are at 30% and we will do strongly to ensure that rate for all the US-Backers. We respect President Trump and his way of negotiation, we just don't want to DELAY ORDERS and not meet our Early-Bird goals in the event that US-China relations take 6+ Months to resolve.

Present Trump has been signaling that it will be: "Okay!"

But who knows... I don't want people to be UNHAPPY that there orders were not sent ON-TIME to meet the Early-Bird requirements.

Since we have a limited amount of orders... I'm guessing I should be able to get everyone done before the 15 December 2025. That's a bit of a GOAL. It should be possible since 13 US Backers and 10 Other Backers (Canada, Europe and Australia). The real priority is the USA and people should be getting their stuff once I got everything taken care of with the shipping company.

Again Canada Post is still on STRIKE... But they are processing MAIL but in a limited fashion/way. Rotating strike. However that works. My shipping company gives me options so we'll see IF we can handle matters in the least amount of delay and people can be happy that they've gotten their orders sooner rather than later.

Cheers all and keep you all posted when I have any news.

As promised, I'm not wasting any time with the orders. Especially those going to the USA. So far, I have processed ALL the Survey and Messaged Information and there are some details which need to be finalized (but some of the Backers are SUPER FAST in their response time...) which will affect what gets SHIPPED and what we need to WAIT on.

The US-Early-Birds are going out ASAP. There are only four (4) of them... And then there is only ONE (1) International Backer who also qualifies for Early-Bird shipping.

Let me get this straight: All shipment NEED to go out. But those in the USA need to be travelling before November 1st. So we're going to PROCESS all of the US Backers FIRST and then handle the remaining Backers afterwards.

Don't worry ... We'll expedite the ENTIRE process and it should be relatively quick to ship Canadian, European and Australian rewards. It's just that with the USA, we're a bit in a TIME-CRUNCH.

Rest assured all pledges will be processed quickly since we are well below the MOQ order that I placed in October 2024. We should have enough to process all the orders such that everyone gets their reward and that should happen pretty organically SOON.

I hate using TERMS like "SOON" because they don't offer much PRECISION.

The bottom line: we're working on it. So the Early-Bird pledges will take 2 to 4 business days. That means packages will be received as soon as NEXT WEEK!

Like I said "SOON"... LOL

Cheers all.

So we BEAT the November 1st deadline and we will see what happens. All US-based pledges are away in their respective packages and on their way to their owners.

This is SUPER important because we CANNOT afford MORE Tariffs and a +100% tariff means DEADSVILLE: no one importing anything Chinese into the USA.

But since we managed to ship everything before November 1st and our US Backers will probably receive their packages BEFORE November (like this NEXT WEEK!) a potential disaster has been avoided.

We will see on November 1st if this was just PREVENTATIVE or FOR REAL. Meaning we prepared for the WORST and hope for the BEST. And this meant shipping ALL the US-based backers before the deadline.

I also spoke with the clerk at the Shipping Service and we talked about the European shipments. He said I should be ok for no VAT Fee payment with their PostNL service. That all sounds good since I gave the EU and UK Backers a $5.00 CAD discount to cover some of the VAT Fees (if not all in the lower tiers).

I'm taking NEXT WEEK off... I will be working on matters just no shipping. I will resume shipping in November and go with the International Backers first!

Cheers!