A new Gloom solo adventure and more!
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As of this morning, our producer Michelle Nephew sent the Enigma files to our printer, so production has begun on the books and stickers! We're really excited to reach this milestone, since it's the last of the heavy work on our end, and also one giant leap closer to getting the books and extra goodies to our backers! 
If a Digital Download PDF copy of any of the books were included in a tier or as an add on in your selected rewards, you will have received a private message on Kickstarter with a download link to the updated version of the book. Please reach out to [email protected] if you did not receive that message, or have any questions about how to download your digital copies.
An extra THANK YOU to everyone who played their digital PDF copies in the first couple weeks, and sent us notes! This first read helped us make sure our printer files are the best finished product we can offer, and you were a big a part of that!
We'll be sure to update you as manufacturing progresses, so stay tuned!
Learn more about the CatStronauts board game on its launch page. The campaign will be cosmically cute and totally pawsome!
Thanks again to our backers, we couldn't have produced Enigma without you!
-Audrey DeLuca
Marketing Coordinator
Atlas Games
Greetings puzzlers!
Thanks again for your support in getting Enigma Gamebooks funded well beyond our goal. Your digital rewards are now ready to download!
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Production Update
Everything is ready for press! We’re going to wait a week or so after digital fulfillment to send it to our printer, though, just in case someone finds some major issue. But we don’t expect that to happen.
If you do find any errata, please report it via the hints websites for Cryptid Hunt and Unhappy Birthday. The URLs for those sites are given in the books. Thanks for your help!
We just wrapped up our Kickstarter for Enigma Gamebooks. You helped us reach an outstanding $66,072. That's 1321% over our funding goal! So this is us sending our most sincere thanks to everyone who supported the project!
We can't wait to get the books sent off to press. We expect those to be shipping out to you in July, but digital versions will deliver to you in the next couple weeks. So just a few more weeks until the puzzle-solving and storytelling can commence!
Until then, don't forget about the digital freebies. Every Enigma backer is eligible to download that file. See our first backer update for the link, if you haven't downloaded them already.
As we wrap up Enigma, we get closer to our next big crowdfunding project forCatStronauts: The Board Game! Based on the graphic novel series by Drew Brockington, the CatStronauts board game offers cooperative gameplay for two to four players. You'll play as one of the characters from the CatStronauts series, adding modules to the space station before time runs out!
This stellar adventure comes to Kickstarter on May 14th. Click here to sign up for a launch day announcement and learn more about CatStronauts!
The Enigma project wouldn’t have been possible without your support. Thanks again to each and every one of you who shared, liked, and backed Enigma Gamebooks!
- Audrey DeLuca
Marketing Coordinator
While we playtest all the games we publish, most don't require nearly as much playtesting as Enigma has had. The authors playtested with their own gamer victims … er, friends … as they wrote the books, and again before final turnover. Then we did ANOTHER three rounds of testing in-house!
Michelle Nephew, Atlas Games Co-Owner and Enigma Producer, comments, "Enigma has taken an incredible amount of playtesting, more than any game I've produced, in fact! The puzzle gamebook format of Unhappy Birthday and Cryptid Hunt is just so different from an RPG or a boardgame rulebook. Since the puzzles are so interrelated, every tiny change you make to one has the possibility of breaking others, so we've had to double check every layout tweak. Our staff was an incredible resource, and really stepped up to make the books as perfect as we can make them!"
Here you can see the lengthy art progression of just one puzzle from Unhappy Birthday:
"It was the most delightfully dreadful birthday party I've ever attended!" quips staff playtester Jenae Floerke. "In Unhappy Birthday I got to follow clues, solve riddles and puzzles, and really think outside of the box. I loved exploring the creepy Castle Slogar and getting to meet all of my favorite Gloom characters along the way."
"I love the map at the beginning with all of the cryptids," says Atlas Games staff Ross Waataja, who playtested Cryptid Hunt. "I personally am a sucker for a good map. Not only is the artwork fantastic, but it was really helpful for visualizing the journey of the cryptid hunter, and at the end when narrowing down the cryptids." Ross also says his favorite puzzle was the Bigclaw Map Puzzle. "It was the perfect level of difficulty. It was challenging enough that I made a few mistakes while doing it (I didn't just solve it immediately), but it wasn't so difficult that I had to get hints."
The enigmatic excitement of the Kickstarter is infectious in the Nephew household, too. The kids of Atlas Games Co-owners Michelle and John all got a chance to see the books as they developed, and chimed in with suggestions that make them more approachable for younger readers. Check out this Unhappy Birthday fan art from Sophie Nephew, age 14. Isn't Grogar so cute?!
Remember - the Engima campaign ends on February 22nd at 5:00 PM Central! Please share the link with your friends, family, and other puzzle lovers NOW! Thank you for your support!
Have you ever played a puzzle book like these? Tell us your experience below, and let us know which of the Enigma titles you're looking forward to most!
-Audrey DeLuca
Atlas Games Marketing Coordinator