Get your hands in the game. With 3 unique sets of smart tabletop games, over 20 games to play out of the box and endlessly expandable.
"This is the most innovative games of the year."
- Jason Levine, The Dice Tower 🎲
"Resonates with children and adults alike."
- Charlie Hall, Polygon 👾
"It all feels quite magical... Blinks is a definite winner."
- Tina Roth Eisenberg, Swiss Miss 💯
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Latest Updates from Our Project:
Blinks Shipping, Grade A Sushi, and Getting Games in Your Hands
over 3 years ago
– Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 04:46:10 PM
Hi Backers,
We are incredibly excited to announce that your pledges are packed up from the manufacturer and are on the first leg of their trip. Once they arrive at our warehouses, you'll receive an email with a tracking number when your individual package is packed and labeled. The first packages will arrive at doorsteps as early as late next week.
EU/UK Customers
Short story, a batch of our sushi roll cases were not up to our standards and did not pass QC. Since quality is our #1 priority, we will be shipping new rolls to you AFTER we send you your games. This means that our EU/UK backers will receive your Blinks soon but there will be a small empty space where a Sushi Roll would live. We apologize for this inconvenience and will be sending the Sushi once the replacement production is complete and passes QC. We'd rather you be able to play with your Blinks than have to wait any longer.
Reviewers Are Delighted
We've been getting a number of great reviews on Blinks lately and make us darn excited to be bringing Blinks to all of you. Matt Halverson of Board Game Halv writes "Blinks is straight out of the future."
"There are so many options and definitely has something for everyone. There is racing, puzzles, games of chance, strategy resource management games, dexterity games and so much more. For something you can pull out of your pocket, there is a ton of gaming power here."
Blinks was also featured on a recent episode of Rolling Dice and Taking Name Podcasthere. Discussion starts at the 5 minute mark. We can't wait for you to share in their delight!
AW SHUX, It's Autumn
The wonderful folks at Shut Up and Sit Down are hosting the biggest virtual gaming convention of the season. For the occasion, the Move38 Team will be premiering our Twitch Channel https://www.twitch.tv/move38 for the whole weekend of October 16th-Oct 18th. It's a great way to learn more about Blinks, meet game designers, see games played, join some challenges, and have a good time.
Excited to get your Blinks in your hands very soon.
Jon Bobrow and Move38 Team
*Sushi refers to the Sushi Roll cases, no worries about raw fish being shipped here :)
Delivery Schedule Update, Dev Kit Assembly, All the Game Mats and more!
over 3 years ago
– Sun, Sep 06, 2020 at 04:44:07 AM
Hi Backers
We’re so close!
Detailed Shipping Timeline
Late Thursday night, we received our last updates to the shipping schedule as the assembly of your Blinks will be completed and ready at the port on September 22nd. I know this comes as sad news as the projections showed a September arrival, but some materials took longer than expected to finalize. Even the games got some last minute polish. We want you to be able to enjoy your Blinks for a lifetime, so getting all of the details just right makes all the difference.
To make up some of that time, we are rush air-freighting the inventory to 3 different warehouses. We expect Blinks to arrive at our warehouses around September 29th and then be pick and packed to be shipped out in the first week of October. We have learned a lot about shipping this year, and think our new partners and system are incredibly well suited to deliver reliably.
Locking in Addresses
Today you’ll receive the notice. 48 hours to update your shipping address. If you will be in a different location the first 2 weeks of October, please update your address accordingly, we don’t want you to miss your Blinks.
Dev Tools
Developer Tools assembled
The developer tools have come together really nicely and the developer forum is bubbling with great new games, experiments, and even a new Blinks library! Move38 is gaining access to our office in the coming two weeks, and while we would have been assembling these in house, they are being assembled partially at the factory and partially in NYC. For those of you that ordered developer tools, they will most likely ship in a separate package so that you get all of your Blinks, Blanks, and the developer tools will not hold up your other items. Developer Tools will also be shipping in October, but require one more stop on their way to your homes.
Good news on Game Mats
Most products are difficult to manufacture in low quantities at reasonable prices, and so we set targets for getting each of the game mats to a minimum order size. Because 200 of you ordered game mats, the wonderful people of Inked Gaming agreed to even print the less popular options, so everyone gets their choices. If you wanted to get a mat that didn’t look like it was going to reach it’s goal, let us know ASAP and we’ll add it to your order.
The full library of Game Mats currently available
Better Together
I have to take a moment here to express a deep gratitude to the Move38 team. In 2018, when I had launched the first version of Blinks on Kickstarter, we had only 2 games and managed to design and develop more than 12 unique experiences to ship the first sets of Blinks. As the lone person working full time on Blinks, it took me nearly 2 years to work out all of the kinks and deliver. An incredible community has grown around Blinks and Move38 and I am lucky to now have the support of a team that makes anything feel like it can be accomplished. Working through the pandemic has its challenges, and I feel incredibly lucky to have the team by my side and elevating Blinks to the next level.
If you have joined one of our now weekly Live-streams, you have surely gotten to know Dan, our Director of Game Design, Marty our Director of Communications and Marketing, Ishmael our CFO, and Josh, our Tech Lead. The most recent member and Admin Assistant, Mary, is already making waves. And lastly our summer game design interns, helped bring all of the materials together for the Community Set and accomplished much more (coming soon). From scripting tutorial videos, rigorously play testing games, writing instructions to designing game label art, this is only the tip of the iceberg for our interns. We have no doubt that you are going to love your Blinks and the Community Set games.
Coming Soon
In the name of building a game system, there are new games being designed all of the time. Our top priority is getting your Blinks into your hands so you can start playing... then we want to bring you more games 🥳. We have set the date to launch our next games and collaborations on October 20th, so mark your calendars🗓
Stretch Goals Survey Still Open
We ❤️ Kickstarter and think it's the best place to give our biggest fans and supporters a chance to make the next games of Blinks a reality. With any luck and your help, we'll continue to need some really great stretch goals. Take 15 seconds and help up with this 1 question survey, we're listening!
Did you know that we have livestreams on Instagram and on YouTube? Ishmael and the team plays games on Instagram Live on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of the month and Jon is on YouTube every Thursday with special guests and new ways to play with Blinks.
A Midsummer Production Update
over 3 years ago
– Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 08:06:55 PM
Hi Backers,
Can you believe it's already August. We are back in the office preparing some materials and getting the Summer Sets out the door. Meanwhile, our manufacturing partners are incredibly hard at work building the nearly 25,000 Blinks you've ordered, including the first ever Community Set Games. We've been making final tweaks to the games, getting all the support material in place, and helping our partners put it all together.
Ishmael, Dan, and Jonathan being the least socially distanced all day for this one photo :)
Shipping Updates
Originally slated for August Delivery, our factory has updated us that the current shipping schedule is for the first week of September. Of course, we will keep you updated on this progress. Two weeks before we start shipping Blinks to your doorstep, you'll get a reminder from BackerKit that you can update your mailing address before it locks in for good.
Tying Up BackerKit
93% of you have locked in your pledges and those that haven't yet, check your inbox for emails from BackerKit, we'd love for you to get your rewards on time. As mentioned above, you can still adjust your shipping address, so no worries if you move between now and when we ship.
Stretch Goals
Because of your strong support, we managed to unlock our stretch goals and make 3 new color Sushi Roll cases, included and coordinated with each of the sets of Blinks. We are getting ready to launch new games for the end of the year and would love your help in planning the best possible stretch goals. If you can leave your suggestion on this 1 question survey, we appreciate your input!
Blinks was recently reviewed by Tony Mastrangeli, editor of Board Game Quest. He gives you a taste of what's coming your way. You can read it here: https://www.boardgamequest.com/blinks-review/
Say Hi!👋
We love interacting with the Blinks Community. In this moment of staying inside, it's great to find ways to connect with fans, family, and friends. We're having a great time sharing Blinks games, answering questions and sharing behind the scenes details on Youtube Livestreams.
Jonathan West joining a Blinks Livestream and sharing a new game designed to be played with the Widgets Blink called "Topple Stones"
Have something you'd like to share or to see discussed on the streams? Reply in the comments.
The Blinks Forum
The Blinks community continues to grow and we love seeing you interact with each other so much. We welcome you to pop your head in and join the community on our forum. The Blinks forum is an active and supportive part of the community and developers would love to engage with your ideas. Have a game idea you'd like to see created? Drop in the forum. http://forum.move38.com
Looking forward to sharing more updates soon!
all my best,
Jonathan + the Move38 team
2020 Summer Games & Games Pages
almost 4 years ago
– Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 01:41:48 PM
Hey Backers,
This week is truly momentous for Move38 and Blinks as we continue to work on your Blinks, new Sushi Roll cases, and Community Set games. Additionally, we are making sure you'll have more and more games to play going forward.
Our goal with Blinks is to provide a platform for creativity, not just for games that Move38 thinks up, but for games from Blinks players and the developer community.
500 Blinks of Summer
While your Blinks are in production leading to the largest amount of Blinks we've ever shipped, the developer community has been incredibly active, making games of quality and at a pace exceeding our expectations. The games are sooo good that we selected a few to release as the 2020 Summer Games booster pack.
Today, we are launching 2020 Summer Games. This is a very limited release of 500 Blinks, first come first serve. You can choose each of the games separately or get all three!
The Games
Heist by Keir Williams: Break the bank in this kinetic struggle for gold.
Battle Balloons by David Page: Strategic challenge to rule the skies
Dynamo by Jonathan West: 3 Mini Party Games & more ways to play
These games go on sale starting today! The summer games will be hand programmed, stickered, and packed by the Move38 team. We'll be assembling and shipping in Mid-august. For some of you this will mean these could arrive before the Kickstarter. The reason for this is that the summer games are coming from a different production run than the community sets you backed on Kickstarter and will be delivered separately from the Kickstarter.
Domestic Shipping Only
There's 1 caveat with this release. For the time being we are offering these for US Customers only.
We are doing our best due diligence to guarantee fast and easy delivery for all our of Blinks Customers both in the US and around the world. The current climate of the pandemic and changes to global shipping are a challenge. We are working around the clock to have the best options available and get you your Blinks as soon as we can. If you are one of our international customers we'd love to figure out a way to get you the Summer Set.
Games Pages [Work In Progress]
We've also added a bunch of games content to our website. Visit move38.com/games to learn more about all the games and the backstories for Blinks. This is a work in progress and we'd love your feedback. What would you like to see on our Games pages?!
We couldn't be more excited to be sharing the creations from the community and the developer forum with you all. We hope you are as excited about this awesome library of new games to look forward to playing with friends and family.
All our best,
Jonathan + the Move38 team
Surveys Lock Today — 25,000 Blinks ordered 🤯
almost 4 years ago
– Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 10:11:00 AM
Hey Backers,
Lot's of exciting progress at Move38 on all fronts, so it's time for a quick update.
BackerKit Surveys
90% of you have completed your surveys and it is so cool to see how many of you are getting the new Community Set games. We can't stop playing them and know that you'll love them too!
If you backed, are expecting a reward of Blinks, and haven't selected which ones you want, this is your last chance to make sure that your Blinks get made, so take a look in your inbox for the BackerKit survey and fill it out ASAP.
Even if you didn't select a reward, it is important for you to fill out this survey as it helps us know that we have everyone accounted for.
Blinks Production Update
If you are curious to know just how many Blinks and how many games this Kickstarter helped to create, we've ordered over 25,000 Blinks to be manufactured 😲. Who wouldn't want to be in the room with 25,000 Blinks! This whole process starts with acquiring all of the components, of which there are many (hundreds of thousands of LEDs!). We'll continue to share the process of manufacturing and assembly with all of you, and any other parts of the process you are curious to know more about.
Packaging Proofs
Before the sleeves for the packaging get printed en masse, we make sure all of our boxes are checked
You might have heard that we reduced the size of our packaging by 60% in volume and saved 30% in weight. We updated the print materials to fit this new packaging and also feature the games that are contained inside. This is a quick look at the proofing process.
Shipping Update
Now that production has started, we'll get updates regularly on the shipping times. Product is scheduled to arrive in our warehouses in late August and start arriving on doorsteps the first week of September. If you are concerned about needing to update your address, you will have the ability to do that in BackerKit up until 2 weeks before we ship. You will get a 48 hour notice before we lock in your shipping address.
Meet the Move38 Summer Interns
Our summer interns are working on the next releases of Blinks. They introduced themselves on our twice weekly livestream this past Thursday. You can meet the Move38 interns and get a sneak peak of what we're working on here.
