Spectral Circuit: Short Circuit 1.3

Good timezone spooky robot enjoyers,

As we close in on our last two days of Pintober, so that you don't have to guess if you were after the winter Leaf alternates, I've gone ahead and unlocked the final goals!

We're mighty close and I'm confident that with post-campaign add-ons we'll hit them regardless, but just in case I've double checked the numbers and I have sufficient business float after all standing obligations to cover adding them in myself - I'm really excited about how Leaf looks shifted, so I'm happy to confirm them.



With that, here's an overview of the core campaign items we've funded! Here all are the pins:



There are loads of freebies to earn among these: the Blood Drop is free for returning backers, Void Bug is free with any purchase of 4+ pins, Void (Gummy) Worm is the freebie for backing 3+ Pintober campaigns, and Hardware the Sheep will follow your order home if you also back our partner campaign, Limbo of Dreams!

Additionally, the following designs are receiving jumbo 4" selective holographic vinyl sticker print runs:



And both the Backtick character art sticker sheet, and the Blood & Void holographic sheet:



Thank you again for all your support!! I know these are tight times for everyone, and it means more than I can say that so many of you enjoy these lil guys enough to spring for them. Happy final days of Pintober, and may November bring us all abundant positive change~

Happy Halloween, my spooky robot enjoyers and other assorted comrades! 🦌🧛🍂

Popping in with a quick confirmation that both the autumnal variants of Leaf and the vampire bot board Bit have been unlocked and will go into production!!



That just leaves us with a small swoop to stick the landing and grab our final two stretch goals, the winter Leaf instantiations and a Blood & Void holographic vinyl sticker sheet --



This sheet will be the same dimensions as the robot character art sheets, 6" x 4" (152.4 mm x 101.6 mm). A lot of folks react positively to the sheer size of the jumbo selective holographic stickers, but others have expressed interest in more fiddly little bits and bobs to squeeze onto phones and into journals - so this one's for you fine folks. Plus it gives us a chance to represent units that didn't get stickers otherwise, such as iCandy, Drop, Bug, and a couple Leaf and Worm variants. c; Sticker sheets are available to paste onto your pledge via add-on!

I appreciate you all enjoying these lil guys so much, it's been encouraging to pop back in and see steady progress in what's generally the silent middle of the campaign. My wife and I just spent several sleepless nights working to meet the demands of the housing company who managed our now previous rental. For an earnest snapshot of where I'm at as a creature, on uhhh Thursday?? I had a power nap half in a large cardboard box (no other surefire mostly clean surfaces left over there by then, because we had the laminate out per their request, and it was just the bare ass builders grade sheets of plywood underfloor) so that I could drive back safely, hahah. So still rocking the eepy beepy state of being and that's all for now - but more updates on other endeavors soon!! We're slowly getting things untangled on this end, so I can soon resume the fulfillment I was in the middle of and set up a better working space for onward into the future. <3

Regular reminder to check out both my Discord community and my other upcoming campaign for TRIBUTES, Gears of GAIA, if either is your jam. Have a great 'ween to all who celebrate! Get spooky, eat some treats, lurk in the shadows and screech in the night, whatever festivity strikes your fancy. Thank you all for being here!

Good timezone my glitchy robot connoisseurs,

Bye-bye-oo-bah boo-tay day!

 Ah-noo ay-tay, ah-noo ay-tay ah-noooo ay-tayyyyyyyyy



Oh uhhhh, a curious new unit appears to have tottered out of the abandoned factory downtown. They look like they've had a rough time, maybe... maybe they're just looking for somewhere to stay and recharge?



INTERRUPT is available to add to your pledge via its own add-on. It's a set of two pins, so has the same combo deal price point as the Double Trouble pledge level. It seems to be... leaking? Crying? a dark fluid as well; an inky, Void version of Drop, which is now an available variant of mini pin.

If you'd fancy amassing an army, more strange creatures seem to be surfacing in campaigns across Pintober --

Gotta Furb 'em All.

In other project news, I've gently adjusted a few of our goals to shoot for a lower order quantity in favor of making certain we fund all the designs revealed thus far. In so doing, we're a sneeze away from Changing Leaves~ if we get all the new units wrapped up soon, those additional mini pin designs you voted on will make an appearance! If not then fear not, there are many collaborative events I plan to take part in over the next year. c;

Speaking of, even the end of this year involved multiple extremely dang cool events, so I'll be participating in TRIBUTES which begins funding just five days after Pintober ends!



This will be my first mostly-aside from the Short Circuit focus (other than half of INTERRUPT, hahah) and I'm certainly a little nervous, so your pre-launch follows would mean the world! TRIBUTES is very much an event invite I accepted for the love of the game itself: both the game the designs are inspired by and the pin game, to explore new techniques and shifts in design language. Returning backers (amazing folks like you!!) will receive that PCB style tulip on the bottom right free for pledging.

And of course, if you haven't decided on Spectral Circuit yet - the Blood Line version of Drop is free for you previous backers, too. 🩸

That's it for now, more soon across the board!

Dah-kah-oo-nye~

Good timezone robot enjoyers,

I'm pleased to report that we've accomplished four of our stretch goals! So far, we've activated the following new units --



Reminder that Gummy Worm (the Void colorway Worm) can be collected via backing Spectral Circuit + 2 other Pintober projects, and Hardware (the lil sheep) is the exclusive cross collab reward for backing Spectral Circuit + Limbo of Dreams! ♥

Short and sweet update as I'm fading fast. Yesterday we just moved most of our belongings in a storm, a named storm no less (Austen)! We got through it alright, other than rocking the drowned rat aesthetic and adding a number of new bruises to my current collection - hauling large objects up and down narrow, curvy Dutch stairs can be an endeavor. Lots yet to handle but it'll be very worth it in the end. One of many improvements I look forward to is a better space to manage my stock during project fulfillments!

Back to the matter at hand, we are officially chipping away at our next stretch goal, the autumnal versions of Leaf, which I'm really excited to have manufactured!!



Thank you for your continued enthusiasm for these pins, I can't emphasize enough how life changing it's been. For those of you with earlier installments of the Circuit 'verse in hand already, where do you display your little bot boards? I'm always delighted to see! 

Gotta pass out now, but more very soon~

Good evening spooky bot enjoyers,

Spectral Circuit has FUNDED, meaning that Backtick and all four freebies have secured full production!!

With that, allow me to formally introduce you to our flagship Blood Line unit! They are available as an enamel pin, jumbo selective holographic sticker, and robot sticker sheet:



Some instances of the Blood Line ambassador unit, Backtick, cause quite a stir around harvest.

Backtick is designed to till the earth with its horns and remove unwanted volunteer plants. But in recent years, several units have ripped up cultivated ornamentals and monoculture crops, leaving overgrown, destroyed farms in their wake to be reclaimed by nature. Herds of Backtick are prone to wander out of their fields and lurk in the woods, eye cameras glinting eerily as they shift in the dark. There are even rumors that a couple of enthusiastic units removed non-native species that aren't just plants...



Don't forget to maximize your free swag as well: this Pintober you can earn up to four free pins from me! Returning backers get Drop, purchase at least four other pins and attract a Bug to your order, back Spectral Circuit + Limbo of Dreams to adopt Hardware the sheep, and back Spectral Circuit + 2 other Pintober projects to receive a Gummy Worm.

As you may have noticed in the updated banner image and the Pin Anatomy section, my manufacturing rep also fortuitously sent me pictures of the first two pin samples for the campaign this morning!



They're looking gorgeous! I'm pondering if I want to tweak the pantone of the clear enamel (the gray-black areas) slightly or if I like it as-is. If tweaked, I might go for a slightly warmer, darker hue, but the ashen look also compels me. Let me know if you have a preference!



Next up to fund is our bearded vulture bot-board, Zerofill. The second metal effect on the back wing turned out exactly how I hoped!

I'll be popping off to dream land soon as I've been burning the candle at ends it didn't even know it had - beginning fulfillment of Soft Circuit, renovating a house, packing to move, preparing this campaign along with one for TRIBUTES (if you're up for multi-event-drifting with me, follow that one too!) in a couple weeks - but I will catch up with you lovely folks again soon! Thank you SO MUCH for your support of my work, and let's see what we can do over the next 16 days!!