Hello!
We just got the factory samples for Use Up All Your Sick Days! The factory is a month behind schedule, but all the meeples are done, and that's the part that normally takes the longest. Estimated shipping date is now late May or early June.

We have to start Red Panda Surprise May 7th. I'll chat with Backerkit and see if I can combine orders if you backed Sick Days already and Red Panda Surprise next month to save some shipping. They are being printed together, so the timing will line up well.

Please follow along Red Panda Surprise here


And we got the first few sketches for Dragon Mail! Please follow that campaign here.
We got one of my favorite artists, @mangaurania to join the project! I think this one will be big!



Here's a peek at the boxes and some of the stuff from Use Up All Your Sick Days! The little box comes inside the big box so you can bring it on the road or store it nicely on your shelf. :)

Thanks again if you participated in the theme survey 3 months ago. Thanks to the results, Red Panda Surprise and Dragon Mail were pushed up the schedule and Cool Bugs Under Rocks and Vegan Cafe are almost ready too! 

Cheers,
dylan
Charming Games

Us Up All Your Sick Days is now open for late pledges and pledge manager. Yay!
🔗 https://sick-days.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders

Meanwhile, the official meeple prototypes are done! Time to start mass producing them so everything can ship out in a couple months! Unless we get a lot more pre-orders, I'm only going to make 1000 deluxe editions including these little guys! Note that the meeples are double sided, one side is sad and the other is happy.

Cheers! -dylan

Every year we ask our community what animals/themes they want in our future games.
Prior research brought us Otter, Capybara Crush, and the new characters in Use Up All Your Sick Days (Raccoon, Red Panda, and Axolotl had a lot of votes). So, what's next?
For 2026, we have been working hard on Dragon Mail, Vegan Cafe, and a magic pony solo/co-op climbing/shedding racing game that needs a good name. We have a ton of other designs jostling to be next on the agenda. But please comment below what else you would love to see and play!

Ideally: We will open the pledge manager next week, finish editing the rule book and card files in January, finish printing in March, and ship out in April. In less than ideal circumstances, we'll aim to deliver by the end of next year. We'll keep you updated transparently throughout the process. If you want more granular details and behind the scenes daily work, come join our small discord here: https://discord.gg/gSFj3KNdms

I want to thank you again for making 2025 our best year ever! Because of your support, I could leave the long commutes and classroom to working at home, raise my now 13-month-old kid, and focus on making quirky little card games. I look forward to another awesome year creating and playing with you!

⚠️  ⚠️ Use Up All Your Sick Days campaign ends in less than a day!  ⚠️  ⚠️
https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/dylancoyle/use-up-all-your-sick-days
(But we hate FOMO, so we'll open the late pledges next week if you miss out. No pressure)

We believe you will love (or hate) Use Up All Your Sick Days so much that you can download it for free this week.
https://charminggames.itch.io/sick-days/

Hope you can take some time off before the end of the year and play with friends and family (or solo)! We're open to constructive feedback to make the game and rules better. That's why we love crowdfunding.

The physical version is still available on backerkit for the rest of 2025 here:
https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/dylancoyle/use-up-all-your-sick-days

And the rest of our PNP files are on sale on itch here:
https://itch.io/s/176969/charming-games-pnp-sale

Happy holidays!
💜dylan

Thank You!
Use Up All Your Sick Days card game was 4000% funded in the first day! If you didn't back yet, you can check out the game here: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/dylancoyle/use-up-all-your-sick-days

I will do a live stream tomorrow. I will teach the Party rules and Solo/Co-op rules and do a playthrough of the solo game. I'll take any questions during and after the game. It will be 10pm here in Shanghai, so I'll need to be a little quiet since my family is sleeping, but it's the most predictable time I could find. Hope to see you there! :)
-dylan, charming games

Live Stream
Use Up All Your Sick Days, Solo play + Q&A
https://youtube.com/live/wsoWqaLPQwg?feature=share
December 19, 6-7AM PST, 9-10AM EST, 2-3PM GMT, 10-11PM CST