Sun Jan 16 '22 Announcement
about 3 years ago
– Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 08:41:36 PM
I received Matthieu's article today. It is amazing. In reading it, I had to take a pause so that my mind did not explode. I can't wait for all of you to get your hands on it. He decided to focus on the symbolism of the Cherub and flaming sword, which is crucial to God's'Dog. Here is one of the images he uses, designed by Cord. You might already get a glimpse at why it is so important. 
Signing Over 2700 Things
I am almost done signing all the St. Christopher prints. It wasn't so bad as I split it up between a few evenings sitting with my wife and kids. 
This week, I am travelling to see Matthieu, so that we can sign the almost 1000 bookplates for those who got signed books. Matthieu lives about 3 hours North from me in a yurt and so it will be quite a trek. He has been having some serious problems with his living situation and so he really put in extra elbow grease to get his article out while trying to deal with his home.
Logistics
Bank Stuff
The biggest frustration right now for us has been the money transfer from Indiegogo. This has not yet been completely solved, though it looks as if it soon will be. But that means we are still waiting for the funds and so have not yet finalized the printing and fulfilment contracts. It is a bit annoying but hopefully will not delay the fulfilment too much.
The only upside to this is that there is still time to support the campaign for those who haven't yet as I will keep it open until we finalize printing.
Backerkit
In finalizing logistics, we decided to partner with a system called Backerkit. A few people were worried that they had to get perks a different times with different orders. Backerkit will bundle all together to make sure everyone gets what they had planned. You will all get a survey sent by them to confirm the different aspects of your order, perks, quantities. It will let you check or change your final shipping address. The survey will also give all of you one last chance to add things to your original order. Since Barckerkit has a more precise shipping calculation, the most appropriate shipping cost will be charged for new add-ons.
More news very soon.
Tue Jan 11 '22 Announcement
about 3 years ago
– Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 12:33:57 PM
Hello to all.
A bit of news on the God's'Dog project. We are excited to have continued to rocket past 200k and approaching 230k right now. The project is still funding through what Indiegogo calls "In Demand" and I will leave it open until we finally hit print for the book. Once the campaign is closed, there will be no more immediate way of getting the book.
We of course have been waiting for the money to come in. The disbursment of funds could only start one week after the campaign finished, and so that happened on the 7th of January. We were all excited. We had our printing quote all ready to go! Yesterday I got a message saying the transfer was refused. Turns out I am a complete idiot, and I confused how the setup of the money transfer should go. Being in Canada myself, I still wanted the campaign to be in USD since most of you are Americans. My bank account is in Canadian funds. Yeah. So I spent quite some time on the phone today and a USD account should be open tomorrow if all goes well. This is of course adding some delay.
On the good side, the Secrets book is looking to be massive, around 60 pages at least. The added part to my St.Christopher article is full of Neanderthals, Aliens, Werewolves and Furries. Crazy stuff. We are planning out Fulfillment so that we are ready once the printing is done.
The script for book 2 is completely revised with way more stuff in there and several threads which enrich the story. Cord is starting to work on it now! He knows he has to send out a preview in a few months. If book one is setting up the whole world and adventure, book 2 is a serious roller coaster ride.
We will keep you posted as things progress.
Thu Dec 30 '21 Announcement
about 3 years ago
– Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 10:50:38 AM
This is the last day for God's'Dog campaign. We reached 200k last night, which means that everyone will get The Secrets of God's'Dog book as a PDF.
The whole team, Cord, Matthieu, Felipe and I want to thank you for your wonderful enthusiasm. It has been a wild roller coaster to get on with you guys and I really had a blast. I want to thank all the artists that came out with some amazing pin-ups for the book, all of those who backed the NFT project, the moderators, Renaud Gagné who helped me with marketing and pushed me into crypto, Jamie Day, the infamous Tacocat777 who created Godsdogecoin. Thanks to all those who offered their critique and blurbs, all of those who shared the campaign to their friends.
Of course, there is still the possibility of backing the project today, and it will still be possible for an indeterminate time to back it through “on demand” once the official funding ends tomorrow morning. I will stop "on demand" funding once the books are getting ready to print.
Thanks to all, and we will keep you posted with the details once the logistics of this will fall into place.
Happy New Year!
Jonathan Pageau
Sun Dec 26 '21 Announcement
about 3 years ago
– Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 09:13:59 AM
I hope all of you had a wonderful Christmas.
We are in the last stretch of our crowdfunding campaign. We have unlocked all the stretch goals except one. To be honest, I never thought we would make it here, but now it seems possible that we reach the 200k goal.
So this is it folks. At 200k I will be sending all backers a digital copy of the Secrets of God's'Dog book. Matthieu has been working super hard at producing an article that will blow everyone's mind.
I have been so excited about God's'Dog in the past few weeks, that I spent way too much time re-reading the script for book 2 and book 3, adding in some of the threads we had deleted when making it into a screenplay. Book 2 will be a wild ride. If book 1 is called "God's'Dog: Monster", book 2 is going to be called "God's'Dog: Warrior" so you can imagine what that will look like.
Let's do this folks, let's show the world we are ready for new stories.
There are still original pages available, still people who have not gotten the physical copy of the Sectrets of God's'Dog book.
See you on the other side, and thanks for your confidence and support.
Jonathan
Thu Dec 23 '21 Announcement
about 3 years ago
– Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 04:48:46 AM
We are cruising to 184K today, and so it seems completely plausible that we reach 200K before the end of the campaign. If we make it, each backer will receive a PDF version of the Secrets of God’s Dog book.
NFT SUCCESS
Our Discord server for the NFT project is now being converted to a general place to discuss God’s’Dog in all its facets! So join if you want to meet other people looking to enjoy this story.
https://discord.gg/7jPDzeq2kp
On Dec. 21st, we auctioned the God’s’Dog NFTs. The very end of the auction lasted an extremely intense 3.5 hours, with a few wild people doing everything they could to snatch some up. One person, Tacocat777, drove us completely crazy by driving the price up and then pulling the rug out, then coming back in. I was forced to change the rules of the auction mid-stream!
In the end, we generated 8.5 ETH, which was about 34,000 USD at the time. The very top level NFTs went for a maximum of 1.6 ETH (over 6,000$). These funds are going to ensuring the next book gets published as soon as possible. Of course, even without the NFTs, the secrets given in the hints will be available to everyone who owns the book and has enough of a symbolic mind to discern them. Since all the NFT owners have read the book now, I am already seeing people decode some of the secrets for which they have not seen the hints!
It is still possible to get in on the action through the secondary market.
https://opensea.io/collection/godsdog-collection
After the NFT auction, we discovered that Tacocat777, the one who had made the auction so insane, was no other than the mysterious creator of Godsdogecoin. We will have to be careful with this wily fellow in the future. Already, he has created a completely fraudulent God’s’Dog level 7 NFT (with a secret cat picture. Imagine the nerve). I know you will all forgive him because he is giving 7777 Godsdogecoin to all physical backers of the book (see previous update), but don’t be fooled . Godsdogecoin is completely worthless!
GodsDog art still available
If our top NFT went for 6000$, imagine to prestige of owning original art from God’s’Dog, hand drawn pages by Cord Nielson. There are still pages left!
Thanks to all for your support and I wish you a Merry Christmas.
Jonathan Pageau
