Don't Get Cucked Like Kevin | Polywog Failed Kickstarter TCG Full Box Opening
Channel: Dead Decks
Date: 2024-02-24

Hello everyone! 

I know it's been a long time since you have heard from me so this post will be an update on myself and the state of the game.

Before I start let me say that I have not been completely idle and I have been reworking the game mechanics and card design to better suit the original direction I have planned for the game. This required no more funding or outside work to do and I have been doing all of this work personally in my free time.

Let's start off with my personal issues that caused me to have really bad depression and anxiety and led me to ignore and not spend enough time pushing Polywog to be what it should have been. If I had focused more I could have moved timelines up and the money wouldn't have had to be stretched over such a long time and things may have worked out better. There were poor decisions made and I know this.

I will not be posting a full life story and I will be summarizing things here for everyone. To begin with my relationship of 15 is now over due to cheating not on my side and me being forced into an open relationship that I did not want. I eventually gave in and tried to embrace this as my wife continued meeting more and more people and I was left at home alone with my kids waiting for my wife to have her fun with her multiple guy friends. I was never allowed to have friends of my own though and my wife would monitor my discord, text messages, facebook, and my dating profiles to ensure that she was the only one that was talking to other people. 

My personal image of myself and self-esteem were almost completely destroyed and I would go in and out of depressive states and not communicate with anyone. Not the community, my family, strangers, or anyone for that matter. These would get bad really bad sometimes when she would insult me for not being as attractive or strong as someone she was seeing for that period of time. Any friends I did manage to make she would be extremely rude to and they would stop talking to me shortly after.

This went on for the entire development of Polywog and Polywog was the only thing I had that was bringing me any joy in life. As covid began to cause issues for Polywog development and the St. Patrick's day and Easter sets started being delayed Polywog started to falter and the community began to turn on me. The only thing I had was now just as toxic as everything else in my life and I started to completely shut down.

At this point, Polywog was spiraling and I wasn't sure how to save it or even if I could. I tried to salvage things and look for investors and sell different products but nothing worked and only made my depression worsen.

Then at the beginning of this year, my marriage finally ended, I ended up in jail over something extremely stupid and I am currently awaiting a court date later this week. I am now working for the Post Office as a Rural Carrier and barely living paycheck to paycheck.

Now this brings us to the current day. I have redesigned the gameplay of Polywog to work more in line with the frog theme and simplify the gameplay a little. I have removed poison and paralysis from the game and the game is no longer won by running the deck out.

Things are still being tested with the new rules but I haven't given up on Polywog I have just been working in quite at my own pace as I found the will to work. I will post new rules and some card examples below for you all to check out.

Polywog does still have a future but there is a lot of work to be done and it won't be easy. My depression is easing though I do still have a lot of days where I don't want to do anything, especially days where I don't get to see my kids since we now have to split days.

You can now check out some images and rules below and I will update you all again once I have done more playtesting and the game is ready for re-launching. I am still committed to bring the backers their products it's just taking so much longer than imagined and its been a rough journey.

I do still have lots of the original boxes, plushes, and things like that for people that are interested though. I will also be looking for a few people to receive playmats and playtest sets to help make sure the new rules and cards work accurately and are balanced.


Thank you all for your understanding, Keven Madden