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Tarot-powered adventures. Documentary crews in space. Treasure-hunting raccoons. These ENNIE '25 nominees are coming to BackerKit! 🏆✨

In collaboration with BackerKit, 2025 ENNIE nominees and winners are launching ready-to-ship projects featuring their nominated games and products. It's a genuine snapshot of the creativity driving the hobby right now — story-focused RPGs, dark fantasy worldbuilding, and plenty more waiting to be discovered.

Join us July 6–16 to celebrate these creators one more time and find your new favorite game!
🔗https://www.backerkit.com/c/collections/ennies-emporium-2026

Also tune into the Magpie Games ENNIES Extravaganza roundtable on July 7 — nominated products, exclusive bundles, reward tiers, and more.

Planning to crowdfund a book, comic, or graphic novel this year? 📚

This Friday (6/26), join BackerKit and creators from Storyteller's Forge, Zombie Orpheus Entertainment, and Rude Dude Studios to learn how to apply, collaborate, and launch with Printopia 2026!

Here's what we'll cover:

✅ What Printopia is and how it will benefit your next launch
✅ How to apply and join the growing list of creators
✅ How to collaborate effectively with fellow participants
✅ Pro strategies to run your best publishing project ever

This info session is for book, comic, and graphic novel creators ready to level up with crowdfunding, build deeper audience connections, and anyone considering BackerKit for their crowdfunding journey.

Your host: Jason Furie, Creator Community Lead at BackerKit and co-creator of Realm Runners and Rental Rumble. He's raised over $300K across seven successful campaigns since 2016.

Can't make it live? Sign up anyway, and we'll send you the replay.

📅 Save your spot now: https://www.crowdcast.io/c/printopia-2026

The wait is over — literally. Instant rewards. Zero waiting. Meet the BackerKit DriveThruRPG Integration.📚 🎲

DriveThruRPG, the largest marketplace for tabletop RPG publishers and fans, is now built right into BackerKit. The second someone pledges, follows, or reserves, their digital rewards are delivered automatically.

Here's what that unlocks for creators:

✅Instantly reward fans with digital content like quickstart guides and bonus materials
✅Boost pre-launch reservations and followers to peak pre-live demand
✅Maximize launch-day funding with instant access reward incentives
✅Drive higher-tier pledges with digital exclusives
✅Automate and streamline digital reward fulfillment

No more copying links, delivery delays, or navigating between platforms. Just the fastest, most seamless way for backers to go from pledge to play.

Creators like Evil Hat Productions are already on board:

"We're thrilled about the new BackerKit DriveThruRPG integration! As the leader in RPG PDFs, DriveThruRPG offers incredible tools and publisher support. At Evil Hat, we use them for every BackerKit campaign—from PDF delivery to global print-on-demand. We can't imagine crowdfunding without both platforms and will definitely use this for our next project!" - Fred Hicks, Co-founder, Evil Hat Productions

See how it works for your campaign. Read the full release now: 🔗https://www.backerkit.com/blog/backerkit-drivethrurpg-integration

The Tortugas Games webinar is almost here!

Nick Raynor & Micah Tyson raised $130K+ on their very first board game — 3x what they expected. Now they're sharing the playbook live in 2 days.

Don't miss it! Sign up now 👇
https://www.crowdcast.io/c/tortugas-games-red-tides

When we look for partners to recommend to creators, we look at one thing first: results.

That's why we're proud to announce that Vala Marketing is now an official BackerKit Partner.

Here's what Vala Marketing has helped creators achieve on BackerKit in just the past year:

🏆 Dungeon Crawler Carl RPG + Unstoppable — $13.2M+ raised. #1 highest-funded Renegade Game Studios campaign ever.

🏆 The Primal Hunter: Collector's Box Set — $1.2M raised. #1 highest-funded Aethon Books campaign ever.

🏆 Nail House — $1M+ raised. #1 highest-funded film of 2025, #1 action film of all time, #1 highest-funded RocketJump campaign ever.

🏆 World's Largest Dungeon — $1M+ raised. #1 highest-funded World's Largest RPGs campaign ever.

Vala is a full-service crowdfunding agency built for TTRPG, tabletop, fandom, and film creators.

If you're planning a BackerKit campaign and want a team that knows our platform inside and out, Vala is one of our most trusted recommendations.

👉 Learn more and connect with Vala: https://www.backerkit.com/partners/vala-marketing