We are only two weeks away from the Dark Carnival's grand opening! With it so soon around the corner we'd like to reveal the final collection add-ons in store for Midnight Festival 2...

So on our last update we asked for your suggestions or thoughts for this campaign's competition, we've got two ideas that we're debating on, but we're going to let you decide!

Option 1 - Domestic Yokai
In similar style as what we did for our Infernal Invasion campaign, this idea would involve backers submitting photos of their pets for the community to vote for a winner which will be used as a reference for colorways to be unlocked as a stretchgoal. We would be looking for a pet dog for the pipefox, a pet cat for the Maneki Neko, and a pet fish for the Ningyo. The winning pet's owners would receive a freebie of the pin their pet inspired added to their order, or in the scenario that the pin isn't unlocked, a suitable replacement.

Option 2 - Artistic Spirit
As suggested by commenter Emily, this option would include a drawing competition - making you the artist this time around! Everyone will be given the blank outline for each of the yokai to choose from, and will have the opportunity to send us their take on one yokai of their choosing. Tokii and I will gather our favorites and put them up for you all to decide the winners via a poll. The top 3 will be the competition winners, and the artists for each will receive a freebie of the pin that they created added to their order, or in the scenario that the pin isn't unlocked, a suitable replacement.

Let us know your thoughts! Vote here :>

We apologize ahead of time if we have been / will be less available to update and communicate. we've been preparing for a trip to Sakura-Con where we'll be setting up a booth in Artist Alley! We're very new to this so it's been a quite chaotic getting everything packed up, but we're finally ready. We fly out tomorrow morning and should be back to work by April 7th. If any of you are planning a trip to Seattle we hope to see you there! :3

Check out our partner's project! Right here :>

Hi Backerkit!
Tokii Here!!
So someone noticed we didn't have 3 colors on our maneki neko- 3 being the luckiest version of this yokai. And we love luck, right? So I cam up with two new designs that I'd love ya'll to vote on, though simple- I wanted to make sure to hear your voice to our debut design for this pin. Poll attached!!

Meow meow mow (Stay Adventerous)
- Tokii and Jacob

The CritCreations team is excited to announce our next upcoming campaign and our very first sequel; Midnight Festival 2!
This campaign will be the spiritual successor to the first Midnight Festival campaign; we plan to explore more of the rich legends of Yokai in Japanese mythology and turn what we learn into pin designs aiming to match the original style of what we did previously.
If you'd like to stay up to date with our progress as updates come out, make suggestions during the creation progress as we work on designs, or to be notified when the campaign launches you can join the party by clicking the image below!

To help us decide the order in which pins are unlocked, we have put up two polls for the pin and mini pin designs. Your favorites will be the very first ones to unlock, so be sure to share your thoughts! To vote on the polls you can click below: