A cozy story game about an absent-minded Witch with a Very Important Thing to do and a lot of little distractions stealing her focus.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
🎵 So, never mind the darkness, We still can find a way. 🎵 (Or: Staying On Track when it's Cold, Dark, & Dreary)
6 months ago
– Fri, Nov 28, 2025 at 07:47:44 AM
It's time for an update! (That was written two days ago and forgotten in Brandy's drafts in the fog early evening darkness and frigid, freezing rain. #adhdlife)
Allison has conquered the labyrinth that is the backend, sorted out, and set up the Pledge Manager (Backer Kit)! (Small test is out, and all will be along shortly after we've confirmed things are working.)
If your tier included a prototype, you should have received a survey: 📝 Please fill those out!
We've worked through quotes and specs, and 🥁 our manufacturer is locked in!
Now that we've lined up the manufacturer, the design files are switching over from prototype dimensions to final specs. Colours adjusted. Clarity accounted for. Perhaps, most importantly, protection spells conjured for our Canadian' u's.
We've begun the interviews for those that backed at the "We write you into the game" tier and everyone is so lovely. They are going to be so lovely. (I'm totally not crying.)
Except to hear from with more updates (and perhaps some sneak peak designs🤞next month.
Until then find some hot cocao and good books. 🕯️ (Nothin' lasts forever / Even cold November rain)
- Brandy & Allison
♫ This was a triumph / I'm making a note here, "Huge Success" 🍰It's hard to overstate my satisfaction
7 months ago
– Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 06:12:42 PM
💫 We did it! You did it. Thank you for backing, sharing, and believing in us. 💫
Image: Marvel, Agatha All Along
Welcome, and this Update marks the end of the 🔮 Hocus Pocus Hyperfocus: The ADHD Oracle Game 🎴Kickstarter Campaign, and RL debut. (Well, 'campaign proper', more on that...)
Without your support, we wouldn't be swapping one Very Important Thing (🚀Launch a Successful Kickstarter) for our next Very Important Thing (📃Manage & Execute Fulfillment 📦 of a successful Kickstarter Campaign).
Not going to sugarcoat it. It's been a rough and tough campaign. With two neurodivergents with a plethora of work, projects, commitments, family, friends, responsibilities, and variable health and sensory needs — we planned for / knew things were going to be … challenging, let's say. Things started off with amazing ideas, good plans, solid actions....
⁉️And yet,
With Murphy's Law of and happenstances, we were trounced. Like, really, truly knocked back. The sheer volume, frequency, and intensity of both big and little obstacles that cropped up in the days leading up to launch, and every single day since. It's not been easy.
And also, all I (Brandy) could think of the whole time, in moments of clarity—comedy, really—I was transported out of myself. Out of body, and all things corporal, and I see myself. The little ADHD witch, with one truly Very Important Thing she has to get done. And so very many things to distract and derail her.
I can't applaud Allison enough for how beautifully, painfully, and preposterously accurate she captured the feeling/mechanic of the "executive function" element of having ADHD in her game design. And I'll be simultaneously crying and cackling about all these Inceptionesque moments of it all the way through to fulfillment!
📦 Speaking of Fulfillment
The game is done. What remains is polishing final designs and custom rewards, and coordinating with the printers/production team to meet their specifications.
Fulfillment will be done through Backerkit.
We'll be setting up the Pledge Manager in the next 1-2 weeks. (If your tier included an immediate prototype or retailer tier, we'll be in touch.)
Late Pledges are live & ongoing! While the Kickstarter 'campaign proper' is over (And we joyfully sold out of our custom tiers! TY!!) Late Pledges can still be made while we work through fulfillment. So tell that friend or coworker you forgot to message until now (cough, we will be too 🫣)
Monthly updates will materialize until Fulfillment in Early Summer 2026
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
🍂Regardless of whether you're observing / celebrating 🕯️Samhain, 🏵️Dia De Los Muertos 💀, 🎃All Hallows Eve (or none, or multiple) we ADHD witches wish you peace, fun, folly, and most of all please remember...
See you in the Updates, Brandy & Allison
* My satisfaction with my deep cut video game song reference and the joy it brought me.
🎶You've Got to Pick Up Every 🧶Stitch🎵
8 months ago
– Sat, Oct 25, 2025 at 04:04:10 PM
Hello Covenmates!
It is so exciting to be heading into our last 72* hours (which also felt like the last 48* hours because #whatistime) of this campaign. This whole time there has been a lot of magic going on behind the scenes. We are impatiently eager to figure out final numbers so we can place an order with our manufacturer and get the final game proof into our hands.
As we mentioned in our last updates (where we promised to share the video once it was out), we were privileged to have Lies You’ll Enjoy play through Hocus Pocus Hyperfocus, and it is a true joy to watch, so be sure to check it out.
We also added a 'how to play' video to the campaign page if you want a more detailed look into the rules and flow of the game.
In regards to our backer rewards: we’re running out of our higher-tier levels (the ones that take us a lot more individual time)-- so if you want a witch scenario card based on your life or a handcrafted mystery box, be sure to grab one soon!
🪄Speaking of Magical Mystery Boxes…. As a little end-of-campaign treat, we wanted to give insight into the mystery boxes we are excitedly preparing for backers at the highest tier. For these backers, we wanted to create a truly ✨special and magical✨ version of the game; we are replacing each physical component with something premium and bespoke.
The first component we’ve been working on (for several months now!) is the tokens. In the mystery boxes we are going to be replacing (still quite beautiful) plastic tokens with stones and semi-precious crystals that we collected ourselves. This has involved Brandy’s little witchling combing Bay of Fundy beaches for hours picking out the stones she deemed most beautiful and worthy to be in the game, as well as Allison researching how to extract diopside crystals from calcite veins in the forests of Quebec. It’s been a whole new world of learning and ADHD hyperfocus (Allison has integrated herself into the online Rockhounding community and is loving it). We’re excited about each of the new elements we‘ll be adding next!
Creating these boxes is extremely time-intensive, and we hope this gives you an idea of the care we are putting into each one.
A quick gif of the slippy slicey shale rocks that Brandy skipped around searching for tokens. #worthit
Know a local game, gift or esoteric shop you think might be interested in ordering some copies? A friend who could use a cool custom t-shirt with a little ADHD witch art on it? A family who needs a new game to play together on game night? Let them know about us! You got to pick up every stitch 🪡 😅
Between all things work, Kickstarter, ADHD, and life, we're over here fiercely vibing. Costume hunting, rock hounding, tarot reading, and spellcasting.
Must be the 🍂 season of the witch🔮, yeah... ;)
🎃 Music & Mischief 🎼, Allison and Brandy
An Actual Play as we enter our final week!
8 months ago
– Mon, Oct 20, 2025 at 03:39:41 PM
Greetings Covenmates,
We’re furiously barreling towards the last week of Hocus Pocus Hyperfocus’ campaign, and are so excited to see all of the support our little ADHD Witch has gotten. Every time we get a message or read a comment about how you relate to her experience, it warms the cockles of our little witchy hearts.
Tonight, we have a special treat! If you’ve been curious about the stories Hocus Pocus Hyperfocus can tell,Lies You’ll Enjoy will be streaming a game tonight, at 7:30 Eastern. We’ll be sure to share the video in our next update as well.
To play they’ll be using an early version of the game’s digital file, which you will get yourself if you back at any level (so you can play with your friends online too). This version has been made mostly functional by Allison, but not yet nice to look at by Brandy.
Please share widely as we get into our final stretch. Let’s finish strong!
Thanks, Allison
🎶 Don’t Stop [Us] Now! — ‘Cause We’re Fully Funded 🎉
8 months ago
– Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 07:56:14 PM
🎶 Don't Stop [Us] Now Yes, We're Fully Funded And we're not gonna stop at that🎸
Hello Mystical, Magical, Misfits!
Allison may have started something because now my brain won't allow for non-music-lyric themed updates. (We're a commit to the bit people, surrounded by other commit-to-the-bit-ers. Commit I shall!)
Right, on Topic!
🎉 WE'VE DONE IT! We're FUNDED! 🎉
🔮Hocus Pocus Hyperfocus: The ADHD Oracle Game🧠 has successfully unlocked "Fund Our First Print Run" achievement. 🎯
Thanks to everyone for pledging, sharing, and all around supporting our little indie oddball of a game. It's been One Week since we kicked things off, and it has undoubtedly been 'laughs at a funeral' vibe in our 3 am DMs. (Which… truly isn't a change from pre-launch lives, but the frequency, I suppose, is higher.)
Things have been a whirlwind of life, work, family, friends, waffles, commitments, and…a dozen (or two) side quests (each). While we (mostly) wouldn't have it any other way, we're both trying to pace ourselves and not burn before we reach the end of the campaign.
We've got a million dreams keeping us awake. (Often until 3 am.) About how far we can take this indie oracle about a Witch as wonderful (and distractible) as us.
While we've reached our print funding goal, we're not gonna stop there. If you have the capacity, we'd be truly grateful if you could share Hocus Pocus Hyperfocus in your circles: friends, family, and neurospicy networks, late-night Discord DMs. Anywhere and anyone you think might enjoy or know someone who would enjoy telling tales of mundane and magical distractions.
And on that note, I must get back to changing all the graphics from "launched" to "funded" and remember all the places I've put them. (Because you absolutely know this AuDHDer made a detailed list of the placements... and promptly lost / cannot relocate the *very safe / specific place* she put it now that it is time to use it.)
