Yukon Salon is a creative, fast-paced card game for 2-4 players competing to be the best stylist in the Yukon by styling hairdos for Grizzly Bears and beards for Lumberjacks.
Each client that you style rewards you with a combination of points to win the game and abilities and bonuses to help attempt riskier styles on more difficult clients.
Sway the clients into choosing your style by making outrageous, unique claims and press your luck to earn the right mix of points and rewards.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
The Yukon Salon is Open for Business!
about 3 years ago
– Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 05:03:39 PM
It's been a long trek, and we might have gotten here sooner if we'd just used sled dogs, but Yukon Salon was finally delivered to our loading dock a short while ago!
Pallets of Yukon Salon
An Open Box
We are starting to pack orders right away, and will be handing them off to various carriers as soon as we can. Watch for tracking information in your e-mail or your Backerkit account!
-John Nephew
President Atlas Games
Address Lock this Week
about 3 years ago
– Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 06:35:35 PM
We're all getting used to disappointment this winter, whenever shipping is involved. The good news is that there has been progress; Yukon Salon was loaded on a train on Friday, and is crossing the country from Los Angeles to Chicago. The updated ETA is this coming Friday, February 26th. I think the odds are good that it won't actually be here until the following week, but we are getting close enough that it's prepping the salon to open for business at last.
Please log into Backerkit as soon as you can to confirm that your shipping details, which you may have filled in quite a long time ago, are still accurate. If there is a charge for shipping pending, I will be attempting to charge it soon, so there is time for updated info in case things are out of date. I plan to lock down addresses before Friday. Whenever we do receive the games, we will want to get them turned around and sent to all backers around the world as soon as we can. As a reminder, we will be sending copies of the game itself, and also any additional wooden dice that people ordered in Backerkit.
-John Nephew
President, Atlas Games
The Winter of Our Shipping Discontent
about 3 years ago
– Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 01:33:35 PM
I woke up here in Duluth to wind chills of -25º F. I can see why bears like to spend this season asleep under a warm natural blanket of some kind. But while I warm myself with a cup of bitter coffee, I thought I'd give everyone an update on things out in that chilly world.
I am happy to report that Yukon Salon is in fact on the ocean. It's a relatively small shipment -- a less-than-container load -- which is actually a good thing in the screwed up state of shipping right now. It was loaded on a container ship named EVER LAMBENT, which departed from the port of Ningbo, China, on January 18th. The EVER LAMBENT is due to arrive at the port of Los Angeles on January 31st. If everything goes according to schedule, the load will finally be at our warehouse on February 17th.
Don't get your hopes up. Did I mention the screwed up state of shipping? Things are positively nightmarish. They are especially bad at Los Angeles and the rail terminal in Minneapolis/Saint Paul, exactly the gauntlet our Yukon Salon needs to navigate. Ships arrive at their destinations only to be waiting at anchor offshore for a week or more for a turn at the docks. Containers get unloaded at port, and then sit for 3+ weeks waiting for a rail chassis to be available to carry them inland. The MSP railhead apparently has a shortage of 800 truck chassis needed for moving containers to their final destinations. (Our hope is that as an LCL shipment, our pallets of Yukon Salon might make the rail-to-truck mode change faster.)
It's so bad, our freight rep informed us yesterday that he is leaving his job in the freight industry to become a teacher. Yes, in the middle of the Covid pandemic. No, this is not a joke.
So...a shipping dashboard tells me "February 17th," but I honestly have no faith in that date. Now you know what I know, and all we can do is wait and see.
Stay warm, lumberjacks! Keep hibernating, bears!
-John Nephew
President, Atlas Games
Winter Solstice Update with Playmat
over 3 years ago
– Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 07:31:10 PM
Howdy all! It's winter, which is a busy time in the north woods for a lumberjack. Now is the time that we (or our teams of oxen/horses) can easily haul logs on a sledge across the frozen bogs, to a convenient river where nature can wash them down to the mill by Lake Superior come spring.
Between chopping down old growth white and red pines, we heard the cries of backers asking, "What about those playmats? Will we get downloadable playmats?" While we had not promised to take that commitment on, heck, it's a festive giving time of year, and we'd hate to disappoint you, so we went ahead and did it. There is now a Yukon Salon web page on the Atlas Games website, and it includes in the right-hand column a link for the downloadable printable PDF playmat, free to any and all. Enjoy!
As we said in the last update, Yukon Salon is at the printer, getting manufactured. In theory we should see the games at our warehouse dock in early February, a good long while before the maple sap starts to run and distract us with the best way to make sweet coffee. (I like using putting freshly tapped maple sap right in the coffee machine to brew a pot...just the right sweetness!) You may have heard tell about the state of international cargo freight these days, however. Given what we've been experiencing on other projects (in the vein of "sitting for weeks in Shanghai waiting for space on a ship"), I'm not setting any alarms for the bears to wake up early for its arrival or anything.
Finally, here is one of our neighbors showing off his fine winter coat. You may know him as Short-Tailed Weasel or Stoat, but in winter with his fine white coat he is called Ermine, and I think he was hunting for voles that like to nest in the gaps inside my stacks of drying lumber. Handsome fella, I think. Michelle's authentic old-timey Subaru wheel included for a sense of scale.
Picture of an Ermine
Stay warm and enjoy the holidays!
-John Nephew
President, Atlas Games
Yukon Salon is Being Manufactured!
over 3 years ago
– Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 09:03:25 PM
Hi, all! Just a quick note to let you know that Yukon Salon has been proofread, finalized, and delivered to our manufacturer for printing and assembly. We'll let you know when mass production has wrapped up and we have a better idea of our shipping transit time -- but for now, take a look at what's being created!
Here's the press sheet. Huge cardstock sheets of this design will be printed, then the cards will be cut out, stacked, and packed in the game's tin alongside the dice. In our last update, a few backers asked if the game's rules have changed. The answer is no; design tweaks on the cards make them easier to read and understand but do not change the rules of the game.
Speaking of dice, here's what they'll look like!
Although David delivered us the wooden dice he'd designed, it was faster and less expensive to have new dice made in China and packed there versus shipping the existing ones to the factory for final assembly. The dice delivered in your game will be made from wood just like the originals.
Stay tuned -- we should have an update in the next few weeks about when the games will leave the factory and embark on their ocean voyage to the US. Until then, stay safe and happy!
