The Mysterious Package Company

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The Mysterious Package Company is an experiential service established in 2013 which provides stories, puzzles and mysteries purchased as gifts and sent through the mail. [1] [2]

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History

Colin Bolton, Misha Schneider and Tim Sullivan co-founded The Mysterious Package Company in 2013, as they wanted to create wondrous stories delivered through the postal service.

In 2014 Jason Kapalka, a Vancouver-based entrepreneur came on board as primary investor. Kapalka is co-founder of PopCap Games and owner of the Storm Crow "nerd bars" in Vancouver and Toronto.

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PopCap Games, Inc. is an American video game developer based in Seattle. The company was founded in 2000 by John Vechey, Brian Fiete and Jason Kapalka; it was acquired by Electronic Arts in July 2011.

Kickstarter

The Century Beast

In 2015 the company launched The Century Beast Kickstarter campaign. The campaign raised over $400K and was backed by 1,291 pledges. [3]

Kickstarter crowdfunding platform

Kickstarter is an American public-benefit corporation based in Brooklyn, New York, that maintains a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity and merchandising. The company's stated mission is to "help bring creative projects to life". As of May 2019, Kickstarter has received more than $4 billion in pledges from 16.3 million backers to fund 445,000 projects, such as films, music, stage shows, comics, journalism, video games, technology, publishing, and food-related projects.

Filigree in Shadow

In 2016, the company introduced a Victorian horror Experience, Filigree in Shadow, as a Kickstarter campaign. Filigree in Shadow currently sits as the ninth-highest-funded art campaign on Kickstarter to date. It is also the second-most-funded mixed media campaign in the world. [4] This campaign raised over $600K and was backed by 1,786 pledges.

Experiences

Experiences are the Mysterious Package Company's primary product. They are stories or mysteries told over a series of mailings to the recipient. Each experience contains:

Members purchase packages that they send to themselves or a recipient of their choice. The experiences feature genres such as mystery, horror, adventure, time-travel, and science-fiction, and range in duration from one to six mailings.

Curios & Conundrums

Curios and Conundrums was a quarterly subscription box that ran from 2013 to 2018. Unlike the Experiences, it was not meant to be a realistic, coherent narrative, but a grab-bag or anthology of puzzles, stories, and interesting trinkets.

Volume III

Issue 1 - A new Era of Thought

Issue 2 - The Child of the Cavern

Issue 3 - From Death and Dark Oblivion

Issue 4 - At the Mountains of Madness

Volume IV

Issue 1 - Gods of Madness

Issue 2 - Brain Butchers

Issue 3 - Clockwork Mutineers

Issue 4 - Countdown to Oblivion

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References

  1. "'Mysterious Package' campaign rakes in the cash on Kickstarter". The Globe and Mail . Retrieved 2015-12-09.
  2. "Mystery package service brings intrigue to your doorstep". Cbc.ca. Retrieved 2015-12-09.
  3. "'Mysterious Package' campaign rakes in the cash on Kickstarter". The Globe and Mail . Retrieved 25 October 2018 via The Globe and Mail.
  4. "Discover » Art / Mixed Media » Most Funded : Kickstarter". Kickstarter.com. Retrieved 25 October 2018.