The Lost & Found Collection: Counterpart, Artefact & BoB
Created by Jack Harrison ~ Mousehole Press
Counterpart, Artefact & Bucket of Bolts—three card-based story games about objects with a will of their own, for solo or group play.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
May 2026
22 days ago
– Fri, May 15, 2026 at 06:35:19 AM
Hey folks,
A rare mid-month update from me, because I have things to announce!
Counterpart has finished editing and we're on to final proofreading.
I've been on a roll this month, and we've now written all 24 Captains for Bucket of Bolts. I love these weirdos, and you will too. Only 18 more cards to go before the whole trio is written!
Important stuff
‼ Locking orders ‼ I'll be locking orders on Friday 22nd at 5pm (BST). We're approaching production with Panda so I'll need to lock them down so I know final product counts. If you want to add anything to your order, now's the time! Your shipping addresses will remain open until we're ready to send out the games.
‼ Charging cards ‼ Shortly after that, I'll be charging cards for pre-orders and add-ons. The vast majority of you won't see any charges at this time, but if you've added any extra products you'll be charged for them soon. If you only backed for a standard pledge and didn't add anything extra in BackerKit, you will not be charged next week.
‼ Shipping charges ‼ As planned, shipping will be charged closer to fulfillment. You won't be charged for that now. If you're one of the people being charged for add-ons / preorders, you'll be charged again for shipping later on.
As always, you can go back into your survey to make changes by following the link in your email or going here to recover your survey. This includes making changes to your address, which you'll be able to do right up until we lock addresses at the commencement of shipping.
Thanks for your patience folks, I'm getting rather excited by how close we are to seeing these games made real!
Jack
April 2026
about 1 month ago
– Mon, Apr 27, 2026 at 04:08:59 AM
Hey folks, back with another monthly update. April has been a little slow as expected (mostly taken up by the Easter school holidays), but we've still made some good progress. We've:
Continued to write Captain cards for Bucket of Bolts—I'm working on 'The Teenage Runaways' today and it's great fun.
Continued to edit and finesse the Counterpart cards as a team—70% are ready for final proofreading now.
Signed the papers on the production run with Panda—which means we can start pre-production soon!
Have a good month, enjoy the sunshine if you can 🌿
Jack
March 2026
2 months ago
– Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 10:55:08 AM
Hey hey!
Things are progressing wonderfully. We’ve got a handful of cards left to coax through the final stages of the Counterpart editing pipeline, but the game is almost complete. I’m making good progress with the Bucket cards, starting with the Captains—it’s so much fun writing these weirdos!
first drafts of a few cards—I love the illustrations so much
Outside of writing, I’ve also been working through a few of the final production details so we can move quickly when the cards are ready to go. It’s all shaping up nicely—I expect to be done with all the writing and editing by the end of May (April’s productivity will take a hit from the Easter holidays), then we can move into pre-production. Working forward, I’m still hopeful that I’ll be able to get the games in your hands before the end of the year... although who the heck knows what international freight will look like at that point. We continue to live in interesting times.
All the best folks!
Jack
February 2026
3 months ago
– Sat, Feb 28, 2026 at 12:05:36 PM
Hey everyone!
lots of umbrella practice this month ☔️
This month has been a bit disrupted by a house move and, unfortunately, a hotly-anticipated garden office that turned out to have a massive roof leak. If you're in the UK, you’ve likely noticed we’ve had roughly double our usual February rainfall—and this in a country famed for its grey, dreary weather! Luckily nothing was damaged...
Despite the chaos, we’ve continued editing the Counterpart cards as a team. My office roof is being fixed next week, so hopefully I'll have a proper workspace soon. We've also had a bit of lovely sun in the last few days, so it's really all looking up!
That's it from me really—it's one of those months where I question the logic of doing an update every month, but I think it's worth keeping the cadence even when there's not loads to update you on.
All the best.
Jack
January 2026
4 months ago
– Sat, Jan 31, 2026 at 10:21:22 AM
Hey folks, happy new year!
We're continuing to chug along here—I'm moving house next weekend so it's all a bit manic, but we're still moving at pace on the project.
Just a few bullets from me:
Counterpart is100% drafted, and Jason & I have cross-reviewed each other's work. Now we've moved on to the 'external critique' process, with Luke sharpening up our words card-by-card until they're all the best they can be.
most of Luke's feedback is more grounded and critical, of course, but I enjoyed this comment immensely :)
Artefact playtesting is going well, thanks to everyone who's provided feedback already. It's mostly a lovely mix of helpful observations and kind words :) I'm going to keep it open for the moment as I'm still getting useful feedback coming in, please do check it out if you have the time!
Bucket of Bolts writing is commencing, as I set up the templates and get a few cards written to start us off. For the moment there's enough work to do on Counterpart still, but soon I'll be focusing on Bucket full-time.
