March Update
about 5 years ago – Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 01:34:59 AM

Production Update

Things have clearly taken longer than expected again, but there's good news! We finally received the last of the corrected MPC components on Friday and everything looks great! Final MPC approval has been sent to Panda so we should be all set on our end with manufacturing.

We also signed off on a final freight shipping plan last week. With the MPC approved and the freight plan in place we are only waiting on the factory to wrap up assembly/packing. We will update everyone when things are on the boat, but we're guessing about 1-2 weeks right now.

App Update

We are currently in the process of cleaning up art and editing quests/encounters for the app. With over 80 encounters and up to three random variations for each encounter there is A LOT to go through. Our goal is to have an beta version up on Google Play in early April for backers to check out and test before release. There will be another Kickstarter Update with more details on the Google Play beta when available.

Print & Play (PnP) Quests

Our top priority is getting the beta for the app out, but we have roughed out the PnP quest template. After we wrap up editing for encounters we will layout the PnP versions and get those up on our website and Board Game Geek. Laying those out should not take a ton of time so we do not anticipate any delays before release.

Translations

Another bonus we have been working on with the extra time from manufacturing delays is translating the game into Spanish and French. The plan is to start with the rule book and eventually offer language selections in the app as well. Because of the large amount of text involved with quests/encounters and the fact that we are still doing final editing, this will not be available for release. Longer term we will work to get card text translated and available in digital format too.

Final Rules

First off, we would like to say THANK YOU to the backers who have already started helping with translation by translating the all the rules for us! The rules in English, Spanish, and French can now be found on Board Game Geek and on the Deck Box Dungeons website.

We're close to the end!

As soon as we receive final dates for wrapping up assembly and getting loaded on the boats we will provide a date for locking down shipping addresses. If you have still not completed your survey on BackerKit, PLEASE log in and complete that as soon as possible. If you've lost your link you can still double check your info at deckboxdungeons.backerkit.com and make any changes if necessary. Use the email address associated with Kickstarter to access your survey.

That's it for now. If you have questions or comments feel free to contact us on Twitter, Facebook, Board Game Geek, or here on Kickstarter.

Mass Production Copy
about 5 years ago – Sun, Feb 03, 2019 at 12:19:16 AM

We have some bad news followed by some good news to announce. So be sure to make it through the whole Update.

Mass Production Copy

We received the mass production copy! The good news is that all the printed material (cards, rules, box) looks great! However, after reviewing everything we found some issues with the components. Pictures first and then we'll get to the issues we found...

The first issues are that the wooden meeples and five normal d6 dice are missing from the box. The meeples are the biggest issue, but we have already heard back from Panda regarding this. There were issues with the batch of wood they were using for production and need to start over to avoid high defect rates. Unfortunately this combined with Chinese New Year starting means there is going to be a further delay in getting everything assembled and on the boat after CNY. We have to wait until after CNY in order to get a better estimate as to how much of a delay it will be.

Box Contents (missing meeples and standard d6 dice)

While reviewing the custom dice we actually checked the faces of each die to verify they were correct. This is when we found one blue die had the same faces of a green die. Panda's factory team has already checked the mass production dice and found that there is only a tiny portion of blue dice with the wrong layout. They will perform 100% quality control and re-make any dice removed from the pool as soon as they return from CNY.

Additional Content

Ok, time for the good news! We are adding additional content because of the extra time we have from the production delays! Being able to add more is obviously one of the big benefits of having digital content for a board game. We will be adding two more story quests for the stretch goal heroes (Geric and Fianna) we unlocked at the very end of the campaign. This means there will be a story quest centered around each of the eight heroes in the box.

We are also licensing audio from Tabletop Audio for use in the app. This will include audio for the menus and ambient background sound while doing quests. It will likely only be a couple tracks to start with (as we had originally not planned on having audio at all), but we are excited to be able to include it.

That's everything for this Update, but we will be back as soon as we get any final updates on production after CNY in late February/early March. If you have questions or comments in the meantime please feel free reach out to us on Twitter, Facebook, Board Game Geek or here on Kickstarter.

January Update
about 5 years ago – Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 12:10:11 AM

Production Schedule

We received an update on production and wanted to pass it along as soon as possible to keep everyone up to date on where things are at. Unfortunately production is not going to be complete before Chinese New Year which means things are pushed back a few more weeks. The current estimate is for production and assembly to be completed around the first week of March. That should put fulfillment in April assuming about 4 weeks for the games to make it to the warehouses.

The good news is that we should have the MPC (mass production copy) probably next week. The MPC is an early copy off the line and exactly what everyone will be receiving. This is also our last chance to find and make any emergency fixes before the full production is completed. We will have another Update when the MPC arrives with more images similar to the PPC updates.

So we're disappointed it couldn't make it on the boats before Chinese New Year, but excited to see and share the MPC when it arrives!

Update on the App

Development on the app continues to move forward as expected. Everything is fully functional and we are currently doing internal testing on android devices. We are currently focused on cleaning up the user interface and making it look a lot better. Given the delay in production we can spend some more time testing. We will likely have a beta now on Google Play for backers who would like to play around with it early and try to find bugs. This would probably be in February or March and we will post an Update with details as it gets closer.

Stay in touch with any comments or questions on Facebook, Twitter, Board Game Geek, and here on Kickstarter and we'll be back with an Update for the MPC!

Pre-Production Copy - Part 2
over 5 years ago – Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 12:40:46 AM

Everything has been approved for production! Since the last Update we have received and reviewed the custom meeples, custom dice, and a second set of printed materials with the adjustments we made. Everything looks great so we are officially done with the proofing phase and moving into production!

Now that everything has been signed off on we should get be able to get a final schedule for production, assembly, and shipping in the next couple weeks. We will let everyone know as soon as we find out more, but we're getting close!

If you have questions or comments let us know here on Kickstarter or on Facebook, Twitter, or Board Game Geek.

Pre-Production Copy - Part 1
over 5 years ago – Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 01:34:01 AM

The pre-production copy has arrived! We received all the printed material, but this is Part 1 of 2 since the custom dice and meeples are still coming. We will post Part 2 as soon as we receive the other components.

Overall we think things are looking great! There are some small adjustments to the box we want to do to lighten up the background and shrink the icons on the back. The old logo made its way back on the rule book cover too so we're correcting that as well.