Hello everyone! I hope you’re sitting comfortably, because this is going to be a big update full of lots of awesome information. So let’s get started!

Print n Play

The first Beta version of the Print n Play game is being added to the Pledge Manager as I’m writing this. If all goes well, it should be available to download later this evening or very latest tomorrow.

This version is a simple file dump of the digital files we’re using for the reviewer copies. We’ve still got a couple of components we’re working on before the final game is ready, but these versions are about 90% accurate of what the final game will include.

As this is a “file dump” it’s been optimised for the manufacturing process, not home Printing. As a result, the assets are all individual files, of varying scales and full colour. I’ll be working to make a v2 in the coming weeks, reformatting everything to A4 pages and taking out some of the colours so it’s a bit more printer friendly.

Note that this version is also only the standard game, the NSFW Print n Play will be released in the coming weeks with the above mentioned improvements. Preparing these files is quite a manually intensive task, so I’m hoping you’ll be patient with me while I get everything ready for you.

Reviewer Copies

We’re delighted to announce we’ve confirmed 4 content creators who have offered to review the game! These copies are being ordered right now – they might take a few weeks to be printed and get to their estimation, but we’re very excited to see what folks think when they’ve got the game in their hands!

Once we’ve confirmed it with the reviewers, we’ll be dropping their details in our next update so you can check out their channels and join us in eagerly awaiting their posts.

Manufacturing

As mentioned above, we’re down to our final few components to prepare before we send everything off to the printers. It’s looking like this should happen in the next 2-3 weeks – which given approx 2 months for production, puts us a tiny bit behind where we hoped to be at this point.

While I’m certain we’ll be getting the games into your hands across Europe in May, further afield it might take a little longer before games are arriving at your doors (but no longer than a couple of weeks). I’m not expecting a big delay here – in fact it could still all work out on time, but I want to be upfront and set the right expectations.

Fulfilment and Shipping Costs

One of the most challenging aspects of this campaign has been the fulfilment conundrum. We had always intended to do our own fulfilment for the campaign, but we didn’t really expect to have such a global audience, and with over 50% of backers residing in the US and Canada, we’ve been trying to work out how best to keep things affordable for everyone involved.

While we have yet to sign with a partner for fulfilment, we have received enough information at this point to announce we will be working with a US based fulfilment partner. This means we’ll be shipping pallets of the game and expansion over to the US in bulk. The result is US and Canadian backers will have a huge reduction in their shipping costs compared to our previous estimates (in fact it’ll be about 50% of the quotes we were looking at earlier in January!).

Once we’ve signed an agreement, we’ll be announcing the partner and also populating all the shipping costs within the pledge manager so everyone can see what they’ll need to pay for shipping. In the meantime I figure you’d all appreciate a bit more information so here’s a rough approximate of the shipping costs we expect – with the variation depending on the size of the package 😉

• NL €10 (or local pickup)
• EU & UK €10-25
• US €15-25
• Canada €20-30
• Other €20-60

We’re still working to get this as cheap as possible to all regions, and will continue to explore different options especially for APAC which is proving to be a challenge at the moment – we just don’t have the scale of backers in the region to negotiate for better prices.

As I mentioned, once we have signed, we’ll be able to populate the pledge manager and you’ll get your own personalised shipping quotation. We won’t be able to help much with questions about costs before then, so please only reach out if really necessary so we can focus our time where it’s most needed.