Retracing Darwin’s journey to the Galapagos in an exciting Worker Placement euro game by Simone Luciani and Nestore Mangone.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
DAY 8 - Metal coins photos, new goals and solo mode live play!
almost 4 years ago
– Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 10:55:44 PM
Dear Explorers,
We are wrapping up the first week of the campaign with 30 stretch goals unlocked and almost 8000 of you! We still have another two weeks before the end and we can’t wait to talk to you and show you more about the game.
New Stretch Goals Reveals
Here are the new set of goals and the most interesting thing about this is that we can already show you the pre-production look of the metal coins belonging to the goal!
This is still not the end of our journey and a new set of three goals will be revealed once we reach the final milestone.
Thank you for your amazing support!
Metal Coins pre-production photo
We are excited to show you the final look of the metal coins! You can already see how this darker wash looks and how it gives that aged finish to the metal.
We took a couple of photos, one with natural light and one under artificial light, for you to see the difference.
Because we know some of you may ask it, the golden coins are 25mm in diameter (valued 5) and the bronze coins are 20mm in diameter (valued 1)
sunlight
Photo at the top: artificial light | Photo at the bottom: sunlight
Live stream today! Jan 12th 7:00pm CET | 1:00pm EST
We will be hosting a live stream show today at 7:00 pm CET | 1:00 pm EST where we will be exploring the Galapagos to beat the opponent in a tense Solo mode game.
We will be explaining the rules as we go, and the complete rules and tabletop simulator of the Solo mode will be available this week!
During the live stream, we will be giving away some add-ons and Luis will be reading the chat to answer any of your questions live.
Tune in to our Twitch channel or visit the campaign page at the time of the stream. We hope to see you there!
Thank you once again for all your love and talk soon!
Sincerely yours, Everybody here at Thundergryph Games
DAY 7 - Solo mode live stream and Social Goal Unlocked
almost 4 years ago
– Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 06:45:17 PM
Dear Explorers,
We hope you had a great weekend! We are starting the 7th day of the campaign, we can’t hold our excitement about how the campaign is going!
Social Goal
You unlocked our first social goal that focuses on Exploration and Navigation. The Correspondence will grant one advancement step with both an Explorer and Ship and the Special action will give you even more: two advancement steps for both an Explorer and a Ship.
It’s time to reveal our second social goal! If we get +1000 followers overall in our social network channels we will be unlocking a new Companion Animal card.
We will be hosting a live stream show tommorow Jan 7th at 7:00pm CET | 1:00pm EST where we will be exploring the Galapagos to beat the opponent in a tense Solo mode game.
We will be explaining the rules as we go, and the complete rules and tabletop simulator of the Solo mode will be available this week!
During the live stream, we will be giving away some add-ons and Luis will be reading the chat to answer any of your questions live.
Tune in to our Twitch channel or visit the campaign page at the time of the stream. We hope to see you there!
With how things are going, hopefully, tomorrow we will probably have our new Stretch Goals reveal!
Thank you so much for your support and we’ll talk soon!
Sincerely yours, Everybody here at Thundergryph Games
DAY 5 - The Last Pirate ship mini-expansion!
almost 4 years ago
– Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 12:36:38 AM
Dear Explorers,
This campaign is a dream come true to us! You have unlocked 27 Stretch Goals in no time.
We know you have heard this so many times so far, but we truly appreciate all the love and support you have shown for this game, so thank you so much!
We are starting the fifth day of the campaign with exciting news!
We really wanted to add a pinch of direct player interaction to the game and we felt there was an opportunity to create a small side story for this new stretch goal revealed, fueled by a bit of imagination.
The Last Pirate ship mini-expansion
The 17th and 18th centuries are known to be the golden age of Piracy. For pirates, the Galapagos wasn't a safe place to settle, but buccaneers made port in them due to their strategic location.
With the end of the 18th century, the golden era of Piracy slowly faded, but the last pirate ship still sailed the coasts of the Galapagos. The last pirate ship will be part of a mini-expansion that we wanted to create for fun, out of our imagination. We hope you will enjoy the gameplay that has been built around it.
This mechanism introduces a concept of debt, where players, during the exploration, will be able to get coins by collecting treasures, but at the same time, the more you get, the more you will have to pay back to the pirates if they find you navigating the ocean area they are in.
There is so much we would love to share with you about the game, but thankfully we have many more days to spend together talking about Darwin’s Journey and to show you the rules and the live gameplay.
Tomorrow we are not going to post an update, but we will be back on Monday with more news. We wish you a great weekend!
Sincerely yours, Everybody here at Thundergryph Games
DAY 4 - Two-player stream highlights and Animal companions!
almost 4 years ago
– Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 07:58:18 PM
Dear Explorers,
We just wrapped up the third day of the campaign and more than 6000 of you have unlocked 25 Stretch goals! You can’t imagine how excited we all are about this great start!
Two-player game live stream highlights!
We are trying a new format to show you just some parts of our live stream, this one is all about the combos in the game, to show how with a single action you can trigger a chain reaction of other bonuses.
If you want to see the complete stream you can visit our Twitch channel!
The next stream will be next week where we will be showing the Solo Mode of Darwin’s Journey.
Next Stretch Goals to unlock!
Next in order, we have Spot UV for the box, which is just a couple thousand away, and then our dear companion animal cards!
Experience in the game always pays out and these cards are meant to be assigned to inexperienced players to give a small head start and a one-time ability during the game.
These are not the last companions you will see and we still have 20 days to go!
Social Stretch Goal
We are 200 followersaway from unlocking our first Social Stretch Goal!
These couple of tiles are all about Exploring and Navigating. The correspondence tile will grant one advancement on both the island and ocean triggering two different bonuses and the special action pushes this mechanism even further with two steps on each track!
To all the new and veteran backers, thank you so much for making this game a reality, we couldn’t be more grateful!
Sincerely yours,
Everybody here at Thundergryph Games
DAY 3 - Two players live game and a special stretch goal!
almost 4 years ago
– Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 12:24:41 AM
Dear Explorers,
You always manage to surprise us! In 48 hours, more than 5000 of you have unlocked 23 goals and we couldn’t be more excited and thankful for your love and support!
One more goal left to reveal our next set of Stretch Goals, we can’t wait to reveal what is left in store for the campaign!
As the campaign continues, we will mainly focus on these next tasks
❶ Show how the game scales with every player count (today we focus on two players!)
❷ Reveal the Solo mode rules and play it live
❸ Finish the production of the metal coins and wax seals and show photos to you
❹ Reveal the Fireland Expansion rules and play it live
❺ Organize a tournament on Tabletop Simulator for you to join.
Let us know in the comments what would you like to see during the campaign as we prepare the schedule for each of these steps!
Live stream today, Jan 7th at 8:00 pm CET - 2:00 pm EST
We will be hosting a live stream show where Gon and Veronica (our composer from Meeple Music) will be exploring the Galapagos in a two-player game!
During the live stream, we will be giving away some add-ons and Luis will be reading the chat to answer any questions live.
Tune in over our Twitch channel or visit the campaign page at the time of the show. We hope to see you there!
