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:
Unboxing and update on fulfillment
about 1 year ago
– Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 09:10:14 AM
Dear Explorers,
It just feels incredible being so close to fulfillment and we need to thank you for your patience while we were working on this game.
To this day and after so many plays, the team is in love with Darwin’s Journey and we cannot wait to hear about your journey with the game.
Darwin’s Journey Collector’s edition unboxing
This is a one-take video as I always try to do. Sorry about the audio problem in the first minute! I hope you will enjoy it and if you prefer to unbox it on your own, don’t worry, there is no crucial information in this video.
Meeple Music and Darwin’s Journey soundtrack
We know you are waiting for this and we are almost there.
Meeple Music can now count on a new composer besides Veronica Emer: Gimi!
He is a talented musician which Veronica met at the Saint Louis Music School and a dear friend. He is a board game and video game player.
They have prepared for us an EP of what’s to come for Darwin’s Journey soundtrack while they work on the rest of the tracks for the worldwide release on all your favorite streaming platforms. You can read more in the latest blog post from Meeple music.
Let us know what you think about it!
Status update on freight/fulfillment
Europe and ROW
The vessel arrived on Sunday, February 19, 2023 (a few days late).
📦 The containers were delivered today, February 23rd, 2023 at the Barcelona warehouse.
Our fulfillment partner is organizing everything to start shipping boxes next week.
For Spain and Portugal, we will be using Seur.
For Europe Seur is partnering with DPD (through local companies).
Additionally, we have contracted a special service: NRS+, which will help resolve incidents with direct contact with each recipient. The service is accessible by following the link with tracking that you will receive by email.
Starting next week, also remember to check your spam folder.
USA and Canada
📦 The Vessel arrived in Tampa Tuesday 21st and the containers were unloaded at the port. We passed the custom inspection Wednesday 22nd. The delivery to QML is planned for February 27th.
Our fulfillment partner for USA and Canada is Quartermaster Logistics. They will be sending an email to verify the delivery address a few days before fulfillment.
We have been informed that due to their carrier restrictions, they do not ship to PO boxes in Canada. Thank you for your understanding and for your collaboration.
United Kingdom
📦 Delivered February 20, 2023, to the Spiral Galaxy warehouse.
We are counting on them to coordinate everything and start the fulfillment as soon as possible.
VR Distribution has all the information to organize the fulfillment as soon as they receive the games.
Asia
📦 Delivered January 12, 2023, to the VFI warehouse.
We are coordinating everything to start the fulfillment as soon as possible.
If you urgently need to change your address, please contact us.
Thank you so much for your kind support and we will be talking again soon!
Sincerely yours, Everybody here at Thundergryph Games
Good news! The tracking for the Vessels is here
over 1 year ago
– Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 08:33:55 AM
Dear Explorers,
We hope this update finds you well.
We are so glad to let you know that we have managed to get the games out of China before the Chinese New Year! There has been a lot happening behind the scenes and this feels like a great accomplishment for us. We really appreciate your patience while waiting for Darwin’s Journey.
Here are the last pictures that the manufacturer sent to us with the games loaded into the containers.
Vessel tracking. The countdown begins!
Our freight forwarder has also confirmed all the following information regarding the vessels:
EDT: Estimated departure time | ETA: Estimated time of arrival
Europe and ROW
🛥️ Vessel / Voyage: PARIS EXPRESS / 025W Containers loaded, but Vessel departure is delayed
ETD Shenzhen: January 20, 2023 | ETA Barcelona: February 10, 2023
Starting tomorrow by following the link, please search for the name of the vessel PARIS EXPRESS
📦 Delivered January 12, 2023 to the VFI warehouse, waiting for them to return from the Chinese New Year holidays to start the fulfillment.
🔥 Addresses closing on January 26th, 2023 🔥
We will be closing the address in 7 days (January 26th, 2023) to prepare for fulfillment.
If you want to verify or update your address, please follow this link to get access to Backerkit (our pledge manager) https://darwinsjourney.backerkit.com/
We will follow up with the unboxing in the next update.
We really appreciate your patience and support and we are looking forward to sending the games to you!
Sincerely yours, Everybody here at Thundergryph Games
Assembly and pick-up completed!
over 1 year ago
– Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 08:57:02 AM
Dear Explorers,
We hope you are well!
These last few days have been stressful but very rewarding. Despite Panda (our manufacturer) having to close for more than a week due to another Covid outbreak, we are so proud and happy that they have managed to complete the assembly of the games.
Here you will find a few pictures of the last part of the assembly, where the collector editions are being shrink-wrapped.
Our freight forwarder has also confirmed that both pick-ups (planned for January 10th and 11th) were successfully completed.
The vessels we have booked will start departing from the 15th to the 19th. We are doing our best to make sure this happens and we hope to have good news after the boarding has been completed by providing the tracking for each vessel and estimated time of arrival.
The first mass-production copies for the team are still stuck at customs for inspection. We can’t really wait to have them in our hands and we will share back with you our excitement in an update as soon as possible with the promised unboxing video.
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask in this update.
Changing the subject a bit, we are looking for Blind playtesters for our new games. A few requirements are needed that can be found at the beginning of this survey! Thank you so much in advance for your time and kindness.
We really appreciate your patience and support.
Sincerely yours, Everybody here at Thundergryph Games
Beginning of assembly. Final sprint for freight before CNY
over 1 year ago
– Sun, Dec 25, 2022 at 04:21:26 AM
Dear Explorers,
We hope you are well.
If this is your first update in a while, you might want to read all of these:
As you already know from our latest update, we were waiting to approve the first mass-production copies to start mass assembly.
Around a week ago we received photos of the final items that we were waiting for to be printed. You can see a collage of pictures of the last paper components below.
While Panda recently had Covid issues at their manufacturing facility, they have been very communicative and active to accomplish this project before the Chinese New Year.
The mass-production copy will arrive to us on the 28th for a double-check, but we have seen many videos and photos and already approved and given directions to start right away with the assembly. Here are the photos that Panda sent us to approve the MPC. The complete unboxing will happen in a video update once we receive the MPC. In these photos, we are partially showing the printed components.
Our hope is to have everything ready by January 10th. We have organized and pre-booked the containers, vessels, and everything related to make it happen on that date and we will keep you informed along the way.
We want to wish you a great time during these holidays and we hope to give you good news at the beginning of next year.
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask in this update.
We really appreciate your patience and support.
Sincerely yours, Everybody here at Thundergryph Games
Everything on track - Darwin's Journey Q&A
over 1 year ago
– Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 08:24:51 PM
Dear Explorers,
We hope you are well.
If this is your first update in a while, you might want to read all of these:
We are very close to receiving the first mass-produced copy, and our manufacturer said that the schedule communicated in the latest update is being met.
Here are the dates.
A few weeks back we did a Q&A with our community on Twitch to answer any questions you had about the production and fulfillment process. Here you have an edited video with answers to your questions.
We have added the topic title on the video sections for you to skip to what interests you the most, or you can also listen to it like a podcast.
Here is a digest of everything we discuss in this video:
Production of the game discussion
Announcement of development feed, a feature that will be found in our new website that is in the works
Timeframe for assembly
Backers QA copies (early shipment to selected backers for testing)
Distribution and timeline for publishing
The delivery date for the game
Communication and Backer's expectation
How to prevent delays in the future
Future of crowdfunding and our industry after covid
Thundergryph's future of crowdfunding
Local production and manufacturing
We recommend opening the video in another window and searching for the question you want to be answered by looking at the video thumbnails in the video timeline.
We will hopefully have news soon about the mass-production copy as the manufacturer recently reached out to us to confirm our address. We will share more news, videos, or photos we will receive in an update.
We really appreciate your patience and support.
Sincerely yours, Everybody here at Thundergryph Games
