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 11 - Solo mode rules, Tabletop Simulator update and live stream
over 3 years ago
– Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 10:50:34 PM
Dear Explorers,
We are happy to announce that you have just unlocked the special finish for the metal coins and there are two more Stretch Goals to go before our next reveal.
We are excited to announce that we have updated the rules with the Solo mode and uploaded the new version of our workshop module for Tabletop Simulator, including the Introductory scenario and the complete Solo mode.
Great Ship live stream today!
We will be hosting a live stream show today Jan 15th at 7:00 pm CET | 1:00 pm EST where we will be exploring the Galapagos by using the new mini-expansion: Great Ship!
We will be explaining the rules as we go, and you will be able to see the fantastic combos that can be done by using them.
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!
During the weekend we won’t be posting an update, but we will be talking with you again soon!
Sincerely yours,
Everybody here at Thundergryph Games
DAY 10 - Great Ship mini-expansion, more press videos and live gameplay!
over 3 years ago
– Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 03:25:06 AM
Dear Explorers,
We hope you are all doing well and that you are enjoying this journey with us. We recently have unlocked a goal and we are two goals away to reveal our next batch.
Tabletop Simulator news
Tomorrow we will be publishing an update with the Solo mode rules and updating the Tabletop Simulator version with both the Solo mode and the automatic setup for our introductory scenario if this is your first time playing.
Our Darwin’s Journey Tabletop Simulator module has been installed more than 2000 times and more than 500 games of 2 to 4 players have been played, making this our most successful digital implementation yet! This is just amazing!
We are working on a special tournament that will be happening during the campaign. More information will be released soon!
Great Ship mini-expansion
Since the Companion animal cards, you have been so excited about the possibility to have more asymmetry in the game, and we are so excited to announce the Great Ship mini-expansion!
Created by Simone Luciani and Nestore Mangone, the deck is composed of 11 Great Ship cards. Each player will draft one in reverse turn order during setup and will grant very powerful asymmetric abilities to the players!
This mini-expansion will be available as an add-on for 5€ and you will be able to add it on our pledge manager once the campaign ends.
We will be hosting a live stream show tomorrow Jan 15th at 7:00 pm CET | 1:00 pm EST where we will be exploring the Galapagos by using this new mini-expansion.
We will be explaining the rules as we go, and you will be able to see the fantastic combos that can be done by using them.
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!
More press videos
Yesterday, Steph Hodge did an amazing live stream of Darwin’s Journey that we really recommend you to watch!
Moreover, here are a couple of new videos from the press: a one minute video from Sarah Shah and our first how to play video in French by Rémi Benoit
Thank you very much for all your incredible support and talking again tomorrow!
Sincerely yours, Everybody here at Thundergryph Games
Great Ships mini-expansion is now a Stretch Goal
over 3 years ago
– Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 03:07:01 AM
Dear Explorers,
If you scroll down until the end of our campaign page in our Risk and Challenges section there is a list of the most important principles that as a boardgame publisher and Kickstarter creators we believe in: We learn, we hear you.
We have read your comments in our update and KS page about adding the Great Ship as an add-on and we understand your point.
There are a lot of people involved in the creation of game content, not only the idea that starts from the designers, but there is art direction, game editing, and a lot of testing to be done. That being said, without you, none of these could be possible and we need to stay true to the importance of your opinion as the people that are funding this dream of ours.
We have had similar content on past campaigns and all of the add-ons have been crafted with the same amount of dedication and passion as the one we presented today, but we completely understand that you would prefer content like the one shown on the Great Ship to be a stretch goal instead of paid content for this campaign.
We sincerely appreciate how amazing the campaign is going and we are thankful to all of you for your support. We are officially switching the Great Ship to be a stretch goal that we are now updating on our Kickstarter page.
Thank you for being honest with us and for helping us shape this campaign as your own and for being understanding.
We hope to see you tomorrow in our live stream, where we will show how this mini-expansion works!
Sincerely yours,
Everybody here at Thundergryph Games
DAY 8 - Metal coins photos, new goals and solo mode live play!
over 3 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
over 3 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
