The next chapter of Board Royale offers competitive, collaborative & a peaceful competition to all players and all playstyles.
The Arvis Team will be playing live on Tabletop Simulator in 2 hours which is 11pm CET (Earth Time) on Arvis Community Discord Channel
Hey there Mighty Survivors,
Finally the new batch of the production is completed and we are thrilled to announce that it has none of the issues that we had in the previous batch.
We have randomly checked 100 decks and haven’t encountered any kind of quality issues, misalignment of the cut process etc.
Here are some of the photos;
Undelivered Pledges
As some of you know we have stopped shipping out items as we received reports of some problematic expansions. The undelivered Pledges are;
REST OF THE WORLD - Starting Express Shipment This Week
COLLECTOR’S EDITION - Starting Express Shipment This Week
US - Looking for options for Sea or Air shipments
AUSTRALIA & ASIA - Looking for options for Sea or Air shipments
We are sorry for keeping you waiting but at last we are happy to send you consistent quality.
Compensation Shipments
As you know, we made a pledge to make each and every one of our backers happy with their pledges. We have been asking you to report us if you encounter any problems with your pledges. We will be either replacing your individual problematic cards, sending you whole new expansions.
Here is the compensation plan for each region;
US - Looking for options for Sea or Air shipments (timeline coming soon)
AUSTRALIA - Looking for options for Sea or Air shipments (timeline coming soon)
EU - Looking for options for truck shipment (timeline coming soon)
UK - Looking for options for truck shipment (timeline coming soon)
We are truly sorry that you have been going through this process, hopefully when you receive your new packs, we will be able to make it up to you as promised.
This week we will be sending you address and delivery confirmation mails, so please check your emails from [email protected]. We are sending mails to everyone individually so it might take some time but you will be receiving it no later than next week.
USC:Reach Last 3 Days!
The greatest space race of the century enters the last 3 days of the campaign. It is a game where you secretly assign your crew and everybody reveals at the same time to see who are the fastest and can get the best missions.
Check USC: Reach campaign page now!
Thank you all for standing with us through thick and thin, we deeply appreciate your support.
Cheers,
Arvis Team
10… 9… 8… 7… 6… 5… 4… 3… 2… 1… 0… 🚀 We have a lift-off! 🚀
Check out one of the most fun and fastest space race experience, Kickstarter exclusives, stretch goals, social goals, and the story of the game.
REACH is a tactical space-race game with deckbuilding and worker placement mechanics for 2-4 players. Each player starts the game with an insufficient ship and an inexperienced crew. Your task is to complete missions, upgrade your ship and expand your crew as you work your way to the ultimate destination.
Race against other players, secretly assign your crew, prepare for surprises, and plan your moves carefully to get the upper hand.
We have prepared some special social goals for you. We will be adding some lucky backers as crew card drawings in the game. Check out the social goals part of the page and learn how to participate.
The Arvis Team will be in the Control Center Voice channel to watch the launch. Join us at the start of this amazing journey and let us know about your comments and questions!
Click the image below to join our Discord server!
All the backers who have backed the previous two "Board Royale" campaigns will receive a 10% discount for USC: Reach campaign. The discount will be implemented on the pledge manager survey after the campaign ends.
Disclaimer: Please be sure that you back the campaigns with the same Kickstarter account to receive the discount.
Cheers,
Arvis Team
This is an emergency broadcast by United Space Center. I repeat this is an emergency broadcast!
Dear people of planet Earth,
As you know, our planet is under the effect of constant solar explosions. Unfortunately, these magnetic bursts cause the internet to function at highly-slow speeds. It is still usable but painstakingly slow. The civilization we know is about to collapse.
In light of these circumstances, we, United Space Center, have decided to move the population of Earth to a new planet. After a long-lost search, we have found a new planet that looks exactly like Earth itself... Yeah, it just looks like that but we continue in our research to see if this planet is habitable.
Luckily, it is within our capabilities and we believe, humanity can reach this planet to build a new civilization that might have a reasonable internet speed.
We designated 4 big space companies to build spaceships and gather a capable crew that can complete this journey. We believe in their goodwill during this preparation.
Now we are calling for passionate commanders who will command these ships and manage their crews like a professional. We need you, commander!
If you want to be written in history as the Commander Who Has Saved Humanity From The Grasp Of The Slow Internet, go to this link and register on this journey: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ovalimertcan/reach-tactical-space-race-of-everyday-astronauts
You can read your mission brief from this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mNps3rNF4UyvVlpar4tBiRjDfb6pHaC2/view?usp=sharing
One person who helps us get the word out in the wild becomes one of our crew members! Our art team will draw you as an astronaut and you will be a part of the Reach Board Game forever!
In order to join the crew;
- Retweet our pinned tweet or share this post on your story.
- Follow Reach Instagram and/or Twitter.
- Turn on the notification for the Reach Kickstarter campaign
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ovalimertcan/reach-tactical-space-race-of-everyday-astronauts
One person will be randomly selected to become one of our crew artwork in the production version of Reach Board Game!
The application ends on September 1st and the winner will be announced the next day! Completing tasks for both Twitter and Instagram gives an extra chance to win.
Together, beyond the Horizons;
United Space Center
Reach Instagram / Reach Twitter / Reach Facebook / Discord
Sleeves: We have realized that we have not mentioned the sleeve status in the previous update.
Currently, we are making negotiations with the manufacturer to refund the reported unusable sleeves since it's an automation error in sizes. We will be informing you about this matter in future updates. Thanks a lot for sharing detailed photos in the reports, they are really helpful.
Current Production: The production is in the card-cutting process right now.
We have received new samples from the manufacturer. They look promising at the moment but we are going to make a more deep quality assurance when the assembly is over and everything is packed.
As soon as we have good news we will keep you updated frequently.
Best regards,
Arvis Team
Hey there Mighty Survivors,
It is great to come up in front of you and deliver an update full of news and developments.
Past few weeks, we have been receiving a lot of feedback from our backers all around the world. When we look beyond the manufacturing challenges we have encountered in this campaign, we see that we have accomplished a super fun game for almost all player types. We know that Board Royale will continue to bring “memory-worthy experiences” for years to come.
If you have been following the updates, you should've known that we had a struggle with the product quality of our manufacturer. We have been reluctant to post a new update before we gather all the necessary information. We have been, however, trying to be very active in the comment sections and trying to reply to your emails daily (If there is an email that you've sent us and not answered yet, we will be returning to them as soon as we can).
So let us briefly summarize what happened until now, what we are working on right now, and the developments that you can expect in the near future.
We had shipped out almost 90% of all pledges before we started receiving some reports of inconsistent quality in our products. We have stopped the shipment of the remaining 10% which includes Australia, some Asia shipments, a small portion of the US, the rest of the world, and Collector’s Edition shipments, and tried to understand the state of our products.
We asked you to send all the issues that you have encountered to [email protected]. We want to thank everyone who has reported their issues. It helped us greatly to understand the level of the issues. So far we have received issues from 13% of our backers ranging from small mistakes like missing cards to outright disasters like printing on the wrong cardboard.
Small or big, we know it is heartbreaking to receive a game that you have been expecting for so long and receive anything less than absolute perfection.
This is why we want to guarantee you that we are going to resolve ALL your issue in one way or another until we receive 100% backer satisfaction. You will be receiving your compensation in line with the replies that you have received in your emails.
We decided we cannot in good conscience continue to ship out products, ranging from a single card to full packs, that have at least 13% manufacturing mistakes. This is why we have been seeking options for compensating the shipped-out products and ensuring consistent quality in future compensation shipments.
We have decided to move forward with 2 options to ensure the future quality of our products.
We have gone into a massive dispute with our current manufacturer for issues they have created for us. We have forced them to re-manufacture the upcoming shipments and compensation items for our already shipped backers with a consistent and highest level quality.
They have agreed to make one more batch of production with increased quality assurance and learning from the reports coming from our backers. The major issue was to find black-core playing card paper as there was a massive paper shortage at the time. They have managed to find German-made Koehler branded papers to use in this batch. They have used a single type of cutting system to prevent misalignment issues.
It is now in the cutting process and we are randomly checking for samples to ensure the quality.
We are hopeful that this manufacturing process will be completed without any issues and will start shipping all our waiting backers who either have not received their pledge yet or are awaiting their compensation items.
That being said, in case of these mass manufacturing results are not consistent as well, we have implemented a second option to have a backup plan.
LongPack is one of the leading board game manufacturers in the world and we have been in touch with them since our first campaign. After making a huge mistake and agreeing with a manufacturer in Turkey in pursuit of higher quality and faster delivery times (so ironic) we have decided to never work with anybody that is not incredibly experienced in what they do.
So we are thrilled to announce that we have agreed with LongPack for the manufacturing of our all Board Royale manufacturing from now on and the manufacturing of our upcoming board game “REACH: Tactical Space Race of Everyday Astronauts”.
In the following weeks, we will start receiving the 2nd manufacturing of Board Royale and shipping them out to our backers who requested a replacement for their items or who haven’t received their items yet.
Suppose for some reason this batch is also problematic. In that case, we will be sending you the LongPack production which will be manufactured and shipped along with our upcoming campaign REACH and is expected to be delivered within 6 months of the period.
We have made a commitment to you to make all our backers happy with their pledges and we have no intention of stopping until we get there.
Please do not hesitate to contact us through [email protected] with any of your requests and be sure that we will do everything in our power to make it happen.
If you are among the 10% that haven’t received their items yet and absolutely don’t want to spend any more minutes without your Board Royale, please get in touch with us, we can send your pack from the previous batch. We just want you to know that if any issue arises with your pack, it is extremely costly in your regions to send a compensation pack so we kindly ask you to give it a few more weeks until the new batch gets manufactured.
REACH: Tactical Space Race of Everyday Astronauts
After a survival adventure on a ruthless island, now it’s time to discover the unknowns of the universe to reach our new home! We have been postponing the REACH: Tactical Space Race of Everyday Astronauts campaign as much as we can but if we keep postponing it any longer, the timeframe for the production will be closed for a year.
As we have mentioned above, we have made an agreement with Longpack regarding the manufacturing of Reach. So we believe that there won’t be issues with consistency in the manufacturing phase.
Our new campaign REACH: Tactical Space Race of Everyday Astronauts will be on Kickstarter on September 5th! So the journey to the new home awaits! If you want to join this journey, click the “Notify me on launch” button on the pre-launch page!
Teaser Trailer of the Reach:
As we promised, all the backers of our previous campaigns will receive a 10% discount in the pledge manager after the Reach campaign has been completed. Please be sure you have backed the project with the same Kickstarter account.
Looking forward to meeting with each one of you in the new campaign! Fasten your seat belts :)
EPILOGUE
In this campaign, we have experienced so many things that we haven’t been able to foresee. We are so sorry for not being able to hold our promises to you but we are going to correct our mistakes and compensate everyone until 100% backer satisfaction. This is our primary goal and duty to you.
In the meantime, to be able to continue on this journey, we invite you on a space journey that you haven’t experienced before.
Best and kindest regards,
Arvis Team