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Production & Shipment Update! Last Call To Update Your Addresses!
about 2 years ago
– Sun, Feb 06, 2022 at 02:38:50 AM
Hey there fellow Survivors,
Are you ready to fight against deadly creatures or face zombie hordes with your friends? Or maybe you are waiting to become a spy and uncover the secrets of other players? What about trying to complete missions to gain victory points? Because the new and extended expansions of Board Royale are about to complete.
Let us share the latest news from the Island!
Production
In the latest update, we let you know that the expansion pack cards have been printed and the printed papers will be going through the lamination process to give them their great texture and keep them durable for years to come. After lamination, the cutting process of the cards was going to start.
We are happy to say that the lamination and cutting process for each expansion has been completed. Also, the cards have already been shrinked for the boxing process. The cards are looking amazing and we are so excited to share this news with you. Here you can check out the expansion card photos:
Now only the final part of Base Game cards are waiting to be printed. Then lamination and cutting will take part. We hope that it will be completed this weekend, as well. After that, we will begin the boxing process of the game in the next week. The boxing will begin with “Returning Survivor Pack” and we will keep finalizing each pack in the meantime. We will be sharing photos from the boxing process :) Stay tuned for them on our social media accounts.
We were hoping to be done with the production by now and start shipping out soon but last week, Istanbul experienced one of the biggest snow-storms for decades and it made it impossible for manufacturer to continue the production for more than a week.
It is a challenging process but it is great to be able to see it is moving forward consistently. We want to thank all of you that you were with us through this process and understood the issues we faced. That was the most important support we could get. Thank you, fellow Survivors!
Shipment
At the moment, we are hoping to begin the shipments in late February, as the boxes got ready for shipment.
We are still committed to use the door-to-door express option for the shipment if there is no last minute change in the terms. We won’t be able to send all the orders at the same time. It can be a week-long process for each order to be shipped. We will let you know about the shipment status as much as we can. We also decided that europe shipments are better off to come to a warehouse with a truck and distributed within Europe as it streamlines the customs process and it only takes 1 week for trucks to arrive at the destination in europe.
The backers will receive their tracking codes with an email that is sent to their Kickstarter e-mails as we shipped the packages.
Update Your Address!
ATTENTION: This is the last call if you want to update your shipping address. If you want to update your shipping address, please send a DM to us on Kickstarter with your new address and we will update it for you. After the shipment process starts we won't be able to change your addresses.
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Production Status, VAT & Service Fees Clearance
over 2 years ago
– Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 07:51:56 AM
Hey there Mighty Survivors,
We hope the first weeks of 2022 started great for everyone.
Thanks for supporting us in the previous update and truly we appreciate your support for all journeys together that also pushes us forward to do best in time.
Even though there isn’t that much news since our last update, we want to keep you updated as often as possible, so here is a quick update about the state of our production.
PRODUCTION
In our last update we let you know about how we were planning to print out one side of the paper and let it dry out for one day and continue printing with the other side in order to prevent any kind of misalignment between front and back. The reason we are being extra cautious about this issue is because we simply cannot accept anything less than a perfect deck to deliver to you and simply we do not have any margin of error with misprint due to the lack of paper supply experienced all around the world. We needed this print to move forward with a perfect track record since our last update and thankfully it is going great!
With the feedback from our manufacturer we have decided to move our prints to a new machine that has the capability to dry out the paper immediately after the print using the UV lights. As an extra precaution we were advised to put the papers into a heating process and a consistency check before going into the final print to ensure non-stop production once started. This process took an extra week for our production because our papers were already cut and needed to be checked one by one but it is completed last week.
We have now completed the printing process of all new expansions and moving forward with the previous expansions and the 3rd deck of the base game. The result is perfect as expected!
Now the printed papers are going through the lamination process and will go into the cut and boxing process starting tomorrow. The expected speed of this process is to take 1 expansion per day.
It was a challenging process but finally we are seeing the end of the tunnel. Again, thanks for sticking up with us through this challenge and once again we truly apologize for the delays we have put you through. We want to assure you that we are doing everything we can to make it up to you.
We have received a couple of questions regarding the VAT and shipment fees. Even our manufacturer will directly send the packages, we will clear the customs and you will not be extra charged. We will be covering them all. Also, we already have registration in most of the regions we are shipping.
On the other hand, sometimes shipment companies can charge the receiver with some service fees. We are working for this not to reflect on you but if it happens you can reach out to us via [email protected]
SHIPMENTS & FULFILLMENT
As we mentioned in the previous update, we are still hoping to send out most of the shipments through express shipment. It would make the fulfillment process to finalize at a lightning speed and we want to accomplish this as a token of our gratitude for your patience. The limiting factor here is to be able to ship the goods with an agreed upon pricing or not. If the prices go up even higher than we agreed, we have to search for alternative ways.
Other than the express shipment options, we still have our partners all around the world and they are ready to ready for operation if we couldn't express if we need them.
US: Amazon US
EU: Gamesquest
UK: Gamesquest
CA: Spaceful
Asia: VFI
We will keep updating you about shipments in the future updates.
With love from the Arvis Team!
Cheers
Production Issues! Express Shipment Solution! Fulfillment Dates!
over 2 years ago
– Sun, Jan 02, 2022 at 02:15:48 AM
Hey there mighty survivors,
We have survived another year together and are looking forward to what the future lays ahead of us. Even though it was another challenging year for companies all around the world, we had some exciting developments on our side which makes us hopeful and excited for the upcoming year. We wish you and your families a fantastic new year.
Today, we will update you with the latest developments on our side. Before moving forward, we have to apologize for not making more frequent updates. The information we are receiving from our manufacturer is not very consistent and we are doing our best to open about you the issues we faced.
More Production Issues & Delays
In our previous update we have told you about some of our issues and how we overcame them and we were expecting for our manufacturing process to be done in the first half of December. Yet, our manufacturer encountered more problems and these have unfortunately added unexpected delays to our production.
We were planning to compensate for these delays by sending all Kickstarter orders directly through express shipment and keep our word to deliver the goods around the promised timeline on our last update. However, the latest news that we received from our manufacturer suggests that we are still almost 30 days away from shipping the goods to you.
We already have an express shipment deal for our Kickstarter shipments so we are expecting shipments to a huge majority part of the world will be within 1-2 weeks. But this is considering that we will be able to preserve the shipment costs the same as we agreed now. We have already agreed to pay a huge premium for express shipment but if prices increase more we simply cannot afford anymore.
We are extremely sorry and upset for these delays and we want you to know that we are doing our best to make it better.
What Happened?
Our base game now consists of 3 decks that have 80 cards in each of them totaling 240 cards. We are producing 8000 base games which in total makes 24000 decks.
The problem has occurred in the production of the 3rd decks. After printing all of the base game the manufacturer was getting ready for the cutting process when they realized a misorientation between front and the back of the cards that belong to the 3rd deck. This made the whole process stop for some time and check out the potential reasons for this issue.
All first and second deck cards are checked one by one in order to assure that there is no problem in the previous prints. And thankfully they are all clear.
After some investigation it is realized that it is not an issue caused by the printing files. One theory is that printing the front and back of the cards right after each other caused some expansion caused by the wetness of the paper and/or heat of the production.
A new printing method is being implemented as we write this update. First the front of the papers are printed and one day putting them to dry and cool down the back of the cars are printed.
This makes our manufacturing way slower but we have to be ensured that all our items are in perfect condition and we don’t have any tolerance to lose any more paper in this process during the immense supply chain shortages on paper.
Right now we are continuing with our expansion packs on our “Returning Survivor” pack so that we can complete the production of that item and start shipping these items as soon as they are ready.
In this trajectory, we are expecting all production to be finalized on 17th of january, and the boxing process is expected to be finalized on 28th of January.
On the other hand, except cards, all components are completed like boxes, trays, tuck boxes, trays, mini backpacks, Exclusive tokens. Each one of them is ready to be assembled and waiting to be packed except cards. To give some sneak peak;
Survival Crate
New Surivor and Returning Survivor Black Boxes
Base Game Boxes
Close Up Survival Crate
Sleeve Compatible Tray of Survival Crate
Base Game Tray and Cards
Black Box Tray (Tuck Boxes are samples in this photo)
As you see the first samples are completed already and more to come soon. We will shoot an unboxing video for all the packages to show them to you in detail. How do you find the new boxes?
So The Solution! We Are Looking For Express Shipment Options
As aforementioned, we are trying to compensate as an apology for this delay. So we are looking for express shipment options of DHL. In this option, the items will be shipped from the manufacturer's storage directly to you. This option can shorten the shipment times nearly for months and you can get your packs in a week after the production is completed.
The Express shipment option is the most expensive option among all other methods but we are extremely sorry about the current situation and covering all extra costs and you can be sure that you will not need to take any extra actions or be charged in any circumstances.
We have an agreement in place to ship our goods with agreed prices but we are not 100% sure how the shipment process will be at the time of our shipment and afraid of the world’s situation due to increasing covid cases and supply chain issues can raise the prices.
Shipment Schedule
We hope the card cutting process will end in the middle of January, then the packs will be assembled. It may take a week to assemble all the packs. According to this schedule we will start shipping the packages in the end of January or the early February. If we are able to ship them with Express DHL shipment, you will get your packs approximately in a week, at the middle of February.
But if we had to choose the freight or air shipments, these schedules can be delayed as well. We will keep updating you on the shipment matter for each country in the next few days.
What comes next?
So, we are having a more hands down approach on the manufacturing side to finish the production of the expansion packs and the 3rd deck of the base game. Then we will prepare them for the shipment and send them to you as soon as possible. This unexpected delay hurt us from the depth of our hearts. Again, we are truly sorry about this bad news but we can assure you we are working to solve them as much as we can.
And from now on we will be posting an update each Friday for a couple of weeks. We will be updating you in detail about the progression of the production.
During this time, we excitedly continue working on new projects to welcome the new year. We are eager to show them to you but first, we have a quest to deliver Board Royale as fast and best as possible to you.
We wish all of you and your beloved ones a happy new year and merry christmas.
Cheers, a lot!
Production & Shipment Status, Board Royale Digital Announcement
over 2 years ago
– Mon, Nov 08, 2021 at 03:37:47 AM
Hey there Mighty Survivors,
We hope you are doing great and getting ready for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays that will be full of amazing board game nights. November came with some good and some sad news. Unfortunately, this sad news includes the delay in the shipments. On the other hand, we have some exciting announcements, as well. If you are ready, let’s begin!
Production Status
As we have informed you in the last update, the productions of the boxes have been completed. The next steps in the production line were the printing of the cards and the production of the plastic trays.
Tray production:
The plastic tray production is still continuing but it’s about to finish. We are using a new, more durable material for the trays. Here is how the new Base Game tray looks like:
Base Game Updated Tray
Card production:
Now, this is where we have started to face some problems that postponed production. Our manufacturer was experienced in poker playing card production and their card cutting systems were designed for white-bordered cards.
There is a difference between white-bordered card cutting and designed card cutting. White-bordered card cutting is simple. You cut them with a single blade and then round the corners. Little blade slips don’t create a big error. But edge-to-edge designed card cutting is much more complex. Cards with different designs can be cut side by side and even an extremely little blade slip, can cause HUGE errors.
To prevent that, a two-parted cutting method should be used. The first cut should separate different cards with big gaps. Then, all the cards must be cut again to remove these big gaps. And want to give best we can offer so we have plenty of options to pick.
We had 3 roadmaps on the way;
1)Change our card designs in a way to have the same single color frame around it.
We do not like that design language
2)Accept the slight mistakes as they are low probability and even it happens it is barely noticeable
We do not accept any probability of mistake that can affect our product quality
3)We could take a step back redesign all our printing templates and give more padding with our own design language, find a cutting house that would not only separate the cards but also trim all around them, and while doing that preserve our quality requirements. This would mean less output from the same paper, the whole redesign of the assembly line and packaging systems.
Even though this would cost more and take more time, we had to take this route.
This is a sad announcement for all of us to make but this arrangement, unfortunately, costs us nearly a month.
The new card production schedule is expected to be finalized in 2 weeks and then the packaging process will begin. We expect whole items to be completed and ready to be shipped out to warehouses around the world at the beginning of December.
We are truly sorry for this problem. With the experience we gained last campaign we’ve been expecting to overcome better but unfortunately, mass manufacturing always has new challenges for us. We want you to know that we are learning and getting better at what should we look into at our production.
Shipment Predictions
In light of these recent delays, all the estimated shipping times were postponed for nearly a month. We are researching every possible way including the air and express shipment to bring your goods before the holiday season. If we can’t make a way to ship the goods through express shipment then expected timelines are as follows:
- The Europe warehouses will receive the packs by mid-December hopefully and start shipping right away.
- We expect the US and Canada shipments to arrive in early January.
- Asia and Australia shipments will take longer and may arrive towards the end of January and for some countries early February.
We will announce which countries will be in the "rest of the world" section and basically will receive their packs with express shipments from Turkey through DHL in mid-December.
Again we are deeply sorry to announce this delay to the dearest survivors. But in the end, we believe transparency and honesty are key pillars for us and we treat all of us as we want to be treated by other projects. So that we want to inform you in advance and with full details. And hopefully, we will have a smooth delivery process without any unexpected news in logistics. So the predictions are based on the best possible situations for now. We will keep you informed as soon as possible.
Digital Board Royale Game Is On The Way!
While we are working on TTS and other digital versions we started getting excited about the 'what if' moment! And it turned out a brand new and refreshing turn! Well, this time it's getting more different.
Ladiiesss, gentleeemannn and all-mighty survivors! We are excited to announce Board Royale Duels!
Board Royale Duels Concept Art
“Board Royale Duels” is a digital game where you will face real players in fast-paced combat where you will be using cards to defeat your opponent. “Board Royale Duels” is built upon the themes of Board Royale but we are aiming to offer a highly different experience.
Each player will be using a set of cards that will expand and level up as you play.
We are planning to make “Board Royale Duels” free-to-play for everyone. There will be some cosmetic in-app purchase systems that will you be able to customize your character. It will start as a mobile game but our initial plan is to bring it to the PC as soon as possible after mobile launch and enable the cross-play across platforms.
At Arvis Games, making digital games is another region where we can bring the Arvis ideals of creating memory-worthy” experiences. “Board Royale Duels” is our first entry point to the digital games and hopefully many more will follow. We have built a small but truly remarkable team for Board Royale Duels. Please let us know what kind of games you would like to see from this team.
The release date will be announced.
Here are some concept arts and in-game animations that we are excited to share with you:
Character Concept Arts
Character Idle Concepts
This is said board games are the primary focus of Arvis Games and we have so many great games that we can’t wait to share with you. Very soon you will be hearing about the sneak peeks of our new board games and please let us know if you would like to attend our playtest and development process.
Join our Discord for sneak peeks of our new games or become a contributor:
By joining Arvis Discord you will be able to ask questions to the Arvis Team more directly. Also, we will be revealing little clues, easter eggs, and artworks for future releases.
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Status of the Production and Logistic! Black Box Redesign! New Team Members! Tabletop Simulator and Tabletopia!
over 2 years ago
– Wed, Oct 06, 2021 at 09:26:19 AM
Hey there Mighty Survivors,
You have been waiting for an update from us for a while. We are extremely sorry about this late update. Leaving you in darkness is the last thing we wanted but we felt like we had to give you precise information about the production and the delivery dates, however, the information that we have been receiving was not very certain from the production side and also our design changes were hard to predict. Now everything is set and we can give you much more information about the shipping and fulfillment. Again we are sorry about making you wait.
It will be a long update. Hold onto your seats and let’s begin!
Status of Production
To give you the big news; the production is nearly two weeks away from the finish line. We have already updated you about the start of our production in early August with tuck boxes and coins, and we were expecting it to end in late August but there have been some delays along the way. Many of the reasons for this delay was on our side;
We wanted to;
Update some of our cards which required getting another mold,
Redesign the final boxes as we wanted to bring an even better experience
Add extra rulebooks and informative flyers to the boxes.
And some of the delays were on the manufacturer side;
As we had a break in between, the manufacturer switched the assembly line that put us on hold for 2 extra weeks.
In the end, we were hoping to finish the production earlier than what was initially promised but now we are back on the same timeline with the original Kickstarter timeline.
Our manufacturer Mon Jeu is doing a great job. Every element of the game feels high quality and still looks like the first print elements. They have been so helpful to us along the way about rescheduling the production based on our redesign requests.
The inventories will be sent to our fulfillment partners all around the world after the production and packing ends. For some regions, like Europe, the shipment will be much faster. But for some regions, like the US, the shipment may take a month to finalize.
We expect the boxing and palleting of the items to be completed by the end of October and almost all shipments will leave by the beginning of November.
- The Europe warehouses will receive the packs by mid-November and start shipping right away.
- We expect the US and Canada shipments to arrive in mid-December.
- Asia and Australia shipments will take longer and may arrive towards the end of December and for some countries early 2022.
We have closed the survey and making the shipment deals at the moment. We will announce which countries will be in the "rest of the world" section and basically will receive their packs with express shipments from Turkey through DHL.
We will share much more updates on the cards in the upcoming days.
New Survival / Returning Survivor Black Box Redesigned!
The black box of New Survival and Returning Survival pledges have been redesigned. This was one of the reasons for the delays on our side. When we received the prototypes of the boxes; the look and feel of the Base Game and the Survival Crate design were amazing. But the Black Box (New Survivor and Returning Survivor box) didn’t feel like the way that it looked on the screen and it was underwhelming compared to the other two boxes.
As we decided to redesign that box, we have added new elements to our other boxes as well. We are extremely confident that these boxes will be extremely eye-catchy.
Black Box Redesign
What do you think about this new design? Please share your feedback with us in the comments.
Tabletop Simulator and Tabletopia!
One of our stretch goals was adding Board Royale in Tabletop Simulator and Tabletopia. Tabletopia was very helpful about this and they added Board Royale Base Game to the game themselves. We are sending our love to the Tabletopia team.
On the Tabletop Simulator side, we wanted to feature Board Royale officially on TTS but we couldn’t reach out to the Berserk Games. Maybe if you can shout out about us on their social media accounts or Discord channels, they can hear us :D But of course, we have a custom Board Royale mod. As we have completed the design of new cards inside, we are going to update and add new cards inside the mod. Until that time you can still enjoy the previous Board Royale expansions on TTS from this link: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2039465410
New Team Members Are Joining Us!
Since August, we have been expanding our team exponentially with new artists, game designers, graphic designers, marketing teams, and developers. We couldn’t make this expanding without your support. Thanks to you, we will keep growing together.
With this new and amazing team power, we are aiming to create brand new board and digital games. You will be hearing much more about these new titles in the very near “future”.
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It is hope, all we need, Reach we must
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