October Update: Balanced board🌎, test noted implemented 📝
about 2 years ago – Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 01:37:14 AM

Hello everyone, this is the October update!  During the past few months we were busy testing, implementing the feedback, balancing ⚖️ and in general seeing excited testers playing the Flood ⛵️ 🌊! 

This month we incorporated those changes into the official game design✅. We wanted to say a big thank you for all of you who have tested the game as well as Playerlair for for all of their help with testing the Flood and balancing the Mighty Beasts 🐘🐊🐅🐆🦓! 

One of our main changes was switching from a triangular hexagon to a normal hexagon. This change gave us the ability to have 4 more tiles in the board 🌎, thus give more opportunity for players to navigate and not get blocked in.

What do you think about switching to regular hexagons? Comment below! 

Main mode ♟:

Instead of easy and hard modes, the Flood 🌊 now has a main mode and a classic mode. In the main mode we lay out all the information for the players so that they may develop their strategy & unique game play as well as minimize luck 🎲. In the main game mode the placement of meeples is on the tiles of the board and easier to explain to new players. Dice in this mode are used to resolve events, story cards. 

Classic mode ⚜️:

We bring meeple placement and dice roll that brings nostalgia back of the old euro games.  Luck 🍀 is more important in this mode & adaptability to dice roll + resource management is vital. Meeple placement still remains 3 Elephants 🐘, and or a mixture of a Caravan and an elephant between Huts and Camps for a total of 2 structures placed per hexagon side. With purchasable extensions players may build Huts or Camps bordering 3 hexagons instead of 2. For balancing there are only 2 extensions per player.  As shown below.

This is the current board 🌎, let us know what you think. We cant wait to see this when printed into the mass- production prototype

Dino module🦕 : 

The sauropod game tile ( you will be able to control the sauropod in the game ).  Side (A) is used for general game play and (B) is for the Distant land co-op scenario and the "Fog scenario". The sauropod is slow compared to the regular Beasts but can forage more diverse resources + has big bonus rewards for forging and more...

Below is also an example of the A. I.  card from a scenario. Players are able to predict where the A.I will be throughout the game. This will give the players an advantage. 

A Solo mode Scenario:

Solo scenario is currently in Development and testing and will most likely be officially in the game.

A brief time line: All prints of paper and cardboard material will be submitted by mid November this will allow us to verify the materials by early December and start the paper and cardboard printing of the game soon after. We are still on schedule for the fulfillment of the Flood. 

And thats it for this update. We cant wait to have all of you try out the game! 

September update: Start of submission of files, more art revealed 🎨
about 2 years ago – Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 03:06:21 AM

Hello everyone! 👋 It is time for the September update! We are in full testing mode, lots of great feed back is coming through 📝. This month we were busy with our manufacturer, prepping for submissions of all the files for the Mass production prototype📦

Mass Production Prototype 📦

We are finished submitting files for the meeples and miniatures as well as the faith tokens & general game non-paper components.  These will undergo verifications with the manufacturer to make sure they are optimized. Once vetted the manufacturer will be making titanium molds for the PVC miniatures in the game. The mold making takes 3-4 months and takes the most time in terms of mass manufacturing. A downpayment will be made this month for manufacturing of the Flood Board Game. The manufacturer reserved printing capacity for us to deliver the Flood Board game on time. 

Art from the Co-op scenarios 🦕.

As promised we will be posting never before seen art with this update. This art is from the Field Hut. In this scenario ( Gopher wood )🌲 once a player has deployed the field Hut to a tile, they can upgrade it to trade resources. This mechanic is unique to the Gopherwood scenario🌲.

First look at the Large Mat #1 🗺️

(extended art of the main board)

Inside the Ark miniature ⛵

We have shown a lot of the Ark from the outside, below are the internals of the Ark. One of our goals was to break down the flat surfaces and to make sure that the stages don't look flat when sitting on the board, thus more detail.

Summary

The development of the Flood will finish this month (Back of the Box design, barcodes and etc. ). 

The pledge manager will be updated with the the new mat and we will showcase Big box art for the All in! pledge during our next update. 

Thank you everyone for supporting us and making this possible! Feel free to reach out to us with any questions @ [email protected]

August Update: Game testing, Updated textures, Pics of the current prototypes
about 2 years ago – Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 05:22:49 PM

Hello everyone! It is time for our August update! 

Gameplay

Play testers and the team @bedouingames had quite an intensive period of play testing this past month. Some rule changes have been made. As an example: after each player has completed their turn a new generation starts. This in addition to the "sin" cards advances the lightning token and changes the weather closer to the Flood. The lightning token goes from 1-40 in order. Some steps in the succession give cards, white others bonuses. 

You may have noticed that the streamlined design of this game gives room for an easy and a hard game modes as well as co-op scenarios! Once the rulebook is close to being finalized we will post it in an update.

Art

Tool tokens and Resource tokens got a texture pass and a little redesign of the token shape.  Based on play testing feedback.  This make the more more clear, easy to learn and further decreases set up time.

Our artists are completing final card art for the 3 scenarios, below are concept sketches of the art.  

Player boards have had their textures updated from the previous wooden pattern. 

The Game Mat art is done, currently awaiting graphic design to overlay the board, we will have an update next month of what it will look like.

Trays

Below are dual tray beds (for Deluxe, All in and Investor pledges). As an example we used the M. Lion. Our goal was for both the minis and the meeples to fit the same tray. The tray will be all black, the inner part of the tray will be a soft plastic. 

Prototype

Posted are images form our Sunday night testing.  It was a very close 3 player 105 min game! As you may have noticed, based on tester feedback, we have designed the side boards into the main board. This shifted all the focus back on the main board. This picture was taken at low light. One of our goals is to have the game look good in low light as well as well lit rooms. 

3D printing our own meeples and minis has given us the opportunity to make more prototypes then we originally thought.

Pledge Manager

Several backers asked about paying the shipping fees. You still have 5-7 months before we move to that phase! We want to have a clearer view on the production timeline before collecting addresses and finalizing pledges.

This is it for this month, we are looking forward to updating you next month! We would love your thoughts and comments, please reach out to us.

July Update: planning, art, meeples, miniatures, & more!
over 2 years ago – Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 08:29:15 AM

Hello everyone!

It is time for an update! With the campaign over, we are back to the drawing table to move forward with production. We are progressing in many categories at the same time, so we will break down this update accordingly.

Production planning

Above all, this past month has been a month of planning : assessing the numbers of assets left to produce, the volume of components unlocked, the different options regarding factories, materials, designs...  We had to talk with our many partners, and work out timelines for our production. The first items that need to move to the production phase as soon as possible are the meeples, miniatures and dice. We're waiting for various quotes from factories, and in the meantime working on all fronts.

Art

Our artists have finished the following card art: Waters of the deep, Earthquake, Merchant #1. This is an example of one of the Merchants in the Co-op scenarios: Dinosaur cards. 

The rework of the vegetable tile:   

Screen print Art for the Mighty Beasts Meeples

Art currently a work in progress

-All in Box!, 2 Story Cards, Player Boards, Mighty Beasts Boards, Touching up the Dino module cards

Sculpts

Our sculptors are done with all the sculpts and sizing the Miniatures & Meeples. This had to take the priority due to the meeples and miniatures being manufactured first  

An example of how the Deployable Hut has changed: 

Rules and gameplay

Throughout our Kickstarter campaign you all suggested many interesting ideas that we have been trying out on top of the latest adjustments to make sure that all the extra content works smoothly together. August - October will therefore be 3 months with a lot of play testing, to tie up the potential loose ends and update some of the rules, while staying in line with the overall frame of the game. Everything is still under scrutiny for now, but we'll share rules update as soon as they are validated!

Update on Add-ons

We added a Meeple bundle that you are able to purchase in addition to your pledge and separately that will come in its own box. We have also added in game extra dice as an add-on.

Game Mats

Several backers had a suggestion about adding the colorful board print to one of the larger mats- almost like the small mat. This will require some time in design, will you be interested in something like this? Vote in comments: Y/N

Pledge Manager

Several backers asked about paying the shipping fees, You still have a couple months before we move to that phase ! We want to have a clearer view on the production timeline before collecting addresses and finalizing pledges.

And... That's all for now ! We're getting back behind our computers, drawing desks and prototypes, to bring you more exciting news next month!!!

Pledge Manager is Opening! ⛳️
over 2 years ago – Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 12:19:47 AM

Hello everyone! Good afternoon  👋

Thank you for your patience 🙏 the Pledge Manager is finally ready to launch!

The Backer kit team ⛳️ is currently sending out a "Smoke Test" via the pledge manager for the next 24 hours. So surveys have and will be sent to about 100 people. We will wait until this test is complete and then we will be sending it out to everyone just to make sure everything is sorted! Don’t forget to check your cart, some items will be automatically added based on the add-ons by the algorithm however make sure everything you want is there!

Shipping Charges 📦

An important note is that you will not be charged for shipping right now. We will be charging shipping closer to the date of actually shipping and fulfilling the project. This needed to be postponed to have the best price possible for our Backers.

Digital Rewards ⛵️

The digital reward: ( the scalable Ark ) will be available upon checkout only for Deluxe, All in! And Investor pledges, the Ark is in a zipped file. This file when unzipped contains four parts of the Ark for 3d printing, the files are in a .stl format. Please let us know if there is an issue downloading it.

Retailers 🛍

If you are a retailer, there are retailer bundles in the pledge manager as well. They are discounted in bulk and the minimum order quantity is 7 units of each product! If you have questions, please send a private message or email to [email protected]

If you notice any issues… ✅

Once we launch the pledge manager, if you have any issues you can either message us directly here, message us on FB, or email us at [email protected].

Thanks again for all of your support. More updates are to follow soon!