A whole galaxy in One Deck! Grow your civilization from space-faring newbies to galactic leaders in this solo/co-op tabletop adventure.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
News! Rulebooks, Gen Con, Challenge Scenarios, Digital Early Access Release!!
9 months ago
– Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 10:34:21 AM
Greetings galactic friends! I am here with what humans call "News".
The roadmap from our previous update is still our list of tasks to get done, but we've shuffled the order of things around a bit. In particular, I'm hoping to get to video content after Gen Con.
Rulebook v1.1 Released
First, and most importantly, version 1.1 of our rulebook is now available at OneDeckGalaxy.com. There is a normal pretty version, and a printer-ink-friendly version that has the background coloring removed, so that if you want to print out the whole book or just some pages, you can do that.
The rulebook is re-organized, as we described in the last update, and we hope it is much easier to learn from and use as a reference. Sorry again (times a million) that the first release wasn't up to par.
In addition to the digital updated version, we've had a small number of physical v1.1 rulebooks printed up, and we'll be bringing some with us to Gen Con. If you'd like to grab one from us there, you're welcome to! If you are planning to do this, we'd love for you to fill out this extremely short google form asking who you are and how many rulebooks you want to pick up: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf7bsgdzqyICSC9mr1Pig3QrBg23K-urvXhDhTEnRTI8XoQgA/viewform?usp=sf_link
This helps me gauge how many I need to lug in my luggage. (Filling it out is not required, it's just to help me out!)
Gen Con
We'll be in booth #1731, come visit! We'll be demoing the new digital One Deck Galaxy release, Innovation Ultimate, and Aegean Sea. Plus, we'll have cool pins, including the new Elemens pin we had at PAX Unplugged.
Challenge Scenarios
We're excited to release the first three Challenge Scenarios - they're also up at OneDeckGalaxy.com! These Scenarios are small rules bits that impact your game in interesting ways. They add 1-2 stars of difficulty to your play, and can be used with the Campaign. We'll be finalizing these and releasing more later this Summer and Fall.
For example, the simplest scenario:
SCENARIO 1: INTERSTELLAR GOLD RUSH ( ★ )
The galaxy is wide open! Everyone wants to be EVERYWHERE. Outposts, moon-summer-homes, settlements, colonies, megalopopopoli! Stardrives are in short supply, and security is needed to protect citizens near and far.
SETUP: Begin with 8 fleets, instead of 2.
RESULTS: Drive Shortage - When you resolve the Starbase, gain 1 less Fleet than you are entitled to (min 0).
RESULTS: Federation Security Force - At the end of the turn, spend 1 fleet. If you cannot, you are Overwhelmed.
Early Access - One Deck Galaxy Digital
We're also very excited to announce that One Deck Galaxy's digital version is now on Steam in Early Access. Handelabra have been working very hard on this all year, and it's coming out great. It's on sale for 15% off through August 3, and we'll be continuing development on it throughout the year to get all the features and Adversaries in. Take a peek:
If you're astute, you'll notice that a handful of bits in digital Galaxy differ from the print version. We've applied some wording updates to make things clearer on many of the Milestones. In addition to that, we're using the digital version to test out a slight redesign of the Mathematicians:
This version allows you to get your storage die from the supply instead of your pool, rolling it and possibly calibrating it before locking it in for the turn. We're not finalizing this new version just yet, but the digital realm gives us a unique opportunity to playtest the change.
We've also updated the first milestone to be 15 influence across several DZ locations instead of 5 at each.
If we do finalize these balance changes, we'll include errata'd cards in future expansion sets for free.
In the meantime, if you'd like to test out these changes in person, feel free! We'd love feedback on them. (The only difference on the 1P side is that the third milestone requires 66 value of dice instead of 44)
Innovation Ultimate on BackerKit
In non-galactic news, but still semi-galactic because it involves the FUTURE, we've launched our BackerKit campaign for Innovation Ultimate - our new all-included box set of Innovation, which includes new Age 11 cards and a whole new expansion. Innovation's one of my favorite games ever, and I'm happy to see a new shiny version get into even more hands.
Rulebook Revision / Shipping / Roadmap / Galaxy Digital Stream Today!
10 months ago
– Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 11:38:57 AM
Hello galactic friends and associates, I am here with an Update. It continues to be a pretty garbage year for me personally, but I'm doing my best to get things done and I've built out a roadmap of what we'd like to accomplish with One Deck Galaxy in the coming months. There're two major things being addressed in this list:
1) A number of you (especially in AU/NZ) do not have your games yet, and that is being fixed over the next few days. I've got a pile of shipping materials due to arrive at my place tomorrow, and over the next week I'm going to be packing orders both for AU/NZ, and for the remainder of people who don't have their game yet. I'm truly sorry for the delays, and I've got something planned to do for those of you affected that we'll be announcing early next month.
2) Rules. The rulebook we wrote was not as good as I'd hoped it'd be, and that's largely on me. I organized it in the order that I'd teach the game, and it didn't translate to paper well. We tested it, we integrated feedback, but in the end, it wasn't good enough. We've reorganized the rulebook [PDF] to be ordered into three major sections (Setup / Core Concepts / Gameplay Phases), added four extra pages of content, a table of contents, along with a number of small clarifications throughtout the text and image examples. The document is still a work in progress, so there's a few things that haven't undergone final layout yet (text spacing, etc). If you have any comments on the updated rulebook, I'd be happy to hear them directly at chris (at) asmadigames.com.
We've also updated the rules summary video to be shorter and more concise (and better camera!):
In June, we're going to be shoring up the website - we've got more videos being filmed next week (after shipping) for Adversary summaries in particular, and those'll all be posted on OneDeckGalaxy.com and YouTube. In addition, work on One Deck Galaxy: Digital has been underway for some time, with our partners at Handelabra (they made digital One Deck Dungeon, Spirit Island, and Sentinels of the Multiverse). It's pretty neat, and we're going to show off where things are at tonight on Twitch on their channel: https://www.twitch.tv/handelabragames . Stream starts at 7PM Eastern, with myself and John Arnold of Handelabra.
July will see the release of the Challenge Mode bonus content we'd unlocked during the Kickstarter, and we'll be putting a full card reference on the website, updating the FAQ, and we'll be opening up Digital ODG on Steam in Early Access.
August is Gen Con! We've got some more downloadable bonus content we're not quite ready to announce, with maybe a thing you can acquire at the show :)
This Fall, ODG Digital will see its full release on Steam, and we'll be ready to start talking about an expansion for the game. Hurray more galaxy!
We also have mysterious long term plans, but more on those later. We are confident that the Zibzab will in no way impact them in any way.
Update: Shipping (AU/NZ, Second Wave)
about 1 year ago
– Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 09:01:26 PM
Hi all, hope you are having a good end of Winter (or Summer, for you southern-galactic-hemispherers) I wanted to update on where things stand with shipping, especially for those of you who have been very patiently awaiting packages that honestly should've been in your hands months ago. I again apologize for the delays, most of this falls on me, with a modest percentage going to some bad shipping/logistics luck - but definitely not errors on the parts of other shipping partners.
As I've stated in the past couple updates, things have been pretty rough for me personally, that has remained unfortunately true. I've got what looks like clear skies ahead for a little while, and I'm endeavoring to get everything I can done in the next week to get all the back replacement + second wave orders dispatched.
"Second Wave" here means anyone whose backerkit survey was submitted after shipping began, for reference.
AU/NZ: By now, it's my understanding that all copies of ODG Standard have been delivered, and a handful of ODG Deluxe. The rest of the ODG Deluxe will be headed to our partner soon - I had very much hoped this was going to happen before now, but I haven't been able to get the pallet of games freighted yet. My estimate is that you will be getting your copies in late Spring. This is way, way later than expected, and I fully understand if you want a refund instead - just send me a message and I'll take care of it promptly if you'd like this. Again, apologies, this delay all resulted from the simplest of spreadsheet transposal errors late last year, and I just missed it when doublechecking.
Other Second Wave: With the exception of a couple orders in Asia, our local hubs have enough copies to ship out second wave orders. My hope is that they'll arrive in late March/early April.
ReplacementParts: I've packed a bunch of these to go out tomorrow and Friday, and will be sending emails/shipping notifications as they're brought to the post office. If you emailed [email protected], I've got your email, I'm just getting to them as quick as I can.
Video / FAQ / Web Content: Assuming nothing else goes wrong, this is next on my list. Again, apologies for the delay. I really hoped to have substantial updates done many, many weeks ago.
News / Apologies / Schedule / Website
about 1 year ago
– Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 01:46:05 PM
Hello galactic friends and space adventurers! I hope everyone is having a nice Earth Winter, except for those of you in an area having an Earth Summer. Either way, I hope it's good times.
Unfortunately here, it has not been! I apologize for the amount to which it's blocked things getting done, but it has been a very messy start to 2023 for me. Have been sick, had some small animal die in the wall and render our whole office space downstairs unusable for a couple weeks, and some other family-illness-related things that have all amounted to soaking up the majority of my time. Thankfully, things are improving and I'm getting back to Earth Productivity this week, but I do apologize that lots of things (website, replacements, some international fulfillment) have been delayed in ways I had not anticipated.
If you've sent a message and I haven't responded yet, I'm going through my backlog this week. We've sent out many replacements already, and are getting the last 30 or so of the full game US replacements out this week, after which I'll get to the remainder of the damaged/missing individual card, dice, box component requests starting Monday. Short version: The USPS lost a LOT of copies, and unfortunately mostly Deluxe. We have enough extra copies to cover it, which I suppose is why I printed a bunch of extra copies of Deluxe.
Website / Errata / FAQ
We'd aimed to release OneDeckGalaxy.com to the world back in December along with videos and content (4P rules, etc). We'll have most of the text content up by this Friday (in particular a big FAQ update), and we'll be posting videos there and to our youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/AsmadiGames. Sorry again that all of this has taken longer than anticipated.
A draft of the 4P Rules (in print friendly format) is available at https://onedeckgalaxy.com/4pRules.pdf - it's laid out on a smaller than normal page so that you can trim with scissors, quad-fold it and place it in a game box. The four player experience is super cool, and I'm excited for others to finally be able to give it a shot. A lot of communication and shared planning is key to victory!
We're working through feedback on the game from everyone who has already tried it out. We're glad that most are enjoying it, and finding ways to improve the experience for folks who had a tough time with the rulebook and for some of the combinations of Adversary/Homeworld/Society that have proved harder than they were during testing. We'll have PDFs available of cards that get errata, and will include printed copies of any significantly errata'd base cards in an upcoming expansion.
Fulfillment
Almost all fulfillment is complete, we're getting through AU/NZ orders now, along with some countries in South America and the Middle East which have taken a bit more time than anticipated. Apologies that it's taken so long, we're hoping to have all the games out soon.
Thank you again to everyone who has supported our projects and games - you make what we do possible!
Replacement games, cards, dice!
over 1 year ago
– Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 10:46:17 PM
Hello friends, and Happy Galactic New Year (due to an unexpected confluence of luck, Insula's Federation year turns over the same time as ours. Weird!)
Replacements
The email address for all One Deck Galaxy replacement requests will be: [email protected].
If you are sending an email to this address, please include your name and current address, and if possible your backer #. It just helps speed things up on our end, even if you've given us this info before. (Also if possible tell me Deluxe or Normal!)
If your game, or its components are damaged - send us an email with a photo please! It's helpful so that we can pass it along to our fulfillment or factory partners to prevent similar errors in the future.
If your game has not arrived, and you've had a shipping email for *at least three weeks*, send us an email and we'll send out a replacement game(s). It's absurd that the threshold is so high, but the packages have moved slower than anything I've encountered in the past decade of shipping games via USPS.
For folks outside the US, fulfillment is ongoing. The biggest delays, and I'm sorry about this because it's my clerical error, is for AU/NZ. Fuflillment there probably won't start till February. Apologies again.
Videos, FAQ, 4P Rules
My focus has been largely on getting fulfillment issues resolved, but I'm working on a number of things for the website this weekend, including updated video content. It's been a rough couple weeks! Doing the best I can, and I appreciate the patience and support from folks.
I know the rulebook hasn't been as clear as we hoped, even with the pile of testing and revisions we did. Among other things, we're working on a printable player aid that's designed to fold up to box size that should help! More on that next week.
