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One Deck Galaxy

Created by Chris Cieslik

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:

Shipping Update - Global Galactic News
over 1 year ago – Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 12:57:25 AM

Hey friends and galactic adventurers, I have come with more info on the shipping sitaution! I wish more of it were good news. It has been an excessively ridiculous process, and I apologize for the delays that many of you have experienced. I would like for more of your games to be on your tables right now.

US

We're down to about 200 orders to ship/deliver to the post office, which should happen over the next week. The main cause of delay here is that the local post office to our warehouse is only allowing them to deliver so many packages per day - and not all of their throughput is our orders. This is resulting in many packages being unscanned (and even when we do deliver them, they remain unscanned for days or weeks!). Packages from the original 11/21 label print date are still arriving this week finally. After Jan 1, we'll open a spreadsheet for folks to note if their games haven't arrived, and we'll start working on replacement shipments for ones that've been lost by USPS. If you haven't gotten a label email yet, you're likely in those 200 orders still to be packed - we've just slowed down printing them since we literally can't hand off all the games to the post office. 

Canada, UK, Europe

Games have arrived at our hubs in these areas, and fulfillment will start up likely after the holiday - the timing just worked out poorly so they showed up right in the crunchiest shipping time. 

Edit: Some CA orders are starting to ship! A pleasant surprise!

Asia

Same here, orders are starting to be dispatched (some may have arrived already!). These should all be out by the first week in January, I believe.

Australia/New Zealand

Games are on their way via ocean freight, I don't have dates yet and should have a better update in early January. There was a freight mixup on quantities and unfortunately these are now shipping from the US to our Australian hub. The intent was to send them straight from the factory.

Shipping, Strategy Stream, FAQ+Errata!
over 1 year ago – Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 09:55:50 PM

Greetings galactic game friend citizens! We have returned from a PAX Unplugged, which we mostly survived.

Why only mostly? Well, 5 minutes before the hall opened to start the convention, I got into an argument with a pair of scissors. I did not win this argument, and in fact spent the next 4 hours at first aid and then an Urgent Care clinic nearby getting repaired. Oops.  No permanent damage, thankfully, but a lot of small tasks are taking much longer right now than they would be otherwise. I'm trying to keep up with emails, but packing replacement parts for some folks has been pushed back a few days, apologies! 

Other than that, PAX was great! Was wonderful to see a lot of backers and other fans, and run demos of Galaxy and our other games for many many folks. Looking forward to 2023 and more conventions.

Shipping Updates

US: 80% of orders are shipped now.  Tracking is broken on almost all of them, which is incredibly frustrating, and I apologize. USPS has not been great to work with this time around, and if there were more that I could do to fix that, I would! Many of you have packages that have had labels printed but haven't arrived yet. This is normal, it should arrive soon. We are just finishing today delivering  the last of the currently-printed labels to the post office, and we'll be printing the labels for the remaining packages over the rest of this week and early next week. Below you can see a few hundred of these on their way! 

If your game is damaged, missing parts, or if it doesn't arrive at all (a few will be eaten by postal demons - it happens), we'll replace things, but those efforts will largely begin after we've shipped everything out.  Again, apologies for the tracking issues.

Europe/UK: These are still clearing customs last I heard, and hopefully will begin shipping later this month when they arrive. I'll update as soon as I know more.

Asia/AU/NZ: Fulfillment should be underway on these shortly, going on over the next several weeks.

Canada: Games should be hitting our partners up North early next week, and will hopefully arrive this month to you all.

Other areas: These will be shipping straight from our offices, next week when my thumb is in better shape to package things.

Strategy Stream

One Deck Galaxy is a challenging game, much like One Deck Dungeon. For many, learning and puzzling out just how to win is a big part of the fun, but if you'd like some tips and tricks, myself and Joe Kim will be hosting a Strategy Stream on Twitch, Friday at 5PM Eastern on our channel at twitch.tv/asmadigames

We'll save the video for later, and also be posting some tips to the website once we get to that (yes, coding things on the website is another thing delayed by my foolish scissors fiasco).

FAQ/Errata

While the website isn't fully enabled yet (4P rules still to come!), the FAQ + Errata page has been gathering entries: https://www.onedeckgalaxy.com/faq.html.  Most of these are minor clarifications, but we're making one addition: Galactic Boosts! If you're not having fun because things are a bit too hard, these give you a way to jumpstart your game with some extra power on the first turn.  Here're the rules:

GALACTIC BOOSTS

Want some help in building a Federation? Take a boost! The following are available, if you'd like to adjust the difficulty of the game. During the first turn's Gather step, gain the following benefits. In a 2P game, split the dice as you desire.

Smol Boost: Gain 2 Fleets, and roll two black Ultratech dice.

Medium Boost: Gain 4 Fleets, one Probe, and roll one die of each color (including black).

Supernova Boost: Gain 6 fleets, two Probes, and roll one die of each color (including black). Also gain a black Ultratech die with value 6.

Tutorial Twitch Stream, Fulfillment Updates, PAX, Retail
over 1 year ago – Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 08:04:46 PM

Hello friends! Games have started reaching backers, hurray :D

Tutorial Videos / 4P Rules / Live Stream

OneDeckGalaxy.com is going to be the source for any rules updates, FAQs, and future content for the game, and we're working on some of the files we need to get up there as we approach the general release. I'd hoped to have this done before KS fulfillment, but...yeah the past couple months have been a mess for a lot of reasons.  We're hoping to have this content up in mid December.

In the meantime, I'm going to host a live explanation Twitch Stream tomorrow night (Monday, 11/28) at 7PM Eastern on our channel at twitch.tv/asmadigames. My plan is to do a talk-through explanation of the game rules in reasonable detail, alongside Q+A for anyone in the chat. The recording will be available on YouTube afterward. There're a lot of rules for Galaxy, because we've put a lot of game into that little box :)

Fulfillment Updates

We've shipped more than a third of the US orders, with the remainder going out over the next 2 weeks. PAX being in the middle makes things a bit difficult, but we're getting as many games out as we can every day. 

Other hubs will start shipping in December, as they receive their copies. I'll post further updates on this after PAX as I get more info from the hubs. 

PAX Unplugged + Retail

Based on the feedback I've received, most backers seem in favor of us selling copies at PAX this coming weekend - I'm really thankful for just how awesome, friendly, and understanding our backers are. We'll have a couple hundred copies on-site in Philly.

Retail sale (and our own website sales) will begin later in December, after we're done with US fulfillment. 

Fulfillment Update: Things are starting!
over 1 year ago – Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 10:42:31 PM

This is going to be a quick update! it has been a...less than great month and a half of freight shenanigans. Do you want a list of things that went wrong? No, you do not! I have seen and experienced the list, and you have probably seen similar lists from other campaigns, and they are not entertaining. 

Here's a summary of where we are at:

US Fulfillment: Games will start shipping next week, with US fulfillment likely to take 1-3 weeks to fully send out all the orders. Some of you will be getting emails as early as today as we start printing shipping labels in advance of packing orders!

Other Hubs: Games will be arriving around December 1 at our other hubs, with fulfillment to start in early December. Everyone is slammed right now with fulfillment projects, so things are expected to move slowly, sadly. It could take each hub up to 4-6 weeks to get through their queues and on to our project. 

We built in lots of lead times and buffering for this freight adventure and blew through all of it. I'm pretty annoyed, and I'm sure it's frustrating for you all. As always, if anyone would like a refund, we'll process it as quickly as we can. 

Aside from stores who backed the game directly, we won't be shipping orders to distributors/stores until KS fulfillment's done (or very close to done) in that region. We do hope to be through all the US fulfillment before PAX Unplugged, as we'd aimed to sell copies of the game there. We'll keep you all posted as we get news from our partners. 

Quick Update on Dates / BackerKit Charges
over 1 year ago – Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 03:39:52 AM

Hey friends! This is a super quick update to let you know how things are proceeding.


Games are in transit around the globe, going through the various oceans, rails, and trucks on their way to our warehouses. So far we're scheduled for a slight extra customs inspection in the US, but nothing major. We're anticipating fulfilling games in mid November in the US, and a couple weeks behind that in other regions.


We'd aimed to charge credit cards on BackerKit last month, but we had to delay that for some annoying logistical reasons that are now resolved. We will be charging cards on Wednesday, October 19. If this would cause you a problem / you want it charged immediately or later, shoot me a DM and we'll take care of it.


If you are a store in Europe that ordered cases and still has VAT showing on your order, please contact me and I'll fix that, also.  (Or really if you have any problem, ask and I'll probably fix it :)  )