Octopus Overlords

Archinerd wrote: Tue Feb 08, 2022 11:38 pm

Started today, ends Feb 18th.

hepcat wrote:I wish I enjoyed hidden movement games. But as anyone who played Captain Sonar with a bunch of us at Octocon a few years back can attest, I panic when I play them. It’s just too much stress for me. Lord Morris is the same way, I believe. Or at least he was when we played CS.

Isgrimnur wrote: Thu Feb 10, 2022 12:16 am Captain Sonar is high-stress.

Play a game of Whitehall Mystery with me, and you'll see it distilled into the purest form that I've seen.

Zarathud wrote: Thu Feb 10, 2022 2:36 am

hepcat wrote:I wish I enjoyed hidden movement games. But as anyone who played Captain Sonar with a bunch of us at Octocon a few years back can attest, I panic when I play them. It’s just too much stress for me. Lord Morris is the same way, I believe. Or at least he was when we played CS.

I remember you and Mortis were opposing captains in that game, both basically with your hands up going — “I have no idea, we’re fucked.” Your words, not his.

Archinerd wrote: Thu Feb 10, 2022 11:05 am The hidden movement is nice, but what really appeals to me is the bluffing. Any game that allows me to deploy a stone cold stare towards my opponent(s) has my interest.

Isgrimnur wrote: Thu Feb 10, 2022 1:15 am Why’s that?

Skinypupy wrote: Thu Feb 10, 2022 3:08 pm

Isgrimnur wrote: Thu Feb 10, 2022 1:15 am Why’s that?

My brain doesn't do particularly well at parsing random bits of info into a pattern. It's why I'm generally terrible at any puzzle or logic games.

Skinypupy wrote: Mon Feb 07, 2022 10:49 pm First game of Tiny Epic Dungeons down. Don't let the "tiny" in the title fool you, there lots of game here.

hepcat wrote: Fri Feb 11, 2022 6:24 pm

Skinypupy wrote: Mon Feb 07, 2022 10:49 pm First game of Tiny Epic Dungeons down. Don't let the "tiny" in the title fool you, there lots of game here.

And the tutorial app is down for maintenance. Oh well, I'll give the manual a try. I'm a veteran of bad rule books at this point.

I will say the person who okayed the iron cross for the plus signs really should have thought that through.

hepcat wrote: Fri Feb 11, 2022 6:24 pm I will say the person who okayed the iron cross for the plus signs really should have thought that through.

Skinypupy wrote: Sun Feb 13, 2022 6:05 pm
Jury is still out on the game itself. It’s fun, but holy shit is it hard. And not just the usual “skinypupy sucks at games” hard…everyone seems to be finding it incredibly punishing. I’ve already determined I’m going to house rule a higher torch starting spot on the track, just to keep my sanity.

hepcat wrote: Mon Feb 14, 2022 12:19 pm

Skinypupy wrote: Sun Feb 13, 2022 6:05 pm
Jury is still out on the game itself. It’s fun, but holy shit is it hard. And not just the usual “skinypupy sucks at games” hard…everyone seems to be finding it incredibly punishing. I’ve already determined I’m going to house rule a higher torch starting spot on the track, just to keep my sanity.

We played a 3 player game on Saturday afternoon and didn't really have any issues with the torch track. I think we had 5 spaces left after defeating the boss and winning the game. Are you remembering to move it back 6 spaces after a minion is defeated as part of the reward for doing so?

I'm really digging it, but it took us almost 5 hours to play with all the icon referencing we needed to do, and rules checking. I'm hoping I can drop that down to 90 minutes or so in a future game as more than 2 hours for this one kind of negates the whole point of a small box dungeon crawler, in my opinion.

hepcat wrote: Thu Feb 17, 2022 9:13 am New update from Blacklist Games this morning for the Fantasy Miniatures 1 set and Hour of Need. The former is supposedly one to two weeks away from being paid for after their investor’s money is cleared, then QML has to find them a shipping slot. Hour of Need will start shipping after that.

So I’m guessing we won’t see any of these until late spring, early summer. Maybe later if they suddenly find yet another 11th hour issue.

So yeah, they overextended themselves with too many kickstarters before finishing most of their outstanding projects. Pretty shitty business model. I doubt I’ll be backing anything by them again. It’s retail only going forward for Blacklist Games.

Just a quick update on progress since our last post. Since then, we have discussed with QML about scheduling and they are excited to ship the games out for us after the next available slot is free, which will come right after they begin fulfillment of Fantasy Series 1. We are currently awaiting funds to be received by QML for Fantasy Series 1 (which should happen this week or next at the latest since all the necessary paperwork is complete), then finally things will continue moving again. This is very exciting news since all products are in their warehouses and just waiting to ship out. We’ll keep you posted with this progress and hopefully with a sooner than later update this month letting you know of scheduled shipping dates from our fulfillment partner.

Hello adventurers!

Just a quick update on progress since our last update! As of early this month, we've already completed all the legal contracts, paperwork, and jumped through all the government hoops on our end to get things going. Since our investor is an international investor, they have several legal documentation on their end that each require 3-5 business days every time they submit it. Given the beginning of the month was CNY and multiple parties (such as banks, lawyers, the government) were having to prepare and process documentation to cater to the unforgiving tax/tariff scrutiny, it has just been the waiting game for the funds to hit our bank the past week and a half. The investor and I have been waiting for news that it has been processed. Once we're ready to make a full announcement that QML has received funds (they have been advised that funds are on the way) AND have actual dates secured, we'll send out an update here, in an instant. We’re so close to getting things moving and are just waiting (literally waiting) for that final step!

Archinerd wrote: Tue Feb 08, 2022 11:38 pm

Started today, ends Feb 18th.

Smoove_B wrote: Thu Feb 17, 2022 10:54 am What I can't understand for Hour of Need is that back in December, they told us the issue was an errata pack that needed to be included with each shipment. Now it's a money issue as well? I mean, we knew it was a money issue (indirectly) but the fact that they were lying about that in December after telling everyone about the money issues for the miniatures shipment? Super ultra mega sketchy.

Hello heroes,

We’re back with a new update for Hour of Need!

Firstly, I would like to apologize for the vagueness of our last update regarding all the moving pieces with fulfilling this project. That said, here’s where we are at and why fulfillment hasn’t occurred yet, even though hubs had the games last month.

Essentially, we had requested a hold on fulfillment in order to ensure the following was done:

Inventory transferred from various hubs to the UK hub in order to ensure that the correct inventory needed for fulfillment in UK was satisfied (as per our previous update).
Receive the errata packs at all hubs (that were printed after the initial products left China when we discovered a misprint on certain components related to the “Volume XXXVI” issue deck/guide) and assign them to each pledge so they are manually placed in outbound parcels.

We’re happy to report the above points are now taken care of, so after the new year we will be inquiring and determining what fulfillment slots will be available to us. Following, we will give QML the green light to a mutually agreed shipping schedule and begin thereafter. We don’t have any information on imminent availability for these slots as this is traditionally a busy time, but rest assured we are going to make sure to get you your games as soon as possible.

hepcat wrote: Thu Feb 17, 2022 12:08 pm ooooh....deadlands, you say?

coopasonic wrote: Tue Feb 08, 2022 6:21 pm God dammit...