So at long last, the products are on their way to your doors.
The games are being sent to a distribution centre in China and a bunch of games are being sent overland into Hong Kong and will be sent by FedEx or another local courier right to your door.
There was a public holiday in HK yesterday (Friday today in HK) so we are still waiting to hear the detailed shipping update for each region but we will be in touch with that hopefully next week.
Thank you for your patience and we hope you are all encouraged to see the games on the road and making their journey to you.
Kind regards,
The Vivid Games Team
PRODUCTION UPDATE
almost 3 years ago
– Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 11:58:35 PM
Hello everyone,
We have been told by the factory that Caves of Rwenzori is approaching the end of production and they are finalizing putting all the various materials together.
Here are some great images of the games all stacked up and further down this post is a video of the factory putting together the Intrepid Expansion.
Here are hundreds of the Monsoon Expansion ready to be packed for shipping!
We are really excited to show you these stacks of games and that things are moving forward albeit at a much slower pace than we had anticipated. Thank you all so much for your patience!
Here is the Intrepid Expansion stacked up and ready for shipping!
For those of you who own lots of games but have never seen inside the assembly process, the below image shows just how long a normal assembly line is. For games with more components, they would have teams on both sides as each element needs a separate person to be responsible for it to make sure nothing is forgotten.
The Intrepid Expansion's long assembly line
Below is the video of the assembly of the Intrepid Expansion. Notice how each person (or a couple of people) has one task to do. This is to reduce quality errors. Halfway through the video, you'll notice a table set back from the assembly line with people around. This is the quality control team that takes a random sampling to review to make sure that mistakes in the assembly are not being made. Maybe the one being assembled on the video will be the one in your home soon.
Our team in Hong Kong is working on a detailed shipment schedule so that once everything is ready to ship we can be giving you detailed timelines for delivery into each region.
Thank you again for your patience and we are really looking forward for each of you to be playing Caves of Rwenzori.
The Vivid Games Team
PRODUCTION & SHIPPING UPDATE
almost 3 years ago
– Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 09:41:58 PM
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PRODUCTION UPDATE - SEEING THE LIGHT
almost 3 years ago
– Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 01:40:15 AM
Hello all,
We hope you have been having a wonderful week. Just like you will all soon experience there is a moment in playing Caves of Rwenzori when you can sense you are nearing the end and you start seeing the light.
Today is a day like that for us all. Today we gave the factory the thumbs up for printing. And so they are going to begin getting printing underway for us. Woop woop!!
But just like in a game of Caves of Rwenzori when you think you've escaped some obstacle is thrown in front of you to slow you down. For us, that comes in the form of the China Labour Day Holiday which is actually 5 days and so will mean production time is 3 weeks, not 2 weeks as we were previously told.
We will keep you all posted with updates on the shipping plan once we get some answers from the various options we are looking into that were mentioned in earlier posts.
Keep well and we cannot wait for you guys to be playing Caves of Rwenzori
How to pack the core game box.
almost 3 years ago
– Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 07:34:10 PM
How to pack the core game box!
Hello All,
During the campaign, various people asked whether it was possible to put all the expansions into the core game box. This update is to show you guys how the core game box looks with only the core game (+stretch goal expansions) in the box and how to then pack the box so that all the expansions are included in the core game box.
Core Game Box with core game (+ stretch goal expansions) only
However, we appreciate some people would rather consolidate the three expansions, which will come in separate boxes, into the core game box. Below is an image of everything in the core game box. The play sheet and rules easily sit on top.
Core Game + All Expansions in the core game box
You'll notice that to allow everything to fit into the core game box the tiles have moved to the edges instead of being in the middle. In order to achieve this, you'll just need to do some very simple origami magic. Here is a short explainer video on how to change the box configuration.
