Spirits of the Forest Digital and Moonlight expansion
over 3 years ago
– Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 02:51:19 PM
Hello everyone,
I hope this message finds you well! We finally have finished the development process for Spirits of the Forest digital along with Grumpy Owl Games.
Now it’s time for you to let us know about possible bugs that haven’t been generated in our internal testing and let us know how you feel about the app in general, its usability and such.
Spirits of the Forest Digital
300 of you signed up to be part of the Closed Beta Test and all your emails have been uploaded to our Closed Beta. Please notice that you will need an android device to join the Closed Beta, but the app will also be available on iOS for the commercial release.
If you want to apply instead, make sure you have a google play account (Gmail only) Sign up here!
Inside the app, you will find a clickable banner to be redirected to our report form and leave your feedback or to report possible bugs.
Thank you very much for your help, and we hope to see you over there, all the team will be matchmaking often to play with you.
The game can also be played asynchronous, but we really recommend trying to finish a game once you match with an opponent, each game will last around 10 minutes (depending on the other players promptness too). If you close the app, you will get a notification when it’s your turn.
If you have friends as closed beta testers too, you will be able to add each other as friends to play together.
Moonlight and the future
We launched our campaign for Spirits of the Forest: Moonlight. A scenario-based cooperative and competitive expansion for Spirits of the Forest.
While we are using this campaign to fund the digital app, you will all be getting access to Spirits of the Forest Digital regardless if you back or not.
The Arctic Wolf will also be free to everyone that backs in these last 48 hours, but it will also be purchasable as soon as it will be printed along with Moonlight.
Red Pearl
Tao Long: Red Pearl, instead, will be printed along with the Matchbox Collection that is starting in the following days.
Each Dragon will start with a pearl that will be moving alongside the body of the dragon and you will be damaged whenever the body piece with the Red Pearl reaches the head.
You can strategically use the clouds to pass through them, and placing the red pearl on top of the cloud avoiding damage for that period of time.
We are excited about how much replayability this mini-expansion gives to the game and we can't wait for you to try it.
We will be reaching out to all eligible backers for the Red Pearl as soon as it will be in our warehouses for you to redeem.
Thanks for your kind support and we wish you all the best.
Sincerely yours,
Everybody here at Thundergryph Games
Spirits of the Forest digital + Mini-expansions
about 4 years ago
– Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 01:02:32 AM
Hello everyone,
Some time has passed since our last update but we have a bunch of exciting news that we have been waiting to share regarding Spirits of the Forest.
Spirits of the Forest - Digital Closed Beta
We have been working with Grumpy Owl Games for the past year to build a version of Spirits of the Forest that you can take with you everywhere. Spirits of the Forest digital, an online multiplayer experience.
With the art of Natalie Dombois, the mind of Michael Schacht and the incredible music of Veronica Emer, we are very proud of this new experience we are about to embark on. The app will be free to download and play to all of you.
If you are curious to try out our closed beta version and you have an android device, please fill the form at https://thundergryph.com/sotfclosedbeta/
Mini-expansions
We are very excited that along our Matchbox Collection, we will start the production of two new mini-expansions: Spirits of the Forest: Arctic Wolf and Tao Long: Red Pearl.
We really thank for your patience and we will give instructions to all the backers that had the red pearl as a gift on how to redeem it as soon as the production is done.
Matchbox Collection
Since you have liked and supported Spirits of the Forest, we don’t want to miss out on the chance to let you know about our new line of games you may be interested in seeing before our campaign is over. We have presented the Matchbox Collection, a line that includes 5 portable euro-games with cards and small bits that will make the experience very satisfying!
You can visit our Kickstarter campaign here: https://tgry.ph/matchboxSotf
If you have any questions, make sure to write in this update or in the comment section, or reach us out at [email protected]
Sincerely yours,
Everybody here at Thundergryph Games
Interesting news for Spirits of the Forest!
about 5 years ago
– Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 02:31:41 AM
Hello everyone, hope you are all enjoying Spirits of the Forest!
In this update we have a couple of news to share with you, but first, we would like to announce the winner of our Golden Ticket contest. congratulations Dylañ Nicole! We will reach out with more information.
Under the moonlight
Something magical is hiding in the underwood...Swift spirits that run keeping pace with the wind, evaporative at the point of being extremely rare to collect.
Whimsical seraphs are leaning over the clouds, trying to catch a glimpse of the unseen, waiting patiently to discover the deepest and most memorable secrets of the forest.
This year will be very special for Spirits of the Forest and we can’t wait to reveal more about it! If you want to know more about moonlight, be sure to subscribe to our journal!
New Golden Firefly Variant: Night flight
This expansion can be also played with the base game by using the silver fireflies.
Setup:
Give one golden firefly to every player
Gameplay:
You are allowed to place a golden firefly when placing a gemstone.The golden firefly will enforce the reserve for a tile. We suggest to place the gem right on top of the firefly.
When a player collects a tile with their gemstone and firefly on it, the gemstone will go back to the player but the firefly will be removed from the game.
If a player collects a tile with the gemstone and firefly of another player, the player will have to discard a gem as well as a firefly to collect it, while also returning their opponent’s gem.
Players can collect, if possible, a golden firefly by using the (+) token. Players are allowed to have more than one golden firefly in the game.
Las hours for Iwari on Kickstarter
As we did for Richelieu with Spirits of the Forest, Iwari re-imagines the award-winning game Web of Power by Michael Schacht by adding new layers of strategy, different maps with their own set of rules, modules that can be added to the game and a unique cooperative and solo modes.
Iwari is an abstract-like euro game where players represent different tribes who endeavor to define their identity by traveling and expanding settlements into five different types of regions in a strategy game of majorities.
If you are interested in the bake,be sure to visit our campaign page!
As a returning backer if you pledge for the game you will get Iwari: The storm metal coins for free.
See you in the comments section!
Sincerely yours,
Everybody here at ThunderGryph Games
The Golden Fireflies and Red Pearl
over 5 years ago
– Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 12:49:04 AM
Hello Everyone!
We hope you had some great Holiday time with your family and friends.
In this update we wanted to introduce the first set of rules for the Golden Fireflies, you might be wondering what does this means.
Basically we will be releasing small variants in small batches as this will be actively worked on for some time, this doesn't mean the ruleset is incomplete but rather that there will be more content being released through the year that will change the way this expansion plays.
When we publish the final variant we will surprise you with some special news for this game for which we've been working during the past few months.
We will be sending emails to backers who acquired this item or that it was part of their pledge every time we add more variants to this expansion that we feel are fun to play, but we will also be updating a Public PDF that you can access through our webpage, you can also scan the QR Code at the end of your printed rulebook if you want and easy way to get it from a mobile device, bear in mind this will be available through the week and is not yet available at the time of writing this update.
The Golden Fireflies
The Single Golden Firefly Variant A
Place a Golden Firefly on a random Air Spirit tile with just 1 Spirit Symbol on it.
The player with The Golden Firefly gets 1 additional Nature Point at the end of the game for every Silver Firefly removed from the game. the removed Fireflies doesn't have to be theirs.
Example: At the end of the game, Gon has 3 Silver Fireflies, Michael has 2 Silver Fireflies and Veronica The Golden Firefly. Gon has to remove the tiles with silver fireflies on them as per the Silver Fireflies rules.
Because of this Michael has now the majority of the Air Spirits and gets Nature Points for this as per the Base Game rules.
Veronica gets 3 points for the 3 removed Silver Fireflies as she has The Golden Firefly.
The Single Golden Firefly Variant B
Place a Golden Firefly on a random Air Spirit tile with just 1 Spirit Symbol on it.
Place up to 3 Golden Fireflies on the Air Spirits tiles with just 1 Spirits Symbol on them.
The player with any amount of Golden Fireflies gets 1 additional Nature Point at the end of the game for every remaining Firefly of theirs in the game, regardless of type.
Example: At the end of the game, Gon has 3 Silver Fireflies, Michael has 2 Silver Fireflies and The Golden Firefly.
Gon has to remove the tiles with Silver Fireflies on them as per the Silver Fireflies rules.
Michael has now the majority of Air Spirit and gets Nature Points for this as per the Base Game rules. Additionally, he gets 3 points for his Silver Fireflies as he has The Golden Firefly, making that 2 Nature Points for the Silver Fireflies and 1 for The Golden Firefly.
The Red Pearl
We have done some work and substantial upgrades on this expansion but we are not ready to show it completely yet, but be sure we are already looking into how to ship this expansion when it is ready, so we suggest to put any email address coming from thundergryph.com in your whitelist so you don't miss any notification about this in your inbox.
Fulfillment
If you have or had any issues with the shipping of Spirits of the Forest, please email us at [email protected] so we can investigate and help resolve the problem as soon as possible.
We will talk again soon!
Sincerely,
Everyone Here at ThunderGryph Games.
US and Canada Fulfillment Update
over 5 years ago
– Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 12:04:46 AM
Hello Everyone,
This is a quick update regarding the fulfillment for the pending ~1000 packages of Spirits of the Forest that are yet to be in transit to their respective doorsteps.
Due to a series of unfortunate events and lack of communication from our partners in Europe, which is out of our control, has bottle necked heavily the quality of service we can provide to the backers who are still missing their games in the US (Collector’s Editions) and Canada (All Editions) which is a quality of service that they totally don’t deserve and is something we are truly sorry for.
This update is just a quick explanation and update on the status of these parcels.
As you might know if you’ve followed all our updates until now, we signed the Collector’s Edition completely by September 19th, in the case of Canada by that exact day the container with all the games (Retail and Deluxe editions) for Canada and the US arrived in Orlando, Florida.
Next day we posted an update regarding the freight which explained that we would be preparing pallets to depart to Canada that same week.
Just the day after that, when we were talking with the importer of record in Canada and explaining that we just requested the pallets to be made in Germany as they were signed in even less time than we had originally expected we were suggested to avoid any issues with customs for this to be a single import, therefore it was best to wait for the Collector’s Edition to arrive in Florida so Quartermaster could palletize the games and send them over directly to Toronto and we agreed to these terms.
During the next few weeks we didn’t hear anything back from HappyShops in Germany about these pallets and therefore we couldn’t post an update timely as we usually do as we didn’t know anything, until suddenly in October 10th, 14 working days after we requested the pallets we were notified that they were sent to Essen without our approval, and we had to fight tooth and nail to have those retrieved from DHL, and they were also palletized with another specifications that we originally requested and thus were unfit for Air transit as there are height limitations in every airline which is an industry standard and they had to be made again.
All of this delayed our operations as this delayed the fulfillment of the Collector’s Editions in Australia (which is completely fulfilled since 2 weeks ago, thankfully), the US and all editions in Canada.
In our last update I explained that last week was supposed to start the fulfillment of the game in the US, which is the estimate we were given when the plane departed, sadly no parcel was shipped last week as they have incredible large projects in the process of fulfilling right now, but tracking numbers are being generated, pick and packing and some shipments are supposed to begin this week but with the US Holidays upon us this might change to early next week.
As for Canada the Pallet is already in transit, we’ve filled all the paperwork with the importer and we are confident there won’t be any issues in customs.
We are really sorry for this experience to these backers and we are already looking for alternatives as our partners in Europe failed to us, so this doesn’t happen again and we can have a smooth fulfillment in all regions.
This is as well the last time we will ship components to a region so that they can undergo any special treatment (in this case the signatures) before being sent again to their final destination region.
Thank you for reading this update, and once again our most sincere apologies, we are allocating all of our resources into having these games fulfilled as soon as possible.
See you in our next update.
Sincerely,
Everyone Here at ThunderGryph Games.
