🚀 For All Mankind 🪐 - Thank You St. Louis, Production Updates, and Tournament Results!
Hello conquerors!
It's been an exciting month! We had a fabulous time at Geekway to the West in St Louis a couple weeks back, and at the Evergreen Tabletop Expo in Seattle last weekend. We've also made (and blown up) a few new friends over the course of the tournament these last six weeks. Welcome to all who've newly joined us!
Production Updates
As you may have noticed in the header image, we've been making progress on art and production. Here's a look at the new and improved colony art, all printed out and ready to go! If you look closely, you'll notice that every planet has a unique landscape that creates a beautiful tableau when you line the tokens up next to each other. We're absolutely in love with how they've turned out, and we hope you like them, too!
A quick update on our timeline: we've been targeting June 1st since our original announcement email back in March. Unfortunately it looks like we're not quite going to make that deadline, mostly due to constraints around sourcing materials. Like our old friend Thomas Edison with his lightbulb, we've found about 10,000 types of cardstock that don't quite work, and we're not going to stop until we find the one that meets our printing standards. We're a little disappointed, but we hope you'll agree a couple more weeks is worth it to make sure we can deliver the game with the highest quality components.
If you want to stay up to date on exactly when the games start shipping, join the For All Mankind Facebook group or follow us on Instagram, where we'll be sharing regular updates on our progress. For now, we're officially retargeting June 15th for the launch. Stay tuned!
Tournament Results
The results are in and we have our winners! Congratulations to Ben, Ian, and Heidi, who will be taking home free copies of For All Mankind! BIG thanks to them and the other twenty-three contestants who joined us for fun and shenanigans over the course of this six-week playtesting adventure!
Future Events
If you want to play For All Mankind in the next month, here's where we'll be!
Saturday June 3rd: Blue Highway Games in Seattle, WA. Hosted by the wonderful PlaytestNW, we'll be there from 12pm to 4pm.
Fri-Sun June 23rd-25th: Summercon 23 in Puyallup, WA. Also with PlaytestNW, we'll be there all day every day of the convention.
Tuesday July 4th: The Madrona Arms in Seattle, WA from 7pm to 9pm. That's right, the Tourney grounds! It's been so much fun we've decided to keep it up. Lock in your calendars for the first Tuesday of every month, and join us for a pint and a salmon burger and some friendly "territorial disputes" at our neighborhood pub.
That's all for now! As always, thank you so much for your support. And if you've been waiting to get on the preorder train, click the button below to reserve your copy of For All Mankind today!
Doug