Frog Tree
CREATOR
7 months ago
Project Update: Project Update: 2.3 Manufacturing Delays 💧
Hello!! Thanks so much for your patience - Underleaf is long overdue an update! Thanks to everyone for filling out the surveys!
TLDR: Progress is ongoing but slowed down a bit following some hiccups with the manufacturer. Copies are expected before the end of the year. (Depending on how tariffs play out.)
Through Frog Tree I've had the chance to work with a lot of different kinds of manufacturers for a lot of different kinds of products. Tabletop games however are new and I didn't have the experience or relationship with a factory to follow through on a very speedy production. Before I launched Underleaf I collected a handful of quotes and ended up placing a deposit on mass production before I was ready with the files - committing to this one factory. Since then I've been bounced between factory reps - literally four or five people now and communication has been slow. I've raised this issue with them and been connected with someone who's been very responsive and progress right now is progressing. It's very important to me to get the samples perfect before mass production. It hasn't helped that I've been going full throttle on conventions and events over the summer to supplement lost online income from the tariff madness.
So I apologize for the delay and for the delay in updating you all! All of the add-on merch has been designed and sampled - some of it ordered so when the games are ready that won't hold me back!
US Shipping
Again, it's hard for me to comment on this right now but I am looking more at hiring a US fulfillment warehouse if tariffs/de minimis charges aren't reasonable when I'm ready to ship out.
I'll share a video showing off the sample when I receive it! Shouldn't be too much longer.
Thank you all again, I am so grateful for your support.
Laura
TLDR: Progress is ongoing but slowed down a bit following some hiccups with the manufacturer. Copies are expected before the end of the year. (Depending on how tariffs play out.)
Through Frog Tree I've had the chance to work with a lot of different kinds of manufacturers for a lot of different kinds of products. Tabletop games however are new and I didn't have the experience or relationship with a factory to follow through on a very speedy production. Before I launched Underleaf I collected a handful of quotes and ended up placing a deposit on mass production before I was ready with the files - committing to this one factory. Since then I've been bounced between factory reps - literally four or five people now and communication has been slow. I've raised this issue with them and been connected with someone who's been very responsive and progress right now is progressing. It's very important to me to get the samples perfect before mass production. It hasn't helped that I've been going full throttle on conventions and events over the summer to supplement lost online income from the tariff madness.
So I apologize for the delay and for the delay in updating you all! All of the add-on merch has been designed and sampled - some of it ordered so when the games are ready that won't hold me back!
US Shipping
Again, it's hard for me to comment on this right now but I am looking more at hiring a US fulfillment warehouse if tariffs/de minimis charges aren't reasonable when I'm ready to ship out.
I'll share a video showing off the sample when I receive it! Shouldn't be too much longer.
Thank you all again, I am so grateful for your support.
Laura
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