Dear backers,
We love all the photos and stories we are seeing about your Soda Pop collection, and we are happy some of you think these games are special. Thanks for your kind...
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Thundergryph Games
about 2 months ago
Fulfillment and a new game!
Dear Backers,
We hope this update finds you well and we appreciate your patience!
Here is the current update on each region about the arrival of the vessels and preparation for...
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Thundergryph Games
3 months ago
Last 48h for changing addresses before we close pledges
Hello everyone!
This is a short update to inform you that we have sent out the 48-hour reminder to close down pledges to prepare the information for fulfillment.
If you want t...
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Thundergryph Games
3 months ago
Soda Pop: Vessels on track
Dear Backers,
We hope this update finds you well.
We are glad we managed to get the games out of China in time before the Chinese New Year!
Up next we will provide you with ...
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Thundergryph Games
4 months ago
Soda Pop: Almost ready for freight
Hello everyone,
We hope this update finds you well!
We received the mass production sample of the Fridge bundle but I was not feeling very well, so apologies for this taking a...
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Thundergryph Games
5 months ago
Soda Pop Bulletin: Production photos
Hello everyone,
We hope this update finds you well!
We are around 3 weeks away from having the game ready for freight and in this update, we want to share a collage of photos ...
We love all the photos and stories we are seeing about your Soda Pop collection, and we are happy some of you think these games are special. Thanks for your kind support and patience!
Here is an update on fulfillment in each region:
USA: all delivered.
Canada: As informed by our partner (as of April 10th), the stock has been dispatched and local delivery is imminent. Europe & ROW: 97,8% delivered. The rest is on its way or will be dispatched next week.
UK stock is on the way from Barcelona to the UK (and will arrive on Friday 19th). Shipments will commence according to Spiral Galaxy's fulfillment schedule.
Australia & New Zealand: all dispatched.
Asia: all dispatched. For some Asian destinations, delivery may take a little longer.
For any further information, please contact us at [email protected].
Please note that if your order includes the Peach Festival, this game will be delivered later in a separate shipment.
Thank you and wishing you all the best!
Sincerely yours, Everyone here at Thundergryph Games
We hope this update finds you well and we appreciate your patience! Here is the current update on each region about the arrival of the vessels and preparation for fulfillment. If you have any questions, let us know in the comments below.
Europe, UK & ROW Shipping Update 🚢
🛥️ Vessel/Voyage: CMA CGM CEDRUS departed from Shekou on February 7th, 2024.
ETA Barcelona: MAR 15, 2024
The journey has been longer than anticipated due to a route change, skirting Africa. This deviation was necessary as the Suez Canal passage wasn't deemed safe given that region's unfortunate situation.
Fulfillment for Europe and ROW is scheduled to commence on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. Transport will be handled by Seur, DPD Europa, their local partners, and Correos España.
For the UK, please allow an additional couple of weeks from this date. Spiral Galaxy will be the designated carrier.
USA + CANADA Shipping Update 🚚
Warehouse Delivery: Tomorrow, March 12, 2024
We estimate starting fulfillment on Monday, March 18, but this is contingent on our partner's workflow there.
Canada's fulfillment will commence approximately two weeks after the USA's start, as it is transported overland. AllPlay will be the designated carrier for both regions.
An evolving card game designed by Virginio Gigli and Simone Luciani. Illustrated by Paolo Voto. Draft a hand of 7 cards with countless combinations and experience a combo-chain card game of strategy with great replayability.
We hope you will visit our page, we are curious to know what you think!
For returning backers like you, we have a special gift if you back the game.
Thank you for your continuous support and talk to you soon!
Sincerely yours, Everybody here at Thundergryph Games
📦 We will ship the games by land after the CNY, so the warehouse can be ready for reception and fulfillment as soon as they are back from the Holidays.
🔥 Addresses closing on February 16th, 2024 🔥
We will be closing the address in 4 days (February 16th, 2024) to prepare for fulfillment.
If you want to verify or update your address, please follow this link to get access to Backerkit (our pledge manager) https://sodapop.backerkit.com/
If you already completed the survey and your information is up to date, there is no action needed.
We appreciate your patience and support and we are looking forward to sending the games to you!
Sincerely yours, Everybody here at Thundergryph Games
We received the mass production sample of the Fridge bundle but I was not feeling very well, so apologies for this taking a bit more than expected.
Very excited to showcase the final look of all the games and stretch goals in this video.
The game is already in assembly and in a few days it will be ready for the vessels. Freight prices have drastically increased again (3-4 times the original price), but we will make it work to avoid delaying the project any longer.
We hope you feel proud of what we have achieved together and we can’t wait for you to have it in your hands.
Thank you so much for your kind patience and support towards this project.
Wishing you all the best, Everyone here at Thundergryph Games
We are around 3 weeks away from having the game ready for freight and in this update, we want to share a collage of photos sent from the manufacturer about the production of your Soda Pop game cans!
We are also very happy with how the golden caps look now. We didn't share them before as the color was more yellow than gold.This was an add-on during the campaign. To everyone who got them, we hope you like them!
We will be sending a new update soon with the final chance to update your address in our pledge manager. As soon as we are ready for Freight, the Foundry page dedicated to Soda Pop will have all the useful information about the vessels for each zone.
Thank you so much for your kind patience and support towards this project.
We hope you are doing great! This message is to update you about our Soda Pop collection!
We had the pleasure of shaking a few of your hands at Spiel 2023 and some of you even managed to see the pre-production copies of the Soda Pop cans!
In this update, we bring a few photos for you to see while the production is ongoing. Hopefully, we will have the games next month and we will start the freight process.
We received the photos of the fridge and the packing (we will receive the physical box soon). We are very happy with the result. This will be a very limited and memorable piece of our history.
We also have the final look of our stretch goals unlocked. The coasters are just perfect!
A few add-ons also showed up. Many of you got them and we hope you are pleased with them (golden caps are not in these photos as we had a revision to make)!
Finally, Get Salty was a game we gave for free to all our returning backers, but that was also available as an Add-on! Here is how it looks!
Thank you so much for your kind patience and support towards this project. You will be proud of what you’ll be receiving.
We hope you are doing great and thanks for your patience while waiting for this update.
We are finally in production of the Soda Pop collection. Right now while the manufacturer is working
on the last few details to start production on cans and components, the molds and tooling for the stretch goals are being produced (which takes around 30 days). The production process will last around 45 days but we believe it will start before the molds for the stretch goals are done. After that, we have an assembly time of around 2 weeks and it will be ready for freight.
This means the games won’t be delivering in October but we hope you will have it before the end of the year.
Fridge Box packing
The fridge box is a great memorabilia that is being printed in very limited quantities! This box will contain all your cans and stretch goals for the games. Here is a short video on how we are going to assemble them. Some things might change slightly along the way but we are almost there.
Stretch Goals Rules
To make it easier for everyone, we have created a separate rulebook with all the different modules you have unlocked during the campaign.
If you are curious to read more about the stretch goals you have unlocked, click the button below!
Translated rulebooks
You will all receive an English rulebook inside your games, but for the ones that requested it, we are adding an envelope with all the rulebooks in your language of preference, including the stretch goals rules that you can read right away! For all the localized rules, please click the button below!
This is it for now, and you will hear from us next month.
We really would like to close down the Bazaar in order to start production as all the files for the games are ready to go.
We still are waiting for confirmation from 500 backers (70 of these still need to add their payment information, and the rest just shipping and any add-on of their choice).
The Thundergryph Bazaar is almost here! Here is a short description of how to access it:
1. Good news! Backerkit has approved our pledge manager (Bazaar) and we are ready to go. 2. We launched our Smoke Test yesterday and 5% of you have received an invitation link and have now completed your pledge. We will be following the surveys closely to make sure everything is working as intended, before launching it to everyone. 3. On June 1st we will email everyone with your access to the pledge manager (Bazaar)
Here is everything you will be able to do in our Bazaar (pledge manager):
See you all soon, and if you have a question, drop it in the comments!
Sincerely yours, Everyone here at Thundergryph Games
We really appreciate your support and we sincerely thank you for your trust and patience while we were working on this collection.
A couple of months ago this campaign ended and we started working on the different games and logistics to make sure we meet our expectations for this line and our estimated deadline of delivery for October 2023.
Soda Pop Collection rulebooks
Alongside Jonathan Cox, we have written and revised the final rules for each of the games, including Get Salty and a small compendium of the rules modules for all the Stretch Goals unlocked during the campaign.
Rules fit in a foldable small piece of paper that will be found inside your Soda can. If you are picking any other language in our pledge manager from the ones available (French, German, Italian, Spanish) you will receive your rules in a small paper envelope along with your games.
If you are curious to read and see how the games work, please click the button below!
Development, packing, and logistics
We are preparing everything way in advance of fulfillment to make sure the process will be as fast as possible. If you bought the fridge bundle, you will receive everything inside your fridge box (the games, the stretch goals and the coasters). If you are picking any other language in our pledge manager from the ones available (French, German, Italian, Spanish) you will receive your additional rules in a small paper envelope along with your games.
If you have backed just a single can, we will be offering the packaging that we will be using for the retail release. The stretch goal for your game/games will be found inside your shipping box along with the games.
This time around we did a lot of quality checks before running the campaign, but a couple of components had to be revised in order to be completely satisfied with them.
The first one we are still working on is the metal caps for Top Cap, which are classic bottle caps. We might create a new mold to make sure the bottom part of the caps is flat and not wavy as it is now. That way it will slide with much more ease and we will make sure it will pass all safety tests. This won’t change the look of the component as we have shown in the campaign.
The second was the cubes in Light Seeker. Printing full-color edge-to-edge is a very difficult task, and if you have seen photos of our pre-production you probably have noticed that the cubes could have part of the print peeling off from the sides. We have painted the cube in blue before printing and are applying a coating on the dice to make sure that this won’t happen. You can see the final results here!
Thundergryph Bazaar (pledge manager) launching May 29th
We want this to be a smooth transition and a fast pledge manager stage, so we have been preparing all the different items and logistics in advance of this launch in order to have a pledge manager of 2 weeks or less to start production right away after the closing time.
Here is everything you can do in our Thundergryph Bazaar
Please note that to be able to access our Bazaar you need to have a full pledge of at least a single can. We have a limited stock of many Deluxe editions, so please make sure to access them on the first day if you really want any of our past games.
We are available in this comment section to answer any of your questions ordirectly in our Discord channel where the communication flows on a daily basis!
If you have reached this part of the update, raise your hand in the comment section. Thank you very much for your time!
Wishing you all the best and until next time, take care and have fun!
We really appreciate your support and we sincerely thank you for your trust in this new collection.
The campaign is over, but the work just started. We will focus on closing down the different rules for the games and the backer freebies and we will be updating you on it. You can expect a monthly update from us with more information on how we are proceeding.
We will be launching the Thundergryph Bazaar (pledge manager) in around 5 to 6 weeks.
In the Bazaar, you will be able to pay for shipping and add anything else you may want from the Soda Pop add-ons or past deluxe editions.
We don’t want to say goodbye without breaking our tradition of the last campaign gift for you!
Illustrated by our dear Paolo Voto, we are unlocking a new coaster for your Fridge Bundle in all our Thundergryph style! We hope you’ll like it.
Thank you again from our team for your kind support!
We are in the last 48 hours of the campaign and we really appreciate your support towards making the Soda Pop collection a reality! If you are thinking of jumping in and being one of the early supporters of this collection, this is the best time to do it!
Challenge the team - Special live stream!
If you want to share with us the excitement of the last few hours, tune in today, 15th March 2023 at 16:00 EST - 21:00 CET for a chance to play against us and to win a few awesome add-ons for your game!
Survey Add-on winners
Furthermore, we would like to share the winners of the previous contest update. Thank you so much to over 600 of you that answered our survey.
Congrats to the winners who will receive a free add-on of their choice from a selection of items!
Yoshun
Jimmy Parker
adam
Lilith
Bajazit
Brittany Riles
Tabletop Games Blog
Eli B
Cary Harrison
Chris
We will be reaching out to the winners by e-mail when we launch our pledge manager.
Thanks for reading this update and talk to you soon!
We have 10 days to the end of the campaign and we really appreciate all of your help and support so far! Almost 7’000 cans have been backed and 7 freebies added to your favorite games or fridges!
Soda Pop Survey
We would love to know from you what you think about this collection and the overall campaign experience. By answering this quick 3 minutes survey you will be helping immensely!
Be sure to leave your name and email address at the end of the survey to participate in a special add-on drawing! 10 winners will be able to pick one of these add-ons for free. Thank you for your time! We will be announcing the winners on March 13th, 2023 in an update.
Soda Pop Live Streams
During the campaign, we have planned many live streams shows for you to see live, or afterward by clicking on the corresponding stream.
You can quickly visit the live stream section by clicking the button below and see some awesome Soda Pop gameplay sessions in action!
Backer Freebies
These 7 freebies were unlocked and there are a few more to be discovered!
It feels so good to be back with another crowdfunding campaign and seeing so many familiar faces makes us so happy, especially since we are launching the project on a new home. Thank you so much for your kind support!
It’s time to reveal the backers' freebies!
If you are a crowdfunding veteran, these are the stretch goals you know and love.
Backers’ freebies are gifts that we will add to your pledge for the games you backed. They will be unlocked during the campaign, depending on the total funding milestones we achieve.
We will be updating this project with more information about the freebies and surprises along the way!
Thank you so much for trusting us once again!
Sincerely yours, Everybody here at Thundergryph Games
