Updates

 Hello Everyone,

I wanted to give an update, myself and Pauli were expecting this project to be finalized as we had all the artwork and got into final layout. However, there were major unexpected issues with several pieces of the artwork that were critical to the game, and we had to have the artist redo some of it. However we did get the corrected art, and yesterday me and Pauli had a video call where we went over it and everything is now okay and sorted and approved.

We are now in final layout, Pauli is going to Vietnam on Holiday and we have plans when she gets back to go over the layout for her final approval and so printing can commence. Me and Pauli are excited to finally get this to you, and books should be shipping in January as art was the hold up.

Don 

Hello everyone, first thank you for your patience in this awesome game. As we mentioned in the update prior to this one, we have been waiting on artwork, and although the artwork came much later than we were promised, this issue is solved as we have now all of the art for the game.

Since the game has been edited, and all we have been waiting on is art, we are not in layout. This means the game will head to Pauli for her approval in the coming 3 weeks or so, and once she looks it over and approves it we will get it into print and binding.

We plan to later this week begin some fun updates, where we show you screen shots of pages of the game, so you can see how this awesome art is pairing with Pauli's awesome game. Pauli's creativity is legendary and it shows in this game. She really knocked this out of the ballpark.

Again thank you sincerely from all of us at Wizard Tower Games, without passionate gamers like all of you there would be nothing. YOU are what makes the gaming business possible.

Thank you all again, and we are close to printing and getting this game to you.

Don

We want to apologize for the lack of updates. We recently had some issues with log ins on our account and have been dealing with Backerkit to help us sort them. This has been done now.

So the updates...

1. We are on track to ship in August.
2. We had an issue with the artist, and had to get another artist who had the vision for the game.
3. We will be issuing trackers to everyone in August, and will in a week or so will be posting sneak peaks etc at layout etc.

We are really sorry for the delays, the other issue was we print and bind here, and the tariffs with the Chinese imports forced us to reset also our ability to get paper from China, and we had to move to a U.S. Supplier.

We will be shipping in August, and cannot wait to get this game to you all.
We appreciate all the support !!!!

Don.

 Hello Everyone,

So much has been happening in the past few weeks, so I want to give a huge update to everyone to let everyone know the status etc.

First and foremost, the game release, and many questions as to tariffs etc. As you all know the President unexpectedly issued a series of tariffs on several key product producing countries such as China, and resulted in a back and forth of a "tit for tat" tariff war. This impacted a lot of makers and printers of game products such as us.

However.... When faced with sudden and unexpected problems you either deal with them fast or you dwell on them with "poor me" of an attitude. We dealt with them fast, and we secured alternate suppliers that are Stateside. The only downside was that it will cause about a 3 week delay in shipping of the Stars & Sails game. Given the circumstances that we were faced with, we think this is a huge win of a response. As many makers are tossing in the towels in frustration. Where we are not, in fact we are hiring a layout and editor specialist to help us be faster and more efficient.

Secondly, we have been preparing for WizardCon, the game convention in Kalamazoo, MI where we want to have Pauli on via remote to talk about Stars & Sails etc. That has been a rather massive undertaking. But we are on schedule there.

So yes Stars & Sails is on course, yes it is being released, and NO IT IS NOT being adversely effected by the tariffs. The tariffs just caused us to rethink and source differently our supplies, that actually in the long run will be better as we will be dealing with U.S. based suppliers, and that is always a win.

So look for an update next week, once we are done with WizardCon, we will be making an update as to Pauli's appearance and also giving everyone a sneak peak at artwork and layout.

Cheers and Happy gaming to everyone!
Don and Pauli