Spoiler alert: They’re in China.

Last week, game developer Todd Walsh and publisher Mike Gnade held a live preview of their new game expansion, “Set a Watch: Swords of the Coin”. During the Q&A session afterward, they expanded on how difficult it is to print games with lower print runs or custom components in the US or the EU. So, everyone goes to China. But with world shipping in upheaval, getting the games from China… that’s an issue. Rock Manor Games had to do a Go Fund Me (it was some other fundraising site, but same diff) to raise money to get the games out of China.

So let’s find my Kickstarter games.

Playing Cats

Starting off with a counter-example: Playing Cats advertises right on top – and in its video – that it’s made in the US. Their previous Kickstarter was going to be produced in Taiwan.

Zombie Life Insurance

Zombie Life Insurance is delayed two weeks, possibly more as of last update. Well, that’s not too bad.

A quick playing cooperative dungeon crawler for 1 to 4 players, featuring a modular dungeon, epic boss battles and detailed miniatures!Tiny Epic Dungeons

Somewhat concerned about the shipping, but they built in a buffer and they hope they won’t get further delayed.

Three new series of collected comics by Ctrl+Alt+Del.Ctrl-Alt-Del collection

On a boat at the moment. Things are looking good for the US. Books stuck in a port in Australia. UK and EU are on boats.

If you missed the campaign, click the blue Lords of the Chords

Slipped to December or January, depending on how you do the math. Was originally scheduled for July. I don’t think most of the delay was due to shipping, though. I don’t know if this is coming from China or Singapore.

Heroes can’t go it alone-every Hero needs a sidekick! Tokyo Sidekick is a cooperative board game for 1-4 players from Japanime Games.Tokyo Sidekick

The publisher just has too many irons in the fire. This is over a year late and still no date on when it will get here. I’ve stopped backing Japanime Games projects.

Tales from the Loop

Game’s done, they just don’t know when or if they will be able to get it on a boat.

Mystery Dice

Their shipping costs have tripled. They are over a year late on this one. I was hoping for Christmas LAST year, then various birthdays. Christmas THIS year seems unlikely. Maybe next Christmas.

Frosthaven

Concerned about shipping, but still committed to getting the game in our hands toward the start of 2022. Should just be a year late, though it’s unlikely related to shipping.

A complete redesign of the original game of autoduelling. Car Wars Sixth Edition plays faster and includes new plastic miniatures.Car Wars, Sixth Edition

This is a year late (again, not entirely due to shipping issues). All the containers are now landed stateside, so we should be introducing this to Game Night pretty soon.

Star Trek Axanar

I have nfc what is up with this. I get lots of emails, but as far as I know, they still have not produced the video they promised by (checks) 2014. Probably unrelated to Chinese shipping, but I was going through my undelivered Kickstarters…

Megatokyo Visual Novel

Ha. Ha ha ha ha ha. Hahahahahahahaha. Okay, this also has nothing to do with Chinese shipping. But here I can assign disappointment a dollar value.

I’ll be sure to update if any of these games suddenly arrive on my doorstep.