Exploriana - The board game of exploration and discovery.

The final stretches!
over 5 years ago – Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 05:46:40 AM

This update sees us very close to the line, and we're really excited about how the campaign has gone! With this in mind, we're unleashing the final four stretch goals for Exploriana, and we're really happy with these ones!

Just a reminder that deluxe copies get all the stretch goals available for the standard game as well!

Standard stretch goals!

16K - Wooden Lost Explorer tokens and alternative lost explorers

We'll be upgrading the usual lost explorers to wood instead of cardboard, and because 16k feels a really nice figure, we'll also be including an alternative set of lost explorers! Instead of just being worth straight up points, these will have various abilities, reflecting the explorer you rescued! They might count as a wild orchid, or even be able to get you out of a scrape later in return!

20K- Scorepads!

At this amount, we'll be adding a scorepad to every copy! This will make it a lot easier to score up quickly, and should add some tension to the end of the game! Which of you will be the ultimate patron of exploration?

Deluxe Stretch Goals!

175 deluxe pledges - Wooden Alternative Lost Explorers

Deluxe means deluxe! At this pint, we'll upgrade both sets of lost explorers to wooden tokens, with screen printing. 

200 deluxe pledges - Exploriana Art Book

We're really excited about this one! This will be a full colour book, with all of the artwork from Exploriana, and interviews with Miles Ratcliffe and Richard Dearing, our designer and artist! We'll also be making this available as an add on as soon as it's unlocked! We'll also be including some interesting little facts and info about the animals and places of Exploriana!

We hope these are getting you guys as excited as we are, the graphics will be going up on the main page soon! 

We're also going to be releasing our translations soon! We'll be releasing Spanish, German, Italian and French versions of our rulebook on our website after the campaign, and they'll be available for free download. At the minute, our website re-directs to this campaign, but once it's finished, we'll be back at explorianagame.com!

Thanks for all your support, we're almost there, so keep sharing the campaign, and we'll do our best to unlock some of these stretch goals for you!

Cheers, Dicky

Not Long Now!
over 5 years ago – Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 08:50:19 AM

We've hit 14K!

We've gone and done it! Thank you to all of our backers for bringing us to this point! We've just had an excellent little meeting to discuss the final stretch goals and will be able to reveal the final four goals tomorrow! 

Until then, have a wonderful evening, and keep exploring!

72H and 14K!
over 5 years ago – Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 02:42:49 AM

Both figures are on the horizon! 

First of all, a massive hello, welcome and thank you to all of our new backers and followers from Dragonmeet! We absolutely loved getting to wax lyrical about the game, and showing off. The discomfort of my safari suit in that hot hall soon wore off as I got to talk to you wonderful lot! 

We're getting close to the end now, so any shares, re-tweets, word of mouth, or even taking the print and play round to your nan's house is greatly appreciated! We at Exploriana HQ are officially giving you permission to talk about the game obnoxiously for the next three days, because that's exactly what we'll be doing! 

14k brings us linen printing with each printed component, which I know some of you have been vocal about in the comments! It's looking like we'll definitely get that for you, so very excited about that!

Happy exploring, Dicky!

Risks, Rewards, and Mini Expansions!
over 5 years ago – Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 06:02:06 AM

We're so close to 13K, and whilst that number may e unlucky for some, (including me) all of us at Exploriana HQ are swiftly getting over our superstitions! In this update, we're going to talk about two mini expansions, and one deluxe one! 

Guiding Plight

The guides are an integral part of Exploriana, blocking hazards for a small price. The trick is that you can only use them once per round, flipping them over once you've used them! In Guiding Plight, the guides are a bit more fickle... with each GP card, the guides flip automatically, so you'll have an extra element of risk when deciding when to use your guides, and which region to place your explorers! With the possibility of more than one GP card coming out in one round, anything could happen!

This expansion is already unlocked, and the next one is only a couple of pledges away!

Lost in the Shuffle

In this expansion, news reaches you of great upheaval in one of the regions, namely, huge weather events! Tsunamis, Twisters and there must be another beginning with T? Anyway, these calamities churn up this region, before letting you see the aftermath. Shuffle the available cards back into the region deck of your choice before drawing two more. There's no guarantee you'll like the results, but it's a good chance to get rid of some hazards, or switch up a region you're not exploring that looks a little too easy!

This will be our sixth and final mini-expansion, and to mark this, we'll be including a little extra with this stretch goal! Unless you're a seasoned campaigner, we don't recommend playing with all six expansions at once, so we've included a good way to randomise which you're playing with! The custom die that will be include will allow you to fairly pick which expansions you'll use in the blink of a die! 

Risks and Rewards Expansion

This is something we've not really gone into, so I wanted to clarify something here: The Risks and Rewards expansion is included in the deluxe game. We've noticed that a few of our deluxe backers may have included it as an add-on where there was no need, and we don't want to have anyone out of pocket for no reason! 

Included in the R&R expansion are six reward cards, and two custom dice. The rewards will go to those who have collected the most of a certain kind of card. 

• The Royal Society's Rescue award - Player with the most Lost Explorers
• The Royal Society's Zoological award - Player with the most Animals
• Bond from the Bank of England - Player with the most Money
• South America, Africa, and the Far East - Player with the most cards from that region.

The two custom dice add a rescue dice - which allows you to roll it whenever your explorer would become lost. With symbology in mind, the six sides for this die are as follows:

• Your explorer is safe. Take one card from the region. Do not shuffle region cards or place lost explorer token.
• Gain 2 renown
• Gain 2 coins
  
• Does nothing
  
• Put an extra lost explorer token at the region
  
• Take a lost explorer token from the supply

The other die is a novice guide, they're trying hard, but they're not always going to get it right! They're a little cheaper at only 1 coin, but a bit risky! - 

• Cover any hazard
• Cover a rockfall  
• Cover an animal attack  
• Cover a wrong turn  
• Put a card from the region to the bottom of the deck
• Does nothing

Hope you like the sound of these, and looking forward to seeing some of you at Dragonmeet on Saturday! Check out www.dragonmeet.co.uk for more details! Also, Don't forget to check out Board Game Revolution for our competition which closes in a couple of days!

Thanks, Dicky

We have a winner!
over 5 years ago – Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 08:08:27 AM

Two weeks left to go! We've been loving the campaign so far, and are excited to see where this fortnight takes us! Keep the comments coming in, and let us know how you're getting on with the Print and Plays and Tabletopia!

In other news, we've counted the votes, and the results are in! Fire was the winner by quite a margin, and we'll get started on the designs for the real thing right away. I'm excited to see what Richard comes up with! 

 We're only three deluxe pledges away from unlocking a mini for the chalice, so if you were tempted, now would be the time! 

Next up as the standard stretch goal is the Red Herrings mini expansion! When these cards get drawn, you can cover up an already drawn card. It will block the hazards of that card, but it also means you can't take it as one of your picks. The illustrations for these are ones we're really excited by! Imagine getting to a treasure's location that you've researched for years, spent months trekking to get to, and then finding a fake left in it's place! You've been beaten to the punch and made a figure of fun! On the plus side, all the booby traps have already been set off, so no hazards here! 

Hope you're enjoying the campaign as much as we are, Dicky