I vote for Kabula, everywhere.
3 months ago – Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 09:48:10 AM

Hello everybody,

We hope you are having an amazing time and you are enjoying you copy of Kabula! Today we'll go quickly through the most recent news, and look forward to reading how it's going with you in the comment section :)

Fulfillment

By now, everybody should have their copy. 
If you don't, please let us know!

The only exception is if you are meant to receive your copy directly from us. Unfortunately GamesQuest has been incredibly slow with bulk shipments. 

Ending our collaboration with them is proving very difficult and they also lost a decent amount of games which should have been in stock. It's been a nightmare experience.

A few of you contacted us for missing parts, please have a bit more of patience with this. We'll deal with of you as soon as we receive our copies, none of you has been forgotten.

Have you played already?

Unsurprisingly, checking out the opinions people have on Kabula is like opening a can of worms :) 

Some love it, some hate it and some are just mean. Our skin is quite tough at this stage so we can focus on the amazing messages we got from so many of you. They really warm our hearts and reward us of all the hard work. 
THANK YOU  <3

If you had the chance to try the game a couple of times and are comfortable enough in doing so, for us it would be really important if you could:

• Leave a review or a simple rating on BGG (many people really care about this!)
• Fill out our survey to let us know what you liked and what you didn't like, and potentially which ones of our future ideas are of interest.

Considering the funny theme, some people may have expected a simpler game. Kabula runs very smoothly once you are familiar with it, but still requires some effort to get the basics down. 
If you had issues in learning the game, please let us know, we are always up for clarifications!
If you don't like reading the rulebook you can also check our How to Play video :)

Events

We are planning events for 2024. Those we are considering right now are FACTS in early April (Belgium) and UK Games Expo at the end of May (obviously in UK). We are thinking of Essen too, let's see if we have any copy in stock by then.

Are you planning on attending any of them? Are there other events you think we should attend (possibly in Europe)?
 

Kabula showcase and reviews

Backers and reviewers alike have taken the time to show off Kabula. We think it's just fair to repost what we find!

Our backer Chris has painted the WHOLE set of Kabula minis (pics on our own Instagram) and spoken highly of it on his podcast The Friendly Meeples Lounge. We are honored! 
 

Our backer David posted an unboxing video. Really appreciated!

Tabletop World posted a short review and a series of unboxing videos, much appreciated and great pics!

Board Game Bollocks gave a full review of the game and not a positive one. While we are open to critics (and those he brings to the IP are interesting, and will surely be considered) we strongly believe they must have misunderstood most of the gameplay...but please form your opinion for yourself and let us know if you agree! We thank them for their time in any case and the guy is always hilarious.

Lily at Play_it_solo will soon post a review and has already posted some artistic pics, we look forward to her opinion!
 

New Update Schedule

Since we are waiting on a few reviews, you can expect a new update in 6-8 weeks to share them with you. 

Afterwards, we will still be in touch periodically, to make sure you are doing well and to update you on events and big news, but it won't be monthly updates.

Thanks for all your support so far! Please let us know in the comments how you are doing and if you played Kabula already, we are eager to read your stories!

A Kabula Carol! Christmas 2023 recap- 2024 reveals
4 months ago – Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 07:42:45 AM

A Christmas Kabula

Merry Christmas all! Whether you celebrate it or not, we wish you the best of times and possibly some well-deserved holidays!

Hope you liked our comic strips, we thought of using them to show you in a direct way something of what we are working on for the next year (we sneaky bast....).

Today we'll talk about Kabula fulfillment, the good and bad of this campaign, and we'll ask for your feedback on the future of Kabula as well. But first, a short tangent in another direction: 

Our two future projects!

Scarab Sands is a simple, yet very crunchy, PvP game with scarab troops fighting inside an Egyptian pyramid to grant their owner access to the Afterlife. Playtest is in full swing through our discord channel and we'll be ready to share some graphics within the next month. We are pushing for a KS campaign in Q2-3 2024.

The other , is a campaign game we have been teasing about for a long time. It won't be ready before 2025 and we have no name but we have been working a lot on the story, character arcs and campaign progression. We want it to be a great narrative work and thought it would be very cool if the story was told through comics, instead of just text. 

But how can a poor company afford to do that?

Doing it ourselves of course :) Antonio has been practicing drawing and making panels for the last couple of months and is slowly but steadily improving. (More importantly, I am enjoying it). Below, some very early concepts. as you can see very different from the Kabula comics (which by the way was the first time I colored anything, sorry if it's a bit rough, was a very fun learning experience!)

We will release some teaser chapters and we hope to raise some hype on this new IP before launching the game. This is a lot of work, but we are extremely excited!

We hope you don't mind us taking space for these projects within a Kabula update, this is just an exception. If you want to keep up to date with them, you can subscribe to our newsletters. 

Kabula Fulfillment

The fulfillment of Kabula is almost completed, with most of you already happily with your copy! We hope you had a chance to play and enjoy it :)

Some poor souls are still waiting. This includes us, and those who will get their copies from us (unfortunately bulk shipments are processed after all the others). We also heard from a couple more...but we may be missing some. If you are are still waiting for your copy and we don't know about it, please let us know, so we can fight for you!

Kabula introspection 

This was our first game and first campaign and now that we have witnessed it from start to finish, we thought it was time to draw some conclusions on the Kabula experience so far. 

Good Things

Well, we delivered the game, hooray! And it's a game we are still very proud of :) Our backers had the best price on the market and we kept the shipping cost what we said it would be, so we are satisfied we could offer a good deal to those who believed in us. 

We included free content that was not promised: We added 2 items to the outrageous expansion, 15 poker cards in the Conspiracy expansion (10 encounters and 5 dungeons) and even added a monsters which was not unlocked in the core game. In short, every time we could increase the gameplay value without making our financial life too hard, we did it.

Bad Things

We are basically 10 months late. We lost about 5 months due to our first chosen manufacturer, and almost 3 due to GamesQuest not delivering.  But to be fair we also had no idea how long some of the steps would take us. We used those first 5 months to improve the game and get things print ready. Most likely, only the GamesQuest delay is not our fault. Thanks for your patience, we have a much better idea of the process now!

We also took a series of arguable decisions. We should have included an Item count in the rulebook, but since we have one rulebook and many expansions, we put the item count on the back of each box. Everybody got confused...also the item count for the Item cards is wrong in the boxes.

We have dials with 2 and 3 layers, and some backers noted that the pins are looser when used on 2 layers only. We had dismissed the option of having different pins, as we thought that was calling for frequent mistakes during assembly, but we could have thought of other options. For example, we could have supplied spacer rings, so that all dials were 3-layer thick, also when actually using only 2 layers. 

Overall

Overall, we have learning points for the next time but considering our total funding and the fact that this was our first project, we are satisfied. In the Survey at the end of this page you will be able to share your feedback on this too!

Kabula's Future Survey

In the Kickstarter mentality, while fulfilling a campaign we should announce we have an expansion launching next month, and try to ride the hype. We'd rather not do that, we have a lot of things to learn from your interaction with Kabula, your thoughts and your struggles. Our minds are already full of Kabula ideas that excite us, and we'll share some of them in the Survey, so you can rate them. But we have not started developing them, as we want to do that while taking in consideration your overall feedback. 

We are leaving this survey open for a couple of months: If you haven't played yet, no worries, you can still fill the rest. You can take your time to play the game and then get back to the survey again later :)

Click here for the SURVEY LINK. Thanks for filling it out!

If you have already played and feel ready to rate us/give a short review on BGG, let's make Frosthaven shake in fear!

Goodbye

This update was very long to write (and longer to draw!), thanks for taking the time to read it! Stay healthy and proud, have a great 2024!

We'll be back in about a month with the Survey results. We'll also share pics of minis painted from backers and we can have a look at what reviewers say about Kabula. 

If you want to check at early content, here you have some links:

All About Dungeons & Dragons 

 Jendersgaming 

Storks are carrying our babies!
5 months ago – Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 08:18:59 AM

Hi all,

Hope this finds you in great shape!
Today we are talking about Kabula delivery and everything you need to know about it.

This includes:

• When you will get your game.
  
• How to start playing asap.
  
• What to do if you need help.
  
• What we expect in the future.
  

Kabula Fulfillment

As of last week, the fulfillment of Kabula from the UK hub has finally started. All packages have been dispatched and we reckon most (if not all) of backers in Europe, Asia, Oceania and Africa should receive the game within 2 weeks. Some already have!

Ark Transportations is handling the fulfillment from the USA hub. They were closed a few days for Thanksgiving but will package Kabula copies from the 30th November with dispatch starting next Monday (4th December).

In short, the time has come, you should all get Kabula very very soon!!

We want you to play!

Kabula has been a huge part of our life for the last 3 years and we are super excited for the people who believed in us (you!!) finally getting it. This is where the real fun starts, and we look forward to hearing of your adventures in the world of Kabula!

Different people learn in different ways. We are reposting below some tools that may help you.

How to play Kabula - from Set-up to End-game, systematic rules explanation.

Battle Tutorial - a fake co-op scenario to get acquainted with the basic concepts.

 Rulebook 

A rulebook - you know what a rulebook is.

 Discord Channel 

Join our Discord channel - It's free and you can ask us any question directly.

Support & Box Content

As it is in the nature of things, some of you may have issues with your order. We cannot prevent this from happening, but we can make it easier for you to deal with the issue and avoid that you have to go through a third party to receive support.

If you think anything is wrong with your order, please contact us directly. Our official mail is [email protected] but you can also use our socials or Kickstarter messages, as you prefer.

Please note, the component list is not inside the rulebook (as the rulebook is the same for all packages). Component list for each box is on the back of each box.

The only thing not in the list should be the extra hero, Chastity the battle nun. If you should have received her and didn't, let us know and we'll send her your way as fast as her monastic schedule allows it!

Next update will be important!

You may have noticed that there was no newsletter last week: We are combining it with the KS update we should have sent next Monday in a single message for both platforms. We'll do the same right after Christmas and then rework a schedule for 2024.

We had to focus this update on what is going on right now. But we are working on two new projects and want to share more about them; We'd also love to work on more Kabula soon.

By our Christmas update, everybody will have received their game (either from Santa or GamesQuest) so it will be a good occasion to write down some reflections and put things into perspective. What we did right, and what we did wrong, and what our plans for the future are.

We also want to get as much feedback as possible on the game itself. We know some of you have a long list of unplayed games, waiting on a shelf but we selfishly hope that Kabula will jump the queue :) Don't postpone it. When you get your copy, set a day and go for it. You won't regret it!

Antonio, Miguel, Kyriakos, Mario, Dario.

PS

Right now, our STORE is open, if you know anybody who may still needKabula, feel free to share the link.

And yet it moves
6 months ago – Mon, Nov 06, 2023 at 11:11:47 AM

Hi everyone,

Hope you are all doing great and keeping happy.

As you may have noticed (e.g. from the fact that you don't have Kabula yet), our fulfilment is very late. 

Nonetheless, as of today Backer data analysis is complete. We cross-checked a good number of orders and gave the get go signal.

This is not a dispatch notice, but at least things are moving forward, and we see the light at the end of the tunnel.

UK Hub

If you are in the EU, UK, Australia...or basically everywhere which is not the USA, Canada and Mexico, you should have already received a mail to confirm your address, just a few hours ago.

if you are personally receiving a physical copy and did not receive any mail, please - check your spam and then - let us know immediately, so we can support you!

Please make sure your address is correct as soon as possible, as of Thursday 9th, everything will lock as it is.

You already confirmed your address with us, but this is to check that nothing went wrong when GamesQuest modified the files.

USA Hub

If you are based in the USA, Canada or Mexico, you will receive a mail to confirm your address from ArcLogistics. We do not know exactly when this will happen, as we are bound to deal with them through GamesQuest. 

Our assumption is that fulfilment from the USA hub will be smoother than from the UK, now that data analysis has completed, but please let us know for any issues you may encounter and check your spam occasionally, in case you miss their mail.

Everybody

Thanks a lot for your patience over these long waiting times, we really appreciate your support. While the game will be funny, waiting is surely not, and unfortunately, we cannot even share a timeline, as we were not provided one.

For weekly updates on the fulfilment situation, you can check GamesQuest blog every Tuesday. Next one is tomorrow.

Goodbye

Our next update is scheduled for December 4th, but since this one is very lackluster, we'll surely write something earlier if there is any relevant news.

Thanks for everything and for any question just comment :)

Newsletter
6 months ago – Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 06:27:06 AM

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