A brand new, quick, and simple way to play the beloved engine-building game, Terraforming Mars!
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Status Update: Chinese New Year and more!
over 1 year ago
– Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 09:59:12 AM
Happy New Year, citizens of Mars!
Today we bring you the latest news on the progress of Terraforming Mars: The Dice Game, complete with bullet points and bolt font for extra-terrestrial emphasis:
Chinese New Year has begun, which likely means product samples will arrive between late February and mid-March.
If all goes as expected with the samples, the latest information from the factory suggests that shipping from China will begin in July. Once this process has begun, we'll be able to estimate a timeline for fulfillment to each region closely.
Considering these updated timelines, we have decided that BackerKit will remain open for late pledges and order updates until production has been approved to move forward.
If you have any questions about navigating the pledge manager, please email [email protected].
We'll be back again in the near future with another status report. Thank you once again for your ongoing support!
Update from the FryxGames Team!
over 1 year ago
– Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 04:10:45 AM
Hi all backers,
Jonathan here from FryxGames! Thank you all for joining us in this campaign. We've spent several years working out the design for Terraforming Mars: The Dice Game, and it has seen many different variants through the years, but we're so happy about where we've landed. You can tell a lot about how close a project is to being finished by the kind of corrections you feel the need to make, and for the last few months, we've only seen minor corrections in balancing and making some cards more interesting. The largest change we've made is to go from too many reference cards to a single reference sheet. While we do enjoy reference cards, there is definitely a limit to how many of them should be used in a single game, and we think we passed that limit in the Dice Game. There were simply too many different reference cards, and it became more confusing than helpful. This new design will be a lot easier to follow.
The translation process has just started. Many of our existing language partners for Terraforming Mars want to join the first print run. Luckily, this version of Terraforming Mars has relatively little text to translate, as most of the cards just need a title. Hopefully, this phase will be quick and smooth. Soon comes the nearly endless stream of pre-production e-mails and translation question e-mails before we move on to the file approval phase. But let's not get ahead of ourselves; that is still at least 1 month from now.
From the whole FryxGames team to all of you, we wish you a Merry Christmas.
Pledge Manager is LIVE!
over 1 year ago
– Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 02:54:12 AM
Happy Saturday, Martians!
We just wanted to send a quick update letting everyone know our Pledge Manager is now live! Please email us at [email protected] if you have any questions regarding your survey.
We will keep the pledge manager open as long as we can and expect to close it by the end of the year, so make sure to finish your surveys as soon as possible!
We'll be back once we have our white box samples from the factory!
Pledge Manager Launching Next Week - Smoke Test Today!
over 1 year ago
– Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 06:27:04 AM
Howdy. Martians, and Happy Friday!
It's just about time to send out backer surveys! We have decided to go with BackerKit for this project, so please check out the information below!
BackerKit Launch:
A small percentage of backers will be sent surveys first as an initial "smoke test" of the system. Barring any issues, the remainder will be sent soon after that Monday.
The Smoke Test will start today. For those unfamiliar, these go out to 5% of the backers to ensure everything is operating properly in the surveys. We will send out the rest of the surveys once we confirm no hiccups.
If you want to adjust your pledge or add on any additional items, this is your chance! Everyone who pledged No Reward during the campaign should see the option to "switch your pledge level" when you start your survey. Just click those words, and you will be able to switch.
Your payment for shipping and any additional items you added will be collected when you complete the survey.
We hope this pledge manager will be fairly straightforward, but please email us at [email protected] if you have any questions after receiving your survey.
We'll be back Monday to let you know how it went and that the rest of the surveys have been sent.
Have a great Halloween weekend!
All Milestones Unlocked + New Add-on!
over 1 year ago
– Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 12:25:25 AM
Greetings Martians!
We are down to the last hours of this campaign! Because of the community and your feedback we've been able to now include additional add-ons to better fit your gaming needs as well as continue to unlock milestones that we'll take a closer look at further down.
New STANDARD Neoprene Mat Add-On!
Today we're excited to announce an additional add-on: Neoprene Mats that are sized to fit tiles in the dice game! We heard from a lot of you that don't have tiles that you would also like this option, and now it is ready to go for you. You can add this now (see here how to manage your pledge) or wait to add it in the pledge manager.
ALL MILESTONES ARE UNLOCKED!
Through this campaign, we've unlocked a total of 17 milestones. Let's take a look at the last two!
DAY 16 UNLOCKED: Scientific Development
As your main action, collect one wild resource token and gain 1 VP immediately!
DAY 17 UNLOCKED: Thawing
Gain 2 plant resources and 2 water resources as well as 1 VP scored at the end of the game!
Sleeves
Through a new development from Essen SPIEL last week, Mayday Games will start to carry FryxGames-sized sleeves. We'll have more details on this in a later update!
Raise the Temp!
Help us get the word out by heading to BGG and engaging with the content and forums! These interactions (and clicking the thumb on BGG to like the image) raise our level of hotness. The higher we go, the more we can share this awesome project!
Here are some pictures from SPIEL and WSBG in need of your thumbs and comments to get you started:
