It's official, Terra Prime has been published! I started working on that game 3 years ago right here at BGDF, and at 6pm last Thursday 12 boxes of it arrived at the Tasty Minstrel booth at BGG.con!
I almost didn't notice, but looked up just in time to see the first copy being sold. It felt pretty good! An hour later I ran a Winner Cleans Up event, and 16 people participated. From what I could tell, just about everyone who played the game all weekend really seemed to like it!
Now THAT's what makes designing games so worthwhile - I cannot describe the feeling of joy and pride I got when someone would go out of their way to come to the Tasty Minstrel booth for the express purpose of telling me that they played Terra Prime and really enjoyed it.
If it weren't for BGDF, Terra Prime probably wouldn't exist, so I would like to tip my hat to all of you as a community (even if you weren't around 2 or 3 years ago). And as a further "thank you" to BGDF, if you happen across a box of Terra Prime, check out the back and look for the BGDF logo (as well as a mention in the Credits section of the rulebook)!
Sorry if this sounds like I'm gloating, I am just really excited that my game is out there!
- Seth
The preorders will be coming soon. Unfortunately, before they're sent out we're going to have to check each box of Homesteaders to make sure it's got the right punchboards. It turns out that on some boxes (about 10% so far) they screwed that up.
So that means flying to Atlanta, opening and checking 2000 boxes (and while we're at it we might open TP as well), add silica packs to address complaints of dampness, then re-shrinkwrap the games. Fun!