Iberia: Kings and Emirs

Rulebook and Wooden Components

Update: The rulebook is complete! As I keep saying, it was a good document before and it is great document now. Our copy editor did a wonderful job helping us hone our language, create consistency, and bring the rulebook to a level of professionalism that I am proud of.

Everything has now been sent to the manufacture for final approval.

The only thing we are waiting on at this stage are the wooden components. Anyone who played Iberia with the prototype would have noticed that the purple city wall pieces were loose compared to the other colors. As one of our backers pointed out at Gen Con, this was probably due to a paint issue, and they were right. To provide adequate coverage, the yellow, orange, and white pieces require two coats of paint, but the purple only one. This slight difference in thickness is the cause for the purple pieces being slightly looser.

I have been working with our manufacture to solve this problem as the city walls are a key component of the game. My solution was paint everything with two coats of paint whether it's necessary or not.

The pieces are now finished, and we will have them by the end of next week. Once we receive them, we can make an assessment on where those pieces stand and what next steps are. Hopefully it is giving the go ahead for manufacturing.

New Steps: For next steps we are waiting for the wooden components to arrive along with the metal coins (photo below) and to approve all paper components.

We are a few weeks behind where I wanted to be at this stage, but this is why you build in some buffer time. At this stage we are still on track for a September delivery.

Conferences: We have had the pleasure of meeting many of you at the conferences this Spring. Getting to spend time with this awesome community gives us the energy we need to keep designing and creating great games.

Below is a list of the next few conferences we will be at. Let us know if we will see you at any of them.

Circle DC (Washington DC) - April 10th -12th

Origins (Columbus, OH) - June 17th - 21st

Consim World (Tempe, AZ) - July 10th - 18th

We hope you are all doing well and as always if you ever have any questions, please let me know!

-Sarah