A 2nd Edition of the drafting, set collection, and hidden identity game for 3-8 players.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Last Chance for Our Next Social Deduction Creation
almost 4 years ago
– Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 04:37:23 AM
Constables!
As your areas begin to open up and you start playing games again, we hope you don’t forget about New Salem! What a great way to get back together and clear away some despair. Plus, Halloween will be here before you know it, so you need to make sure you’re ready.
We wanted to stop by to let you know that we’re into the final hours of our campaign for the latest expansion to our award-winning social deduction game, Good Cop Bad Cop! In this one, your heroism and cunning in one game may get you promoted in the next. We hope you take a look!
Stay safe,
Clayton and Brian
Designer Diary
over 4 years ago
– Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 06:20:28 PM
Happy Halloween Constables!
It's been awesome seeing so many pictures on social media of everyone enjoying this game. If you haven't posted pictures, Halloween is a great day to do it! You can tag us on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook while you do it so we can like/share too. It has also been amazing to see so many of you join us on the Zorro campaign too!
If any of you still don't have your reward or you have any other questions, you can email [email protected] or send us a Kickstarter message and we'll get to the bottom of it.
Designer Diary on Drafting
If you want to know more about the game design decisions that were behind the rule changes between 1st and 2nd Edition, like why we stopped rotating drafting direction or why we changed it so cards were flipped face-up immediately after drafting, you can read the designer diary about it on BGG.
New Salem Rules in French Update
Chuck Norris found a typo in the French rules in the Resolving Trials section where it didn’t say that you add 2 Despair cubes to the town for each Puritan on trial. The amazing translator Julien has corrected that right here.
Rating
If you want to help more people find this game, you can rate it in either of these game pages:
The more attention this game gets, the more reason we have to keep expanding it so there's some selfish reasons for you to rate it too. :)
If we were to do another expansion, what would you like to see in it? Let us know in the comments!
Be safe out there tonight... the witches will blend in more than usual so they will be even harder to detect!
-Clayton and Brian
The Zorro Dice Game Launches
over 4 years ago
– Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 01:36:51 PM
Constables,
Most of you have your games by now and, if you do not and you aren't already in contact with us, let us know through a Kickstarter message or emailing [email protected].
Today we just wanted to let you know real quick that we launched a new campaign for The Zorro Dice Game in case you want to join us for that one as well.
We'll keep updating you on New Salem as we have much more news to come on it.
-Clayton and Brian
Overworld Games Becomes PULL THE PIN GAMES
over 4 years ago
– Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 08:25:53 PM
Constables,
As we eluded to in our previous update, we just announced some big news: We are changing our companyname from Overworld Games to PULL THE PIN GAMES. Each game will come in a small, $20 package where you'll literally pull a "pin" to open each box. It will be very easy to learn and support a lot of players so everything about it will make it easy to get it to the table.
Our first game with this new box style is Good Cop Bad Cop 3rd Edition, which comes out in stores October 30th. Our first Kickstarter game with this new box style will be The Zorro Dice Game, which will launch on October 15th. In order to change our name on Kickstarter, they are requiring that we post this announcement on every campaign we've ever launched, so we apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this in your inbox over the next few weeks... but we'll also use the opportunity to give you the latest news about that particular campaign while we do it.
So why change the name? Well, New Salem and other "bigger" games we've made are a lot of work. It's so hard to get every little card and component just right. We both (Clayton and Brian) have full-time day jobs and do this as a hobby so bigger games just take more time than we realistically have available. There is also a lot more risk involved in bigger games. They require more up-front funding because they cost so much more to make and ship. Plus, we've proven with other games in the past that we can pack a ton of "game" into a small package -- so we're going to keep doing that moving forward.
That means New Salem 2nd Edition is our magnum opus. The masterpiece we've been working on for so many years and the last large box game we'll ever make. We are so proud of this game and are so excited that all of you are about to experience it now. And this re-branding doesn't mean we will stop supporting or expanding our bigger games at all. As long as the sales justify it, we will most definitely make more expansions. However, they will all come in a smaller box and probably cost somewhere around $15. Low cost and high value is just our new style -- so get used to it. :)
All the Things Packaging
And now for some terrible news. We have received some reports from some backers of the All the Things level that their rewards were shipped WITHOUT A BOX! We are mortified about this. The offending packages were shipped from a fulfillment company in China called China Division, which is bewildering because they were gave such clear instruction about how these must be packaged. We normally don't call out a specific company like that, but these are extenuating circumstances.
When we described the packaging we needed to ChinaDivision, they even made us pay extra for the boxes and corner protectors so they could fulfill our requirements. But even then, we still wanted to double-check that they understood what we needed so we sent ourselves test shipments, as we mentioned in previous updates, and those were packaged brilliantly. On top of that, it took over 2 weeks from when we ordered these before they shipped them because they told us they were waiting for customized boxes to arrive. But that's not all. We even put as a comment on every single order that they must all have corner protectors, bubble wrap, and must be put in a cardboard box (these boxes are known as "cartons" in China). What more could we possibly do?
To those backers who are affected by this, we are incredibly sorry. We know now not to ever use China Division again, but that doesn't help you or the disappointed feeling you had when you received them. If you do/did receive games with damage, please send us a picture to [email protected] so we can work with you on some kind of resolution.
Top 5 Tips on Re-Launching a Kickstarter Campaign
If you have any interest in reading about how we tackled re-launching New Salem2nd Edition after a failed campaign, you can check out this article that Brian wrote about the process on Board Game Business to try to help future creators who are faced with the same challenge. For many of you, it may be pretty dry and it has a lot of "inside baseball," but I bet some of you will find it interesting.
That's all for now,
Clayton and Brian
All Rewards Have Shipped!
over 4 years ago
– Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 02:00:08 AM
Constables,
The time has come. The witches are among us. Many of you have already received your reward, and if you haven't, it is about to arrive. If you haven't received it or a tracking number by tomorrow, let us know through a Kickstarter message or emailing [email protected].
Assembling the Constable
We’ve had a few folks indicating that assembling the Constable has been a bit challenging, so we highly recommend you watch this video as you assemble it to avoid damage.
The most important thing to keep in mind is that the chipboard has a flat side and a rounded side to it. You want the top of the "base" that the constable statue sits on to have the flat side up. So that means you are pushing all the chipboard pieces of the base through the rounded side of the slots. If that doesn’t make sense, the video has a visual reference here at 3:53.
The Secret Is in the Bubble Wrap
One of our early recipients almost lost a couple items because they were folded into a different layer in the bubble wrap so, even though your anticipation may compel you to feverishly rip open the shipping package, marvel at the game, and throw away the rest, try to restrain yourself and look through all the layers of packaging to make sure an event pack or meeple pack doesn’t accidentally get discarded. Thanks for the heads up, Sarah!
Upgrade Kit Backs
One of our Upgrade Kit backers noticed a difference in color brightness of the backs of their Building cards that we wanted to address. We used the same manufacturer, same card stock, and same image file for the back, but with 4 years in between print runs and other variations in the manufacturing process and machinery, it may not be a perfect match. But if you do see a difference, once you put the cards in any kind of sleeves, even transparent sleeves, any difference shouldn’t be noticeable. And even if it is, there won’t be a meaningful impact on the gameplay, especially with the new drafting rules in 2nd Edition where you flip each card immediately after you draft it.
Still, if you are not a sleever and/or you are still concerned about any differences in your Building backs, send us a Kickstarter message or email [email protected] and we will find a solution because we want you to be completely satisfied with your reward.
All the Things Meeples
Since we last talked about this many months ago, we just want to remind our All the Things backers that they will receive 2 packs of New Salem meeples instead of 1 pack of those and 1 pack of Barker’s Row meeples. This will result in more variety of meeples for you, so even though it's different from the campaign page, it's actually better for you. More info can be found in this update under the section "The Meeple Mixup for All the Things Backers".
You can check out some strategy tips for New Salem 2nd Edition on the Show Me How to Win channel:
Lastly, you may have heard about some exciting company news from us, but this is already a chock full update so we're going to post about that in a separate update.
