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Cartography Featured in Game Night Magazine

What does a tournament Go player think about Cartography?
The Game Night Magazine Review is worth a read.

http://issuu.com/gamenitemagazine/docs/game_nite_magazine_issue_7/22

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Cartography Compared to Go

Cartography was compared to Go on the Board Game Geek forums.
What do you think?
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1511776/reaction-strong-go-players-cartography

Please rate Cartography. I want to hear what you think.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/163031/cartography

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Birch and European Fulfillment

Birch and European backers your games are coming.

European backers, if you suspect your address is out of date please let me know. We will make sure it's up to date but we should be shipping out in the next few days so don't delay.

Premium Edition with birch wood tiles should be shipping out in 2-3 weeks.
Thanks again,
Jon Adams

At long last birch is in production at full quality. In update 35 I showed you that the quality of the production tiles was much lower than the proofs. The issues have been resolved and production is moving forward. You can see the fine detail in the river.

We should be able to get these shipped out relatively quickly. I'm very excited for you to finally have these beautiful tiles.

Thanks,
Jon Adams

A Better Rule Book

Quite a few of you have reached out asking for clarification on the rule book. I've been working with Playford Games to address your feedback. I think what we have address most of your concerns. Playford Games has posted the updated rules on their blog at rules.cartographygame.com.
One of the core strategies of Go and hence Cartography is "Two Eyes". Playford has a stratagy guide in the works, but if you can't wait you can learn more at http://www.pandanet.co.jp/English/learning_go/learning_go_7.html

Four Player Games

Playford Games also posted a short explanation of the 4 player rules in the post mentioned above. You might be surprised to hear there aren't any additional rules for four player games. You should however keep in mind it doesn't matter who is surrounding a group. If a token(or token group) is completely surrounded it is captured.

Birch Production Update

I'm very sorry that the birch games have not shipped yet. In our last post we highlighted a quality control issue with the production of the birch tiles. We are still working to resolve the issue but unfortunately 2015 is coming to a close and the manufacturer has shut down for the holidays. Once they start back up we will continue working toward a solution.

Merry Christmas,
Jon Adams

Post your comments reviews and photos

It's been exciting getting your feedback as the games are trickling in. I'm really looking forward to hearing from you.

BoardGameGeek: boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/163031/cartography 
Twitter: twitter.com/CartographyGame
Facebook: facebook.com/CartographyGame

Cartography has shipped

All games have shipped out except the premium "birch" games and games destined for the EU. It is my understanding that the EU games will be shipping out after the new year.

Birch production update

We hit a bump with the birch production. The quality wasn't quite as high as the proofs so we are having those remade. As you can see the detail on the left isn't as high as in he proofs on the right.

We expect to receive those early next week and ship them out as soon as possible.

Thanks again,
Jon Adams