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Distilled (Pre-Order)

Created by Paverson Games

Craft spirits from around the world in this highly thematic strategy card game! If you missed the Kickstarter campaign, pre-order an english retail copy of Distilled, which you will receive at the same time as Kickstarter backers!

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Pre-Order the NEW Distilled Expansion *and* Follow Our Next Kickstarter!
3 months ago – Sat, Dec 30, 2023 at 11:20:41 AM

Greetings Distillers! It has been a loooooong time since I've sent a message to you via Kickstarter, but this update has two very important elements, involving a limited pre-order and a new Kickstarter page! 

Announcing the Distilled Cask Strength Expansion! 

Remember back in May, when I sent my last update, and encouraged you to join our newsletter? Well, hopefully you did, as earlier today I announced to our newsletter subscribers a BRAND NEW EXPANSION for Distilled, available for Pre-order RIGHT NOW! (NOTE: if you are having trouble w/ broken 404 links, simply go here and navigate to the Shop section, where you'll find Cask Strength).

I haven't announced this anywhere else besides the Paverson Games newsletter (go on, sign-up already - I won't go anywhere!) and now to you in this Kickstarter update, so you'll want to jump on this ASAP, as we have a very limited supply of this exclusive expansion! 

Read below for more info on this expansion, and then you can go ahead and pre-order it!

Distilled: Cask Strength Expansion

As you finalize your new year’s resolutions for 2024, I hope there is a teeny-tiny spot to still squeeze in our exciting new expansion for Distilled - CASK STRENGTH! This expansion is a small box that packs a BIG punch! 

As I write this, Cask Strength (along with restocks of everything else that is currently sold out on our webstore), is sailing on a ship across the ocean. So, if you missed out on getting those metal coins or the market playmat, now is your chance, as the Paverson Games webstore is the ONLY place you can find any of these cool extras, including the newest expansion, Cask Strength!

And boy is this new expansion rockin'. It is going to add some oomph to your Distilled game, with upgraded ingredients, a new dynamic market, and some fun new Distillery Upgrades and Flavor cards. This expansion was designed by Richard Woods, who was the developer for Distilled (and also the dev for our upcoming Luthier), and illustrated by Distilled’s Erik Evensen.

55 cards total pack into this little box, introducing cool new mechanics and features!

I’ve been describing it as a mini-expansion that brings Distilled from a 3.0 on the BGG weight scale closer to a solid 3.25, due to it including the following cool new features:

  •  Ingredient Powers: We've assigned unique effects to every single premium ingredient card in the game, allowing players to replace some or all of the current sugar cards for additional complexity and combos.
  •  Dynamic Market: We've created a new dynamic market, which presents players with more economically driven decisions that will arise and change throughout the game.
  •  Fun Flavors and Upgrades: We've added four new unique flavor cards (with a special effect!) and four new, advanced-level Distillery Upgrades to add a bit more crunch to your engine building.
A few of the cool new cards you’ll find in Cask Strength

Cask Strength FAQ’s

  •  Delivery Date? If you pre-order this first wave of the expansion, it will likely be on your table in just over a month’s time from today. 
  •  Fit in Box? Yes, this will all fit in the base game box, even if you sleeve your cards!
  •  Languages? At this time, Cask Strength is only available in English, but we are speaking with partners about expanding in the coming months.
  •  Shipping Locations? At this time, we can only ship to North America, the United Kingdom, and the European Union. We hope to be able to expand this further in the future, as we know we have fans all over the world! 
  •  Kickstarter? We chose not to run an entire Kickstarter for just a small expansion. Instead, we figured out a way to fund this print run ourselves, as a thank you to you - our fans - because we want it to be available to you as soon - and as affordable - as possible. BUT we will include this - and all other Distilled items - in the Luthier Kickstarter this coming summer, in case now isn’t the right time for you to make another purchase or add another game to your collection (just be aware that it would then be a loooong time before you’d get it - likely 2025)!

Have you Joined the Luthier Kickstarter yet?!

Are you signed up for the Luthier Kickstarter yet?

And of course, we’re not stopping with Distilled! 2024 is going to be a BIG year for Paverson Games, as we look to this summer being all about the Luthier Kickstarter! We continue to celebrate various birthdays of our patrons and luthiers, as well as national instrument days, and even plan to have a publicly available version of the game on Tabletop Simulator soon.

Tim, one of our great conductors for Luthier, at PAXU

We had a wonderful showing of Luthier at PAX Unplugged in early December, where it made a number of content creator lists for highlights of the show. We got a chance to show it off to hundreds of attendees, giving them a sneak-peek into what is in store for 2024. We had some fantastic “conductors” running Rehearsals of Luthier (that’s what we call the introductory round, much like First Taste for Distilled), including Tim (pictured above), Paul, and Houston. They taught and guided players through the first round, after which people got to try their own strategies for a round as well.

We celebrated both an instrument and a birthday yesterday!

Hopefully you’re following one of our social media channels (see below), as we are constantly posting artwork that celebrates the instruments and historical figures in Luthier, as we lead up to the launch on Kickstarter this coming summer!

So, with that final holiday gift for 2023, I’ll leave you to it. 2024 is looking to be exciting, as we roll out Cask Strength, as well as head towards our Kickstarter for Luthier this coming summer!

Sláinte,

A Final (Monthly) Distilled Update and One Last BIG Announcement- 🎨🎻
10 months ago – Tue, May 30, 2023 at 06:40:35 AM

Well my friends, after 37 KS updates over the course of nearly two years, it is time to close the books on this fantastic ride! Don't worry, I won't be going away completely, but I'll likely only send something when it is REALLY important (every few months maybe?). 

BUT, let's go out with a bang by one last BIG announcement! Let's reveal our artist for our next game, Luthier, Kickstarting in 2024. Following that, we'll provide some updates about summer conventions. Also, I've posted a few FYI and fun things at the bottom of this one as well.

VINCENT DUTRAIT will be Luthier's Artist!

The final label for Luthier, by Vincent Dutrait

Yep, you read that right - the award-winning, highly talented and famous artist and illustrator, Vincent Dutrait, will be creating all of the gorgeous art for Luthier: The Art of the Instrument. You might recognize Vincent's work from such titles as HEAT: Pedal to the Medal, The Quest for El Dorado, Robinson Crusoe, and many others! 

Vincent has been my #1 favorite artist in the board game world for some time now, largely due to the analog approach he takes to creating work. While most artists these days work mainly with digital tools, Vincent is still sketching, drawing, and painting with pencils, markers, and paintbrushes. You can see it in his work, too - the hand-crafted, thoughtful, and natural look of the work is exactly what I was looking for with Luthier, and I'm so thrilled he accepted the invitation!

Shots of Vincent, his box art, and his workspace

To celebrate this big announcement, I asked Vincent to speak a bit about his work and his life, so that you all can get to know him a bit better, and he replied with this short bio: "I have been creating artwork in the “traditional” way for more than 25 years. Hand-drawn and painted using pencils, brushes and paint on paper. Proudly upholding the history and heritage of documented, lifelike conventional art. While at the same time developing modern sensitivities and approaches to pictorial storytelling. I have illustrated children’s books and role-playing games, and my focus these days is on board games. I work with numerous game designers and publishers around the world, across multiple genres, including science fiction, adventure, mystery and supernatural, noir fiction and heroic fantasy. Over the years, I’ve added some new strings to my bow, allowing me to create the digital graphic design for many projects on which I have worked. My knowledge of the publishing world and related technical and functional skills helped me to manage and master each step in the graphic chain. Also, I have discussed and contributed to many projects from an early stage, offering artistic direction and advice, as well as helping to develop game worlds and themes. Transmitting and sharing are my watchwords."

His portrait of Beethoven, one of over 30 characters we'll see in Luthier

I was also excited about Vincent working on Luthier due to both the historical instruments and the dozens of portraits that will be found in the game. I feel these areas speak to his skillset, and it turns out also speaks to his history! I asked Vincent about what his connection to Luthier might be, either through instruments or other avenues. He answered by saying: "I have been playing piano since my childhood, as music is somewhat of a family tradition. Moreover, my grandfather used to work wood in his workshop filled with the sweet scents of honey and turpentine, creating decorative objects and furniture. Luthier is now a fantastic opportunity for me to connect these two passions that I hold dear!"

The Violin, one of over 15 different instruments Vincent will be creating for Luthier

I can't wait to see what Vincent creates next for Luthier. Additionally, we'll be announcing a second artist in the coming months, who will be illustrating the main board for the game! If you are interested in following along with art updates like that for Luthier, I would recommend joining our Paverson Games mailing list, which will provide you with art and design updates about Luthier on a regular basis (we also have some great social channels, such as this Luthier Facebook Group that you could join). 

CONVENTION SEASON IS UPON US

This summer is going to be a blast with cons, and I hope you can join me in person at some point. Paverson Games will be appearing at three separate conventions this summer: UK Games Expo (this weekend!), Origins (late June), and Gen Con (early August). I've listed a few details below, in case you're able to make it to one of them. Maybe we can get a photo or even play a game together!

At all three cons, we'll be selling the base game, plus all the different goodies and add-ons you might have received with your pledge. But maybe you never got the metal coins or neoprene playmat? Now will be your chance to grab them while they're still available! Plus, we have three different cool new enamel pins for you to show you are a true fan,  (and I'll have a limited number of Distilled T-Shirts at the USA cons for sale (while sizes last!)).

Designs for the 3 enamel pins for sale at the cons

Also at each con, our booth will have introductory short-play demos of both Distilled and Luthier, our next game Kickstarting in 2024. If you are going to a con this summer and want to be one of the first to try our Luthier prototype, be sure to keep reading about how you can stay in touch with us via our Paverson Games newsletter and social media channels to reserve a spot!

The first con we'll have a booth presence at is the UK Games Expo, happening this coming Friday-Sunday in Birmingham, UK! I'm looking forward to this con for a number of reasons, but most importantly it will be a chance to have Richard Woods (our developer) and I both be at a convention together, celebrating the hard work we've gone through over the last couple of years! If you're planning to attend, be sure to stop by the Paverson Games Stand 1-630 and say hi!

After UKGE, we'll be returning to the states for two of the bigger USA cons. We'll be returning to  Origins Game Fair from June 22-26 at Booth 822 and in August we'll be at Gen Con from August 3-6, at Booth 2753. We are particularly excited about Gen Con this year, not only because it will be our debut with a booth at this con, but we have received a Marketing Fellowship, which will allow us to reach more attendees through advertising and a larger booth!

For both Origins and Gen Con, I'll be advertising advanced demo reservations a week or so before the cons via both social media and our Paverson Games Newsletter, so be sure to like and subscribe so that you don't miss out!

MAILING LIST SIGNUP

Click here to fill out the sign-up form for Paverson Games

Last but not least - if you've made it this far, you're one of our die-hard fans and dedicated readers (thank you!). I want to personally invite you to make sure you are signed up for our Paverson Games mailing list (yes, mentioning this for like a 3rd time now!), as that will be the best possible way to stay informed about all things Distilled and Luthier! While the first  newsletter I send in a couple weeks will look very similar to this specific update, everything after that will be new, as I won't be providing many updates here anymore. So, please take a moment to make sure you're subscribed!

So that's the last, Last Call for this final regular update! Be sure to subscribe to that newsletter to stay in touch, and I hope you've been enjoying Distilled on your table!

Sláinte,

P.S. For your viewing pleasure, you should check out this cool video series that Blake Tucker, aka Dr Inkwell, is doing with Distilled and select spirits! They're entertaining and educational - just like that awesome facts that Blake provided throughout Distilled as our spirits consultant! Give these a watch and a subscribe to his channel (he'll be at our booth at Gen Con, so swing by to say hi!).

Possible Penultimate Posting to an Utterly Ultimate Ultra Campaign
11 months ago – Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 09:14:17 AM

It WAS fun, but what a ride.

What a ride this has been. 

From the Kickstarter in July of 2021 to now, we've had our ups and downs, but have tried to stay the course. There have been some stressful moments (pickles, anyone?), but overall it has been an an amazing learning experience for me as a first-time indie publisher, doing all of this from my basement on nights and weekends. Much of this was made better by all of you and your support. I couldn't have done ANY of this without you - the campaign, the process, or simply making the game itself! So THANK YOU again!

I have a few short updates, but this is likely one of the last updates we'll have, as we approach closing the chapter on Distilled (for now!). Because of this, I'll keep it brief, with just a few highlights, in case you hadn't seen some of the socials. 

Damages, & Missing Parts (+ the French & Spanish Fiasco)

Thankfully, the pledges have been delivered safely to most of you. There have been some issues with shipping, as well as a missing component here or there, and I appreciate that you've reached out about those. If there still appears to be issues, the best method to rectify this is to connect with the fulfillment company who you received the game from.  I'm re-posting those below, just like last time, as a reminder. As always, be sure to send pictures of the damaged product (if applicable), as well as the packaging material and box w/ label it was shipped in. Choose the proper channel below, depending on your region:

While most of you have received your game, we still have a few that are waiting on one final piece . Unfortunately, somewhere along the way (between China and here), roughly 32 copies of both the French and Spanish mini-expansions were lost. This is some 11th-hour bad news for Spanish-language backers in the USA and French-language backers in Canada. We have been searching for the last couple of months for these missing items (the factory insists they sent them, and have nothing left at their facility in China), but we can't find them anywhere.

So, at this point, we've decided to send the rest of the pledges to those backers, and we will send the mini-expansions later as a separate, additional package, when we obtain them. I've reached out to both Melmac Games (Spanish) and Matagot (French) to see if I can "buy back" 32 copies of my own game from each of them, and then pay to have them shipped from Europe over to North America. I'm hopeful I can do this, but is yet another unexpected cost we'll need to absorb (but is very important that we do this for our backers). I want to thank those who have been patient and understanding about this, and assure you we will continue to work to find a solution!

DICE TOWER GIVES DISTILLED THE SEAL OF EXCELLENCE!!!

Amongst all of the stress of fulfillment, something I completely wasn't expecting happened:

Tom, Zee, and Chris all rated it relatively high, and it was an entertaining review to watch! I encourage you to watch this video that's already received 20,000 views! Once again, thanks to all of YOU for believing in us! Nothing more to say on this one - the video speaks for itself!!!

Summer Con Schedule for Paverson Games!

We'll be hitting up three major conventions this summer, and hope you might be able to swing by our booth to say hi and maybe even get a picture with us! We'll have a dedicated booth at each of these cons, where we'll be demoing and selling Distilled, as well as running previews of Luthier, our next game coming to Kickstarter in 2024!

UK Games Expo, Friday June 2nd through Sunday June 4th in Birmingham, UK. This will be extra fun, as I'll be joining Richard Woods, our developer, at this big event. I'm looking forward to meeting many of our backers across the pond, many of which were some of our initial playtesters! For our solo fans, I'm sure David Digby, our solo designer, will also be at the con as well!

Origins Game Fair, Thursday, June 22nd through Sunday, June 25th in Columbus, OH. I'll be returning to Columbus with a bigger booth this year, and look forward to seeing some returners from last year swing by for a chat!

Gen Con, Thursday, August 3rd through Sunday, August 6th in Indianapolis, IN. This will be our first time with a booth at Gen Con, but we're looking forward to being at the largest con in North America! There will also be full games of Distilled running in the gaming area, so if you are hoping to join a guided playthrough, be sure to keep an eye on event tickets when they open up!

I'll have a better idea of booth location and other details next month, so I'll provide an update then about some of that, but I think badges/tickets are on sale now for all three, so I'd be sure to grab it if you're planning to attend!

So that's Last Call for this potentially penultimate regular update! I'm excited to share news about upcoming projects with all of you very soon, and hope that you've all gotten a chance to open up Distilled and see what you helped to bring to life!

Sláinte,

Time to Celebrate! 🥳🥃
about 1 year ago – Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 06:52:40 PM

WOW, my update from March 1st truly feels like an age ago. So much has happened in the last 25 days it's crazy to think it has been less than a month!

I'm here with lots of good news as we enter the final stages of fulfillment, so here we go...

The HOTNESS on BGG! 🔥

First, some good news! For those of you who use BoardGameGeek (or "BGG"), you might be aware of "the hotness". It is a chart of the top 50 games that are "trending" on BGG, and is updated daily. Well, I'm thrilled to report - that as of this update tonight - DISTILLED IS #3 ON THE BGG HOTNESS!!!!!

OMG #3 ON THE BGG HOTNESS!

 How does one get here, you ask? Well, largely thanks to all of YOU who have likely been active on BGG, giving Distilled a thumbs-up, posting a review, adding it to your collection, or contributing to one of the Distilled forums! I want to personally thank all of you for showing this amazing BGG 💗 to Distilled.

If you feel like giving it some love yourself, feel free to head over to the BGG Distilled page to check out all the cool images, forum posts, videos, and reviews - and while you're there, you're welcome to do a bit of liking and rating yourself, if you so fancy a bit of that!

BGG Profile for Distilled (yep, I stopped counting plays a loooong time ago!)

Thanks to all of you for continuing to participate in the Distilled community on BGG, Facebook, and Discord. The pictures you're uploading to Facebook, ratings and reviews you're posting to BGG, and the awesome discussions we have on Discord are so cool to witness contributing to the continued popularity and chart-climbing of Distilled!

It's Just So...Fulfilling! 📦

So, fulfillment really is happening everywhere now (and in many cases, complete!). 

For instance, I received notice from Quartermaster Logistics in USA on Friday that 99% of all games have shipped from their Florida warehouse, so most of you in the USA should have your copies (or will receive them in the next week)!

Spiral Galaxy (UK and Europe) has already completed most of their fulfillment, and things have pretty much finished for Asia, Oceania, and the Rest of the World by VFI. 

Even more exciting is that Pick & Pack in Canada confirmed that they began shipping out pledges this past Friday, which means our Canadian backers should be receiving their pledges in the next two weeks! 

Note: there has unfortunately been a few more mistakes made by Funagain (where they've shipped the wrong languages to the wrong location), so we may be looking at a bit longer fulfillment time for some of our French and Spanish backers in North America. I'm sorry this has happened, but there is nothing we can do I'm afraid (i.e. French copies of the game were shipped to Florida, when they were meant for Canada, and vice-versa for Spanish, so I am now having to personally pay for them to be shipped back up to Canada and back down to Florida...).

As always, there may be a few stragglers, so we ask for your patience in these coming weeks, as we work out the final wrinkles and kinks in the fulfillment.  As I've mentioned before, we have important ways to contact the proper people with questions 📞📧:

Has your pledge not arrived yet? Please wait until mid-April to worry - some are still being shipped and may take another couple of weeks.

Did something arrive damaged or missing? Please contact the appropriate channel below, ASAP. Be sure to send pictures of the damaged product (if applicable), as well as the packaging material and box w/ label it was shipped in. Choose the proper channel below, depending on your region:

Party Time! Excellent! 🥳🍻

As you might recall from the last update, we decided to throw a party to celebrate the release of Distilled! We had an exhibition up at our university to show the process behind designing the game, offered local pickup for some of our backers, and then got together at a brewery to celebrate! It was a fantastic time, with an amazing turnout. I want to thank all of those who showed up, as well as my friends and family who helped make it a success!

The Distilled show & local pickup at the Furlong Gallery
Erik showing someone the First Taste guide at the Furlong Gallery
The after-part at Brewery Nonic was a blast!

There were many more photos from both back-to-back events, so for the full album feel free to view them here.

Content Creators

We've started to see some unboxing videos and other pictures posted by content creators online, and hope to see many more as the weeks unfold. One new video in particular is a great tutorial created by Jon Gets Games, in which he teaches the game while playing through a couple rounds. So, in addition to the fantastic tutorial by Nights Around a Table that released a month ago, this is another one to watch before your first play! Do you have a favorite content creator? Post them in the comments or reach out to ask them to consider covering Distilled!

Also, for those who might need some guidance on how to repack the game after unboxing it, I've created this video walkthrough that will hopefully help make it a smooth re-boxing experience for you!

Well, that's Last Call for the time being. Next month, I'll likely talk more about our con schedule for this summer, as well as follow-up on the final pieces of fulfillment for Distilled. Things are really getting close to being finished!

That's all for now, Distillers,

Dave Beck

PS. It feels really good to include this month's progress chart in the update!

wow. just wow.

Like a Phoenix (or Sphinx) Rising from the Ashes... 🔥
about 1 year ago – Wed, Mar 01, 2023 at 02:30:45 PM

I'll be the first to admit it, my updates from January 28th and February 19th were downright depressing and anxiety-inducing. Pickles of all shapes and sizes 🥒, which essentially represented delays of varying flavors. I know it was discouraging for all of you, and trust me - it was even more depressing and frustrating for me!

Well, like a phoenix (or in the case of Paverson Games, a sphinx) rising from the ashes, I'm here to provide an update with nothing but good news! So let's stop dawdling and get to it!

In this update:

  • 10-4 good buddy, south bound hammer down! 🚚
  • Paverson has Pallets! 📦
  • You're ALL invited... 🎊
  • We're on the WWW's 💻
  • Like the energizer bunny... 🐇
  • Who ya gonna call? 📞

10-4 Good Buddy, South Bound Hammer Down! 🚚🚚🚛

Would you believe me if I told you that the first truck left the Funagain warehouse for QML IN FLORIDA today? It's the truth! I'm thrilled to announce that the caravan to QML has begun, my friends! Thanks to the Funagain team (the warehouse manager even came in to work this past weekend to finish it!), we are one step closer to getting you your games in the USA!

Distilled truckers have skillz

Here's some final numbers on what is heading down to QML and Florida:

  • Number of trucks: 3
  • Number of pallets: 65
  • Number of base games: 6,333
  • Total weight of all games, expansions, add-ons, etc. : 64,547 lbs.

Because it is so much, and requires three different trucks, this is actually going to take place across three different days, with the truck pickups in Indy occurring today through Friday and drop-offs happening in Florida that will end on Monday (if all goes well 🤞)!

Yes, you read all of the above right - if all goes well, Distilled will be at QML on MONDAY! Now, don't get your britches too bunched up yet, as they'll likely need a week or two to inventory and prepare for fulfillment! But there is a good chance you'll start getting address confirmation emails from QML soon!

And for our Canadian friends, I hope that this actually comes as good news as well, as it means that the next shipment to be prepared is YOURS! I'm hopeful that maybe they can tackle that next week (once the QML pallets are finally out of their way!).

Paverson has Pallets! 📦

Yep, the good news keeps on coming for this update. Next up? The Wisconsin shipment has arrived in my garage! They showed up Monday afternoon at the end of my driveway, during a freezing rainstorm. Luckily, the we were able to get them into my garage quickly, out of the cold and rain. 

In the garage, out of the freezing rain!

Thanks to the help of a few folks, including my wife Emily and our friends Bert, Laurel, Houston, and Erik (Evensen!), we made short work of it and all of the games are now sitting in my living room, waiting to be sorted and packaged up for our local pickup backers.

My living room, the temporary warehouse

And you might be asking "what if I'm a local pickup backer? how do I get my game?" Read on, my friend, for more good news...

You're ALL invited... 🎊

...TO THE DISTILLED RELEASE PARTY ON MARCH 19TH! That's right, we're inviting all 8,060 of you to join us in celebrating the release of Distilled! The only catch is that you'll need to figure out how to get yourself to lil' ol' Menomonie, Wisconsin (about an hour from the Twin Cities) and RSVP via this link.

Seriously though, I'm really excited to be finally celebrating the release of Distilled to the world, and want as many of you who are able and interested in joining us, to do so! We're planning for a couple events to happen at once, to make your weekend trip to Menomonie worthwhile:

  • A chance to collect your pledge reward if you elected "Local Pickup" 🎁
  • A chance to meet Erik and I in person, and celebrate this amazing journey together!
  • A gallery exhibition featuring Distilled at the University of Wisconsin-Stout (where Erik and I teach)🎨
  • A release party at a local brewery with live music 🍺🎵
You're invited!

Erik and I will both be there celebrating, and we'll of course be surrounded by family, friends, and YOU! We'll kick-off the day at 1:30pm at the Furlong Art Gallery at UW-Stout (Micheels Hall, 415 13th Ave E, Menomonie, WI 54751) where we have the entire space filled with our art and design work. This includes an early Distilled prototype, original notes from the night I came up with the idea, photos from numerous in-person pre-pandemic playtesting sessions, foreign language versions of the game, and even some gorgeous prints of Erik's forthcoming graphic novel, Odin: Lord of the Gallows in the adjacent gallery.  And of course, most important to our local pick-uppers, we'll have your rewards pre-bagged and ready for you to collect! Erik and I will be at the gallery from 1:30pm to 2:30pm hanging out and handing out the local pickup rewards, and anyone and everyone is invited to view the exhibition, regardless of whether you're picking something up or not! You can park for free on the road, or in Lot 29 right across 13th Ave E (see map below).

Come see the show at the Furlong Gallery!
a map showing the locations in Menomonie, WI - about an hour from the Twin Cities

Then, you can drive about 3 minutes down the road to the release party that goes from 3pm-5pm, at brewery nonic (621 4th St W, Menomonie, WI 54751). This is one of my favorite places in town to hang out because they have great beer (sorry, no distillery in town!) and is an old train station. We'll have some Distilled merch for sale,  (including the last boxes of our Distilled t-shirts 👕 and potentially new enamel pins (if they arrive on time 🤞)). Feel free to munch on some snacks we'll provide, buy yourself a bevvie, and stay a while to celebrate with us  while we listen to the live music of our friends' duo, The Haywires. Heck, you could even crack open a game of Distilled to play, if you picked it up earlier!

brewery nonic, where we'll have the release party!

While I wish everyone could be there, I know that can't be the case. But I hope that some of you who live nearby will consider joining us in this wonderful celebration. For those who can't make it, I look forward to someday sharing a conversation with you about Distilled and Paverson Games - perhaps even at a con this summer!

Remember, I ask that you please RSVP to the event via this link, so that we can know how many to expect on March 19th.

We're on the WWW's 💻

Okay, so maybe not as cool as pallets or parties, but I'm very happy to report that Paverson Games is finally official on our new website! I hope you'll check it out soon, especially if you have friends who are green with envy over your copy of Distilled - point them here! You'll notice that everything is "pre-order", as nobody will be able to receive a copy from the website until we've fulfilled the games to all of you!

check us out at www.paversongames.com!

I worked with a local design firm to make this website happen, and we had some great shots of the game taken as well. I'm very happy with the end product, and can't wait to see it scale with Luthier as well, in the future. We've got Seth's Distilled Online Recipe Generator on there, as well as an integrated Shopify site that allows Paverson Games to offer merch to folks around the world. Right now, we're just in North America, but hope to have that grow as we get a feel for the site (and get more product in the UK/EU!).

Like the energizer bunny... 🐇🔋

And I don't have too much to update on our friends in Europe, UK, and Asia/Oceania. Both VFI and Spiral Galaxy keep going...and going...and going to continue to fulfill the game. I know that some of you are starting to wonder about your pledge, but it does seem like both companies are slowly chipping away at their inventory and trying to get it to you as fast and safe as possible. 

Also, some people have been posting about seeing Distilled on retail shelves already, in Canada 🍁. I'd like to clear the air again on that one, so that people understand what is going on:

  •  USA Retail: I guarantee you that you will not see a single English copy of Distilled on a retail shelf in North America right now. Because all of those games are tangled up in the above fulfillment mess that is finally being untangled. 
  •  Canada Retail: it is likely that if your shop sells French games (looking at you, Quebec!), Distilled might be there, but again, there will be no English copies. This is because I do not have control over the release dates of the foreign languages for Distilled. This was a mistake that I won't make again, as I was unfortunately not advised properly about this when making these agreements over a year ago. But the good news is that none of those games will have metal coins, playmats, coasters, etc.! So you will still be receiving things that nobody else can get in retail! And most important of all, you have the satisfaction of knowing that YOU personally helped bring this game to reality (and paid a LOT less for it than those in retail will be!). So thank you again for your support and patience with all of this.

Who ya gonna call? 📞

I'll ring this bell over and over again for the next couple of months, I'm sure: if you receive something damaged or a piece is missing from your pledge or game, please follow these steps:

Please immediately send pictures of the damaged product, as well as the packaging material and box w/ label it was shipped in, to the following email, depending on your region: 

  •  UK or Europe? That's Spiral Galaxy Games. Send the email and pics to [email protected] 
  •  Asia, Oceania, Rest of World? That's VFI. Send the email and pics to [email protected] 
  • For USA and Canada, that will come later, so we'll just keep these two for now.

Upon receiving the email and your pictures,  they will assess the claim and send out replacements if it is justified.  

That's all for this welcome and positive update, and can't wait to hopefully see some of you on March 19th!

Let's Party, Distillers,

 Dave