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Deep Madness: Madness Reborn and Reprint

Created by Diemension Games

The acclaimed Deep Madness returns! Dive back into the cult-classic co-op sci-fi-horror game for 1-6 players with a new expansion.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

What's Going on with DM Delivery
28 days ago – Fri, Mar 01, 2024 at 10:45:49 AM

Hey guys! We have some new updates related to shipping today, so let's jump right in.

Firstly, for Europe, the ship carrying European orders (MUNKEBO MAERSK) departed from Shenzhen on February 12th and is expected to arrive at our warehouse in Poland at the end of March. Once it arrives and clears customs, our partner will begin packaging and shipping the orders. We will continue to monitor the shipping progress there and cooperate with the warehouse to prepare for delivery. 

Now, for the other regions. Due to the factory's schedule, the production and shipment times for DM and our other project, Dawn of Madness, have been nearly simultaneous. They have used the same manufacturer, packaging warehouse, and shipping company. Right before Chinese New Year, we learned of a quality control issue with Dawn of Madness that led to a reprint of some components. We didn't think that would impact DM initially, but it has. Not by much, but a little. All told, there has been an additional 2-3 weeks delay compared to our original plan. 

We're so sorry for this additional delay. Frankly, it freaking sucks. Having said that, we do have concrete information on the boats now, so here is our revised shipping schedule:

POL = Where it gets on, POD = Where it gets off, ETD = when it leaves, and ETA = When it arrives. T/T = travel time.

For the Eastern US, you may have noticed we decided to go with a separate boat there after all. We went back and forth on this, but ultimately, it seemed like this would be the quickest method. However, Eastern US orders will still be packaged in China. Then, they will ship out directly to you once they've cleared customs rather than waiting to be processed and packed by another shipping partner in the States.

Addresses

Not all of the addresses are locked yet, but most are. If you need to change your address and find it locked, email me at [email protected], and I'll change it for you. As I've said before, this is the ONLY WAY I can guarantee your email will be received and acted on promptly. If you message us through Kickstarter, Backerkit, Facebook, or another email address, the chances are high that I may miss it. So please email me directly to ensure I see it and can get you taken care of.

I currently have around twenty emails I still need to reply to that were sent in February. If you're one of them, don't worry. I see you there, and I'll get back to you. If you sent your email before February (specifically before February 5th), I encourage you to send it to me again.  

Okay, that's it for this update. I wish I could say everything was already on the water, but at least we have firm dates for when everything will get out. We'll talk to you guys again soon!

The Shipping Plan
about 2 months ago – Tue, Feb 06, 2024 at 06:45:05 PM

Hey, guys! We have lots to share today, so let's not waste time and jump right in. 

First, our schedule for some regions has slipped slightly. We'll discuss that below in the Delivery Plans section. 

Next, if you backed Dawn of Madness, you will likely have seen it had a QA problem that led to all of the games being brought back to the factory to check and reprint the affected components. To our knowledge, this problem did not affect any Deep Madness components. However, the complexity of this campaign led us to adopt a schedule similar to the one we now face for Dawn of Madness. (Dawn of Madness's Wave One only has a few SKUs to worry about shipping, while Deep Madness has dozens.)

Manufacturing 

The manufacturing process is officially completed. Hurray! Here are several pictures showing its completion. 

The new core box!
A stack of new core boxes!
A bunch of cards ready to be cut.
Here are small room tiles being cut out and stacked.
A lot of tiny room tiles!
A Trial by Trolley photobomb!
A bunch of uncut room tiles.
A fancy machine doing... SOMETHING... to the little tiles!
PILES of smaller room tiles.
Larger room tiles in pallet wrap.
Cutting the punch boards.
Organizing punchboards.
Flat Endless Nightmares boxes.
The flat Monstrum boxes
The flat Monstrum boxes.
The assembled, pallet-wrapped Monstrum boxes.
A bunch of Faces of the Sphere boxes.
Countless Uncounted Horrors boxes.
A bunch of Rise of Dagon copies, ready to go.
A LOT of Deep Madness!
Some packed Deep Madness products.
Some more boxes ready for shipping.
Some Italian translation packs for Madness Reborn.
Some Deep Madness pallets ready to go.
Loading Deep Madness into a truck.
The truck is loaded!

Delivery Plans

Okay, let's discuss those delivery plans mentioned earlier in the update. We will break this down region by region, as each differs.

Europe

We will continue to work with the Green Logistics warehouse in Poland for this campaign. We have booked a ship departing from China on February 10th. Still, due to various well-known factors like the tensions in the Middle East, the vessel needs to detour through Africa, extending the sailing time by 15 days and increasing the cost. (Though, that's on us and not something you need to worry about.) Therefore, the goods should arrive at the Green Logistics warehouse in mid-March. Once they've arrived, Green Logistics is expected to ship all packages before the end of March.

US and Canada

We are cooperating with a logistics company in China that will provide us with a one-stop service. They will package pledges in China, ship them to US West Coast warehouses, and then initiate local deliveries. Their services have many distinct advantages, including fast packaging services in China and shorter shipping schedules from China to the West Coast ports. This should help shave weeks off of the methods we've previously used - particularly considering the current issues stopping up the Panama Canal and the fact that, once again, this project has an unusually high level of SKUs, making pick-and-pack take much longer at other partners we've worked with previously (especially if they already have a backlog of projects to work through.) 

However, with the Chinese Spring Festival holiday quickly approaching, we've learned many workers are taking early leave, leaving the warehouses short-staffed. We initially considered dividing the orders and sending some out to the East Coast before the Chinese New Year, as we had planned with Dawn of Madness. Still, with all the factors involved (particularly those mentioned above), we realized that it would actually take longer than just waiting and shipping it all simultaneously. It would save face in that at least some of the North American orders would have gone out before CNY, but it would have actually taken longer for those pledges to be delivered in the long run.

Therefore, we have decided to wait approximately two weeks until after the Chinese New Year. The warehouse should begin packaging orders on or around February 19th. We will continue communicating with them to nail down an accurate schedule, so expect more information in the following updates. We are sorry for this additional delay. Still, we believe the time saved with this method could actually see you get your pledges sooner than shipping them off to the East Coast before CNY.  

Asia, Australia, and Other Regions

These orders will be packaged in China and shipped to your region, just like US and Canadian orders. Unfortunately, the Chinese Spring Festival will also get in the way here, meaning our shipping partner can only start processing them after the holiday on or around February 19th. As with the US orders, we'll provide more information in the following updates.

Locking Addresses

Some of you may have noticed that we haven't locked addresses yet. The reason is that once we realized this could be the new schedule, we didn't see the reason to keep you from editing your address until absolutely necessary. So, plan for us to lock the addresses on February 16th now. If you need to change your address, you can still do that until that date. (If you need to see how to do that, see our last update here.) If you need assistance, then the best way is to email me at [email protected]. I cannot guarantee any other method will be seen, but I've been checking that inbox regularly.

Well, that's it for this update. I wish I could say that everything was shipping out as we speak, but at least it shouldn't be too much longer. Have a great week, and we'll be back with more info as soon as it comes our way. 

IMPORTANT: Production Wrapping Up! Locking Addresses Imminent!
2 months ago – Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 10:22:13 PM

Hey, guys! Well, it's taken quite a bit longer than we had anticipated, but we've received word from the factory that they will be finishing production on Deep Madness before the end of the month. Hurrah! That means we will be locking down addresses soon in preparation for shipping. 

Progress Update

As we mentioned previously, the factory has been slammed with projects recently, many of which they have been working on simultaneously. This caused the delay we mentioned previously and made it slip even further than we anticipated. However, the process is finally wrapping up, and they are getting ready to move this project on to the next step.  

We were waiting to get some pictures from the factory, but it looks like they'll take a little longer to arrive than we could take for this update. So, we'll have some final images to show you likely in the next update.

This delay does have an interesting side-effect. If you also backed Dawn of Madness, you'll get that game simultaneously with this one. Over the last few months, it seemed to go back and forth on whether these projects would ship together or not. However, the factory has informed us they will finish both games by the end of the month as they have been printing the last few components for both together. This was not planned on our part, but it does make sense why they would do this. And we are, of course, thrilled to be getting both games out. 

We will discuss the shipping process more in our next update, though we're already working to schedule boats for the regions that need them. What matters more now, though, is that we need to lock down addresses ASAP to start preparing shipments. As such, we will lock addresses on Monday, January 30th. 

How to Change Your Address

Moving soon or moved recently? There's still time to lock in your new address. You can access your survey through your Backerkit account here:

Once you're in Backerkit, click on the picture in the upper-righthand corner, then click Your Pledges & Surveys.

Then navigate to Your Surveys and find Deep Madness. 

Then, on the next screen, click to edit your address.

Next, put in your new address, then click Next.

And lastly, be sure to click Place Your Order, and you're done.

If you don't have a Backerkit account, you can also look up your survey here: 

And if you're still having problems, you can email me, and I'll help you. Speaking of which...

Emails

I have been working through emails again, but if you're concerned that I haven't gotten back to you yet (or you contacted us through a different avenue), email me at [email protected]. I'm working to get to everyone, but it doesn't hurt to make sure I see your request (especially if it's been a while since you sent it.) 

Next Steps

We will try to put out one last-call update before officially locking everything down. Then, following this (or perhaps in this update), we'll provide information about shipping progress and, hopefully, boats. 

One concern many have had is over the Chinese New Year celebrations. There is a chance that one or two of the boats will be delayed by the holiday. However, the majority should get out before that happens. Our current goal is to get everything out before the ports close down, and our factory thinks that's still attainable. 

We're entering the final stretch, guys! Thanks for your patience, and we'll talk with you again soon.

December Production Update
3 months ago – Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 11:54:11 PM

Hey guys! Happy holidays! (I hope our Jewish friends had a great Hanukkah.)

I apologize that you haven't heard from us in a while - particularly when we said we'd lock addresses last month. The biggest reason I didn't check in was that I had to apply myself almost exclusively to another project to finish it, which happened this last week. So here we are. =)  But what about finalizing those addresses? We'll get into that in the next section. 

Production Update

The game's production is going smoothly but has proceeded slower than we initially expected. The miniatures for Madness Reborn and all the reprint materials have finished. However, a few products and components are still left to finish up. Here are some new pictures from the factory:

Some freshly printed epic monster boxes.
Here are the boxes being cut.
Here's another cool angle.
The cut boxes.
Some uncut sheets of monster cards.
Some uncut investigator and monster card sheets.
And some uncut wee cards!
Boxes and boxes of Madness Reborn minis.
A peek at the minis inside one of those stacks.
A pile of uncut Madness Reborn box wraps.
Uncut Madness Reborn cards.
A bunch of punchboards.

We should have more info to share from the factory before too long, which we'll pass along once we have it. This brings us once again to the matter of locking addresses. 

There's no reason to lock the addresses until the factory finishes producing everything since we can't ship until that happens and I'm sure some people will need to update their addresses in the meantime. So, as soon as they have done that, we will send out the notification. Hopefully, this will be before the month's end, but it could slip into January, depending on how quickly production wraps up. (The factory's been really busy recently.)

Emails

I'm sure several of you have been waiting to hear back from me. As mentioned earlier, I had to focus pretty much exclusively on another project to finish it, but now that I've done that, I will be diving back into emails to get you taken care of. If you're waiting for my reply, first, be sure you emailed [email protected], as other sources may be missed or take much longer. Next, you can send me a new email to bump up to the top of my inbox, or hold on, and I'll get to you. Thanks for your patience. I appreciate it.

Okay, that's it for this update! We'll be in touch again when we have new info to share or are ready to lock addresses. (Or both at once.) Have a great rest of December and Merry Christmas!

Happy Halloween! Here are Some Rulebooks!
5 months ago – Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 05:12:32 PM

Hey guys! Happy Halloween! I hope you had a fantastic October and got to watch a bunch of horror movies. 

We have a pretty short and sweet update for you today. First, the production news: 

Production Update

We have submitted all the printed materials to the factory, and the mass production process is moving full steam ahead. We should receive pictures from the factory soon, and we'll post those once we get them.

At this point, it looks like we will be ready to ship everything in December. We will lock down addresses in November. We'll let you know before the drop-dead date so you can get any last-second changes in. As a reminder, you can access your pledge here: https://deep-madness-reborn.backerkit.com/

You can also access it via your Backerkit account: https://www.backerkit.com/c/users/sign_in

Emails

I have been laser-focused on this game's files and our other project, Dawn of Madness's final storybook. For this reason, replying to emails has suffered. However, I will be getting to my backlog of emails soon, so don't worry if you haven't gotten a reply yet. I'll get to you. If you need to contact us, you can email me at [email protected].

Rulebooks

Today, we have both the updated English core game rulebook and the Madness Reborn rulebook. We hope you like them! 

Core Game Rulebook:

The Updated English Deep Madness Rulebook

Click here to see the updated English core rulebook!


Madness Reborn Rulebook: 

The Madness Reborn Rulebook

Click here to see the Madness Reborn rulebook!


Okay, that's it for this update. We'll be back with another one as soon as we get fresh pictures or the time approaches to lock down addresses, whichever comes first. Have a great November, and talk to you soon!