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Gartenbau 🌻 💐 🌸 🌹🌺🌼

Created by Chad Elkins

Collect seedlings, purchase plants, & grow flowers to earn the title of Gartenmeister in this beautiful Victorian themed tile game.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Exciting Gartenbau News
11 months ago – Thu, May 04, 2023 at 07:33:50 PM

Greetings Gardeners! I hope your spring gardens have been in full bloom. 

I wanted to share some exciting news about the game. Gartenbau recently received the Mensa Select Award for 2023, which was only given out to five games. It won alongside these other terrific games: Akropolis, Boop, Mille Fiori, and Trekking Through History.

Gartenbau took a winding road to get here, including multiple KS campaigns across Fisher Heaton and with 25th. This game would not have existed without your support. And without your support this award would not have been possible, helping introduce this game to new audiences. I just wanted to say again, thank you. It truly does mean a lot that you backed this campaign. 

I heard some feedback after the release of the game that some folks wished it was easier to see the resource values on the game board if you were on the opposite side of the table. For those of you who feel this way, I wanted to offer a solution. I had the factory print a set of stickers of each resource set, including the set that splits the fold seam (those two stickers are pre-cut into halves). 

You can order the sticker sheet from our website and I have them up there at no cost to you. There will be a $1 shipping charge to help offset some of the envelope and stamp costs (free shipping for it if you order with other items). 

This is what they look like and you can place them on your board to help with that visibility. You can put them anywhere you like, but one option which works well is the interior side of the tile stacks on the petals. 

Other 25th Century News

Late pledges are now open for our triple set of color themed games: Agueda, Color Field, and Donut Shop. If those look interesting to you, the support would be awesome to have. 

Our next KS project will be another PNP roll and write game designed and illustrated by Danny Devine called Roll on the Range. The notification page is up and you can follow along for when we launch soon. 

That's it for what I wanted to share. Thank you for reading the update and I hope you are all enjoying Gartenbau. Have a wonderful weekend. 

- Chad E.

Fulfillment Complete
about 1 year ago – Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 09:26:49 PM

Greetings, Gardeners. 

Just a quick final check in to say that fulfillment finished up last month and that closes out this project. I know some of you had a bit of a wait due to some inventory that went missing and we had to get replacements sent to the fulfillment centers. So I thank you for your patience. There will be no further updates regarding fulfillment statuses. 

If you have component issues or need replacements, please use the contact form on our website

If you've received your game and share on social media, please be sure to mention 25th Century Games so I can see your photos! If you've been able to play the game already and have an account, please consider rating it on BGG.

As always, thank you for the support and let me know if I can do anything to assist or if you have questions about Gartenbau or our other titles.

- Chad E.

Next Kickstarter Coming Soon

Our next Kickstarter campaign is coming soon (targeting the end of the month) and will feature three very fun games: Agueda City of Umbrellas, Color Field, and Donut Shop. The follow notification page is live and I would appreciate you giving it a follow so you can be alerted when we go launch. I think you'll really enjoy these approachable and beautiful games. Here are some pics of the prototypes.

Fulfillment Update: Latest News on Remaining Items
over 1 year ago – Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 09:37:50 PM

Season's Greetings, Gardeners. 

Checking in to provide the latest news on the remaining unfulfilled shipments as of today. 

US/CA/RoW: Complete. If you have not received your tracking and/or items, please send a note to [email protected]

UK: Little slow getting through customs thanks to other items in the container we were comingled with getting flagged. Good news is that Zatu did receive everything last week and I was told everything should be packed up and out the door by the end of the week, so be on the lookout for tracking. If I get word of a delay, check the comments on this update for a new status.

EU: As mentioned last time, everything has been fulfilled except for 30 orders due to some inventory going missing. Latest status on the air shipping of those items has them anticipated to be delivered to the warhouse on Dec 23 in Barcelona. They will then take a few days to move over to France and will begin fulfillment. I don't have answers on whether that will happen before the end of Dec or the first week of Jan. I'll send anther update once the goods are on the ground and in Surfin Meeple's hands in Barcelona as that will give them a better gauge on timing. About 20 of those orders will not have sunflower coins in them as mentioned before due to lost inventory. I don't have any more to send so I am having an emergency small run of them made. The factory is making more right now so timing on those being ready should be close to the same as fulfillment starting. I will be mailing those coins separately from the US. 

AU/CN: Complete.

Again, thank you for your continued patience. Customs has been incredibly slow and losing inventory was out of our control and not ideal for anyone. Use [email protected] if you have component issues or the form on our website

If you've received your game and share on social media, please be sure to mention 25th Century Games so I can see your photos! If you've been able to play the game already and have an account, please consider rating it on BGG.

Next Kickstarter Coming Soon

Our next Kickstarter campaign is coming in the first half of Q1 and will feature three very fun games: Agueda City of Umbrellas, Color Field, and Donut Shop. The follow notification page is live and I would appreciate you giving it a follow so you can be alerted when we go launch. I think you'll really enjoy these approachable and beautiful games.

I wish you all a safe and happy holiday.

- Chad E.

Fulfillment Update: Nearing Completion
over 1 year ago – Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 02:42:52 AM

Greetings, Gardeners.  

I hope everyone is having a great weekend and for those in the US, a happy Thanksgiving. Here is an update with the latest on the various fulfillment centers: 

US/CA/RoW:  PSI shipped most of the orders at the end of the week before the holiday, but will be finishing up early next. If you haven't received your tracking (or possibly even your shipment already depending on your location), then you should see it in the coming days. 

UK/EU:  All fulfillment is now complete in the UK except for a handful of orders. You should have received an email with tracking and highly likely your package already or in the next day or two. The few orders which have not been sent in the UK are all of the orders containing the wooden wheelbarrows. Unfortunately, there was an issue with some of the inventory and it's gone missing, this included all of the wooden wheelbarrows. Still no idea how or where but it definitely sucks to have happen as it's an added expense we didn't need. The inventory was lost before the UK/EU center split-up, so all of the EU orders (about 15 of you) who ordered the wheelbarrows are also on hold. Other missing inventory impacted items for another approximately 15 additional orders. 

So that's about 5 orders for the UK and 30 in the EU that are held up due to missing inventory. I am working to get more inventory out the door this week and sent via FedEx over to the UK and EU so that they can resume processing those final orders as quickly as possible. About half of those 30 EU orders when they go out to you will be missing sunflower coins, this is a known issue so no need to let me know. I do not have any inventory to send over at the moment, so I'm having your orders processed so it doesn't hold up you getting the games, then I will mail you the coin separately from the US in about a month. 

A box of coins went missing in the US (yes more missing items...the coins are cursed apparently) so I'm completely out of them here after we wrapped fulfillment. I'm having more made but they won't be finished until later in December. Once Surfin Meeple finishes fulfillment, I will get the final list of exact backers who are missing coins and I will email you letting you know when they are shipping. Comedy of errors with this fulfillment in the EU/UK, quite frustrating but I promise everyone will get their items as fast as I can make it happen. 

AU/CN: Your fulfillment is complete. 

Again, thank you for your patience. If you've received your game and share on social media, please be sure to mention 25th Century Games so I can see your photos! If you've been able to play the game already and have an account, please consider rating it on BGG.

Other 25th Century News

Our next Kickstarter campaign is coming in late January and will feature three very fun games: Agueda City of Umbrellas, Color Field, and Donut Shop. The follow notification page is now live and I would appreciate you giving it a follow so you can be alerted when we go launch. I think you'll really enjoy these approachable and beautiful games. 

Have a wonderful week. 

- Chad E.

Fulfillment Update: Some Complete and Some Getting Started
over 1 year ago – Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 01:28:39 AM

It's been so warm in Atlanta our Hibiscus are still in bloom.

Greetings, Gardeners.

Here's everything I know at the moment on where the games are for the various fulfillment lanes:

US/CA/RoW: As mentioned before, orders with only the regular edition were fulfilled a while back. I am happy to say the deluxe tiles arrived this week in our warehouse. They have all of the fulfillment orders and will start shipping out by mid next week, some possibly going out before that. An unexpected issue arose somewhere along the way and about 100 of the wooden wheelbarrow sets were lost. Fortunately, our partner Shipshape stepped up and quickly produced another batch and expedited them to the warehouse, arriving this coming Monday. That unexpected expense was not ideal, but the good news is that it did not hold up your fulfillment.

UK/EU: Your goods arrived through customs in Spain earlier this week. Batches were sent to the UK and France for fulfillment. Those should arrive next week and will be processed out to you, so be on the lookout for tracking emails over the week after next.

AU/CN: All of your items completed fulfillment and tracking has been sent. There are still two backers who need to get their items in China. We had some damages and didn't have enough overage to complete two orders. They will be sent from here early next week so if you didnt get tracking or your order, this could be why. Contact me either way to be sure nothing else is wrong.

Home stretch everyone! Thank you for your patience. If you've received your game and share on social media, please be sure to mention 25th Century Games so I can see your photos! If you've been able to play the game already and have an account, please consider rating it on BGG

Other 25th Century News

We have a new card shedding game coming out Nov 30th and it's available for sale now on our web site at a $5 off pre-order price called Oh My Brain. It is designed by Bruno Cathala and Theo Riviere.  

We also just received reprint stock for both Three Sisters and Kohaku, which sold out very quickly when released earlier this year. Don't miss this new run for two great games.

Thanks everone! I'll be back in touch in a couple weeks with a revised fulfillment update. 

- Chad E.