High Frontier

A 1982 letter from Dr. Forward, that started the High Frontier project.

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Posted November 22, 2010

The High Frontier has arrived!

The High Frontier games arrived, in good condition, after a 2-week Customs
quarantine. Everything looks great. I must beg the patience of my long
suffering customers. I fly in one hour to Germany for the big trade show, and
there was not time to actually mail more than a small fraction of the games
(mainly foreign orders which are the most complicated). I have hired someone to ship things in my absence, including the orders from most of the US people on this forum (who comprise my best customers). I will also be shipping much of the EU and UK orders myself from Germany. About half of the Australian,
Japanese, and Canadian orders went out, the others will have to wait until I
return on Nov 2. Only half the distributor orders went out, but most of the
retailers. I want to support brick and mortar stores. Most of the miscellaneous orders are filled, did you know there are people interested in rocket science in Latvia, Portugal, Thailand, New Zealand, & Poland?

When you get your order, please remember that the expansion is in two pieces.
Do not throw away your packaging with the small set of expansion cards still
inside. Because of the last minute box size increase (the mounted maps were
thicker than expected, and I needed to have the expansion fit inside the box)
the envelopes are barely big enough. My thanks to DeAnna, who figured out how to get everything to fit together, and spent many hours last night packaging and repackaging hundreds of games for shipment. I am the walking dead after trying to tie up affairs at the rocket factory (Raytheon) where I work on the
exoatmospheric vehicle project, packing for a reunion with my bride in Germany, and overseeing the climax of this 30-year High Frontier project. Thank you for your support and your suggestions, and have patience and be gentle with me.

Also, I wanted to mention that I met Tory Niemann at the Tucson trade show. I
was sitting forlorn in my empty booth, since the Customs delay meant that I had not one High Frontier game to show, not even a demo copy. While Tory had his "Alien Frontier" game. I watched it being played, it really is a fun and
beautiful game, I am jealous of the artwork. We talked about a collaboration:
High Frontier/Alien Frontier. Anyway, Tory runs a small publishing firm like myself, if you are interested, visit clevermojogames.com. Mention my name, I hope for mutual support.

Posted October 15, 2010