Food Truck Race: A Simultaneous-play Cooking Game

Feb Update: part 1
4 months ago – Mon, Feb 02, 2026 at 08:09:14 PM

Hello Chefs,

Big news & updated timelines:

North & Central America, ANZ fulfillment, East Asia

I'm enormously proud to announce that the first games are being fulfilled in North America this week. These zones, including ANZ and East Asia are in the process of shipping now. Murmurs are that some games are arrived in mailboxes  and stoops around California today and folks are liking the way Food Truck Race looks! 

Europe & Southwest Asia

As of this morning, the boat to Europe is about a week away and will be unloaded and repacked for fulfillment around Feb 15. I hope it's sooner but I think that it's a safe estimate. 

Photos & Socials

For those of you who are opening your copies of Food Truck Race, please consider tagging @foodtruckrace on Instagram or emailing to [email protected]. If you give us permission to post your photos on the main Instagram and Facebook accounts, please indicate as much in your email. We'd love to share! 

I'll update here again in the coming weeks as European fulfillment comes into focus. 

Let's get cooking, y'all!

Gregory

Jan Update: Part 2
4 months ago – Mon, Jan 26, 2026 at 07:38:25 AM

Hello Chefs, 

I have some great news and a short update. 

Games have cleared US port and have been audited. MOCO is getting prepped to send out games over the next 10 days to: 

• United States
• Canada
• Australia
• New Zealand
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Taiwan
• Hong Kong
• Japan
• S Korea
• Mexico 
• Malaysia

The boat bound for UK is due in next week. Expecting games to begin shipping from Zatu in the weeks following. I will be sending out another update as those dates come into focus. 

Finally, with the fulfillment quickly upon us, I'll be transitioning from the BackerKit pre-order store to www.foodtruckracegame.com for web sales. That transition will happen in the next two weeks. Spare parts, components, expansions, etc will be available for sale there in Feb. 

It's all coming together now - excited to share my first game with you all very soon.

Let's get cooking,

Gregory

January Mini-Update! (1 of 2)
5 months ago – Fri, Jan 09, 2026 at 06:43:03 AM

Hello Chefs, 

Games are on boats heading to Long Beach & UK for fulfillment!

Note: If you have not cleared your shipping and tax fees on Pledge Manager, please do so this week! I don't want shipping costs to delay any games fulfillment! 

The boat heading to Long Beach are expected to land and unpack next week. MOCO (Mountain Coast) is our Long Beach fulfillment partner for USA, CAN, SING, ANZ. They will repack games and begin shipping in the coming weeks. More info coming on exactly what to look for from them. 

The boat heading to UK are expected to land on/during the first week of February. ZATU is our UK/EMEA/East Asian fulfillment partner. They will repack games and begin shipping within 48 hours of arrival. More info coming on exactly what to look for from them. 

We have about 10 folks signed up to represent FTR at Cons this spring and I'd love to add a few more to that list! If you're interested, DM or email me at [email protected]. 

I'll drop more info here in second half of Jan. 

Let's get cooking y'all,
Gregory

BACKER ACTION UPCOMING - Fulfillment Beginning Soon
5 months ago – Fri, Dec 26, 2025 at 11:35:22 AM

Hello Chefs, 

It's time to cook! Games are just weeks away so everyone needs to do a bit of housekeeping to make fulfillment move smoothly. 

🚨 Action required (soon) from all backers. 🚨

✅ On Tuesday, you will receive an email from BackerKit notifying you that you will soon be charged for shipping & local taxes. You may also: 

• Confirm your address before Address Lock (12/31)
• Update payment type for fulfillment shipping costs & local taxes (where applicable)

If you need to review your shipping address, you can return to your survey by clicking the link in your survey email or requesting your survey link under "Lost your survey?" on our BackerKit project page at https://foodtruckracegame.backerkit.com.

🗓️ I am expecting USA and UK freight to land between Jan 10-20th. I anticipate repackaging and sending out games to backers between Jan 15-30. 

Please email ([email protected]) or message me here should you have any timing concerns. 

Retailer Note

If you qualify for tax exemption, please email [email protected] directly with your completed tax exempt form. I will need to manually update your Pledge Manager settings on my end. 

As always, let's get cooking! 
Gregory

December Update!
6 months ago – Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 07:00:47 AM

Hello Chefs,

What a month... lots of tiny updates to fill you in on - what an exciting time!

Factory Update

Many of you already know this - but we selected DoFine as our game manufacturer. DoFine is a Shanghai-based company with about 10 years of manufacturing experience. Despite being younger in the space, they're hungry, excited to partner with indie producers, and building some really gorgeous games. 

The games are assembled, crated, palleted, and finalizing prep before pickup. 

Freight 

I'm working fast to finalize freight so we can pickup from factory next week and be on boats by Christmas. For my timeline-obsessed backers out there, here's the rough estimate: 

• On boats by Xmas
• 5 weeks at sea (by feb 1)
• 2 weeks reboxing Kickstarter rewards (feb 15)
• local delivery (by March 1)

We're on schedule but a bad storm or a port delay could push timelines back - so you'll get more updates from me as we get closer.

Factory Unboxing

Pardon the grainy video but this came directly from DoFine and is the final layout of the interior of the box. I hope you enjoy it! 

How To Play / First 3 Turns Update

I'm reshooting the How To Play video with the final components as well as a "first 3 turns" video to help accelerate playtime, even with Pop-Up! (the play2learn game). These will be featured on the website as soon as completed. 

Translations

Frankly, I'm behind but they'll be done and distributed here and https://www.foodtruckracegame.com/ electronically by the time games are delivered. 

Food Trick Race

It's coming along! I'm really excited to run local play-testing over the holidays here in the San Francisco Bay Area. If you're in town and want to give it a try, please message me. :) 

2026 Cons

I'm putting together my 2026 Con list. If you're interested in demo-ing Food Truck Race at a con near you next year... there's a tee shirt and clout in it for you. Message me directly and let's discuss. 

End of year 

Y'all, it's been a year. I have never been so incredibly stretched or completely proud. I hear from you nearly every week now and it's a delight. Between the IG messages, emails, DMs here - I'm grateful for you. And in this season of gratitude, I just want to say thanks. I'm glad you're on my team. 

Let's get cooking y'all,

Gregory