Overcooked meets Catan! Step into the non-slip shoes of a chef - build out your food truck to plate your menu faster than your friends.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
BACKER ACTION UPCOMING - Fulfillment Beginning Soon
9 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!
10 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
November Update
10 months ago
– Sun, Nov 30, 2025 at 05:44:26 PM
Hello Chefs,
A few notes below, more videos coming in December!
Final Print:
The manufacturer is in final stages of print of all FTR Kickstarter products (base game, expansion, mini-expansion, puzzle, and all the extras). We're expecting to wrap final printing over next 10 days, then it's boxing, crating, and making seaworthy before shipping to UK and US hubs. Will have an update soon on these final stages.
Fulfillment Hubs:
We have two hubs that we'll be shipping from. I'm going through and updating final manifests for freight to hubs.
If you haven't already confirmed your pledge in the Pledge Manager, now is the time to do so!
Fulfillment Readiness:
As soon as games are loaded on boats, I will run final shipping analysis and update fulfillment costs.
The Pledge Manager will automatically ping you when all costs are finalized for shipping and handling fees for your region. This step will let you lock your final shipping address and pay for final shipping. I expect this step to happen in early Jan.
Food Trick Race:
I'm restructuring the game flow of the print-n-play after some really important playtesting feedback. I'm still committed to getting you all an advanced copy, but will need more time over holidays to finesse this new version. Thank you for your patience.
As always, I'm here to answer your questions and love hearing from you all! Please don't be shy to comment here or send me a private message as needed. Thanks to you for your support!
Let's get cooking, y'all,
Gregory
October Update 2: Unboxing
12 months ago
– Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 01:33:25 PM
Hello Chefs,
Lots to unbox, so little time!
FTR samples arrived since last update and I'm pretty happy with them! I found a few errors and have already sent along the fixed files to the manufacturer, but I'm pleased to say that this unboxing gives me enormous confidence! So I'll let the videos speak for themselves.
Unbox the shipment
Unbox Food Truck Race
Unbox Two Many Trucks
Unbox FTR Puzzle
Unbox Odds & Ends
Notes:
I found a few errors that we're correcting this week - should be confirmed next week.
I'm loving the results so we're going to run a Zoom version of the final test print, saving the project 4 additional weeks.
If we can close down prototyping in next 2 weeks, we will print and have on boats in December. This is currently on track - but as always, measure twice, cut once.
If boats in December is accurate, we're on track to begin fulfillment in Jan/Feb.
No change to fulfillment schedule yet - will know updates to timelines by Thanksgiving (next update).
Reshooting the How To Play & How To Play Pop-Up videos over the holidays with the updated prototypes.
Translations - I'm still targeting release this fall in .pdf format.
Trick Taking Game - still testing though it is coming along super well! More to come in Nov.
Not many other notes that weren't covered last month for now. As always, my door is open if you have questions.
Let's get cooking, Gregory
October Update!
12 months ago
– Thu, Oct 09, 2025 at 08:09:24 PM
Hello Chefs,
Thank you for your patience on this update. I got a little busy this month and I've been waiting on a few pieces from our manufacturer that I'm excited to share with you today.
Manufacturing Update
Long story short, we've made incredible progress on the samples. I am currently waiting for a shipping update on the digital samples (copies of game printed digitally as a test before running offset prints) as they progress from Shanghai to Oakland. This is slightly delayed as they had to run the puzzle and mini-expansion through some unexpected additional testing.
Here are a few photos of the digital prints!
Base Game
Two Many Trucks Expansion
Puzzle Box
Mini Expansion cards, sleeve protectors, stickers, extra takeaway boats.
Dual-layer details
Special Sauce Custom Trucks (not all pictured)
My Notes: this process is really wild and not as synchronized as I expected, but it is working. We had to run larger offset prints of the puzzle and the foil wrappers to test the cut templates. Turns out they work, but the samples are coming later than anticipated. Luckily, that will only accelerate our OCT/NOV production schedule as many of these pieces are complete.
Logistics Updates
We are currently on track - which is good! I've locked in MOCO for US & APAC, and ZATU for UK/EMEA fulfillments. As soon as we have games on boats, I can get more advanced trackers out to you all so you can watch the progress. Still on track for Jan/Feb fulfillment.
Unboxing & Sample Testing
I'm working on some Bay Area play-testing opportunities for live testing / streaming the game AND I'll be developing the final "How to Play" video this fall when I have final versions in hand. More to come here.
Food Trick Race
I'm running final play-tests this month and then planning to send out the print & play in Nov. It's a bit later than I hoped but I think it will be a fun holiday post-dinner game for friends and families this fall. More info on the production version to come.
Translations
Not a big update, but a fun one. I'm working to release these translations at the same time as the updated "How To Play" video. Something to look forward to this fall for our EMEA chefs.
Extra Flavor
What a process! Building a board game is very much like playing a board game. It's a huge learning curve but I'm really having fun with it.
I know this message was delayed for some personal reasons (my best friend got married and I started a new job) so I want say an extra thank you for your patience and support. I hope those fun pics at the top were worth the wait. :)
