We are glad you found your way to our small website. Since our website still mainly is written in german language this side provides you with a short summary of its content in english:
Who we are:
Chili Spiele is a small game publisher from Germany run by three friends one of which is Klaus Zoch whom some of you might already know for founding the Zoch-Verlag, another german game publishing company, or some of his childrens games like "Chicken Cha Cha".
One of the main intentions of Chili is to produce good games in reasonable quality that some bigger publishers have not produced due to reasons like "too low profit compared to the costs of production" and similar. The way to do this is to cut out the profits of resellers and save it for the authors. We still do know (or hope at least) that resellers in gaming biz often are gamers themselves, but in our case: we focus on the idea of a game which means: Let there be a good game and bring together author and gamer directly.
Originally we intended to ship our games only within Germany (and in case somebody was interested within the EU as well) since we did not believe that anybody would be willing to pay for the (in our opinion quite expensive) shipping fees for sending the games to other parts of the world.
But we had to learn that there are people far away from Germany who like our games so much that they are not bothered by any shipping fees. We really appreciate that and would like to thank especially all the people at boardgamegeek.com - webmasters and users alike - for reviewing our games and thus helping them to become popular.
We therefor strongly recommend to visit boardgamegeek.com for gamer's comments and further detailed information on our games >> http://www.boardgamegeek.com/publisher/7702 rather than to tell you what we ourselves think about our games.
We will help to provide latest news or updated rules and discuss relevant topics there as well.
Due to the enormous shipping fees that the growing crowd of fans of "Die Aufsteiger" had to face trying to get a copy to America, Chili Spiele decided to license the distribution to the United States, Canada and a few other countries to Mark Salzwedel's "Strategic Space" in New York. For more information visit the website at >> http://www.strategic-space.com. We hope that he can serve your requests to your convenience and provide you with an apropriate customers service.
At the moment, our order form is meant to be used by people from Germany only. As already mentioned, the fees for sending our games abroad can be quite steep - not talking about shipping to overseas which in some cases will be topping the price for the games themselves. A lot of wood can be quite heavy!
If you are not living in Germany and still are interested in getting your hands on one of our games please feel free to get in contact with us using the >> mailing form in english. We will then try to sort out the cheapest way to get our games to you. The following list might give you an impression of how much that could be (sorry for using the european measures and currencies - the are so familiar to us)
within EU
e.g. Belgium, Denmark, Finnland, France, UK, Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Sweden, Spain
1-2 games (up to 5 kg) - 13,90 €
3-6 games (up to 10 kg) - 18,90 €
(Germany and EU: fees follow package size and weight)
Greece, Italy:
up to 5 kg - 17,00
up to 10 kg - 22,00 €
up to 20 kg - 32,00 €
Russia, Norway, Switzerland, Liechtenstein
up to 5 kg - 30,00 €
up to 10 kg - 35,00 €
up to 20 kg - 45,00 €
USA, Canada
please refer to strategic space website at >> http://www.strategic-space.com.
As you can see it might be a good idea to have two or three games shipped in one package for the same fee, depending on where it goes and how many there are. Please don't take this hint as an attempt to make you buy more than you want! Chili-Spiele is not trying to convince you to do so. But just in case you knew someone who was interested as well - this could be a way to reduce the fees for you and your friends - please calculate for yourself! We just hope we are able to serve your needs to your convenience ( we are sure you heard that before) and we mean it!