Over the past few months many customers have asked us if we could provide an even bigger discount if they ordered even more copies at once. Some are wanting to sell direct to retailers, while others are looking at large purchases for weddings and other events, while others are doing mini-kickstarter projects. So we’re pleased to announce that we’re now offering a 15% discount if you buy 200 or more copies of your own game.
Enjoy!
Juli Bierwirth, co-founder of Distant Rabbit Games, has been learning everything possible about publishing after their smash-hit Kickstarter: Mantis Falls. Watch this Q&A video on the Gaming with Edo youtube channel to listen to all of the stuff she’s been learning about board game publishing.
Sometimes it’s hard to see when a game component has not been proofed, or if there is some other circumstance causing it to not be proofed. To this end we’ve added proofing helpers, a little orange info icon letting you know something needs to be done.
If you hover over the icon, you’ll get more detail about what’s wrong.
We hope this helps your game publishing process easier and more enjoyable.
From Ed:
Grant Rodiek – founder of Hyperbole Games – wrote an excellent article about his struggles as an indie board game publisher: “So, you want to be a tabletop publisher?” http://hyperbolegames.com/blog/so-you…
His article hit close to home because he is a local to me and another small publisher that started around the same time as Pencil First Games. It got me thinking, so I decided to do a response piece with my perspective. Hope it helps you succeed with your business!
Grant Rodiek from Hyperbole! Games wrote an excellent article about the struggles of being an indie board game publisher. Grant has been a long time member of The Game Crafter community and he’s designed fun games like Farmagedon, Hocus, and Cry Havoc. He’s got a lot of experience and shares a lot of helpful information in this article. Definitely give this a read if you’re considering being an indie board game publisher.
Marshall Britt, owner of Yanaguana Games, talks about all the mistakes he’s made and lessons he’s learned as a small game publisher.
This photo is a side-by-side comparison of the new WizKids version of Time Barons (Left) and the original self-published version from The Game Crafter.
We’re excited to see another great success story for a game that started out in The Game Crafter community and moved on to an established publisher. Congrats to the designers, Jon Perry and Derek Yu!
The Game Crafter is the best place to start your game design journey. We offer the best design tools to turn your idea into a real game and we have the biggest and best community of board game designers in the world.
It’s tax season and in this Meeple Speak article, Kirk Dennison of PieceKeeper Games tackles dealing with taxes on his first published Kickstarter game, Flag Dash.
Several top publishers from the table top industry (Steve Jackson from Steve Jackson Games, Jason Glover of Grey Gnome Games, and James Mathe from Minion Games) participated in a panel to answer your questions about how to get your game in front of a publisher, how to set up meetings with publishers, and how not to put your foot in your mouth with publishers. There were also a few members of the audience that joined the panel and discussed several other topics.
This is a recording of a live session from Crafter Con 2015 in Madison, Wisconsin. If you’d like to learn more about the upcoming Crafter Con 2017 event, please visit www.craftercon.com.
Turn your idea into a real board game at The Game Crafter. www.thegamecrafter.com
This is an article by Douglas Moore that features an interview with Shem Phillips from Garphill Games. Shem talks about his personal story and how he got into full-time game design & publishing, Then he goes on to answer questions about game design, his company, and tips for game designers.
Steve Jackson of Steve Jackson Games will sit on the Publisher Panel at Crafter Con 2015!
Crafter Con is The Game Crafter’s game design convention where we bring together industry experts to help you become a better game designer. Steve will be sitting on our Publisher Panel Discussion, which is your chance to ask questions of big name publishers about things like how to get your game in front of them, what publishers look for and what they aren’t interested in, and much more.
