Printing multiple versions of a game can be challenging when you need to meet minimum order quantities and don’t plan a big print run. However, if you design your variants with this in mind there are ways of bringing the costs down and making it more affordable.
I have been running The City of Games for over 5 years and I am grateful to be able to say that I love what I do. I still get excited about new ideas, feel nervous when I’m about to make an announcement, and feel sad when something goes wrong.
When designing a board game it can be very easy to get wrapped up in making your prototype look good and it can also be very expensive. My approach is to keep things simple for as long as possible and then use cheap but effective options to make a good looking prototype, but only when it is needed.
Whenever I speak with someone looking to publish their first board game using Kickstarter, I always emphasize the same 3 things. These recommendations are designed to give you the best chance of succeeding while setting the foundations for growing a company.
This week I started rolling out a new website for The City of Games and I’d like to share some of the decisions that were made. The new website was designed to be more accessible to people who are new to my games and offer a better way to explore my world.
Every year I send out a demographic survey to learn more about my community and today I’d like to share some of the results from 2023.
It has now been 3 years since the first copies of The Isle of Cats reached people’s hands and I wanted to share a few statistics I’ve been looking at over the last couple of days.
It has been 10 weeks since I launched my US dollar store and I am so very glad I did, the results have been fantastic and I’m already seeing a noticeable increase in customers as a result.
Websites have a tendency to get outdated so over the next month I’ll be updating this website and making some fairly large changes. Today I’d like to look at some of the reasons for the upcoming changes and why I believe it’s important to give your website a refresh every so often.
This morning I sent the final 2 files for Race to the Raft to my factory for printing, the campaign booklets. Between the 2 books there are 109 scenarios available to play and designing them has offered unique challenges.
