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New Sanity Tester - Eric Jome

Wed, 06/13/2018 - 13:01 — The Game Crafter
The Game Crafter - Sanity Tester - Eric Jome

Please welcome our newest Sanity Tester, Eric Jome.

Eric is a life-long game player as well as a developer and designer of several games. He has extensive knowledge of many genres from board and card games through miniatures wargames to role playing games. Eric is the host of Protospiel - Milwaukee and the Midwest Tabletop Game Design guild and a strong proponent of collaborative design. He is a professional software developer with over 20 years experience, bringing attention to details and process to testing.

TGC Community Game Night at Gen Con 2018

Wed, 06/13/2018 - 00:52 — The Game Crafter

Going to Gen Con? Be sure to get your $4 ticket to The Game Crafter Community Game Night. This is a great opportunity to play new prototypes, get feedback on your own game, and meet other people in the community! Tickets available at https://www.gencon.com/events/127817

We have added 11 new colors of 10mm wood cubes

Tue, 06/12/2018 - 15:20 — The Game Crafter

We recently announced that we now offer new colors of 8mm wood cubes. We’re going to keep the good news coming and tell you that we’ve also added 11 new colors of 10mm wood cubes! Here are the new colors we offer:

Gold, Tan, Natural, Dark Blue, Off White, Dark Orange, Olive Green, Dark Red, Gloss Black, Sky Blue, Magenta

View all of our 10mm wood cubes and ice cubes at https://www.thegamecrafter.com/game-pieces?q=Cube%2C%2010mm&hPP=25&idx=p...

HOLY CRAP! I found my way back to the fold

Tue, 06/12/2018 - 11:52 — ckleach
StormGate Standard Edition

It's been ... hell, 3yrs at least since my last post. FanExpo 2014 in Toronto was the last time I recall posting in here. I missed this community so much. I've been working, I've been thinkering, I've been building and I've got so much to tell.

First and foremost, I'm heading to my second Cottage CountryCon in Central Ontario (North of Toronto). It's at Rotary Place in Orillia and the show is on June 23-24. I did well at the show's inaugural year, and they are putting it on again. This time in a larger location in the same city. I have 2 just under 2 weeks to get ready.

Costs of Manufacturing and Fulfilling

Mon, 06/11/2018 - 16:10 — Jay103

I was doing the rough numbers, and I believe that if my Kickstarter ends at $25k, I will have just about exactly enough money to pay for the costs to finish readying the game for manufacturing, manufacturing, freight and customs, and fulfillment for the copies I need to deliver.

Doesn't include the money I spent before the KS, and of course my own time is valued at $0 both before and after.

I think shipping will be around $4500-5000. We'll see if I'm right.

New Sanity Tester - Ken Franklin

Mon, 06/11/2018 - 13:23 — The Game Crafter
The Game Crafter - Sanity Tester - Ken Franklin

Please welcome our newest Sanity Tester, Ken Franklin.

Ken has been designing and collecting games for 55 years, and published his first Apple 2 game in 1980. During his 40 years in military, academic and family medicine, he published 5 more titles for desktops and iPhones. He recently retired from medicine to focus on game design. His first tabletop title, “The Mansky Caper,” will be released by Calliope Games this summer.

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New Game Pieces - 14mm Discs

Fri, 06/08/2018 - 12:30 — The Game Crafter

We now have 14mm Discs in our online parts shop! They are made of wood, measure 14mm x 4mm, and are available in 11 colors at https://www.thegamecrafter.com/game-pieces?q=Disc%2C%2014mm%20x%204mm&hP...

Kickstarter gotchas

Fri, 06/08/2018 - 11:36 — Jay103

I spent quite a lot of time thinking about my rewards and stretch goals and manufacturing and shipping and how everything would work together. I'm confident that even if I'd sold 5000 copies, I wasn't going to add anything that would hurt me.

But it's very easy to hurt yourself with too much success, particularly with stretch goals. I was a backer of this Kickstarter campaign:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/599092525/the-order-of-the-stick-re...

New Game Pieces - 8mm Wood Cubes - Now 24 Colors Available

Thu, 06/07/2018 - 12:57 — The Game Crafter
The Game Crafter - Board Game Pieces - 8mm Wood Cubes - Now 24 Colors Available!

We have added more colors of 8mm wood cubes and that means we now carry 24 different colors in our shop! Browse our collection at https://www.thegamecrafter.com/game-pieces?q=&hPP=25&idx=products&p=0&dF...

Quick tutorial for making custom chits

Wed, 06/06/2018 - 17:26 — The Game Crafter

Chris at Mind Flayer Games made a quick tutorial for making custom chits at The Game Crafter. Watch it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAHe4MHX_AQ

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