Most commercial board games requires to be manufactured. Some board games or prototype can be done by hand at home but the main reason why it is possible is because people have printers at home. If computer printer did not exist we would be sculpting board games out of wood.
Now what prevents people to make commercial manufactured board games at home is because it requires machines that takes a lot of space, that a quite expensive and that you do not use everyday.
Now I was wondering, if it could be possible/profitable to create a small workshop, containing machines for printing, cutting, shrinking, board game components, and then rent this workshop for a few days or weeks to people who want to use these machines.
For example, I want to make a small 50 game print, I rent the workshop for 2 days and invite one of my friend to help me. I buy the material ( cardstock, plastic) from the workshop or I bring it myself. I print all the component and the boxes I need. I cut them, bring them home. Distribute the components in each box, and I could even get back at the workshop later to shrink my games.
The objective :
- Save Money : You don't pay anybody to build the game since you build them yourself.
- Save on the shipping : You build them directly where you live, no need to import them ( ex: when produced in another country ).
- You know what you get, since you are making it.
- You Can make small print runs.
The renting fees must be able to cover the following stuff :
- The rent of the workshop's places
- Insurances and other stuff like that
- Maintenance on the machines
- Set some money aside to aquire new machines or replace them.
Now I doubt that there is enough board game designer in a area of the world to make this kind of workshop run all year long. So I was wondering if there is some people other than board game designer that could be interested in using this kind of workshop just to make sure that the workshop makes enough profit to survive.
