Hi my name is John and I am the lead designer for a new game company called Back Burner Board Games. We have a new game currently in a rough prototype phase that will require a modular game board akin to Dungeons and Dragons: Castle Ravenloft. The major difference being that our tiles need to be hexagons and I am having a hard time finding anyone who can print like that. While it is true that we wont be ready to print for a while yet we are trying to be forward thinking and find a printer now. If you have any information that might be able to help us we would be very grateful if you could pass it along.
Thanks for your time and consideration
John and the rest of the team at B.B.B.G.
Back.Burner.Board.Games@gmail.com
To answer your questions in order...
we were hoping for tiles around 3-4 inches to a side however we are somewhat flexible on this issue. For game play purposes this would need to be play tested if the tiles are to small they would likely be over crowded and inhibit play.
Ideally the tiles would be similar to standard game boards as I would like a good quality product but once again advice on this issue is much appreciated as we are all very new to board game design. How well do other products match up?
Print on demand is an almost must unless mass production is far cheaper than I am anticipating. I know this is not the way to go for money making reasons but our start up capital is limited to say the least.
We will be self publishing at least to start I know what the odds are of getting a publishing house to pick you up are and we already make rough demo boards for play testing purposes
I hope that helps clear up some of our goals thank you for your time helping a slightly overwhelmed newb to the community.
John and the rest of the team at B.B.B.G.