Board Game Self-Publishing
Just as everyone probably has a novel in them, I think there are those with a boardgame design. Producing them is not so easy though as you have to design the game, test it, make the game bits, buy in the parts then try and sell it. A mate of mine John Harrington (who I haven’t seen in 10 years) of Fiendish games produced his own games. Lots of Blood, sweat and tears.
This site provides such a service. Actually they seem to do everything (you still have to design and test it), but after that it’s print-on-demand and order fulfillment. Similar in its way to lulu.com which does print-on-demand books. GameCrafter also do a fair bit to market your game via the site and trade shows.
While you are prototyping you can buy game bits from them. Unfortunately at the moment, it’s a US service only; so US customers may be able to buy a game that you produced but you can’t if you live outside of the US! Given that Europe, well Germany is the main source of good boardgames it’s to be hoped GameCrafter will start providing an export service. They take 50% of the price which gives you more of the pie than through traditional retail outlets which they say (and I believe them) is 30%.
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Posted: December 25th, 2011 under commercial, game, publishing.
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