Don’t Pee in the Sandbox… I have worn many hats in my days, from retailer to publisher, from designer to project manager, from e-book distributor to Kickstarter fulfillment, from trainee to consultant. I decided I’d share some of the knowledge… Read more ›
The Enlightened Path to Virtual Popularity I’ve seen many great looking games or great ideas just languish on Kickstarter and they really did a good job with their campaign page. So what went wrong? In almost all these… Read more ›
Myth Busters – Kickstarter Referrer Page? REFERRALS I am in the unique position of having run many Kickstarter campaigns myself and knowing personally two other prolific publishers that use Kickstarter. So I reached out to 9 Table Top game… Read more ›
Courting a Game Publisher – DO’s and DON’Ts Believe it or not, there is an etiquette when submitting your game to Publishers. Publishers receive many submissions and just like submitting a resume for a job, the simplest things can turn… Read more ›
This guide was created to help people avoid the pitfalls of, and run, a successful campaign for a card or board game through Kickstarter. Kickstarter is like a mall, the worlds biggest, they bring the customers to your “store”. You… Read more ›
I get asked the same questions a lot and I see post after post resurface on forums about some common topics. So I thought I’d get on the pedestal again and preach. In many cases the answer is specific to… Read more ›
So you want to start a board game company? I could go into a page of details of each of these bullet points below (and maybe I will in the future), but for now I wanted to just take the… Read more ›
So in 2012 hobby game stores saw a lot of growth in the board game realm. MTG is also up. We saw a new show hosted by Wil Wheaton bring some people into our hobby world. Things should be going… Read more ›
Kickstarter Best Practices group on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/138469072961355/ Crowdfunding Google+ Group https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/118380390691616458392 BoardGameGeek Kickstarter Forums: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/forum/915012/kickstarter/general http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/746926/kickstarter-announcements-thread Quora kickstarter category http://www.quora.com/Kickstarter Funding the Dream podcast: http://www.buzzsprout.com/4646 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epvJtKthsCo&feature=youtu.be KickstarterHQ and the affiliated pod cast: http://kickstartershq.com Richard Bliss Kickstarter & Facebook – Making… Read more ›
(REPOSTED FROM KICKSTARTER CONVERSATIONS) Welcome back to another Kickstarter Conversation! This time I am joined by James Mathe of Minion Games who has brought us a new board game for Kickstarter called Hegemonic. Thank you for joining us today… Read more ›