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Kickstarter vs. Retail: Distributing Your Board Game

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MAY 27, 2019

Kickstarter vs. retail: it’s an epic battle for the ages. We live in a world where over $165 million of the tabletop game industry’s $1.5 Obviously, retail’s going the way of the dodo. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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What Do Board Game Retailers Care About the Most?

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

When you’re making your first board game, retail distribution is probably not top of mind. Many creators choose to focus on making a brilliant game, well play-tested, with great art, and good Kickstarter potential. In my game development experience, I’ve never sought out retail distribution.

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How Cons Can Help You Get Your Board Game into Retail

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

If you want to get your board game into retail, you’ve probably heard the advice “go to cons.” ” But what exactly do you do at board game conventions? Why are cons so useful for getting into retail or even launching a Kickstarter? What exactly do you do at board game cons or trade shows?

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How to Get Your Board Game in a Retail Store for the First Time

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

If you want to get your board game into retail stores, it helps to set small, achievable goals. Just one board game in one board game store! Molly's latest game, The Million Dollar Doodle, is live on Kickstarter! Molly & her first two retail customers. How do you get your board game into retail stores?

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How to Diagnose Failure & Move Forward as a Board Game Developer

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MAY 14, 2018

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. We’ll use the game development process – from start to finish – as an example. Audience Validation: Checking the game one last time to see if people like how it turned out.

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I don’t know if this is confidential or “too technical” for the blog, but how does developing for consoles actually work? As in, what is the workflow like? Obviously, you do all the coding on a PC, but how does the build get tested on consoles? How do you debug on consoles? It would be awesome if you could do a little rundown, but I understand if it’s not possible.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

It isn’t terribly technical, but I don’t have a dev kit at the home office at the moment so you only get some of my old photos of dev kits from my previous employer today. A console dev kit is a lot like a networked computer fused with a game console. Those text interfaces exist so we can access debug commands.

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20 New Year’s Resolutions for Board Game Devs in 2020

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. With that in mind, I want to help you come up with some New Year’s Resolutions of your own, ones specifically related to board game design. Learn how to use Board Game Geek. Learn how to sell.

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What is your board game worth?

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MAY 29, 2017

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Game developers are emotionally involved with their projects, but you have to put that aside sometimes to see what other people see. They value your game by the profit they’ll make off of it.

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Hello. I have a question regarding the “maths” of AAA game budgets. You’ve offered very interesting insight from the “other side” of the DLC/Microtransactions debate in the past. However, consider this simple example : $60m cost to make a AAA game. $60 per copy. That comes to 1m copies to break even. 2m copies for 100% return. Given that AAA games sell around 5m copies, are the likes of Jim Sterling, Angry Joe to TotalBiscuit really in the wrong for railing against “AAA greed”?

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In your “simple example”, we spent $60 million on development. At $60 per game, that’s just 1 million units that need to be sold, right? MORE]] Consider… how does the game-buying public learn about the game’s existence? Every game developed and distributed through their services pays them for it.

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How to Prepare for a Kickstarter Campaign That’s 1 Month Away

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MARCH 9, 2018

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Things are starting to get hectic around the Pangea Games office / my home office. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Click here.

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Bankrolling Your Board Game’s Development

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AUGUST 28, 2017

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Creating board games can be an expensive affair. In fact, minimizing costs is one of the most compelling reasons to create a game and send it to a publisher instead of self-publishing. For War Co.

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How to Sell Your Board Game Outside of Kickstarter

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

It’s been over a year in the making, and we’ve finally arrived: this is the last article in the Start to Finish: Publish and Sell Your First Board Game series. You’ve learned how to design and develop a game, build an audience, and market your game. Need help on your board game?

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5 Board Games With Great Components for $33.01 or Less

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JUNE 10, 2019

Hardcore gamers pride themselves on mastering games with unique gameplay and complex rules. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Much of the draw of board gaming comes from the physical experience, and so much of that comes from the components.

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Why Board Game Publishers Like Some Games and Don’t Like Others

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DECEMBER 3, 2018

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Board game publishers have to sort good from bad. Companies have limited resources and can only spend their time developing the best of the best. They could be manufacturers, retailers, designers, or playtesters.

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A Crash Course in Board Game Marketing & Promotion

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AUGUST 26, 2019

Some of this goes back to the process of creating your game, getting it manufactured, and raising funds. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I’ve mentioned the AIDA model before in How to Get Big on Twitter as a Board Game Dev.

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How to Design the Mechanics of Your Board Game

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NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the third of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? There’s more where this came from.

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How Board Game Fulfillment Works at Fulfillrite

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JANUARY 5, 2018

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. By being so demanding of ourselves, we have innovated services and developed software that has become the benchmark of the industry. There is no retail middleman. Let me be frank.

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How can the next wave of Web3 games become sustainable?

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JULY 17, 2022

RECUR’s one-of-a-kind metagaming service allows game creators to make compelling collecting games with NFTs that drive game economies. If you are a mid-to-large-sized developer or publisher looking to enter the world of web3, contact RECUR at recurforever.com to become a platform partner. The reason?

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Kickstarter vs. Retail: Distributing Your Board Game

What Do Board Game Retailers Care About the Most?

Trending Sources

How Cons Can Help You Get Your Board Game into Retail

How to Get Your Board Game in a Retail Store for the First Time

How to Diagnose Failure & Move Forward as a Board Game Developer

20 New Year’s Resolutions for Board Game Devs in 2020

What is your board game worth?

How to Prepare for a Kickstarter Campaign That’s 1 Month Away

Bankrolling Your Board Game’s Development

How to Sell Your Board Game Outside of Kickstarter

5 Board Games With Great Components for $33.01 or Less

Why Board Game Publishers Like Some Games and Don’t Like Others

A Crash Course in Board Game Marketing & Promotion

How to Design the Mechanics of Your Board Game

How Board Game Fulfillment Works at Fulfillrite

How can the next wave of Web3 games become sustainable?

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