I am using the Game Crafter for fulfilling the Crazier Eights Kickstarter rewards in addition to producing one hundred extra copies of the game. A strong incentive to use the Game Crafter’s bulk order fulfillment process is that it doesn’t cost anything more than the copies of the game and shipping. If I used Amazon’s order fulfillment, I would have to pay around $3 more to have each copy of the game sent out, and I would have to pay to have several copies of the game shipped to Amazon. There are three other main issues worth talking about concerning the Game Crafter’s order fulfillment process: (1) the cost, (2) how they handle special Kickstarter promotional items, and (3) how they handle corrected mistakes. Continue reading
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The Cost of Manufacturing Crazier Eights
I paid to manufacture Crazier Eights and send copies out for Kickstarter Rewards from the Game Crafter ($2329.74) and AdMagic (2,742.75). The total cost of manufacturing and fulfilling rewards will be $5072.49. (That does not include the costs of prototypes, copies to reviewers, advertising, etc.) The Game Crafter is charging about $6.76 for each copy of the regular version and $7.77 for each copy of the Limited Edition (without shipping), and AdMagic is charging around $5.50 for each copy of the game (including shipping). Continue reading
Accessing Kickstarter Funds — The 14 Day Window
One frustrating thing Kickstarter doesn’t make very clear is that you don’t have access to the money of your successful Kickstarter campaign for 14 days after it ends. It says something about it right when you accept their terms and conditions to start the campaign. Well, you are supposed to say when rewards are given out before that, so I wouldn’t be surprised if some rewards are given late because of somewhat unexpected days like that. Continue reading
Less than two days left
I have a Kickstarter campaign for Crazier Eights (found here). Kickstarter is a crowd funding site. If I reach the funding goal ($5,000), then the game will be manufactured and everyone will be able to get a copy of the game. There are ways to get the game from the Kickstarter campaign. If it does not reach the funding goal, no one loses any money and every reward level will still have access to the print & play version of the game anyway.
There’s less than two days left — The Fourth of July is the final day.
This is pretty much your last chance to help out. If you want the project to succeed, I advise you to share this project on Facebook, Twitter, and anywhere else appropriate. You can tell a friend who might also be interested.
Another thing you can do is talk about the game on Board Game Geek. There are forums for Crazier Eights on Board Game Geek (found here), and I will participate in conversations about the game there.
Whether the game reaches the goal or not, you might want to follow this site and the Crazier Eights Facebook page to keep in touch and find out what happens next.
Stretch Goal Promo Cards (Updated)
If the Crazier Eights Kickstarter campaign reaches $6000, then the following three cards will be made for every physical copy of Crazier Eights made from the Kickstarter campaign:
Keep in minds that these cards are prototypes, so the final version of the cards could be somewhat different.
These promos were selected from six different cards I thought of a while back. Go here to see them all.
Effective Banner Advertising on Board Game Geek
I have been advertising on Board Game Geek (out of pocket) and found out which of my banners were doing very well or poorly. This is the information I got for three different banner sizes after advertising there for four or five days.
One difficult question is what banner ads will actually do well. Board Game Geek will allow you to submit several banner ads, and they can tell you which ones are working well (and they make sure the use effective banner ads the most). Continue reading
Custom Card Reward
I will now have a reward level for the Crazier Eights Kickstarter to get your own custom card. You will get four copies of the unique card (possibly one for each color). You choose the art, name, and text (with certain restrictions). This is a limited offer — only twenty people can get this reward and it will be no longer available after 2 July 2014. Continue reading
Contests and Kickstarter (Updated June 19)
Take a look at the Kickstarter rules and there’s a link to a list of additional prohibited things, such as “Contests, coupons, gambling, raffles, and lifetime memberships.”
Well, Jamey Stegmaier says how running contests seems to be allowed as long as it is not done on Kickstarter itself. For example, it is common for Board Game Geek to have contests for various Kickstarter projects. Go here for more information. Continue reading
Kickstarter Advice
Check out the Crazier Eights Kickstarter campaign here.
Is everything presented well there? Should I change the look or explanation of anything found there?
I’ve been having some trouble spreading the word of the game, so I am wondering if I should try to advertise for the game. However, before I pay for advertising, I would like to know if the Kickstarter project itself looks okay. (Advertising is out of pocket. I would not use the funding to pay for advertising.)
Limited Edition Promo Cards
I am now offering these three promo cards in the limited edition version of Crazier Eights. Continue reading
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