You’ve finished designing your tabletop game. You’ve acquired art assets, hired a graphic designer, and you’re now ready to take your game to Kickstarter! One of the most important questions you need to answer is how much should you charge for each pledge? …

Just a quick post! The Kickstarter campaign for TWO Fantastic Factories Expansions (Manufactions and Subterfuge) is now LIVE. Here’s a little bit of information on each expansion. Manufactions With the ever-growing manufacturing industry comes the consolidation of power and expertise in the form of corporate factions! Each faction brings a unique…

Launching your crowdfunding campaign is a big deal. It’s often a culmination of years of hard work, and in spite of all that hard work Kickstarter can be a fickle beast. It’s important that your launch day goes as smoothly as possible and reaches your audience and hopefully beyond. To…

Fantastic Factories has been fulfilled to backers, and players around the world have been enjoying it! We are celebrating our 4th year anniversary of when Fantastic Factories was first conceived back in November 18th, 2015, and I thought it might be of interest to people to write about how Fantastic…

Detailed analysis of converting a mailing list into Kickstarter backers for a tabletop game A year ago I did a breakdown of my mailing list of roughly 1,000 emails I collected of people interested in my board game, Fantastic Factories. If you’re interested in how I got those emails, feel free to check out my article about building an audience. …

I often hear people ask what is the best way to build an audience for your board game Kickstarter. I’ve detailed my methods in this earlier post. …

May you always roll sixes… or should you? In many board games, the higher you roll, the better the result. I wanted to challenge that assumption. People love rolling dice but hate the results. In Fantastic Factories, it’s less about what you roll and more about how you utilize the…

In a board game, is it worse to have a card that is perceived as overpowered but actually isn’t or to have a card that looks balanced but is in actuality too strong? …

In my blog posts, I like to tackle the topics and questions that come up time and time again. I often see first time Kickstarter creators asking questions about art — who to hire, where to find artists, and how much to pay them. …