Game Crafter - Publishing your own Board and Card Games
Posted by Billiam Babble on Dec 17, 2011; 3:16am
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Game-Crafter-Publishing-your-own-Board-and-Card-Games-tp7103267.html
Okay, this is one of those sites that when you discover it you want to keep it it secret, in case someone uses telepathy on you, steals your idea and publishes it first.
Quite a few of us here have been dabbling in PDFs and selling "virtual" products. Some folk release rule books through Print on Demand sites like Lulu.com and Lightning Source. Whether or not this makes financial sense is sometimes negated by the pleasure or seeing your product in print and knowing that multiple copies can be ordered after a few clicks of a mouse.
Nothing quite prepared me for this all-in-one game-making site.
https://www.thegamecrafter.com/
Before I let my dream-designs go to my head (not to mention half a dozen back-burner ideas of Mortis's - and all of those customised games), I had a look at the shop - and yup, there's quite a few dungeon crawler games (but not all that inspiring). I'll be frank, I found it a bit depressing. Lots of creative people already out there, and probably not that many buyers.
After browsing about, one thing this site does well is bundle all the different bits together. There's card stands which would be particularly useful in a game with stand-up card figures, but some of the counters are just too generic for scenario based sci-fi and fantasy gaming (imagine "ludo" pieces representing orcs, however, there's some pirates figures in there ...)
Making a pack of cards with a customised box looks rewarding.
Really big ideas aside (think: the ultimate Talisman/WHQ/HQ/SH crawler hybrid ...), I was thinking about designing a really simple fantasy board game (I mean really snakes-and-ladders simple, just a board, pieces and dice) - something I can try out on people at work. It would be interesting just to look at the quality of the boards.
I'm assuming that just because the online templates don't quite fit the ideas you may have, that you can still instruct the player to cut up and assemble counters from a printed sheet of card, like we used to in the "good old days".
The "mats" look very suitable for character / tracking sheets - or perhaps they can be expanded parts of the board.
Like I said, the problem with this site is that it makes you want to run before you can walk (and frankly I need to keep the day job atm), whether anyone sells games through the shop, is another matter entirely. But it's definitely worth looking at it for prototyping, especially cool for conventions.
Of course, if someone could combine this sort of a resource with a cheap source of fantasy figures, then you might be on to some serious games manufacture.
https://www.thegamecrafter.com/
Check it out!
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Game-Crafter-Publishing-your-own-Board-and-Card-Games-tp7103267.html
Okay, this is one of those sites that when you discover it you want to keep it it secret, in case someone uses telepathy on you, steals your idea and publishes it first.
Quite a few of us here have been dabbling in PDFs and selling "virtual" products. Some folk release rule books through Print on Demand sites like Lulu.com and Lightning Source. Whether or not this makes financial sense is sometimes negated by the pleasure or seeing your product in print and knowing that multiple copies can be ordered after a few clicks of a mouse.
Nothing quite prepared me for this all-in-one game-making site.
https://www.thegamecrafter.com/
Before I let my dream-designs go to my head (not to mention half a dozen back-burner ideas of Mortis's - and all of those customised games), I had a look at the shop - and yup, there's quite a few dungeon crawler games (but not all that inspiring). I'll be frank, I found it a bit depressing. Lots of creative people already out there, and probably not that many buyers.
After browsing about, one thing this site does well is bundle all the different bits together. There's card stands which would be particularly useful in a game with stand-up card figures, but some of the counters are just too generic for scenario based sci-fi and fantasy gaming (imagine "ludo" pieces representing orcs, however, there's some pirates figures in there ...)
Making a pack of cards with a customised box looks rewarding.
Really big ideas aside (think: the ultimate Talisman/WHQ/HQ/SH crawler hybrid ...), I was thinking about designing a really simple fantasy board game (I mean really snakes-and-ladders simple, just a board, pieces and dice) - something I can try out on people at work. It would be interesting just to look at the quality of the boards.
I'm assuming that just because the online templates don't quite fit the ideas you may have, that you can still instruct the player to cut up and assemble counters from a printed sheet of card, like we used to in the "good old days".
The "mats" look very suitable for character / tracking sheets - or perhaps they can be expanded parts of the board.
Like I said, the problem with this site is that it makes you want to run before you can walk (and frankly I need to keep the day job atm), whether anyone sells games through the shop, is another matter entirely. But it's definitely worth looking at it for prototyping, especially cool for conventions.
Of course, if someone could combine this sort of a resource with a cheap source of fantasy figures, then you might be on to some serious games manufacture.
https://www.thegamecrafter.com/
Check it out!
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