Red Mosquito

Bump so I don’t forget later

Spent much of the weekend working on developing a board game with my dad. I think it has wings after we worked out some bugs. Fun quality time with ol’ pops.

Gonna be looking in to how people do this on Kickstarter.

I am curious what kind of money is in it if you create a game that becomes reasonably popular. What’s a good sale figure? 50,000 units? 100,000?

Does anyone play D&D here? Or would that be its own thread? It's become one of my major activities to do with friends over the past couple of years.

Orpheus wrote:Does anyone play D&D here? Or would that be its own thread? It's become one of my major activities to do with friends over the past couple of years.

I used to a bit, but stopped after my son was born. If you have a good group it can be really fun.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:So no one plays euchre here? I thought we had some Midwesterners on the board.

taught my 12 year old to play euchre. he now knows the traditional, 4-player way as well as the non-traditional, 3-player version where you deal an extra hand. he's addicted.

Orpheus wrote:Does anyone play D&D here? Or would that be its own thread? It's become one of my major activities to do with friends over the past couple of years.

Yes, played growing up and got my daughter into it a few years ago. We played one time this year but hopefully we'll get back into it when the weather is a bit cooler.

Bammer wrote:Spent much of the weekend working on developing a board game with my dad. I think it has wings after we worked out some bugs. Fun quality time with ol’ pops.

Gonna be looking in to how people do this on Kickstarter.

I am curious what kind of money is in it if you create a game that becomes reasonably popular. What’s a good sale figure? 50,000 units? 100,000?

That's hard to say. A no name game might not get the publicity as say a CMON games or the Tiny Epic Series

The most recent Tiny Epic (Tiny Epic Pirates) had 20K+ backers with over a million dollars. The first Tiny Epic game (Tiny Epic Kingdoms) was in 2014 and have 8900 backers for $287,000

This whole kickstarter thing fascinates me. I need to look into how it works but my understanding is that people invest with no expectation of a return?

Bammer wrote:This whole kickstarter thing fascinates me. I need to look into how it works but my understanding is that people invest with no expectation of a return?

They usually expect first dibs (at no further cost) on the product they invest in.

Strat wrote:

Bammer wrote:This whole kickstarter thing fascinates me. I need to look into how it works but my understanding is that people invest with no expectation of a return?

They usually expect first dibs (at no further cost) on the product they invest in.

I think the concept of Kickstarter has changed over the years, especially with boardgames. Backers are no longer contributing to get the project off the ground but using it as a preorder system. And the sense of entitlement with some of these backers, sheesh.

Upset if a game piece doesn’t look good. Upset with art. Demanding more stretch goals. A small portion of Kickstarter can be pathetic at times.

Chris_H_2 wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:So no one plays euchre here? I thought we had some Midwesterners on the board.

taught my 12 year old to play euchre. he now knows the traditional, 4-player way as well as the non-traditional, 3-player version where you deal an extra hand. he's addicted.

Wait, what? When we play 3-player we remove the 9s, deal three hands and there's no teams.

My wife's parents are from Ohio so we play a lot with them. It's a great game, even if I probably still prefer tonk, hearts, and spades.

4/5 wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:So no one plays euchre here? I thought we had some Midwesterners on the board.

taught my 12 year old to play euchre. he now knows the traditional, 4-player way as well as the non-traditional, 3-player version where you deal an extra hand. he's addicted.

Wait, what? When we play 3-player we remove the 9s, deal three hands and there's no teams.

My wife's parents are from Ohio so we play a lot with them. It's a great game, even if I probably still prefer tonk, hearts, and spades.

Haven’t played tonk in forever. How’s it different from rummy?

4/5 wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:So no one plays euchre here? I thought we had some Midwesterners on the board.

taught my 12 year old to play euchre. he now knows the traditional, 4-player way as well as the non-traditional, 3-player version where you deal an extra hand. he's addicted.

Wait, what? When we play 3-player we remove the 9s, deal three hands and there's no teams.

My wife's parents are from Ohio so we play a lot with them. It's a great game, even if I probably still prefer tonk, hearts, and spades.

I prefer pitch.

pretty sure i'd be the rm crib champ

another one we play a lot goes by different names..we've always called it 10 9 8..but i think its also called Up and down the river..

My GF taught me cribbage recently, pretty fun. Definitely want to play it while getting very drunk sometime.

Bammer, congrats on getting your game up and running!

HA!

wease wrote:

4/5 wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:So no one plays euchre here? I thought we had some Midwesterners on the board.

taught my 12 year old to play euchre. he now knows the traditional, 4-player way as well as the non-traditional, 3-player version where you deal an extra hand. he's addicted.

Wait, what? When we play 3-player we remove the 9s, deal three hands and there's no teams.

My wife's parents are from Ohio so we play a lot with them. It's a great game, even if I probably still prefer tonk, hearts, and spades.

Haven’t played tonk in forever. How’s it different from rummy?

A few small differences, mainly that you can also earn points by dropping your hand on your turn if you have the lowest total at the table.

Greedo wrote:


Bammer, congrats on getting your game up and running!