To those of us who follow Kickstarter, it’s no surprise that having a good game does not guarantee funding. Bad games get funded all the time, and more significantly, good games often do not reach their goals. There are many reasons this can happen, but it often boils down to potential players not being able […]
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Kickstarter Videos
Posted by teale on December 16, 2015
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Corporate America Sell Out
When we last left off, over a year and a half ago, Corporate America had just begun hitting store shelves, and I was just beginning to get a grasp on its financial situation. Even though the Kickstarter was successful, I had to spend a pretty penny to finish and release the game. So, what’s changed […]
Posted by teale on February 10, 2015
http://nothingsacredgames.com/corporate-america-sell-out/
Shadow Throne Kickstarter: Outreach II
Welcome to the final installment of Shadow Throne Kickstarter here on the Nothing Sacred Games blog! In case you missed the earlier posts, I first covered the core Kickstarter, then discussed the periphery, and started going over outreach last time. Today I’m going to finish covering outreach, talking about advertising, online communities, and miscellaneous strategies […]
Posted by teale on September 29, 2014
http://nothingsacredgames.com/shadow-throne-kickstarter-outreach-ii/
Shadow Throne Kickstarter: Outreach I
Today I’m back at it, discussing the Shadow Throne Kickstarter in detail. Previously I discussed the core Kickstarter and the aspects on the edge, and today I’ll begin to discuss how I reached out beyond Kickstarter. Because I used so many strategies to do this, I’m going to break up the list into two posts. […]
Posted by teale on September 12, 2014
http://nothingsacredgames.com/shadow-throne-kickstarter-outreach-part-i/
Shadow Throne Kickstarter: Campaign Periphery
In my last post I discussed the Shadow Throne Kickstarter at its most basic: the page, the video, and the reward tiers. But a Kickstarter is so much more than just what you put on the main page! So today I’ll to continue examining the Kickstarter by covering some of the peripheral elements: the stretch […]
Posted by teale on August 22, 2014
http://nothingsacredgames.com/shadow-throne-kickstarter-campaign-periphery/
Shadow Throne Kickstarter: The Base Campaign
The Shadow Throne Kickstarter wrapped up over a month ago and the team is hard at work finishing the game so we can send it to the printer. While we get the final files ready, I thought I’d take a little time to go over the Kickstarter to discuss what we did right and what […]
Posted by teale on August 6, 2014
http://nothingsacredgames.com/shadow-throne-kickstarter-the-base-campaign/
Shadow Throne Kickstarter: Initial Impressions
The Shadow Throne Kickstarter came to a close at the end of last week, and I’m pleased to announce it was successful, bringing in $16,066! We didn’t quite hit the Shifting Shadows expansion stretch goal, but there was a ton of interest in the expansion, so I will probably look into Kickstarting it next year […]
Posted by teale on July 3, 2014
http://nothingsacredgames.com/shadow-throne-kickstarter-initial-impressions/
More Lessons from the Corporate America Kickstarter
The Kickstarter for Corporate America ended successfully in November 2012. In January 2013, after finishing the game and sending it to the printer, I wrote up some lessons from my Kickstarter experience. It’s been 7 months since those last lessons, and a lot has happened. I saw the printing process unfold and found a distributor. […]
Posted by teale on September 3, 2013
http://nothingsacredgames.com/more-lessons-from-the-corporate-america-kickstarter/
The Cost of a Board Game: Time
Not long ago, I discussed the monetary cost of making Corporate America, an awesome political satire board game. Today, I want to pick up where I left off by discussing how much time it took to make Corporate America. I’ll get into the details in just a minute. In the mean time, this timeline will […]
Posted by teale on August 19, 2013
http://nothingsacredgames.com/the-cost-of-a-board-game-time/
The Cost of a Board Game: Money
For those of you who don’t follow the blog regularly, I kickstarted my first board game, Corporate America, way back in November of 2012. It’s now July 2013, and I just posted an update to my Kickstarter supporters announcing that the project is complete! I chose to self publish Corporate America for a number of […]
Posted by teale on July 30, 2013
http://nothingsacredgames.com/the-cost-of-a-board-game-money/
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