The Game Crafter actually came to my attention a little while ago through the TechCrunch site, and I’ve finally taken the time to sign up and see what they have to offer. And for our community, what it offers it awesome!
If you have a great idea for a game and want to build it, they’ll provide you with all the tools you need. Card, Dice, Pawns, whatever. They will even give you an estimate on what it will cost to build your game, and how much you should sell it for.
They handle the production add the dice and pawns, all you have to do is promote your new game. They’ll even provide you with the shopping cart to sell your games through. Oh, and they put your game on the front page of their site, send out a notice on their Twitter account, and publish it on their Facebook Fan Page, giving you that starter boost that all new games need.
You do have to split the profits with The Game Crafter 50:50 so if you sell your game for $15 and production costs $7 you’ll only end up seeing $4 from each game sold, but hey, they’ve already done the work of finding the factories, the shippers, and the helped you start your marketing. Would you earn $4/game from one of the bigger publishing companies?
And if you don’t want to split the profits with them, you can buy your games at cost and sell them on your own. “That way you can sell your copies to local retailers in your area, at trade shows, and give copies to your friends and family. “
Oh, and if you’re worried about who owns the rights to the game you’ve taken the time and energy to think up, test, and design all the artwork for, fear not! The rights to any game you upload to The Game Crafter are yours and yours alone. The only mention of The Game Crafter your customer ever sees is a sticker on the side of the box. Everything else is yours.
All in all, I’d love to see this company take off, and if you have a game you’ve been thinking about building, give them a try. (And if you want to send us a copy of that game to review, please contact us, we’d be happy to put it in our production roll.)
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