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Crafter Con 2023 Sessions

Check out the awesome speakers and topics that will be at Crafter Con 2023:

Crafter Con will happen on Thursday, November 30th and this is the day before Protospiel Madison begins. Learn more about the event and get your badges at http://craftercon.com.

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In this recorded session from Crafter Con 2022, Dave Beck walks through the evolution of Distilled, from an insomnia-inspired idea in Scotland, to a Wisconsinite's first protospiel (MN), to an international Kickstarter campaign. Topics will cover timelines, budgets, shoulda/woulda/coulda's, small business tips, and how both Component Studio and The Game Crafter were a key part of the process.

Watch all of the Crafter Con Videos from 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2022 on our Youtube playlist at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVKd4HlOVD9qPj1d_-qmUolU8fNPLTID

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CrafterCon 2022 - Call for Presenters

We are opening the call for presentations for CrafterCon 2022. This is a great opportunity for board game industry folks to teach game designers and help them succeed.

Fill out this form if you would like to present at CrafterCon 2022 on Thursday, December 1. If your presentation is accepted, you'll receive a free badge to CrafterCon 2022 and Protospiel Madison 2022. Presentations are 50 minutes long and includes time for discussion with the audience.

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Crafter Con 2021

Crafter Con is The Game Crafter’s very own game design convention and it happens the day before Protospiel Madison. Its focus is on education to make you a better game designer. It features a track of seminars and workshops with industry experts. As well as a play testing room where you can work out some kinks with other designers 1 on 1.

Here’s the schedule:

The best thing to do is to get the combo badge so that you can attend both Crafter Con and Protospiel Madison. However, we also have badges for the individual events as well. Click here see all of the badge types.

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In this session from Crafter Con 2019, Milton will show you detailed numbers about what is selling and what isn't; how big the industry is; whether or not it is growing or shrinking; and a whole host of other information based upon intense research and interviews. Knowing this information will be useful whether you are pitching a game to a publisher, or running a Kickstarter. 

Milton Griepp has been in the geek culture business for over 40 years, beginning in distribution in 1976. As a Co-Founder, officer and beginning in 1984 as CEO of Capital City Distribution, he grew sales for 14 consecutive years, building Capital into a profitable international company with over $150 million in annual sales of geek culture products, especially comics and games, to retailers around the world. Capital was the source of many innovations in geek products distribution, including the advance solicitation mag-a-log, still in use today in both the comics and games fields. 

Since selling Capital to Diamond Comic Distributors in 1996, Griepp has continued using his expertise in the industry as a consultant in the business of geek culture. He founded ICv2, the #1 information source on the business of geek culture, in 2001. ICv2 publishes a website, ICv2.com, with daily business news; and Internal Correspondence, a magazine with in-depth market analysis, bestseller charts, and other features on the hobby game and graphic novel categories. 

Watch all of the Crafter Con Videos from 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2019 on our Youtube playlist.

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This is the full schedule for CrafterCon 2019. We have a limited supply of badges, only 30 remaining. We will sell out as we do every single year. Get your badge today. You can also make it a 4 day weekend and get your badge for Protospiel Madison as a package deal.

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There are only 16 badges left to Craftercon 2018. Craftercon will introduce you to people and skills to level up your career as a game designer. And it happens the day before Protospiel Madison, so you can get 2 conventions in 1 trip!

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The final schedule for Crafter Con 2018 is set and registration has begun. There are only 18 badges remaining, so get yours before they are all gone.