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The Game Crafter Year in Review
We've made a lot of improvements to The Game Crafter this year, and I just wanted to take a moment to reflect on everything we've done. We've moved so fast, that some of you may have missed some of the changes along the way.
Shopping
A much more streamlined checkout process.
Guest checkouts.
Login via Facebook.
Better organized game pages to help you make a more informed decision.
Better searching and sorting features for both games and game pieces.
Better receipt management.
Insight into your position in our production process.
Game reviews.
The "What's Hot" list so you can see what other shoppers are buying.
Related games, so you can see what other games you might like to buy.
Game taxonomy, so you can get a sense of whether a game is right for you.
Crafter points allow you to earn discounts on future purchases.
Staff picks, so you can see what games we think are good.
More shipping options.
Better game publishing policies to ensure fewer unfinished games make it into the shop.
Decreased prices on game parts, and bulk pricing on game parts.
The ability to add or remove shipping insurance.
Selling
Featured placement.
Better insights into who you're selling to.
Better reporting.
Sales notifications.
Payout via shop credit in addition to PayPal.
Promotion tools for your web site.
Promotion via our Facebook page.
Crafter points allow you to promote your games.
Integration of social media tools directly on game pages.
Better looking game pages to help you sell more games.
Profit sharing increased from 50% to 70%.
Game Design, Publishing, and Production
Playing card design wizard.
A streamlined game publishing interface.
Bulk image uploading.
Folder imports to ease deck creation.
Randomized decks for collectable and trading card games.
Much greater accuracy on cutting.
Hex and square cards.
Improved TGC Game box, plus a box top sticker to decorate it.
Custom printed tuck boxes.
Custom printed medium game boxes.
Quad-fold game boards.
Many new game parts.
Spinner Mats.
Bulk discounts on both parts and games.
The ability to replace images in all games and components with a single upload.
Drag and drop file management.
YouTube video embedding directly in game pages.
Board Game Geek integration in game pages.
Set a quantity for all printable components.
Use custom backs on every card in a deck if you want to, in addition to deck-wide backs.
The ability to make your game completely private, viewable, buyable, and published live to the shop.
Buy your own games without packaging if you want to reduce cost of prototypes.
Community
Our blog aimed at keeping you better informed.
Cross promotion of our blog's content to RSS, email, Twitter, and Facebook so you can stay informed wherever is most convenient to you.
A large number of new video tutorials.
Integrated website chat.
The Hall of Fame.
Game design contests.
Crafter points for doing good deeds in the community.
Sponsored game designer tables at conventions and trade shows.
Showcased game designers from TGC community at our GenCon booth!
Game designer profile interviews.
An API so developers can create tools the community can use.
Phew, that's a big list! Don't worry, we're not done yet. Our goal is to give you a complete spectrum of tools so that you can build the games you want to play, and so you can find games you want to buy. See you in 2012!
Much Love For Our Post Beta Launch
Cory • Pacdude Games: http://cl.ly/1t2T22043X2p3K1m402j
Van Ryder Games: nice cory
looks pretty good
100 GG: yeah
Cory • Pacdude Games: I'm just utterly impressed with the print quality.
Eddie - Nightstalker Games: looks great Cory
Cory • Pacdude Games: And they were right: these cards are cut Pixel Perfect.
Van Ryder Games: Cory did you ever have any cards from TGC 1?
Cory • Pacdude Games: I did. My first game, I purchased in 2009, about a month or 2 so after TGC 1 started.
Van Ryder Games: ok cool so comparatively speaking cards now vs TGC 1?
Cory • Pacdude Games: Infinitely better.
Van Ryder Games: man that is so exciting
Cory • Pacdude Games: They feel better, the colors are more vivid, they're cut pixel perfect
Lot's of people want to know more about the chipboard game boards that are coming later this summer. We don't have all the details yet, because we're still finalizing the manufacturing process, but I can share a few details with you. This photo is an example of what the board looks like. (Artwork courtesy "A Day At The Faire" by Ice Pack Games.)
It is an 18x18 inch quad fold board (four 9x9 inch panels). You'll upload two 18x9 inch images, for which we will of course provide templates with trim lines and bleed indicators and so forth. There will be approximately a quarter inch of black border showing all the way around the board.
The finished board is approximately 1/8 of an inch thick. We start with four chipboard plates, which we glue hinges to. Then we cover the back of the hinged chipboard with a textured gloss black wrap to give it a professional feel. The black wrap comes around to the front, which is what provides that nice black border around the outside of the play surface. Then we glue the play surface to the board. The result is a beautiful professional game board.
We're still trying out various paper stocks that we want to use for the play surface. Because of that, and a few other details, we cannot yet give you a final price for the game board. However, we've had so many requests for a "ballpark" figure that we'll do our best. The price of the game board will be somewhere between $4 and $7 per board, probably somewhere in the middle, but it's just too early to tell.
Hopefully that answers more questions than it creates. If we didn't include a detail that you'd like to know about in this post, it's most likely because we don't know the answer to that question yet. However, you're still welcome to post a reply here and we'll do our best to answer it.
Migration Complete!
We have migrated all data. We're now in the process of running some final tests, pushing out some final patches, and prepping the site for launch!
End of One Era, Beginning of Another
The last TGC 1.0 order has been shipped. Tomorrow we look forward to producing the first TGC 2.0 order, and usher in a new era.