Is it your first time?
You step out into the dark street as the bartender locks the door. It’s a Summer’s night, but it’s a bit chilly. You curse yourself for not bringing a jacket […]
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How I create my prototypes
While I don’t claim to be an artist or designer, there’s a lot of art and design work needed to create Gay Sauna the Board Game. For all of the […]
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Going through changes
For as long as the game isn’t being printed by the manufacturer, it’s in development and I’ll continue to be changing and improving where needed. This continuous cycle of modifications […]
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After spending many years working in IT, I kind of got used to the fact that nobody, not even my nearest and dearest cared even the slightest about the content […]
Continue reading "Feedback"Kickstarter Lessons – Part 5
The fifth and final instalment of this learning series is about the need for visibility within the wider board gaming community. Visibility can come in a variety of forms, from […]
Continue reading "Kickstarter Lessons – Part 5"Kickstarter Lessons – Part 4
Next up for this series of documenting all the things I learned suffered greatly from me not being ready (part 1), and that is missing information on the pitch page. […]
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Kickstarter Lessons – Part 3
The most surprising thing to me about what happened during my campaign is how a lot of the things I was trying to generate initial pledges wasn’t working. In particular, […]
Continue reading "Kickstarter Lessons – Part 3"So we opened a Webshop!
I got a bit of merchandise printed in the run-up to the Kickstarter and I received a fair bit of interest in the towels during the campaign. Rather than save […]
Continue reading "So we opened a Webshop!"Kickstarter Lessons – Part 2
I still stand by Part 1 of this series: I launched my Kickstarter too early. Yet one thing I have discovered during my campaign, and specifically during my offline promotional […]
Continue reading "Kickstarter Lessons – Part 2"Kickstarter Lessons – part 1
There are a lot of factors that contributed towards me not reaching my Kickstarter goal, but for sure there is one of them that tops all the rest and was […]
Continue reading "Kickstarter Lessons – part 1"Post Kickstarter without the funds…what now?
Unsurprisingly I was so hoping that I wouldn’t ever be writing this post, but here I am four days after the end of my Kickstarter campaign and no funds are […]
Continue reading "Post Kickstarter without the funds…what now?"Bathhouse Blog gives Gay Sauna three thumbs up
Bathhouse Blog published August 25, 2019 The expert news source for the bathhouse community has given a shout to Gay Sauna the board game with some really nice insights on […]
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