Custom D8 and D4 Dice, Meta-Progression Challenge, TCG Sale
Hello Community!
Happy Valentine's Day from Cog and The Game Crafter! We’ve got so much love and gratitude for our amazing community of 400,000 game designers and gamers. We appreciate the constant flow of kind words, photos, and stories that you share with our team. Thank you!
Fun Fact: The Game Crafter has a lot of Heart. 38,714 to be exact, with only 2,000 of them broken. :)
Custom Printed D8 and D4 Dice
The Game Crafter now makes Custom Printed D8 Dice and Custom Printed D4 Dice! They feature full-color printed faces on white acrylic dice.
TCG Sale - Coming March 6th
In January we ran our first ever site wide sale, where a whole group of games could opt into a sale together. It was a huge success!
391 games participated in the sale for 14 days. Discounts ranged from 5-30% off retail price. 1,578 games were sold as part of the sale, averaging 112 games sold per day! Because of this success, we're going to do more of these types of community sales.
The next one is called the TCG Sale and it will run for a week, beginning March 6th. This sale is for those of you with trading card games (TCG), collectible card games (CCG), expandable card games (ECG), and living card games (LCG).
Click here to learn more about this sale and how to add your game(s) to it.
Meta-Progression Challenge
The Meta-Progression Challenge is a chance to design a game in which the players may replay the game again and again with some advantage or tweak that they didn’t have the last time. Each play may be a new experience without the need to irreparably alter components like a legacy game or create a set of new missions, stories, or maps like a campaign. Imagine a cooperative game that gets harder each time it is won, or a quick racing game that allows players to spend their winnings to change parts on their car between races, or a sports game where players can manage their team and draft better talent between kick-offs.
The possibilities are endless and it’s up to the player to decide how they want to shape their experience. Enter now and push the boundaries of what a game can be!
Note: Entries must be submitted no later than 7pm US Central on April 30, 2023.
Tutorial Video: How To Enter a Contest
In this tutorial video, Alisha shows how to participate in a board game design contest at The Game Crafter. You’ll learn how to configure your game so that it meets all of the requirements of a contest and then you’ll see how to submit it.
Crafter Con Videos (Part 2)
In our last newsletter, we featured 6 videos from Crafter Con 2022. We finished editing the last 3 and here they are:
- "From Protospiel to Kickstarter Success: The Story of Distilled" by Dave Beck
- "Fan Made Games: Copyrights, Trademarks, and Fair Use" by Mike Wokasch
- "Game Design Lessons Learned" by Seth Van Orden
Note: Our Crafter Con playlist on Youtube also has all of the recorded sessions from Crafter Con 2022 and past events. It's full of great content for game designers and it's totally free to our community.
Upcoming Events
Here's a list of upcoming events we're supporting:
- DunDraCon Protospiel [Live, Feb 17-20]
- TantrumCon "Camp Prototype" [Live, Feb 24-26]
- Protofest [Live, Mar 11-12]
- Unpub [Live, Mar 16-19]
- TokenCon [Live, Mar 17-19]
- ProtoATL [Live, Mar 29-Apr 2]
- Protospiel Milwaukee [Live, Apr 14-16]
