New Bulk Pricing, Gloomhaven Upgrade, New Game Pieces
Hello Community!
April was a productive month for our team. We keep expanding our production capabilities and our order queue is in a great place right now. This means we're printing/shipping orders quickly and it is a great time to place your orders before the busy convention season begins!
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Pricing Changes
We’re happy to tell you about a host of new pricing changes. These changes are just the start of an overall larger change coming to The Game Crafter throughout the rest of this year. This news was initially announced a few weeks ago on our news blog and social media channels, but we also wanted to share it here to make sure everyone sees it.
Bulk Pricing at 500 and 1000
We now offer new bulk prices for 500 and 1000 copies of a game on the following components:
- decks of cards
- custom etched dice
- custom printed dice
- tuck boxes
- hook boxes
- booklets
We also lowered our $0.89 handling fee to $0.79 at 500 and $0.69 at 1000.
These extra discounts are not huge at this point, but they are a start as we work toward offering better bulk pricing. And for the customers that wish to use us for bulk printing, every bit of discount we can give them will help.
Each component now shows example pricing at the various levels like this on their product detail page:
More components will receive price breaks for 500 and 1000 as we build out the processes and pricing for them. Stay tuned to our news and social media for further updates.
Some Extra Discounts
We were able to lower the base 1/10/100 pricing for some components in some cases. Hex Cards, Circle Cards, and Euro Square Cards fall into this category. There are a few others as well. As an example, Hex Cards dropped from $2.49 per sheet to $2.19 per sheet even at 1-off pricing.
Laser Cut Punchout Pricing
We have now standardized all of our punchout pricing based upon linear inches rather than a flat fee. So where we used to price Medium Circle Chits at $9.50 per sheet, we now base the price on the linear inches cut. This means that among our tiles, chits, and other punch outs some prices will be higher by a little bit, and some will be lower by a little bit, but overall the prices will be pretty similar. Of our 24 punchout types, 15 will have a lower price and 9 will have a higher price. These changes also affect laser cut sticker and card stock items like dice stickers and circle shards.
Custom Laser Cut Pricing
Our custom cut stickers, card stock, and chipboard components have all had their per linear inch prices cut too, in some cases sharply. So for example, for custom chipboard the linear inch price has dropped from $0.02616 to $0.0085. We want to make it cheaper and easier than ever to make your own custom components, so we’re really happy to be able to provide you with these price breaks.
Recalculating
As a result of all these changes, we recalculated all game pricing in our system and they were automatically applied to your games. There is nothing you have to do on your end.
Gloomhaven Upgrade
Our team created a new game upgrade that allows you to replace or augment the status tokens from Gloomhaven with 1/8" laser cut acrylic markers that clip on to the chipboard monster standees. You get a more immediate sense of which monster is afflicted or enhanced with a status effect, instead of matching tokens on the monster stat cards to a monster on the board, so you can visualize your tactics on the board more quickly.
Some statuses induce effects at the ends of turns and these clips provide a more visual reminder to apply the effects every turn.
The number of markers for each status matches the number of tokens found in the Gloomhaven base game:
10x Poison (green) 10x Muddle (brown) 10x Wound (orange) 6x Invisible (black) 6x Immobilize (red) 6x Strengthen (light blue) 6x Disarm (blue) 6x Stun (dark blue)
Check out the Gloomhaven Status Markers game upgrade! It’s only $7.99 + shipping and it really makes the gameplay more enjoyable!
New Board Game Pieces
- Keycards (pictured above)
- Shotgun
- AK-47
- Tactical Knife
- Hex Nuts
- Bolts
- Oil Rig
- Radiation Mask
- Atom Symbol
- Metropolis Coins
- Fire Axe
- Polar Bear
- Grizzly Bear
- Black Bear
- Frag Grenade
- Gear
- Crescent Wrench
- Electricity Symbols
- Bow and Arrow
- Sword
- Brown Cow
Browse our full collection of 2,036 board game pieces, game accessories, and game upgrades.
The Board Game Blueprint
Our Youtube series, The Board Game Blueprint will show you behind the scenes of various industry events, take you to conventions, and chat with designers in the community about why they make the choices they make when designing their games. Here are the latest episodes:
- Episode 30 - Prototype Tools!
- Episode 31 - Protospiel-Madison 2018: Design Deliberation!
- Episode 32 - Mechanic Monologue! Drafting
- Episode 33 - Component Close Ups! Walls
- Episode 34 - Design Discussion! Iconography
If you haven't watched the first 29 episodes yet, visit the Board Game Blueprint Playlist. Ben is now up to 45 episodes so we'll be listing more of them here every month to catch up.
Community Updates
Protospiel Atlanta (May 3-5) If you are a game designer, you should always try and attend Protospiel events. It's the best place to playtest your games and get honest feedback about your game from other game designers. Protospiel Milwaukee is in Atlanta, Georgia. The event is powered by Tabletop.Events.
Holiday Game Contest The finalists have been announced for this contest.
The Inquisitive Meeple is providing reviews of select TGC games. Check out his second review which features Orchard, En Passante and Mission: Control.
Protospiel Indy (May 17-19) Another great Protospiel event that you should attend. This one is located in Indianapolis, Indiana. Event powered by Tabletop.Events.
Protospiel North (May 25-26) Another great Protospiel event that you should attend. This one is located in Toronto, Ontario. Event powered by Tabletop.Events.
Origins Game Fair (June 12-16) The Game Crafter will be exhibiting with our Board Game Candy Shop. We will be selling tons of loose game pieces and you can buy them in bulk and save! (Booth #TBD)
Simply Elegance Contest (Deadline: June 17) We're looking for the next great game of simple elegance. This means simple game play but not lacking in planning or strategy.
RAGECON (June 28-30) The Game Crafter is sponsoring a board game design contest by providing prototyping components and gift certificates. This convention is in Reno, Nevada and is powered by Tabletop.Events
Social Deduction Challenge (Deadline: Aug 12) We are looking for the next great game that uses the social deduction mechanic. Players are assigned hidden roles and everyone works to sleuth out the correct person or people.
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