Welcome back! We’re going to cover the impacts of Kickstarter on the 3-tier system in this post. You can go back and read about the 3-tier system, and the impacts of online game stores and mass-market stores on the industry in our previous posts. Scaling Up When Kickstarter launched in 2009 nobody realized how much »more
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Drowning In Gold: The Mass Market Strikes Back
In previous installments we covered the basics of the 3-tier system, and how online game stores (OLGS) began to disrupt the traditional model. This time we’ll take a look at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Walmart and Target, and how they’ve changed the industry. Amazon: Mass Market, or The Largest OLGS? In the early 2000s, Amazon »more
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Pickpockets is on Kickstarter now!
Lately I’ve teamed up with designer Matt Loomis to make tons more games. Our first to be published is a small game in the Buttonshy Games stable of wallet games, called Pickpockets. These are games of no more than 18 cards, packaged in a small wallet. Our is the first REAL wallet game though, because »more
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The ChronoSphere Kickstarter is live! [UPDATE: It’s Over]
UPDATE: ChronoSphere has successfully funded. You can pre-order it here now and get a special discount: [shoplocket id=OaAUN w=330 h=500] ————- I’m so excited! It’s live… and people I haven’t even met have decided that they believe in me and this game enough to start to pledge! What a crazy, love-filled world we live in. »more
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ChronoSphere Kickstarter Coming Soon!
ChronoSphere is a game of historical trivia, bluffing, and making know-it-alls cry! Gather up 2-7 friends and see if you can reconstruct history the way it happened… or close enough to fool your opponents. Each of the 96 beautiful cards features an invention, historical figure, or event one one side, and the date of the event »more
