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Print???

A topic by Dtrasatti created Nov 27, 2021 Views: 881 Replies: 3
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First off, THANKYOU for making this. It's a brilliant and fun game. It often feels more like an activity than an actual game. The work and thought you put into the rules and artwork deserve PRINT. Would you guys ever consider putting this on LULU press or some other print on demand service to enable print copies to be sold? I need this for my library and would love to have and hold a copy in my hands. I have crudely printed up paper copies on my printer, but seriously, this game deserves a physical copy. 

Developer

Thank you for the kind words! I think you're right in that it is halfway between activity/tool and game, which is where we wanted to land with it, so it's great to hear we hit our mark.

As for print editions: I am not a big fan of Print on Demand so I have been avoiding things like that but I would love to have an actual, physical edition of the game. My dream version comes in a little box, with a booklet for the rules, individual sheets for the tables and some wooden cubes as citizens and power tokens. But producing such a thing is tricky and would probably need a Kickstarter or some other way to do pre-sales. Which is its own chunk of work but I am thinking about it. Maybe it will happen next year. I would definitely love that.

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I love the vision you have! You know all it takes is a decent proof of concept prototype from game crafter, then get your kickstarter up! In fact, even if you didn't want to do a full publication, you can create it all on gamecrafter and they'll print and ship on demand so the only heavy lift for you is the artwork. My buddy and I did that with a game we created.

Kickstarter is cool too! Either way,  count me in to back it! I've cobbled together components off of gamecrafter to make my little "at home" version of Ex novo. I bought colored dice, gold cubes (for resources), and little green meeples for population. (not to mention colored pencils) I enjoy my little "deluxe" version, but having a physical copy "kissed" by you guys in a nice box is really what the game deserves


YOU CAN DO IT!!!!

Developer (1 edit)

You might be interested to know that I just ran a successful kickstarter for a different game (Goblin Errands). And it went pretty dang well. There's still a lot of work to do - such as actually producing and shipping the product in the first place. But it's definitely one of the steps that gets us to an eventual EX NOVO box ;)

Also: Please do share a picture of your deluxe version!