Our Top 5 Articles of 2022
It’s been an exciting year here on the blog! We covered a pretty broad range of topics from Kickstarter drama, to hiring for illustration, and how games are made.
We also launched the Nuts & Bolts series where I get to take a more practical look at specific tasks that come with publishing a game – tasks like booking freight or creating a custom QR code.
Here are our top 5 articles of 2022:
The Bizarre World of Speculative TCGs: We took a look at a strange phenomenon on Kickstarter of trading card games hitting hundreds of thousands (or millions) in funding based on speculative buyers – not gameplay.
The characteristic L-Shaped funding curve of speculative TCGs.
The Anatomy of a Card: A deep dive into how cards are made. Card stocks, laminates, varnishes, foiling, and more.
Demystifying the Contract: We break down what the typical terms are in a board game licensing contract, and what designers should look for from prospective publishers.
Making Board Games Your Business: We take a look at various Kickstarter business models, and lay out how to build a business model around your board game.
Kickstarter in Review Part II: Mistakes Made: The second part in a series of five retrospective articles on our Nut Hunt Kickstarter, we took a closer look at what we could have done better through our campaign.
Honorable mention: Our August 2021 article Board Game Illustration – A Guide to Hiring and Pricing continues to perform quite well, and with over 5,000 reads is our most read article to date.
