After the paper is printed, it is manually affixed wherever it needs to go, be it box, board or something else.Īfter that, cards are printed. Next, any mounted components where paper needs to be glued to and dried on boards, mats, and boxes are printed. For more complicated pieces, custom injection molds need to be created. That includes everything from meeples to minis. Once the manufacturer has the OK to proceed, this is where the magic really happens! First, all non-printed components are created. When ordering thousands of board games, every detail is important and creators must take as long as they need to before giving the OK to start manufacturing in earnest. For more complicated games or games with a lot of stretch goals, this could involve multiple revisions and weeks or even months. With some games, this review process is quick and takes a matter of days. All 3-D models need to be in working order. All important text and graphics need to be well inside the trim lines, which is where paper is cut in offset printing. Colors need to be printer-friendly (CMYK) instead of computer-friendly (RGB). Once the funds clear, the publisher will place their order with the manufacturer, thus kicking off a long chain of events.Įvery file needs to be precise before a board game manufacturer can start creating the game. That’s why it’s smart for creators to wait to see how much money they will receive before beginning manufacturing, just in case a high-dollar backer’s card fails to charge. If you’re the one running the Kickstarter, bear in mind that Kickstarter will take a 5% fee, their payment partners will take a little more than 3%, and a small percentage of credit cards will fail to charge. Even if everything is perfectly lined up in advance, manufacturing often cannot begin until the funds clear. Kickstarter charges every backer’s credit card and the creator doesn’t receive the funds until about two weeks later.
Link in the description.Īlright, back to the show! How Board Games Go From Kickstarter to YouĬontrary to what you may think, Kickstarter funds don’t clear as soon as the campaign is over. We’ve worked with hundreds of Kickstarter campaigns, and would be happy to help you with yours too. If you need help fulfilling a Kickstarter, look no further.
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You’ll get to peek behind the curtain and see what really goes into getting rewards.Īnd if you’re the one running a Kickstarter, even better! This will help you understand the series of steps you need to go through to manifest your ideas as physical reality and get them into the hands of others.īut before we get to that, a quick note.
It doesn’t have to be, though! In this video, we’ll talk about how board games go from Kickstarter campaign pages to backers’ hands. So tough as fulfillment may seem, Kickstarter creators are still able to figure it out.Įven to the educated backer who regularly reads updates, the Kickstarter fulfillment process can be mysterious. Yet in the year 2019, almost 3,000 tabletop games successfully funded on Kickstarter, and the vast majority of them have shipped by now. As many as 84% of Kickstarters ship late, and that statistic was published long before the pandemic of 2020 or the supply chain disruptions of 2021. It’s notoriously tricky to fulfill a Kickstarter at all, let alone on time. This video is brought to you by Fulfillrite.
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