Hooray, successful Kickstarter! So much work ahead, but double-hooray, very little of it is marketing! Some early numbers & thoughts: The campaign ended with 323 backers pledging $6511—a little over 325% of the funding goal. Now, payment processing can take up to a week (some peoples payments dont go through right away—could be low balance, cc expiration date, wrong zip code, I dont know, but Amazon keeps trying to get the payments for about a week) and then up to another week before they let me have the money, so my next 2 weeks are finalizing the card files, getting the box & rulebook files ready and ordering final proofs of those (since Im changing them), and otherwise getting my ducks in a row before I can place the bulk orders for everything/everyone. If 100% of payments go through (possible/unlikely), I show 266 copies of the First Edition game have been pledged for. Adding 20 copies for damage/errors & direct sales, plus the boxes, rules, & grey cards to turn the un-pledged-for 14 Preview Editions into First Editions for the same, plus 7 more copies of the rules & grey cards for the pledged-for Preview Editions means I need: 31,195 cards, 300 boxes, and 307 rule books. ((Or maybe Ill reduce the whole thing by 7 copies; Im planning to make it a signed, numbered limited edition, and of 300 looks a lot nicer than of 307; the only trick is if theres more than 10% error/loss. Ooh! Or number the Preview-Edition-update rulebooks separately, of 7; very clever, Teel!)) The shipping charges just to get everything to me will be around $268. Itll cost another ~$1500+ to ship everything out to backers... Shipping costs of the finished game represent about 28% of the total amount pledged—half or more of that for shipping the ~56 International copies. Ooh, but 55 people pledged $63 to the $1/thank-you tier, which is a very appreciated extra ~$56.70 after fees. (You know about Kickstarters 5% and Amazons 3-5%, right? Right off the top of every Kickstarter.) Plus, I get to paint two more little monster paintings for friends, which is pretty awesome. Actually, most of the work from here on out is stuff I enjoy. But first: Bed. Sleep.
Posted on: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 06:31:54 +0000
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