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The board game industry, being a niche market, has long used pledge programs in which consumers commit to buy a game before it is manufactured. Kickstarter ha
by JoeDaDude 10y ago
The board game industry, being a niche market, has long used pledge programs in which consumers commit to buy a game before it is manufactured. Kickstarter has taken over a lot of this, so some fraction of the Kickstarter games were made by established game publishers rather than individuals or new enterpreneurs.
- 1123581321 10y agoI don't think many pre-existing board game pledge programs moved to Kickstarter, though am happy to be corrected. The most prominent pledge system is GMT's and it is still thriving. Most non-Hasbro/AEG/Asmodee board game publishers are smaller than GMT.
- JoeDaDude 10y agoGood observation, so perhaps it is better to say that there are some established publishers use Kickstarter as a de-facto pledge program. Granted, these publishers are not the major players like GMT or Decision Games. Some smaller players that do rely on Kickstarer are Mayday Games [1], Worthington Games [2], and Queen Games [3]. [1] https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/maydaygames/created https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/maydaygames/created [2] https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/1456271622/created https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/1456271622/created [3] https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/1016374822/created https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/1016374822/created