Hoping there's a few folk with an answer for this....
All the games I publish have laser engraved, polyresin dice. I've used the one factory since the first game and they still make dice for me today.
Our first game (Pocket cricket) has an injection mould which reduced the unit about 45% - good but a hefty outlay. It has paid for itself though now.
Follow up games don't have a mould. With 6 games, the outlay would be too much. I simply have the dice engraved on smaller runs. The price is obviously higher, but I can change the die faces for any reprint or additions etc. I'm not locked into to the mould...
Recently I tried a new factory in China for a quote. From what I know, acrylic dice are cheaper than polyresin, but are more difficult to engrave...or so more than one factory has told me.
Quotes for acrylic dice also included an additional mould fee....
So leads me to my question.....if the dice are being engraved, why the mould fee?
Is there no engraving in this case, is it simply a cheaper resin mould?
Whatever the reason, the quote from the new factory was no cheaper per unit price with my current factory, and it had the mould fee on top of that.
Has anyone else had such an experience?
