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I will be following your campaign. Because this is your first KS Published game... My research data looks to have backers counts from 100-450 backers. What I'm interested in knowing is IF you can surpass that goal and reach for a higher backer count.

I'm also assuming that you chose a manufacturer with a MOQ of 1,000 games and not one of the others who can produce as low as a MOQ of 500 games.

This is good - because it helps determine if KS is in anyway changing. I know KS campaigns have dramatically changed from 3-4 years ago. But still the first-time creators seem to still be on the lower end of the spectrum.

So it will be a sort of a test. Is the advice that a MOQ of 500 units still accurate advice to be given to first-time creators, or can newbie designers get a bit more in terms of backers these days.

Best of luck(?!) with your campaign!

For someone scrolling down your page, the first three things they see are nearly identical – the freeze frame for the video, the box with quotes around it, then the Playtime/Age/Players graphic surrounding the box. Consider removing 1 of those three or changing the format of it so that you can give me more diverse content / information earlier on the page.

The "What is Scrambo" section doesn't give me enough information about your game I think. Obviously brief text is good, but I'd like a little more on how the game is played in your page.

You know this is exactly what we (OLG and I) need to concern ourselves with. We have 936 backers + 10% insurance (due to possible damage) so that covers 1,000 orders. The problem is that it doesn't do any good for the future of the game ... if everything just "stops there"! Now while it is quite possible for someone like Jamey Stegmaeir to sell 58,000 units to solely distribution, we're not him -- we don't have the same relationships that he has and we don't have the same "blood, sweat and tears" to invest.

So this makes me think that perhaps a 1,500 order plan might give us about 400 units available for re-sale. I think at this point in time, 2,000 units is just beyond our capabilities to promote and sell that much extra inventory: look it took people from around the world to make up 936 backers. Expecting another 1,000 locally (on in and around the USA) is not really realistic (IMHO).

But you definitely bring up the same point. This is a decision to be made when you are ready to go for production. Sure it helps with cost and knowing your targets (backer-wise)... But ultimately you will make that decision based on your level of funding.

Cheers!

Okay, I might not be the normal Kickstarter customer, but I don't look at the videos. Maybe after I've 90% decided if I'm interested I'll look, but otherwise I don't.

As a result (I assume), I don't QUITE know how the game is played. There are pictures of the dice. There's a big picture of what all the 30-whatever categories are. That doesn't matter too much if I don't know how to play.

I can sort of infer the gameplay, which makes me think one paragraph should cover it, and that paragraph should be higher than the picture of all the categories. I'm guessing something like "you roll the dice and have to come up with a word in each of five categories that matches the letter you also rolled, before your opponent manages to roll (something) on those timer dice."

But that also makes me wonder who's judging the answers, so maybe it's not quite that.

Anyway, a paragraph for that will help.

If it's as fast-paced as you imply, I think the learning curve will be steep. It might take me longer to figure out what category an icon represents (at first) than it would to get an answer out in that category... I mean, the icons are good, but still. There are two kinds of shirt. The soccer ball is sports TEAMS, but not sports TYPES or sports PLAYERS. etc.

I'm surprised the shipping price (in USA) doubled from 1 to 3 games.. this looks small and light.

Well the thing is, we don't know how KS backers will react to a light "dice" game. Firstly with a lower price point, you'd imagine that most people would "flock" to the game. Not necessarily true.

From my own experience, KS backers would gladly spend on "extras" rather than having the plain vanilla product -- and YES -- EVEN IF THE PRICE IS LESS EXPENSIVE.

So it seems like the theory of "the sky is the limit" is out??? Well it can be with certain games like "miniatures" where the game costs OVER $100 USD. And people BUY it.

But then we see a simple card game like "Exploding Kittens" which earns almost 9 million dollars in funding...

Therefore the excitement is to see what KS Backers think about your inexpensive "dice" game! Really the only comparison would be "Dungeon Roll", which made a cool $250k... And their smallest reward was only $15 USD too. So yeah, could be interesting to watch.

Personally I think the "potential" is there. But what KS Backers will think?! That I don't know...

Cheers!