Publish your game directly with Nestorgames

...just a link?

Why would a designer go this route rather than self-publishing?

What do you offer that others don't?

Why go with nestor instead of a domestic publisher?

most people on the forum know that's Nestor (he's been on these forums for like, 5 years?), and when I look at his posting history, the last time he posted about this particular thing was... over a year ago? and it seems like it was a different format at that time?

somewhat belligerent responses to a fairly benign post.

people are rather used to advertising and information being handed out to them in this day and age, but even with that said, it does have somewhat too little information to attract main stream attention assuming that was your intention

Nestor has published many games including my game Cannon. His materials are high quality and people are aware of that. Is quality a reason?

Hi,

I´ve already published 3 games with nestorgames and for my fourth game Tome I use the new methode for the first time. ( see: http://www.nestorbooster.com/#tomoe_detail )

I´d say publishing you game this way can be compared best with publishing the game via The Game Crafter.

The main differences are:

- you don´t have to do the layout, product design ...
- as nestorgames assortment focuses on abstract games, those games might be more likely to sell good than others (at least fans of abstracts much more likely will come across your game on nestorgames website than fans of ameritrash games will do)
- the game must fit the quite strict limits of the nestorgames format

Finally I can say, you should not expect large sales figures (I think 100 per year would be rather overestimated), but if you agree that selling a few games is better than beeing unpublished, you should consider nestorbooster.
If you want to get richt and famous, publishing the game with nestorgames might not bring you much closer to your goal.
But if thats you goal, designing board games might be the wrong job anyway.

Well here's the information I have about The Game Crafter (TGC):

• MOST games will NOT sell 100 copies.
• The profit you should expect to earn is about $5.00.
• Remember that profit is split 70/30. So actual markup should be about $7.15.

And remember making games with many parts/components is also very expensive. The more you add, the pricier it gets.

The good thing about The Game Crafter is Bulk Fulfillment.

Although the option is costlier these days (after the recent increase), a Kickstarter combined with TGC Bulk Fulfillment is great since TGC handles ALL aspects from design, to production, to final shipment! That's right Bulk allows you to handle direct shipping... Which is FANTASTIC.

So in order to get good sales on TGC, it is recommended to have a Kickstarter to fund the production run of about 250 - 350 game sets (that's the average).

In the end what this means is that you should expect to earn about $1500 - $2000 profit with a self-published game via Kickstarter/TGC.

Now if you have your game published via a Publisher you should probably expect that same amount for a 1st Print Run ($1500 - $2000). But if the game sells well, you should expect a 2nd Print Run which should be about double (so $3000 - $4000). Add that all up and it makes the total about $4500 - $6000...

Maybe coco could give some figures about Nestorbooster and how they compare...

Nestor!! :) :) :)

I'm considering submitting one of my own creations as well.

A couple of questions, though:

The game in question is (for now) a print and play game.
(As much as I'm aware, Andrew from printplaygames.com offers it, too.)
Would you mind if the game remained available as a free print and Play as well?
(After all, there is a difference between paper and high quality components).

Also, there is one passage on your site I do not understand:
"The number of copies that the designer must purchase (at a discount) in order to release it."
So, I would have to buy physical copies of my own game?
If so, what for? I don't have a chance (even less: a store) to sell it..

Thank you and kind regards,
Kai

I will give away some copies to my most reliable playtesters, some other friends will get the game as birthday gifts etc. and if some should be left, trading them for other games on BGG is also a good option.

Hmm... That's usually why designer choose to crowdfund - they need money to pay for artwork, for initial print runs, etc.

But I guess if the designer runs his OWN Kickstarter, well nothing prevents him/her to purchase like 250-350 copies of the game.

So 'authorfunding' is a good way to go about it...

The only problem is if you want to not have to go the route alone, well then you can't participate in Nestorgames, because it sort of relies on "self-publishing" to, eh, work...

It all sounds interesting. Though it seems like you are limited to pretty small and basic type games. I don't think I will do anything that "small".

Although I'm tempted to throw some crap together just to go thru the process.