Well, I'm putting together my first attempt at entrepreneurship myself right now, so I'll let you know how it turns out. Without going into exhaustive detail, I'm making a tabletop wargame with a focus on proxies. The model's base is 25mm, the same base size of unaugmented humans in a certain popular grimdark game, and the historically insired factions will hopefully convince some historical wargamers to try converting minis. I plan to make the core rules free online with a small initial kickstarter, and probably only start making any real money with expansions and a 2nd edition.
Theres a culture war angle here in that I think that alot of tabltop gaming companies like WotC and GW are quite incompetent and will likely bleed fans over time. That's its own can of worms to be opened in another post though.
I'm at the point where I'll have to start advertising it via videos, reddit posts, etc which I absolutely despise. I love talking about it organically with friends, but theres something fake and wrong feeling about doing so to make future sales, even if its nessesary.
So far though for me its been alot of working in photo editors on my rulebook and making 2d pixel sprites for tabletop simulator testing. Oh and a small mountain of varoius spreadsheets and documents. I may move back to the US from the UK to start the company, as America seems more amenable to businesses in general.
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Well, I'm putting together my first attempt at entrepreneurship myself right now, so I'll let you know how it turns out. Without going into exhaustive detail, I'm making a tabletop wargame with a focus on proxies. The model's base is 25mm, the same base size of unaugmented humans in a certain popular grimdark game, and the historically insired factions will hopefully convince some historical wargamers to try converting minis. I plan to make the core rules free online with a small initial kickstarter, and probably only start making any real money with expansions and a 2nd edition.
Theres a culture war angle here in that I think that alot of tabltop gaming companies like WotC and GW are quite incompetent and will likely bleed fans over time. That's its own can of worms to be opened in another post though.
I'm at the point where I'll have to start advertising it via videos, reddit posts, etc which I absolutely despise. I love talking about it organically with friends, but theres something fake and wrong feeling about doing so to make future sales, even if its nessesary.
So far though for me its been alot of working in photo editors on my rulebook and making 2d pixel sprites for tabletop simulator testing. Oh and a small mountain of varoius spreadsheets and documents. I may move back to the US from the UK to start the company, as America seems more amenable to businesses in general.
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