May 2013
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Staff Pick: Mad Rush Rally →
May 21st
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Unpub ProtoZone at Gamehole in Madison, WI
We are co-sponsoring the Unpub ProtoZone at the Gamehole convention in Madison, WI on November 1-3, 2013. If you’re in the midwest, this is going to be a great convention. And if you’re a game designer, it’s an opportunity to try out your games on some new people. 
May 20th
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AI card game knows how to bend the rules - tech -... →
A system that can create brand new card games from scratch could lead to an entirely new way of playing
May 19th
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TGC Designer Table at Phoenix Comicon
Conrad Rustad from wedontknow games is running a TGC Designer Table at the Phoenix Comicon next week on May 24-26th. He will be demoing his game, Drive Them Back, and have a selection of TGC game pieces, gift certificates, and more! Stop by and try out his awesome game and meet another member of The Game Crafter community!
May 18th
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May 17th
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Card & Board Game Designer's Guild Meetup @ GenCon...
We’re pleased to announce that JT will be a featured speaker at the Card & Board Game Designer’s Guild Meetup at GenCon 2013. 
May 16th
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May 15th
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May 14th
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IcePack Games Hosting TGC Designer Table at...
Toren and Prax, from IcePack Games, will be hosting a Designer’s Table at Balticon (www.balticon.org) again this year. They will have a table in the Dealer’s Hall and scheduled demos on Sunday at the Game Room. Toren will be on a few panels and they will be play-testing a few new games. Balticon has a very popular game room that is open 24 hours a day for the four days of the con. If...
May 13th
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May 12th
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New Job Opportunity in The Tabletop Game Industry
Many of you have asked us about jobs in the tabletop game industry and so we like to pass along new job opportunities when we discover them. Here’s one we found on LinkedIn: Board Game Publisher Director of Sales and Marketing Help Wanted at Hudson Valley Startup Board Game Publisher  Director of Sales and Marketing  Position to Start in June 2013; position located in Woodstock, NY. ...
May 11th
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May 10th
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Danny Devine Inducted Into The Hall of Fame
We are pleased to announce that Danny Devine has been inducted into The Game Crafter’s Hall of Fame. Tell us about yourself and how long you’ve been designing games My name is Danny Devine. I am 30 years old and live in Sparks, Nevada (Near Reno) with my beautiful and supportive wife Rachael, our 2 year old son Dustin, and our hyper wiener dog Lola. I am a Graphic...
May 9th
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GOOD GAMES. BAD GAMES. BOARD GAMES. VIDEO GAMES.... →
It’s not enough to have a good idea. It’s not even enough to have a good idea that works. When  making a game, you must reach a certain amount of perfection for it to even be playable. I found this…
May 8th
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Staff Pick: City of Gears →
May 7th
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Self-Cancellation
Our system takes a snapshot of a game immediately after you place an order for it to ensure that you get the game that you ordered at the time of order. However, sometimes right after you place an order, you wish you could make a few changes, cancel the order and place it again. Well now you can! Just go to your online receipt (Account > Receipts) and click the “Cancel This...
May 6th
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Tabletop Deathmatch →
The Cards Against Humanity guys are sponsoring a game design contest. Send ‘em a TGC prototype! 
May 5th
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May 4th
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May 3rd
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May 2nd
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Staff Pick: Station Fall →
May 1st
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April 2013
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Father Geek reviews Leathernecks '43 →
Apr 30th
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A Game That Will Last Forever →
Game designer Jason Rohrer is known for getting experimental with his games, but this time the creator of The Castle Doctrine, Diamond Trust of London and Passage took things to another level: He designed a game that no one living now is meant to play. 
Apr 29th
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Father Geek reviews Bit Shift →
Apr 28th
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Apr 27th
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Apr 26th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 24th
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Apr 23rd
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Gen Con 2013 - TGC Events & The First Exposure...
The Game Crafter will be returning to Gen Con this year and we’re going to have another 20x10 exhibitor booth! We’ll also be hosting the 2nd Annual TGC Community Social and a Community Game Night! If you plan on attending any of these events, please RSVP on the links above or by visiting The Game Crafter Facebook events page. Our friends at Double Exposure, Inc are once again running...
Apr 22nd
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Featured Game: Mad Rush Rally
While not all video game genres translate well over to board games, and vice-versa, there are number that have been successful at replicating the feeling of a video game but in a board game format. One of these games is Mad Rush Rally, currently sold exclusively on The Game Crafter. A previous finalist in the Map Builder Design Challenge held on the site, the game mimics the kart racing genre of...
Apr 22nd
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Father Geek reviews Drive Them Back →
Apr 21st
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Staff Pick: Farns Filoworth's Dirigible Disaster →
Apr 20th
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More Perk Updates - TGC Shrink Wrap Indiegogo...
“REVIEWER SPECIAL” PERK: If you have this perk, please email us at PERKS@THEGAMECRAFTER.COM and give us the name of the game you want us to print/review. IMPORTANT: Also be sure to send us the URL for the game’s page in the TGC shop. Both of these things are required so that we can verify we’re printing and reviewing the correct game. We will be reviewing games on a first-come, first-served basis,...
Apr 20th
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WatchWatch
Roll For It! is now available on Kickstarter. Roll it! Match it! Score it! It’s fun! It’s easy! It’s fast! It’s Roll For It! A dice and card game for the entire family. Back it today!
Apr 20th
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All Your Boxes Are Belong To Shrink Wrap!
The self-aware shrink wrap robot is online! Starting now all paper boxes will be leaving our shop shrink wrapped.  SHRINK WRAP F.A.Q. What does it cost me? Nothing. Shrink wrap is now and shall forever be free. Can I opt out of shrink wrap?  No.  You said paper boxes, what about the plastic tuck boxes? No. They melt. What if I just order loose parts or a game without a box? Will they...
Apr 19th
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Updates on Perks for TGC's Shrink Wrap Indiegogo...
We have completed the delivery of crafter points for ALL PERKS! If your perks came with crafter points, you should have them in your account now. You can verify this by logging into your account and clicking on your username in the upper right corner of the screen. You’ll then see how many crafter points you have in the gray navigation menu. You can even click on “Crafter Points” and you can see a...
Apr 19th
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Apr 18th
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Our Way Of Thanking You
As part of our Indiegogo Shrink Wrap project we let you vote with your dollars on what additional printables we should release. We raised enough money to release two: the 10x10 game board and the 18 card booster pack.  We wanted to find a way thank our community for supporting us in this effort, so we’ve decided to go one step beyond, and also release the next highest vote, which was the...
Apr 17th
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8 Year Old Boy Creates Buzzworthy New Board Game...
We recently heard about an 8 year old boy who created and self-published his own board game on The Game Crafter. The game is called Questing and it has received a lot of attention in the TGC community as well as on Reddit. We knew this would be a great story so we contacted his father, CC, and interviewed him to see how this all came about. Enjoy! Your son (who’s in middle school)...
Apr 16th
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Featured Testimonial: Ben Haskett and Baldrick's...
My very first game, Baldrick’s Tomb just closed on Kickstarter at a goal that I am very proud of: http://kck.st/Z3dPtX Before that, though, Baldrick’s Tomb was born right here at The Game Crafter, where it lived for about nine months. Since the game was released here, I’ve gotten to know a ton of fellow game designers, as well as a good number of TGC’s friendly staff. I...
Apr 15th
Staff Pick: Planetfall →
Apr 14th
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Apr 13th
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Winners Announced for The Game Crafter's $100...
Hey everyone! I just did the random drawings at Random.org. Originally we were only going to give away 1 $100 gift card for TGC shop credit, but we received enough and so I wanted to give some runner up prizes! It’s more fun with more prizes!! So we have 1 grand prize of $100 and 2 runner up prizes of $25 of shop credit. I’d like to congratulate the following winners: Grand Prize Winner: Joel...
Apr 12th
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Father Geek reviews Pieces of Eight - Buccaneers →
Apr 12th
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The Game Crafter Shrink Wrapping Campaign Was A...
Congratulations on a job well done! You, the community, raised $12,212 (407% of our funding goal!) and now all games will be shrink wrapped for free, forever! Your funds also allow us to release awesome new products like the Medium Pro Game Box, the 10” x 10” Game Board, and the 18-Card Booster Packaging. We also have a surprise or two coming soon. :) We’ll do the raffle for the...
Apr 12th
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Winners Announced For The Game Crafter's 20,000th...
It’s official, The Game Crafter has received over 20,000 orders for custom board games and card games, game pieces and parts, boxes, and playing cards! To celebrate, we wanted to give away 20,000 pennies ($200 USD) worth of TGC shop credit. We entered the customers who placed orders #19995 thru #20005 into a drawing and used Random.org to generate 2 random order numbers and select our...
Apr 11th
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Apr 11th
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The Medium Pro Game Box Is Funded!
The Game Crafter community has come together and funded the stretch goal for the Medium Pro Game Box! This is an exciting accomplishment and we know hundreds of you are eagerly anticipating the release of this new box! It’s a larger version of our popular Small Pro Game Box and we have a video of the prototype box here. Our next stretch goal is for a 9” x 18” Bi-Fold Chipboard...
Apr 11th
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Apr 10th
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