May 2012
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May 13th
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May 12th
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May 11th
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Order Processing Times Increased
Due to greatly increased demand The Game Crafter is announcing a delay in order delivery.  We are continuing to work to bring the order queue down as quickly as possible however, you should expect that orders will not be sent out for delivery for at least 15 business days after placing them.  We ask that you please plan accordingly when placing orders so that you receive your games and parts in...
May 8th
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Fridgecrisis Games to Exhibit at CONduit
Jason Frost of Fridgecrisis Games will be exhibiting at CONduit as part of our Designer Table Sponsorship Program on May 25th. If you happen to be in the Salt Lake City area you should go check out CONduit and say hello to Jason. He’ll be demoing his game Villages while he’s there. However, he’s also willing to showcase other designer’s games, so get in touch with him if...
May 8th
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RPG Challenge Finalists
Here are your finalists for in the RPG Challenge: Lady Pirates on Terror Island DWARF•KNUCKLE Haunted Tales SWAT Hapless Labyrinth Baldrich’s Tomb Nickropolis Our guest judge Jason Tagmire is already playing these games and scoring them trying to determine an overall winner. This is a lot of games to play and review so it will take some time. We hope to announce the winner in the next few...
May 7th
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Review of Dog Collector →
Father Geek reviews Dog Collector
May 6th
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May 5th
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RPG Challenge: Winners for "Best Of" Categories
Here are your winners for the “Best Of” categories in the RPG Challenge. Each winner gets a prize of 10,000 crafter points. The winner for Best Artwork goes to SWAT. Our guest judge, Jason Tagmire, had this to say about it: The artwork in SWAT drew me in from the start. It’s very simple, yet wonderfully executed. The style is consistent throughout the entire game, and it feels...
May 4th
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May 4th
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Matt Worden is featured in Games Magazine!
Matt Worden is featured in the July 2012 edition of Games Magazine! (pages 75-76) Matt has been a loyal member of The Game Crafter community since we opened our doors in 2009 and we’re really impressed with what he’s been able to accomplish. This interview is well deserved after his game, Jump Gate, was selected as the “Traditional Game of the Year” in Games Magazine. Not...
May 3rd
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Exhibit at Gen Con Indy
How would you like to participate and be featured in our booth at Gen Con Indy this August? Gen Con Indy is the largest gaming convention in North America. This is your chance to get your game in front of publishers, distributors, and 36,000 gamers! You’ll get a table and four chairs to show off your games in the booth: We’ll also talk about you in our blog and social media sites,...
May 1st
April 2012
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Apr 30th
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Review of MERC →
Father Geek reviews MERC
Apr 29th
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10,000th Customer!!!
We’re pleased to announce we’ve just received our 10,000th order. To commemorate the occasion we’re giving 10,000 pennies ($100) to our 10,000th customer. That lucky customer happens to be Jonathan Kantor of TalkingBull Games. Congratulations Jonathan!
Apr 28th
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Apr 28th
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Another Game Giveaway from Matt Worden Games!
Matt Worden Games is once again giving games away for free! This time he is giving away 2 copies of Subtilla. 1 copy of the game has been hidden and whoever finds it first gets to keep it! A second copy of the game will be awarded to a randomly-drawn winner from those who email him the correct location before it is physically found. The details and daily clues can be found at:...
Apr 27th
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Apr 27th
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ListenAll Us Geeks featured The Game Crafter in its...
Apr 24th
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University of Nebraska professor and his seriously... →
Apr 23rd
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Review of Sucker →
Father Geek reviews Sucker
Apr 22nd
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Apr 21st
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Apr 20th
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Apr 20th
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Apr 20th
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PayPal Scheduled Maintenance
PayPal will be down for scheduled maintenance from 10pm to 11pm PDT tonight.  This means that you will not be able to check out on our site using PayPal during this time. Our credit card checkout will continue working during this time. Here’s what PayPal had to say about this maintenance. As part of our continued efforts to provide the latest technology products and services, we will be...
Apr 20th
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RPG Challenge Entries
The RPG Challenge has ended, and we got a pile of great submissions. We wanted to share those with you: KeyQuest The Estate Heroes and Monsters Behemoth: Shadows in the Smog Story Quest Temporum Venari Solis Here Be Dragons Dragonrider Tournament Yes Your Eviiilness! Population: 4 The Most Toys… Lady Pirates on Terror Island Trailer Park Paparazzi DWARF•KNUCKLE Campaign...
Apr 17th
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Rules for Teaching Rules →
Apr 17th
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Apr 16th
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$100 to our 10,000th Customer!
We’re rapidly approaching our 10,000th order at The Game Crafter, and we thought we should do something to celebrate that achievement. So we’ve decided to give our 10,000th customer $100 in shop credit so that they can buy anything they want from our shop. Or they could turn some of that money into crafter points and use it to promote their game if they happen to be a game designer.  ...
Apr 16th
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Review of Subtilla →
Father Geek reviews Subtilla
Apr 15th
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RPG Challenge Submissions Due Today
If you’re entering the RPG Challenge, your submissions are due today!
Apr 15th
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Review of Wind Power →
Father Geek reviews Wind Power
Apr 14th
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Apr 13th
Printer online!
The part we needed arrived, and we have fixed our press. We’re now printing orders and will be working 24/7 to get caught up. Thanks for your patience.
Apr 12th
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Apr 11th
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Printer Down
Our digital press is offline. It went down yesterday, and our tech thought he could fix it. However, he needed a part he didn’t have on hand and the part won’t be here until tomorrow. So we’re offline for a bit. We’ll still be shipping out parts only orders, and we’ve already shipped everything we had printed before the printer went down. We should be back online on...
Apr 10th
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Book or Board Game? →
Apr 9th
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Apr 7th
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Apr 6th
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Why do a Designer Profile Interview?
A couple of times over the past six months I’ve been asked either “Why do you do the designer profile interviews?” and/or “Why would a designer want to do the interview when the questions are always the same?”  The answer is simple really. Though the questions are the same, the answers aren’t. And that’s what makes it interesting to read. We also do it...
Apr 5th
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Apr 4th
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Exhibit at Gen Con Indy
How would you like to participate and be featured in our booth at Gen Con Indy this August? Gen Con Indy is the largest gaming convention in North America. This is your chance to get your game in front of publishers, distributors, and 36,000 gamers! You’ll get a table and four chairs to show off your games in the booth: We’ll also talk about you in our blog and social media sites,...
Apr 3rd
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Add A Deck Of Playing Cards
Many of our users have been asking for a way to add a standard deck of playing cards to their game for years. I’m pleased to tell you that this has now become a reality.  To use this feature, simply go into your file manager anywhere in TGC. At the bottom of the screen you’ll see an option like this: If you click on it, you’ll get a folder of standard playing card faces added...
Apr 3rd
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Going Cardboard Now Available!
We’re pleased to announce we are now carrying the new board game movie Going Cardboard in our parts shop. We’ve also added a few different sizes of our TGG T-Shirt to the shop, if you want to show your proud affiliation with The Game Crafter. And finally, we’ve added some of our Designer Table Covers from our Designer Table Sponsorship program. Some of the people we sponsor...
Apr 2nd
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Bigger Bulk Discount
Over the past few months many customers have asked us if we could provide an even bigger discount if they ordered even more copies at once. Some are wanting to sell direct to retailers, while others are looking at large purchases for weddings and other events, while others are doing mini-kickstarter projects. So we’re pleased to announce that we’re now offering a 15% discount if you...
Apr 2nd
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April Fools!
So I know it was a Saturday, and therefore you weren’t expecting it, but we fooled more than a few of you. Sorry about that. =) We did not buy Father Geek or The Gamers’ Table. But we do appreciate both of them playing along with us.  Have a great Sunday!
Apr 2nd
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15 Days Left in the RPG Challenge!
T minus 15 days before you have to have your RPG Challenge submissions submitted. 
Apr 1st
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The Game Crafter Buys out Father Geek and The...
We are pleased to announce that we have bought the rights for thegamerstable.info and fathergeek.com. Tavis Parker, VP of Acquisitions for The Game Crafter said of the deal, “These two sites are such a valuable service to our customers that we simply had to have them.” “Between the reviews that they offer, and the extra traffic that they will direct to thegamecrafter.com, we...
Apr 1st