Hello! I'm making a crowdsourced podcast about tabletop games. If you're interested I'd love to learn more about your creation:
https://forms.gle/ehCNkLA3WUNDQLaG8
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Hello! I'm making a crowdsourced podcast about tabletop games. If you're interested I'd love to learn more about your creation:
https://forms.gle/ehCNkLA3WUNDQLaG8
Hello! I'm making a crowdsourced podcast about tabletop games. If you're interested I'd love to learn more about your creation:
https://forms.gle/ehCNkLA3WUNDQLaG8
Hello! I'm making a crowdsourced podcast about tabletop games. If you're interested I'd love to learn more about your creation:
https://forms.gle/ehCNkLA3WUNDQLaG8
Hello! I'm making a crowdsourced podcast about tabletop games. If you're interested I'd love to learn more about your creation:
https://forms.gle/ehCNkLA3WUNDQLaG8
The upcoming jam themes will be:
- Relationship (February 2025)
- Solarpunk (March 2025)
- Vibes (April 2025)
- Minigame (May 2025)
- Quest (June 2025)
- Vehicle (July 2025)
- Fishing (August 2025)
- City Jam - everyone makes a character/location/historical event about one canonical city where everything takes place. (September2025)
- Micro mystery card - literally the bones of a mystery to be solved/created October 2025)
- Fantasy swag card (magical item) (November 2025)
- Extend the "With Thee I Bond" concept (December 2025)
You can submit your theme for an upcoming jam at this link.
Hi folks,
Thanks for your patience as I skipped last month's jam.
The headline news is I have made a change to the way these operate: selected contributors will no longer receive a printed set of cards. This means there will not be any reward or payment if your card is selected.
This raises two questions. Firstly, why would I do this?
Basically because nobody bought the booster packs. In the months since the first booster pack was released, we had precisely zero sales on The Gamecrafter. This is something I can handle for a brief window, but long-term is obviously unsustainable. I can't continue spending more-than-zero money on a thing that returns zero money.
Secondly, why would I think this is okay?
It might not be. You might need some sort of tangible reward to feel okay with somebody else (theoretically) printing one of your cards. I completely understand if that is the case. However, if it makes any difference, I have changed the pricing on the booster packs, and they now make $0 for Long Tail Games. The packs are now available for sale at cost-price, meaning the purchase only covers the cost of printing and selling from The Gamecrafter.
So the contributor doesn't get anything for the card, but neither does Long Tail Games.
The product has also been changed from random boosters to fixed-cards, so people can collect the entire set more easily. With these changes, I hope the product is more attractive to folks, and we can gradually build an audience for them.
Other than the above... nothing has changed. It's still a little monthly challenge that I hope you find fun and creatively fruitful.
- Ash (Long Tail Games)
PS - If you are still waiting for your cards to arrive (from previous jams) please continue be patient! They will all arrive, I'm just slowly ordering a couple each week.
The upcoming jam themes will be:
- Downtime activity (November 2024)
- Relationship (December 2024)
- Solarpunk (January 2025)
- Vibes (February 2025)
- Minigame (March 2025)
- Quest (April 2025)
- Vehicle (May 2025)
- Fishing (June 2025)
- City Jam - everyone makes a character/location/historical event about one canonical city where everything takes place. (July 2025)
- Micro mystery card - literally the bones of a mystery to be solved/created (August 2025)
- Fantasy swag card (magical item) (September 2025)
- Extend the "With Thee I Bond" concept (October 2025)
You can submit your theme for an upcoming jam at this link.