Custom Cut Card Stock, New Game Pieces, Medium Game Mats
Hello Community!
We released a lot of new products in May and we've heard plenty of positive feedback from the community. Thank you! Be sure to scroll down and see all the new stuff we announced in May.
Tickets Now Available: TGC Community Game Night at Gen Con 2018 - Meet other game designers in our community, play games, and get feedback on your prototypes. Only 60 tickets are left and we sell out every year. Click here to get your tickets.
Custom Cut Card Stock
You can now fully custom cut card stock components! This means you can design your own playing card shapes, miniatures, shards, mats, etc. Need a card with a window? No problem. Need a size we don’t have? No problem. Just make your own!
We have 4 different sizes of card stock sheets that you can use to make your custom components. You’ll have to consider how big your custom items will be and how many you need. Here are the four types we offer:
Custom Mini Cardstock (2.5" x 3.5")
Custom Small Cardstock (3.25" x 5.25")
Custom Medium Cardstock (8" x 4.5")
Custom Large Cardstock (8.25" x 10.5")
We’re pleased to announce that Paper Armies has begun uploading his amazing paper miniatures to The Game Crafter. The photos above are from his first set, with many more to come. Get his miniatures at Paper Armies
New Game Pieces Available
We've added more new game pieces, parts, and miniatures to our shop. We now have 1,409 different board game pieces in our online parts shop. You can add these pieces to your games or you can purchase them separately in any quantity. Discounts for bulk orders are automatically applied at checkout. Here's what we added this month:
- Acrylic Meeples (in 11 different colors!)
- 12mm Ice Cubes (13 colors available)
- Acrylic Sticks (13 colors available)
- Paper Miniature Bases (8 colors available)
Click here to browse our collection of 1,409 board game pieces.
Medium Game Mats
Please welcome our gigantic 14 x 24 inch medium game mat. This is 2mm thick neoprene on the back, and cloth on the front. It is fully printed with your artwork for an incredible price of only $19 (as low as $9 in bulk).
Note: We used a 16mm green meeple in the middle of the mat for scale.
Quad Fold Mats
Quad Fold Mats are now available! These measure 11" x 17" inches (279x432 mm), and are now our largest mat, which will fit a large pro or a large retail box.
The famous RPG designer named MapHammer has released a whole series of his mats on this new format.
Thicker Tuck Boxes
We’ve just upgraded all of our tuck boxes from our normal 11.5pt card stock to 16pt card stock. It may not seem like much, but this is an upgrade in thickness you can feel in your hands, and your boxes will be more durable as a result. Perhaps best of all, we’re doing this upgrade free of charge! The new tuck boxes will cost the same as the old tuck boxes. Beginning with order 156942 all tuck boxes will have the thicker stock.
Mix and Match Shards
You can now mix and match shards the same way you mix and match chipboard punchouts. This means that you can have multiple different kinds of shards on the same sheet, thus saving you money!
Community Updates
Protospiel Omaha 2018 (This weekend: June 1-3)If you are a game designer you should always try and attend Protospiel events. It's the best place to playtest your games and get honest feedback about your game from other game designers. Protospiel Omaha is this weekend in Omaha, Nebraska! Event powered by Tabletop.Events.
Evergreen Tabletop Expo (This weekend: June 2-3) The Game Crafter is once again a sponsor of ETX and we are providing gift certificates for their social media contests, charity auction, and the LUCI game awards. Check out this year's Game Design Academy and the LUCI Awards.
Put-in-Bay Unpub Mini (June 8-10) There will be 6-12 Tables available each day of the Con for local game designers to playtest their unpublished games and get valuable feedback. The Game Crafter is a sponsor of this event and is providing some blank components, game pieces, and promo cards. Put-in-Bay Unpub Mini is free to anyone attending Put-in-Play Con. Visit: www.putinplaycon.com for ticket info.
Connnecticut Festival of Indie Games (July 13-15) takes place inside Connecticon and celebrates independent game development in New England and neighboring regions. Geek Fever Games will be hosting a TGC Designer Table at the event so be sure to stop by and say hello!
Solo Game Design Challenge (TGC Contest) Design a game in which the primary player count is 1. (Deadline: July 23, 2018)
8th Annual TGC Community Game Night at Gen Con (Aug 3, 8pm-Midnight) Meet other game designers in our community, play games, and get feedback on your prototypes. Only 60 tickets are left and we sell out every year. Click on the event name to buy a ticket.
7th Annual TGC Community Social at Gen Con (Aug 4, 7pm-11pm) We are hosting the TGC Community Social at O'Reilly's Irish Bar and Restaurant! They have plenty of food/drink options and we can hang out as a group at our reserved tables. Right now we are planning on roughly 35 people. Event is free and does not require GenCon event ticket. Please RSVP so we know how many are attending and can let the restaurant know final numbers.
Phase Shift Dimensions Challenge (TGC Contest) Design a game that pushes one or more dimensional envelopes. (Deadline: Sept 17, 2018)
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