A word on pricing

As you might know, we design our games and have them printed by a third party website (The Game Crafter). As such we have little control over the price of our products.
Our add-on decks are produced with almost zero profit margin* (if not for rounding up to the next .99 cents which is done by the website). They are reasonably priced as they are but small game components. However, our full games may appear very pricey compared to similar offerings by larger game companies. Please understand that, by using a third party printer that prints on demand individual copies as they are ordered by you, this price difference is unavoidable. Unfortunately we cannot at this stage envisage any type of bulk printing to lower those prices at the moment.
We hope you understand our current situation.

*as per our agreements with the original game’s publisher.

TGC increases prices again (Nov. 2022)

We were advised on yet another price increase (30% !!) by The Game Crafter (TGC) due in November 2022. We copy their email below. We will have to review our products’ pricing to assess if it is viable to continue using TGC as a printing service. An announcement will be made soon after we have come to a decision.

Email from The Game Crafter on October 20th, 2022:

“Pricing Changes

Just over a year ago we had to raise prices due to inflation. Unfortunately, things have not improved and everything has only gotten more expensive. We’ve all watched the news and seen how grain and fuel prices have gone up worldwide. These increases in food and shipping costs have impacted the price of almost everything. For example, our card stock manufacturer (plus shipping) has increased the cost of raw materials by over 30% this year. And we’ve seen other similar changes in chipboard that we use for making boards and boxes.

If our costs have gone up, we know that our employees’ costs have gone up as well. We’ve got a great team that works hard to make your games a reality and it’s important we take care of them. This price increase also allows us to provide better healthcare for our staff. This will help them stay healthy and reduce financial burden.

So with that, you probably want to know 2 things: when and how much?

Cards and rigid boxes will be going up around 30-35%. Paper boxes will be going up 35-40%. We got a 1-time deal on thick chipboard for folding boards and those will only be going up 5%, but will likely rise in the future. Plastic products like acrylic and 3d printed material will also be going up by about 5%.

These pricing changes will be going into effect on November 21.

Nobody likes to see price increases. We don’t want to do this. But for the health of our business and our employees we must raise prices. If you’re running a kickstarter that launched before these price increases, we’ll work with you to do our best to hold to our old prices. The easiest way to do that is for you to place your order before the place changes go into effect. Likewise, if you want a better price on your crowd sale, make sure it starts before the price increases go into effect and we’ll honor the old pricing.

Thank you for your understanding. If there’s anything we can do to help, please reach out to us at info@thegamecrafter.com.”