A blog about board game design and publishing by Jackson Pope, serial board game entrepreneur behind Eurydice Games and formerly Reiver Games.
Towards the end of last year I lost my way.
Went off the boil a bit.
Slowed down.
Missed things.
I used to use Trello and Evernote to organise myself. Then I switched to Notion. Then I kind of gave up on that.
If you follow me on twitter you'll know I loathe everything about Brexit.
From the nationalist lies that sold it to the voters to the terrible effect it's had on my European friends in the UK.
It'll make us culturally and financially poorer as a country.
It limits my daughters' rights to experience other countries.
And now it's biting Eurydice Games.
We buy our wooden pieces from a supplier in Germany.
They are no longer shipping to the UK.
Will they in future? I hope so. I don't know of an equivalent in the UK.
It's also harder for us to ship to European customers. They may end up getting charged VAT or import fees.
Everything about it sucks.
I only hope that we get to rejoin before too much damage is done.
I fear I'm hopelessly optimistic.
I worry about overheads.
Those costs you pay every month regardless of sales.
They sank my first company, Reiver Games, as the bank loan repayments and warehousing costs were bigger than sales most months.
So I worry about them.
Ours have increased.
We're lucky that we don't pay salary or rent.
So ours are very low.
But still.
If we're not actively fulfilling a Kickstarter, our overheads are now often larger than profits, and sometimes even sales.
There are two types, those that affect profits only (like depreciation and homeworking allowances) and those that affect profits and cash (like bank account fees and software subscriptions).
The latter are the worst.
We need to keep them down.
Or increase sales.
We sincerely wish you all a far better 2021 than 2020, and hope you get to return to something like normal fairly soon.
I'm taking a couple of weeks off to relax with my family, normal service will return next week!
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