Board Games - Creation And Play

We ran some ads during the Gamefound campaign. Which is still open to late pledges The ads led to a bump in website sales as they always do...

Rocky ‘Roid was over 500% funded. The ads didn’t do very well though, probably broke even at best. Still, FlickFleet is going great. Website...

For the last two years the vast majority of our sales have been through our three FlickFleet Kickstarters. And the subsequent pledge manager...

I started Reiver Games in 2006 with £1,000 of our family savings. That's a lot of money. I was lucky that we were able to gamble it - bu...

In these days of wall-to-wall Kickstarters it’s easy to forget how critical retail (both online and through FLGSs) is to the success of a ga...

Three weeks ago I mentioned that I was trying to set up a promotion to encourage US shops to stock my games, and to help those that already...

In the publishing business you want to do two things: make stuff (in my case board games) and make money. If you're honest you're do...

If you take a look at my stockists page on my website, you'll notice that there are almost as many UK stockists of my games (that I kno...

Over the last year or so I've managed to pick up twenty distributors for my games . This is obviously a Good Thing(tm), since I can now ...

In my last quarterly newsletter I did a special deal for subscribers where they got to buy my games at a discount price. There were a few ta...

Happy New Year everyone. I hope you all had a good Christmas (or other appropriate holiday season). I had a proper break for Christmas and N...

In my last post I showed you just how scary the figures could be for trying to make games for a living. They weren't actual figures for...

I get lots of emails from people who are interested in publishing a game of their own design. Some want to start small, like I did with Bord...

This evening my journey to my second Spiel convention in Essen begins. Despite my best intentions it's been a largely last minute panic ...

Newsletters, when done right, are what Seth Godin calls permission marketing : Permission marketing is the privilege (not the right) of d...

I'm expecting September sales to be fairly low, since I've no new games coming out, and I hope lots of people will be waiting to buy...

We moved into our new house last Thursday. Thursday, Friday and the weekend were spent moving and trying to sort stuff out, Monday I was at ...

It's always hard when you move to a new area. You don't know anyone or where anything is. It takes a while to find your feet and get...

We moved down South last Monday/Tuesday. Since then I've had no internet access. I've been making trips into Bedford (about eight m...

It's all change at Reiver Towers. The games to the other UK distributor were collected yesterday, so our bedroom feels palatial all of a...