Protospiel San Jose 2017 Announced

December 7, 2016

PROTOSPIEL SAN JOSE 2017
Friday, April 7 - 10 AM to 6 PM
Saturday, April 8 - 10 AM to 10 PM
Sunday, April 9 - 10 AM to 10 PM

Game Kastle Mountain View
550 Showers Dr.
Mountain View, CA 94040
(650) 935-2229
www.gamekastle.com

Three days of all the board games you can handle for free! Come help local game designers and game companies play test their upcoming titles. Enjoy free snacks and the chance to win games from huge pool of raffle prizes.

Designer and VIP Player badge registration will go live on Tabletop.Events in January

RSVP as a player via the related Meet Up group:
http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Board-Game-Boosters-and-Designers/

Find our Facebook group here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/boardgamebuilders/

Within walking distance of Game Kastle Mountain View are:
Subway
Veggie grill
Starbucks
Chilies
Sushi 88
Many other restaurants

Safeway
Walmart
Target
Trader Joes

Uber and Lyft are widely available in this area for transportation.
Several hotels and the San Antonio Caltrain station are within walking distance.

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this post incorrectly listed the San Antonio station as light rail station. It is a Caltrain station.

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How the Contender game climbed out of 40K in debt.

November 29, 2016

How many copies of your game should you print based on your Kickstarter?

What DIY marketing methods work to sell more copies of your game and what is a waste of time and money?

The guys from the Contender learned the answers to these questions the hard way. Their follow up article is worth your valuable time to learn from their mistakes.

How we turned $140k on Kickstarter into $40k in debt. And how we broke even.

https://medium.com/swlh/how-we-turned-140k-on-kickstarter-into-40k-in-debt-and-how-we-broke-even-1f86d80fe50f#.nq93w94xy

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Great infographic on tabletop Kickstarters via Casual Game Revolution.

July 22, 2016

Click the link below to check out a great infographic on board game Kickstarter projects from Casual Game Revolution.

http://casualgamerevolution.com/blog/2016/07/tabletop-games-on-kickstarter-from-2014-to-2016-a-must-see-infographic-for-project

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Learn to Play Mystic Vale at 9 Bay Area game stores.

June 24, 2016

This weekend, Brian from AEG will be demoing Mystic Vale at a bunch of bay area game stores. Mystic Vale uses an interesting new mechanic were you craft or construct cards using transparent overlays. This novel mechanic is backed up by a great game with some elements of press your luck, deck building and a tech tree. Worth your time to check it out. If you like the game you can pre-order it from your FLGS before its release in a few weeks.

-=- Saturday the 25th -=-

Saturday the 25th, 10 AM -12 PM

Black Diamond Games

http://www.blackdiamondgames.com

1950 Market Street, Concord CA 94520

Saturday the 25th, 1 PM - 3 PM

House of Games

http://www.h-o-games.com

155 Railroad Ave, Danville CA 94526

Saturday the 25th, 3:30 PM -5 :30 PM

Galaxy Games

https://www.facebook.com/galaxygamestore

6715 Dublin Blvd, Dublin CA 94568

Saturday the 25th, 6 PM - 8 PM

Game Kastle Fremont

http://www.gamekastle.com

3911 Washington Blvd, Fremont CA 94538

Saturday the 25th, 9 PM - 11 PM

Bigger, Better Games

http://www.biggerbettergames.com/

43012 Christy St

Fremont, CA 94538

-=- Sunday the 26th -=-

Sunday the 26th, 10 AM - 12 PM

Game Kastle Santa Clara

http://www.gamekastle.com

1350 Coleman Ave, Santa Clara, CA95050

Sunday the 26th 1 PM - 3 PM

Isle of Gamers

http://www.isleofgamers.com

2740 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA95051

Sunday the 26th 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Legends Comics and Games

http://www.legendscomicsandgames.com

2054 El Camino Real

Santa Clara, CA95050

Sunday the 26th 6 PM - 8 PM

Game Kastle Mountain View

http://www.gamekastle.com

550 Showers Dr, Mountain View, CA94040

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9 sources of images and artwork for game prototypes.

June 14, 2016

Top 9 sources of images and artwork for game prototypes.

Do you need some place holder artwork to make your game prototype look more attractive to play testers? I have personally found the following nine websites to be most useful when dressing up my own prototypes.

1. TheNounProject.com

Easily searchable. Great for both artwork and icons. Use an icon for free with attribution, pay $1 per icon to use without attribution. Or pay $10 a month for unlimited use of all icons.