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Newbie, and willing to share.

Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 3:49 pm
by Rafiki
Here is my first Kickstarter project:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ma ... board-game

I didn't know what I was doing, and that's why I did this - to learn. I'd do it differently now, but oh well. I'm going to do another one after this, and hopefully I'll do better.

Anybody have any sharing ideas?

Re: Newbie, and willing to share.

Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 6:16 pm
by sbriggman
Seems like it's going well so far. What would you do differently?

Re: Newbie, and willing to share.

Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 6:59 pm
by Rafiki
Thanks.

I would have done a lot of things differently, but mostly I would have made it simpler and shorter. I would have left the genetic code out of it.

Re: Newbie, and willing to share.

Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 8:26 pm
by VirginiaMcClain
I like it! I just tweeted it to my (very small) crowd of followers on twitter. Seems fun!

Re: Newbie, and willing to share.

Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 3:15 am
by RWP
That was quite amazing. I checked out the project and I actually thought it was amazing! If this were my project I would definitely have had it shorter so potential backers wouldn't have to read very long. I would take out the stuff about code world, how many pieces there are, and the things that don't talk about how great your toy is. You want to explain to people why they should help your toy become the next big thing, not why you're toy was thought to be too confusing (this definitely is an issue). I think this has potential to be absolutely stunning though! I hope for the best in your project and if it isn't successful this time around I would redo it! Improve it and make it successful :D

Re: Newbie, and willing to share.

Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 1:49 pm
by KnoxHill
I don't think it needs to be shorter. In fact, it was very informative, to the point, and entertaining. Great idea, with massive potential.

Re: Newbie, and willing to share.

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 5:12 pm
by BumptoBaby
I'm not sure why you are speaking as if the campaign is over, it's not too late to revamp things and change things around if you're not happy.

Re: Newbie, and willing to share.

Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 7:50 am
by loftofcambie
Stay positive! Keep pushing and find all your friends to help spreading the words. Look or the board games or card games forum and promote your new idea. Is there any card games and board games shop locally? Pay a visit and talk to the folks I guess.

I just launched my first campaign myself and I too have no idea what I was doing. It will come together. I just keep talking to my friends and ask them to help spreading the words.


Best Regards,
Chris.
http://kck.st/1s6qniB

Re: Newbie, and willing to share.

Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 3:42 pm
by LimaKhan
There's a lot of reading, some of it looks quite technical! But then my kickstarter campaign also has a lot of reading too, I used a similar tactic to you, trying to break up the big blocks of text with a few well-placed photographs!

This toy does look ingenious actually, I will share this with my Twitter followers for you (just 600 though)

Best of luck :)

Re: Newbie, and willing to share.

Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 12:39 pm
by Rafiki
Thanks, everybody.

These things are an emotional roller coaster, and it helps to share that with others who know.