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Publisher Resources Götterdämmerung

Evil Robot Games Posted on July 15, 2022 by EvilRobotGamesJuly 15, 2022

We’ve been selling books in the marketplace for five years this month, and I’ve been collecting publisher resources for much longer. At some point, every game designer considers publishing their own work, a few that have done it told me … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Game Design, Götterdämmerung, Publishing

OneBookShelf and DriveThruRPG sales and marketing

Evil Robot Games Posted on July 14, 2022 by EvilRobotGamesJuly 15, 2022

I started selling things with OBS in July 2017, and by August I was trying to figure out their sales and marketing tools. Here is an excerpt of the sources of sales that I had in August 2017. Notice the … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Publishing

Publishing Business Expenses and what you can avoid

Evil Robot Games Posted on November 3, 2020 by EvilRobotGamesNovember 4, 2020

One of Tim Ferriss questions for different experts is what activity is a waste of time and while I’m not going to be totally binary on that front, I would like to talk about business activities you need to start … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Publishing

Firearms across 5e game settings and supplements

Evil Robot Games Posted on October 29, 2020 by EvilRobotGamesNovember 9, 2020

Today I’d like to talk a little bit about firearms in your 5e game, I’m not going to have the firearms don’t belong in fantasy discussion, I want to focus primarily on modern 5e settings where firearms are appropriate. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, D&D 5e, Game Design, Publishing, Weapons, Western

Lessons learned in publishing 2007 to 2019

Evil Robot Games Posted on August 22, 2020 by EvilRobotGamesAugust 22, 2020

In the beginning I wanted to write a huge core rulebook for my sci-fi setting, that would have been a terrible mistake. I spent thousands of dollars on worldbuilding the art bible and very few people can afford to go … Continue reading →

Posted in Art Direction, Business, Publishing | Tagged Behind the scenes, InDesign, Poster Maps

Game Design, how do you do it and is it written down?

Evil Robot Games Posted on June 12, 2020 by EvilRobotGamesJune 25, 2020

Owen mentioned that game companies rely heavily on institutional knowledge and not documented processes and procedures. This happens at small businesses,consulting shops, non-profits and government agencies of various sizes. If the process is “we call Bob” its not a process, … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Game Design | Tagged Behind the scenes, Business, Game Design

How to create permalinks for social media posts

Evil Robot Games Posted on April 11, 2020 by EvilRobotGamesApril 11, 2020

When you’re trying to promote something to social media, you’ll need something called a permalink to your original post. On Facebook, go to your post, click on the Timestamp for the post. That will bring you to the Permalink for … Continue reading →

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The Little Stock Art books that could and other tales

Evil Robot Games Posted on February 4, 2020 by EvilRobotGamesFebruary 4, 2020

A while back I made a post on the cost of creating the Pirate Fighter, it had a $1.33 piece of stock art on the cover and a handful of stat blocks. There were several other stock art spaceships. On … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Publishing | Tagged Behind the scenes, Starship

Traction finding the best ways to attract new customers

Evil Robot Games Posted on January 11, 2020 by EvilRobotGamesJanuary 15, 2020

So in the Pre and Post publication checklist post I mentioned a few different ways (Facebook, Reddit, Twitter) you could announce your new product to the world and the most common feedback that I received was that I didn’t include … Continue reading →

Posted in Business | Tagged Behind the scenes

Different types of Editors for Game Publishers

Evil Robot Games Posted on January 6, 2020 by EvilRobotGamesJanuary 6, 2020

As part of the series on the RPG Publishing business I am trying to describe what the different stages are in making a game book. At each stage I want to present what different people contribute to the book. One … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Publishing | Tagged Behind the scenes

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