I did a workup of the finances and sales I've had for the Doctor Esker's Notebook project. I figure this might be of interest to oth...

I haven't done a financial update in a while. Here's how it looks. Graph #1 is my total revenues stacked on top of my total expenses...

I've been doing a series of posts about the financial end of my game project, and I haven't posted an update for a while. I'm ne...

This past week I crossed $2,000 in revenue for Dr. Esker's Notebook . The last bit of that came from a distribution deal in Canada with ...

For those of you following the business side of my indie game publishing project with Doctor Esker's Notebook, here's an update. I...

OK, I've had a published game out there for one week. Yay! Here are some numbers: I started with 1080 copies; I've sold 24.  Afte...

I found this post by James Mathe from someone in the boardgame design community on Google+.  It's a really great summary of steps to pu...

Tasty Minstrel games has started a Kickstarter fund drive for its next release, a space-themed card game called Eminent Domain.  Tasty Min...

I filed the Articles of Organization for Plankton Games LLC today.  Not a huge step in terms of what I had to do, but a big psychological st...

Michael Mindes over at Tasty Minstrel games posted an interesting defense of a decision to sell one of TM's products, Terra Prime , at ...

Dominic Crapuchettes has an autobiographical post about his game company up at BGG (link here , via  BoardGameNews.com ).  Interesting stuf...

The Inevitable guys have finished their fund-raising drive at Kickstarter.com , raising a total of $9,435.  About $2,650 of that was from p...

The graph at left (click it to make it bigger) shows some results from quotes I've gotten for my card game, Diggity . I thought it might...

Back at the end of April, I posted on another Kickstarter donation campaign , this one for a game called Alien Frontiers.  Well, they'r...

Seo at BGDF has a good very brief run-down of the economics of publishing.  He's left out shipping and marketing costs, which can easil...

I've been toying with the idea of using Kickstarter.com to fund part of my first print run - not so much to ask for donations for a com...

So, what are the main points I've learned listening to these couple of talks? There's a ton of good stuff in these, but I think I ca...

Listening to the GTS lectures over the past couple of days, I've learned that part of the reason prices drop so precipitously with incre...

I sent around for a few more manufacturing quotes over the last couple of days.  One source in China says they can do the games for $1.32 ea...

Blogger reports that I've now officially earned . . . two cents. In two months of daily posting.  Hey, everybody, drinks are on me! Th...