The Game Crafter, LLC
The Game Crafter (TGC) is the world’s first web-to-print game publishing company and offers a print on demand game publishing service. TGC empowers game designers around the world by allowing them to make a board game, card game, or custom playing cards through the website. Using the latest web technology, the design and manufacturing processes are simplified and games are shipped quickly. Designing a tabletop game used to be difficult and expensive. TGC provides an easy to use system to create a tabletop game. This system includes pre-made templates, instructions, videos, and proofing tools to help designers create a quality product. TGC has over 2,700 different game pieces & parts in stock as well as custom packaging options to further customize the product. Commercial game manufacturers require large runs of games to be made and this is expensive. Most manufacturers have minimum orders of 1000-5000 units and payment is required upfront. Since The Game Crafter is a print on demand game publisher, designers can print just 1 copy of the game or as many as they'd like. And designers have the option to self-publish their game on the TGC online shop and sell their game to a worldwide audience. Game designers looking to run a crowdfunding campaign for their game can use The Game Crafter’s Bulk Order Fulfillment(BOF). This service provides up to a 40% bulk discount and TGC handles manufacturing, fulfillment, shipping, and customer service. In the last 7 years, The Game Crafter has fulfilled over $1,000,000 worth of orders for Kickstarter campaigns, with the largest being $128,000. The Game Crafter community has grown to over 380,000 users worldwide and they have created over 300,000 different game titles on our servers. Over 10,000 of these game titles are self-published and available for purchase in The Game Crafter online shop. All of these characteristics clearly identify TGC as the market leader for print on demand game publishing.www.thegamecrafter.com
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Sep 30, 2026
James KastHOST
I've been really enjoying like the FDFL on, uh, you know, Al Wilson's YouTube channel.
James KastHOST
He's been running his fictional league, which is one that you actually can get, uh, from the Game Crafter.
James KastHOST
So if you're interested in picking up a good fictional league, you can go check that one out as well.
James KastHOST
But I've been really enjoying that YouTube series and keeping track of the FDF.
Arwen KathkeHOST
So how did the concept of color jam actually come about?
Joe KellGUEST
So the game crafter is like a print on demand company based in Madison, Wisconsin, and they host game design contests every so often.
Joe KellGUEST
They I had just done a couple of them.
Joe KellGUEST
I was very kind of like contest motivated at the time, very unranked of me.
Victoria ZablockiHOST
So to prepare this game, you'll want to create a game board with a grid.
Victoria ZablockiHOST
You could do this by creating a table in PowerPoint on the largest paper size you have available, or drawing out a grid on poster board, or getting super fancy and having a grid printed on an actual game board using a service such as the Game Crafter.
Victoria ZablockiHOST
which I can link in the show notes.
Victoria ZablockiHOST
And this can be as basic or as professional looking as you'd like.
Victoria ZablockiHOST
Then you can fill in with more common methods like wind, animal caching, and gravity.
Victoria ZablockiHOST
When you create your cards, I would suggest including pictures of the seeds up close so that your learners can see their adaptations clearly as they play the game.
Victoria ZablockiHOST
You could create your cards in PowerPoint, or you could get really fancy and have them printed by the game crafter.
Victoria ZablockiHOST
And if you go this route, just know that you'll have to use something like Adobe Photoshop, and you'll have to create each individual card in their own file.
Matt McKeeverGUEST
and play and there's nothing that makes us more excited than to see people post their their replays and stuff it just makes my heart really happy and it makes all the work of putting the game together worth it that the games bring people joy and you know maybe an escape from you know whatever else is going on in life and like that's why we do what we do just a little escapism you know
James KastHOST
yeah absolutely all right appreciate it matt for anyone looking for the game d12gaming.com is the new brandon website for you guys you know kind of love that you've embraced the d12 and just made it like kind of like signature for you guys so d12gaming.com uh game's also going to be sold through the game crafter which is i think true for pocket pennant run as well and they just do a great job of putting together some really nice components.
James KastHOST
So I totally get why you guys have gone with them.
James KastHOST
I think everybody I know who's using it is really satisfied with the quality that they deliver.
Johnny PHOST
I think I have both.
Johnny PHOST
And it'll be on Game Crafter.
Johnny PHOST
But yeah, if you wanna play some gang, you know, s- skirmish without measuring shit and without, like, line of sight and whatever, just fucking jump on the hexes.
Johnny PHOST
Play my game.
Gray DietrichGUEST
Um, I brought another thing to test, uh, whether it gets to the table or not.
Gray DietrichGUEST
Like I don't have a, a session scheduled for it, but, uh, a little while back around the, uh, the last new year's, um, There was a Game Crafter contest for the pool building challenge.
Gray DietrichGUEST
And I created a game that I call Co-Op, a get-along farming game.
Gray DietrichGUEST
It's kind of a multi-victor game.