Card Game Printing and Cutting
Added 2020-06-05 23:58:53 +0000 UTC
I've been planning to produce STAVE Card Decks from home for about a year now. Last January I posted about the search for the machine I'll buy to do it with.
I've finally settled on a solution.
This thing is the Accucut Grande Mark II.
It goes on sale twice a year at least, the last time being in April and I missed it. The virus and expense of building a house made it just untenable to purchase at the time.
This was the total estimate for the counter cards die cut, and the machine. I'd need probably 2 more for the playing cards themselves which I also plan to print at the same website and then cut myself at home., which would add another 100$.
The estimate for 1000 pages of high quality waterproof cardstock (the same stuff used on those really fancy restaurant menus that came out in the last few years that are invincible) and another 500 pages of heavy waterproof card stock, is 380$ with shipping.
So start up costs for just printing the first 500 decks is 1133$.
After that initial expense, when we have the ability to print off cards in test runs for new games, and print off whole runs and assembling them isn't too bad. Just another 380$ for the cards and counters per 500 decks. The labor is minimal and Ali can do that from home while taking care of the baby.
If we can cover this with patreon, currently as of this morning at 116$/mo (down from 175$/mo pre-corona virus and sales tax) plus the 600$ in the payout waiting to be transferred, we should be able to afford the machine and first run by October!
So by the end of 2020, I'll have STAVE ready to sell and provide copies to patrons and to give out as backer rewards when Project Morningstar is ready to begin its funding campaign, all produced in house by hand.
At the top of this page is my very first rough draft sketch of the new game GUNNAR, which will be a kind of super fast paced "rock paper scissors" type card game that you can play 1vs1. It's also a mini-paper jam of the Morningstar combat system that we plan to code this coming month.
If that game pans out in prototype, we'll have that work on the exact same printing and die cut system, with new art. Same player counting card dials and cards.
