Hi there, everybody. My name’s Matthew Boyle. I’m from www.languagecardgames.com, and I want to welcome you to this series where I’m going to be talking about how to go from having no card game to making your first sale. And the reason I think this is important is because if you’re a card game enthusiast and you want to dabble in design, you want to create your first game, and you hope that you can sell it, a lot of the information online that you’ll see is from very established game designers and game design companies. A lot of the information they can put out is very intimidating, or at least that’s the way I felt when I was starting out. Useful, but maybe a little bit overwhelming and intimidating.
At the stage where I’m at right now, I’ve been working for the past two or three years to print and sell my very first card games, and I was able to do that. So I want to take a moment, not only for you, a game designer who is just starting out, but also for me, because I want to take a moment to step back and kind of diagnose how that all worked and lay out an outline or basic strategy that you can follow to finish your first card game, to print it, and to sell it to your first customers.
So let me tell you the way that I’ve set up this video series. I’m going to try to just hit the most important details in short videos. I’m going to do ten videos and try to keep them each under three minutes, so if you watch the whole series, it will be about a half an hour of very valuable material. Then if you want to go into it more deeply or if you want to explore the topic further, we can do that in the comments section. And if the video series has some good feedback from people, then maybe – who knows; maybe a year or two down the line, I can do a more in-depth video series.
The only other thing I’ll say before I start is if you get a lot of value from this series, I hope that you’ll consider how you can support what I do, either by subscribing to this channel or by buying one of my card games from www.languagecardgames.com for yourself or for a friend. We’re about to hit the first three-minute mark, and I promise, I’m not going to try to talk longer than that in each video. So I just want to say really quickly what topics we can look forward to, and if you would like, you can skip around the video series or else just go through it in order. And make sure you hit the playlist button, too, because I’ll put these in a playlist.
Some of the topics: we’ll talk about the materials and the mindset that you need. We’ll talk about blue ocean philosophy, the actual design of the cards, how to network online, and how to catch those first customers, which is so hard to do. We’re not talking about family and friends; we’re talking about complete strangers as your first customers; how do you get them? How do you reach out to the general public beyond your family and friends? Okay, so I hope you’re looking forward to going through this video series with me. Again, my name is Matthew Boyle, and I will be your guide. You can also check out www.languagecardgames.com. Without further ado, let’s go to the first video.
