Comments on: What Is Stellar War? https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/4782 Announcing appearances, publications, and analysis of questions historical, philosophical, and political by author, philosopher, and historian Richard Carrier. Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:15:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Richard Carrier https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/4782#comment-11191 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 17:19:51 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/?p=4782#comment-11191 In reply to Eric Haas.

Groovy. I’ll do that when I get back from Skepticon.

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By: Richard Carrier https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/4782#comment-11190 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 17:08:27 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/?p=4782#comment-11190 In reply to Roy Price.

Those prices are for small single-deck games, not box-set multi-deck games. And your thinking I can burn “a few thousand dollars” on a thousand units the most of which I’ll never sell, would suggest you think I’m far wealthier than I actually am. On my own (as a business), I make barely above poverty level income. If I’m going to burn “a few thousand dollars,” it’s going to be on at trip to Europe with my wife, not a gigantic storage nightmare. 😉

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By: Roy Price https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/4782#comment-11189 Sun, 10 Nov 2013 21:06:27 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/?p=4782#comment-11189 Most card games of this type retail around the $10-15 mark (see BoardGameGeek for hundreds of examples). Some as low as $8 (for card-only games). You can also easily produce such cardgames for around $3-5 (if doing a small run of 10’s of decks etc) of customised playing card images in various sizes with whatever back you want, or even multiple backs at places like Arstcow.com. You could print off 50-100 copies of this game in beautiful glossy cards for a few hundred bucks to give a copy to each of your friends at Christmas. You could certainly bash off 1,000 copies for a few thousand dollars if you wanted to make a commercial venture out of it.

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By: Cari Park https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/4782#comment-11188 Sun, 10 Nov 2013 03:37:29 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/?p=4782#comment-11188 Love Love LOVE! what you said to Reginald Selkirk–and thank you so much for your kind words about SUPERSTRUCTURE. You are obviously well aware of the difficulties and expenses involved in producing and marketing a quality game. That’s AFTER developing the concept and mathematical functionality, as well as the graphics for cards, packaging etc. That’s why we decided to do hand made wooden games. (The cards are professionally printed for us by a fantastic studio.) While SUPERSTRUCTURE costs $100, (compared to $25 for the plastic, mass produced 1987 version) it’s going to last a mighty long time, and the parts are satisfying to handle.

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By: Eric Haas https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/4782#comment-11187 Sat, 09 Nov 2013 01:41:42 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/?p=4782#comment-11187 In reply to Eric Haas.

Yes. When you submit it, it will go into a queue until it’s approved by the moderators.

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By: Richard Carrier https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/4782#comment-11186 Sat, 09 Nov 2013 01:36:15 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/?p=4782#comment-11186 In reply to Eric Haas.

Good idea. Can just anyone register and create such an entry?

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By: Richard Carrier https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/4782#comment-11185 Sat, 09 Nov 2013 01:34:10 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/?p=4782#comment-11185 In reply to Reginald Selkirk.

I don’t think you realize what you are saying.

Do you have $12,000?

That’s just the stock cost for 500 units.

The distribution system (the means by which you take and process customer’s orders, which requires paying a credit card service, business taxes and licenses, and then pay for packaging and postage to mail product) will run you several more thousand. Plus thousands of hours of personal (or yet more paid) labor.

If you have the fifteen grand or so this would take and the thousands of hours (or additional twenty grand or so for employees) it requires, be my guest. I’ll be happy to give you the license and you can keep half the profits! (Which, BTW, will only be about $500, unless you list every unit at over $30, and then you can rake in a whopping one or two grand. Woo.)

But I suspect you’ll balk. As I did.

Then you’ll understand. 🙂

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By: trucreep https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/4782#comment-11184 Fri, 08 Nov 2013 19:28:02 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/?p=4782#comment-11184 This is awesome! Ever been to http://boardgamegeek.com ? You should put that on there! They have a great community, especially for those smart enough to design their own games. Maybe we’ll see Stellar War as the next Z-Man or Rio Grande game! :]

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By: Reginald Selkirk https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/4782#comment-11183 Fri, 08 Nov 2013 15:46:32 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/?p=4782#comment-11183 A run of 500 copies doesn’t sound too overambitious.
That’s if you could get it to the right audience. I am thinking of a science fiction site like io9. I suppose there are gamer sites as well which might be even more relevant.
Is there anything like Kickstarter which would be applicable, so you could judge the amount of interest before going in?

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By: Eric Haas https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/4782#comment-11182 Fri, 08 Nov 2013 00:45:41 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/?p=4782#comment-11182 It needs an entry on BoardGameGeek.com.

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