Hi all,

My name is Renato and I’ve spent a lot of time working on crowdfunding campaigns across Kickstarter, Gamefound, and BackerKit.

Now I work as a consultant in the space and instead of doing some tedious self-promotion.
I’ve doing every friday a free 24-hour check-ups for creators here.

If you send me your page or your project, I’ll reply with a short personalized report covering:

• what’s working
• what feels unclear
• what might be hurting conversion
• 3 practical fixes to prioritize

I’ve worked on 30+ campaigns tied to $40M+ in combined funding, mostly around campaign clarity, positioning, conversion support and ads management.

No charge, no catch.

Also, here's my link, so up unil the system holds, I'll review your project for free in 24 (or 48 someimes I've got to sleep) hours.

I already handed more than 100+ reports in the past month, with some heart-warming messages :)

Feel free to send what you have and... talk soon!

I was thinking of a new game. Does anyone know of any games that are played by actually placing a call to another player on their cell phone?

The very basic idea is that you would go into another room and call another player on your phone for a wacky conversation driven by cards. The other players would listen in, or can even interject at times.

Yes, it's kind of like the classic telephone game.

I have a board game with a solid ruleset and a clean prototype and I've been looking for an interested publisher for a while now, but I'm running into two main obstacles.

The first is that it's an abstract two-player game — which already puts it in a niche within a niche. But the bigger challenge, in my opinion, is how unconventional the components are: the board is made of cork (my first prototype was literally a cork bulletin board meant to hang on the wall — I used to joke that I had invented the second wall-mounted game after darts), the pieces are pushpins, and the core mechanic revolves around white and black polyester threads that hook onto the pins via small clasps attached to them.

The thing is, when a designer pitches a game built around cards, wooden or plastic meeples, and cardboard tokens, a publisher already has the production infrastructure and supplier relationships in place. With components this unusual, though, a publisher would need to be genuinely motivated to take on a production pipeline they have no existing framework for — and all of this for an abstract game by a first-time author. I honestly struggle to see what would drive that motivation.

Has anyone been in a similar situation and found a way through it? Or does anyone know of publishers that have a particular appreciation for abstract games and are open to working with non-standard materials?

(As a side note: I recently developed a digital version of the game, but for me the physical edition is the real thing — that's what I'd love to see published.)