I'm crazy for these sites that really try to automate the production and selling of indie products, especially for people like me who like to minimize the need to interact with actual humans.
This is a very cool new site that will let you go from board/card game idea and artwork, to a fully assembled game that is make on demand for single orders. You design your game pieces, board, card, instructions, art, and upload them to an account -- there are lots of different parts you can include in your game and everything is automated.
The site calculates the production cost of a single game set, and like cafepress and other merchandise sites, you can then set how much markup you'd like to sell it for. You then split the any markup profits with the site.
It's a wonderful idea i think. You won't mistake these games for high-quality big production run games, but that's not the point -- the point is to make it easy for anyone to make a game they can sell in very small volumes and have a lot of fun doing it. They even have a neat online gallery shop where you can buy games other people have made. Games are as low as $7 (cool!)
I'd love to see some people at DC making some games on the site -- if you do let me know and we'll give some away at DC!
Now if you'll excuse me i'm going to go back to the site and order a handful of fun looking games just for the fun of it.
