by Scorpion0x17
cormor321 wrote:
Scorpion0x17 wrote:
cormor321 wrote:
Cartomancer wrote:
Player77 wrote:
Cartomancer wrote:
Player77 wrote:
If you PnP this game, you will end up with a suboptimal looking game that probably has cost more than double than a decent looking original game.
So you really think that making a homebrew version would set me back more than £60?
If you don't want it to look like a big pile of junk, I think it might even cost more than that and still not look as good as the original. And I can't imagine that it costs £30. I paid about €25 in a rather small local game shop.
I don't have to imagine. It's £29.99 in my FLGS, and that's pretty standard for the UK. Then the expansions are roughly £12 a piece on top of that. So, all in it'd set you back in the region of £54 in the UK. Which as you can tell, I don't think it's worth.
EDIT: Corrected a typo.
I haven't made a copy of this game and don't plan of it, but I have done a number of other print and play projects. I'd put the materials cost of making this game at a quality level on par with the original at easily less than $15, probably less than $10, for the base game and both expansions. Even less if you've already bought some of the supplies needed (like spray adhesive) for other projects.
Really?
High gloss cards?
8 custom engraved dice (2 in one colour, six in another)?
Custom plastic stands?
Translucent cubes?
High quality board?
Good quality card monsters?
Very high quality box with partial gloss and partial matte finish?
Custom vacuum form insert?
All that?
For less than $15?
Without making thousands of them?
Seriously?
Do you work in a board game factory?
8 custom engraved dice (2 in one colour, six in another)?
Last time I needed custom engraved dice I carved them by hand from exotic hardwoods. Few cents each. Though if you aren't feeling that fancy you can use stickers on indented dice or engrave some normal blank dice.
High gloss cards?
Since most people sleeve their cards these days high gloss cards are easy. 7 sheets of glossy photo paper covers the 60 cards in the base set. Plus some card stock to beef them up and the sleeve. This is the most expensive part and its definitely under $5
Custom plastic stands?
The plastic stands aren't custom and they are cheap to buy. Or I could easily makes some. I'll put these around 10 cents each.
Translucent cubes?
A bag of plastic "gems" runs about $1.50 and I think look nicer and more like energy than the cubes.
High quality board?
Tiny high quality board. This time rather than photo paper I'd probably use watercolor paper, semi gloss it, and then mount it.
Good quality card monsters?
Again photo paper. This time mounted on some thin black mat board.
Very high quality box with partial gloss and partial matte finish?Probably wouldn't bother with anything fancy for the box. It's just the box after all. They get tossed on a side table or the floor during the game. Though it wouldn't be hard to print something to cover whatever box I put it in. Making it part matte and part glossy is even easy enough.
Custom vacuum form insert?
Again it would just have to be as good as the official not exactly the same. I just redid my zombicide 2 box with foam core and a hot glue gun. Cost? Basically free. Effectiveness? Pretty darn nice.
So yes. If I chose to I could make it just as nice as the commercial version for easily less than $15. However if I make a home version of a game its usually because I don't like the official version and want something that looks better rather than just as good. King of Tokyo looks fine and as I said earlier in the thread I think its priced fine, at least in the US.
Two points:
That doesn't sound "on a par" to me.
Everything is really cheap if you ignore the majority of the cost of the materials used to make it!