Price Changes, Crowd Sale Youtube Series, Website Upgrade

Hello Community Our team has been busy preparing for Crafter Con and Protospiel Madison. It's only 6 weeks away, so be sure to get your badges and book your hotel. We have a few announcements to share and then you'll find more details about the events. Pricing Changes Just over a year ago we had to raise prices due to inflation. Unfortunately, things have not improved and everything has only gotten more expensive. We've all watched the news and seen how grain and fuel prices have gone up worldwide. These increases in food and shipping costs have impacted the price of almost everything. For example, our card stock manufacturer (plus shipping) has increased the cost of raw materials by over 30% this year. And we've seen other similar changes in chipboard that we use for making boards and boxes. If our costs have gone up, we know that our employees' costs have gone up as well. We've got a great team that works hard to make your games a reality and it's important we take care of them. This price increase also allows us to provide better healthcare for our staff. This will help them stay healthy and reduce financial burden. So with that, you probably want to know 2 things: when and how much? Cards and rigid boxes will be going up around 30-35%. Paper boxes will be going up 35-40%. We got a 1-time deal on thick chipboard for folding boards and those will only be going up 5%, but will likely rise in the future. Plastic products like acrylic and 3d printed material will also be going up by about 5%. These pricing changes will be going into effect on November 21. Nobody likes to see price increases. We don't want to do this. But for the health of our business and our employees we must raise prices. If you're running a kickstarter that launched before these price increases, we'll work with you to do our best to hold to our old prices. The easiest way to do that is for you to place your order before the place changes go into effect. Likewise, if you want a better price on your crowd sale, make sure it starts before the price increases go into effect and we'll honor the old pricing. Thank you for your understanding. If there's anything we can do to help, please reach out to us at info@thegamecrafter.com. New Show Featuring Crowd Sales Check out this new youtube series by OwlDragon Adventures. In this video series, Scott and Rob browse through Crowd Sales at The Game Crafter to see what's live and what's upcoming. We love the idea of this series and we plan to support the show by providing some giveaways and promoting their videos. Please consider subscribing and giving their videos a thumbs up if you enjoy them. Bringing more attention to Crowd Sales is a good thing for everyone! Website Upgrade We recently upgraded our website and there's a few new features we wanted to make you aware of. Apple Pay is now supported during checkout. You must be using the Safari browser and have it setup in order for the Apple Pay button to appear on the credit card billing page. Google Pay is also now supported during checkout. You must be using a Chromium browser (Chrome, Brave, MS Edge, etc..) and be signed in for the Google Pay button to appear on the credit card billing page. Our checkout process now supports 3D Secure (3DS). This is for extra fraud protection and it requires customers to complete an additional verification step with the card issuing bank during checkout. The Strong Customer Authentication regulation in Europe requires the use of 3DS for card payments, although it's still optional in other regions. Crafter Con Crafter Con is The Game Crafter's very own game design convention and it happens the day before Protospiel Madison on Thursday, December 1st. The focus is on education to make you a better game designer. It features a track of seminars and workshops with industry experts. As well as a play testing room where you can try out your games with other designers 1 on 1. There are (8) Crafter Con badges left and (10) Crafter Con + Protospiel Madison badges available. Get your badges before they sell out! Protospiel Madison Protospiel Madison is another great Protospiel event where amateur & established game designers get together to test and promote game prototypes in a supportive, collaborative environment. This casual event is based on sharing experiences and insight toward a goal of making the best games. Protospiel Madison is hosted by The Game Crafter in Madison, Wisconsin on December 2-4. As with all protospiel events, we are providing attendees with a smorgasbord of free blank components and game pieces. Upcoming Events Here's a list of upcoming events we're attending or supporting: Unpub Protoalley @ BGGCon [Nov 9-13] Protospiel North [Live, Nov 25-27] Crafter Con [Live, Dec 1] Protospiel Madison [Live, Dec 2-4] Follow us on TikTok for new product videos. The Game Crafter, LLC | 2609 Seiferth Rd, Madison, WI 53716 | www.thegamecrafter.com View this email online. You're receiving this email because you have an account at thegamecrafter.com and you're subscribed to our newsletter. To ensure our newsletter always reaches your inbox, please add newsletter@thegamecrafter.com to your address book. This mailbox is unattended, so please do not reply to this message. If you no longer wish to receive these emails you can unsubscribe.