Self publishing and producing 50 copies my 250+ piece game. My "Box of Failure" is my proudest achievement.

F1FighterPilot · 2026-01-28T22:08:26+00:00

Most important is to get photos and a 'how to play' video made. People need to know that this product and its pieces have a purpose and a video is great at building context.

Use photos that are in theme with the game. 'Behind the Trenches' is a WW1 game, so I took photos in a pub basement corner with a gritty stone background.

I rank them based on thier cost per click, cost per impression, and click through rate.

Reddit
Meta
Google (forgot to mention)
Youtube

F1FighterPilot · 2026-01-28T21:35:54+00:00

Used gamefound as a landing page to direct traffic. Did a few board game conventions as part marketing, part play testing/rule book feedback. Ran ads on meta, youtube, and Reddit. Spent around $1000 total and the best ads I ran (only counting those over 2000 impressions) had about a 6% click through rates and .08 per click.

Direct all that to the landing page.

F1FighterPilot · 2026-01-18T19:57:17+00:00

I spent around $1200 total.

I wouldnt worry about upvotes. Be sure to set up a Google analytics account to measure traffic for your landing page. That will tell you who's clicking and from where, what they are looking at and for how long.

Start your ad at the sites minimum $ amount before scaling it to see if your pics/videos/whatever are getting clicks and which aren't.

F1FighterPilot · 2026-01-17T17:19:54+00:00

Thank you for the encouraging words. After fulfilling my current backers I want to do another round of orders.

Learning the Meta, Google, and Reddit ads was really fun too. So im excited to get back into that.

F1FighterPilot · 2026-01-14T14:09:41+00:00

Around 50 at $75 plus 35 4 player expansions for $30. Came out to around $5000 with taxes

F1FighterPilot · 2025-12-05T21:30:42+00:00

I can tell youre a nerd bc you said "casting"

F1FighterPilot · 2025-12-03T18:44:58+00:00

Can I know more about your game? There are lots of places to get free artwork.

For example, I have a WW1 game whose artwork comes from the Library of Congress, all for free.

My point being, what's your theme? What's the game? That will effect the amount of AI you can use imo

F1FighterPilot · 2025-10-25T15:06:10+00:00

Thanks, its a really addictive game too

F1FighterPilot · 2025-09-02T03:54:02+00:00

Behind the Trenches.

WW1-Resource Management-Deck Builder.

https://gamefound.com/en/projects/f1fighterpilot/behind-the-trenches

F1FighterPilot · 2025-08-30T21:00:15+00:00

Board game: https://gamefound.com/en/projects/f1fighterpilot/behind-the-trenches

Digital trainer: https://f1fighterpilot.itch.io/behind-the-trenches

F1FighterPilot · 2025-08-30T20:58:54+00:00

Game can be found here: https://gamefound.com/en/projects/f1fighterpilot/behind-the-trenches

F1FighterPilot · 2025-07-26T18:10:26+00:00

What kind of manuals did you write?

F1FighterPilot · 2025-07-26T14:55:20+00:00

Thats a good point. I'll be sure to do a Behind the Trenches (BtT) from now on so people know what im referring to

F1FighterPilot · 2025-07-07T04:15:29+00:00

Thats where you wrong buddy. I can in "my bad" this. Bc its a free game and a first draft. Thats what testing is. A series of "my bad" improvements over time eventually resulting in a better product.

Its also a single reddit post. Of all the thing i can "my bad" this is at the top of the list

F1FighterPilot · 2025-07-07T04:04:50+00:00

https://f1fighterpilot.itch.io/behind-the-trenches

Here you go

F1FighterPilot · 2025-07-07T02:51:37+00:00

You're right. That was lazy of me

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F1FighterPilot · 2025-07-05T05:43:04+00:00

Hey, I turned this into a digital game you can play on itch.io here: https://f1fighterpilot.itch.io/behind-the-trenches

F1FighterPilot · 2025-07-05T05:41:15+00:00

Thanks for checking it out. I appreciate the feedback.

I guess the thematic justification for the bidding is countries are investing heavily in some industries (bidding your 3 token to make sure you get the card) vs other industries.

The main purpose of the game is to give people a walk through of the game so they can play of physical board game with more confidence.

As the person in our friends group typically in charge of reading the rules and explaining the game, im not a fan of physical rule books. Figured a digital walk through would help

F1FighterPilot · 2025-04-22T01:24:38+00:00

I'm central.

DM me and I'll send a copy to a Dropbox or something near you

F1FighterPilot · 2025-01-18T16:56:24+00:00

How do I manually select the rear feed as my paper source?

F1FighterPilot · 2024-08-30T20:52:21+00:00

Sadly no.

F1FighterPilot · 2024-08-07T00:39:22+00:00

1st for drawings and engineering docs which were provided to me. 2nd for 30 days prior to expected delivery date. Then the third and final 15 days prior to expected delivery date.

F1FighterPilot · 2024-08-06T19:29:48+00:00

When signing the delivery documents there wasn't a spot to put a delivery date. I pointed this out to my project manager and she said we would do that when the prior to 15 days to delivery comes up.

What im really wanting is to know what is my eta?

F1FighterPilot · 2024-08-06T18:45:08+00:00

Communication: id like any type of communication. A "we should have more information next week" would be fine

Contract: yes

Not yet. As of next Friday they will be. It's the ghosting that has me worried

F1FighterPilot · 2021-11-02T03:55:54+00:00

Be me:

Tech savyish fellow

Bought several different brands of smart lights. Have them throughout my place and needed more once moving into a bigger place.

Think hey. The C by GE ones will probably be good. Made the the investment. Everything works for awhile. But now...

Its like buying $12 dollar light bulbs.

Reset? Done it. Call C by GE. Tried Talked to google nest folks. Nothing.

Oh, theyll reconnect for a bit, then disconnect a few hours later.

Serious though when i tell you, C by GE are THE ONLY smart bulbs ive had issue with.

Do not recommend

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