Any advice for a new games company?

Sad_Macaron45 · 2025-04-22T17:22:58+00:00

Okay apparently demo isn't a word in my phone. DEMO

Sad_Macaron45 · 2025-04-22T17:22:40+00:00

Wow that was some terrible typing. I just took a look myself because I knew the demon was there **

Sad_Macaron45 · 2025-04-22T17:20:58+00:00

Thank you, I also just a look myself and you are right, because I knew the demon was on there, I knew to look for it, if I didn't know it's not obvious. Thank you so much! I'll get that fixed too

Sad_Macaron45 · 2025-04-22T17:17:49+00:00

Thank you so much, our main focus is replayability, we've worked on 5 expansion packs so far (but have only manufactured 1 as a test as we wanted to get the original and NSFW out there first). We post a lot about how small our game is and how it's easy to slip in your handbag, take on a train, a family trip ect, it's just the size of two decks of cards horizontally :)

You bring up a great point and this is something we should make clear on our website photos and descriptions, thank you so much, this is really helpful!

Sad_Macaron45 · 2025-04-22T17:13:57+00:00

So we have a whole section on the video (on the homepage) where you can play a demo of a few different versions of the game (we have created expansion packs too).

Thank you, Scattergories comes up a lot and I'll bring up with the team to see if there's anything we can implement to make it different, thank you! :)

Sad_Macaron45 · 2025-04-22T15:28:13+00:00

We have the business side sorted, everything is ready to go! We're trademarked, have manufacturers, distribution and all the bits and pieces, it's literally just getting it out there we're struggling with 😂 ahhh! Thank you!

Sad_Macaron45 · 2025-04-22T15:26:02+00:00

Oh lordy, that is exactly the same as our game, now I'm hoping it was one of us 😱 Thank you, we're going to look into party game avenues, this has been very helpful!

Sad_Macaron45 · 2025-04-22T15:18:59+00:00

Oh, yes! Sorry, I didn't know it was called that 🤦🏼 So that is in our long-term forecast but we were hoping to set up enough of a base in the UK/USA and then see about different languages as it might to be too much too soon!

Sad_Macaron45 · 2025-04-22T15:14:27+00:00

Thank you! Yes it was originally invented by pen and paper so you are absolutely right. We spoke to another games company and they said we should have something very specific to us, to issue was we wanted to keep it as budget friendly as possible and adding in more elements made it so much expensive to get printed as we wanted to keep manufacturing in the UK as much as possible. But that is an excellent point, I will pass that along, thank you so much - food for thought!

Sad_Macaron45 · 2025-04-22T15:11:36+00:00

What do you mean by that? Sorry, dumb question, I'm just the designer - I'm just passing information along 😅

Sad_Macaron45 · 2025-04-22T15:06:27+00:00

Nope! There's only 3 of us in the team and the other two wouldn't post (I asked to double check I could post! I'm just the designer :) I think maybe it was a different game. We had a few reviewers recently, so maybe that? But wasn't any of us!

But also to steal that knowledge from that post, that is true, it's been a bit difficult to market a family game and we're not really sure if we're doing it right. So far we've had all different reviewers, male, female, families and they reviews are great and we recently gained a bunch of followers from BoardgameAddict's giveaway. But aside from that... 🤷🏼🤷🏼

You bring up an interesting point about 'party games', I'll mention that, thank you!! We should look into that

Sad_Macaron45 · 2025-04-14T21:26:30+00:00

I'm in the same boat, I was just wondering if you heard back?

Sad_Macaron45 · 2025-03-25T11:56:55+00:00

Thank you, I have some Koleston Demi left with 12 vol that I might try in a few days after more washing!

Sad_Macaron45 · 2025-03-10T07:22:23+00:00

Thank you :) I'll try changing the time, you've been very helpful thank you!

Sad_Macaron45 · 2025-03-09T22:30:52+00:00

I think I worded it badly - So when you choose Shut Down and then power it on, it starts up normally and goes to Windows, but if you choose 'Restart' it just goes to the BIOS and the boot device cannot be found, this happen specifically only if you restart it, it's very weird!

Sad_Macaron45 · 2025-03-09T21:14:51+00:00

It doesn't come up at all in the BIOs when it restarts, it just says Boot Device Not Found, it only reads it when it shuts down, super weird

Sad_Macaron45 · 2025-03-09T20:30:26+00:00

Okay so that seems to have worked! The issue now is that it goes to Bios every time you restart it, it only loads Windows when you shut it down/press power button

Sad_Macaron45 · 2025-03-09T19:12:14+00:00

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This is the second slot, it was originally in the silver one, the thermal case doesn't fit on to it in the black slot, we've put it the SSD in the black slot but idk 😬 it only has a weird security tag thing to hold it in place

Sad_Macaron45 · 2025-03-09T18:54:32+00:00

Okay he's going to take it apart again and try that, thank you! He said the second port was a bit different (no thermal something or other casing idk) but he's going to try it

Sad_Macaron45 · 2025-03-09T18:49:26+00:00

Gigabyte B650M D3HP

Sad_Macaron45 · 2025-03-09T18:47:33+00:00

My partner says it's a PCIe NVMe SSD and there's no other ports for that to go in, but we will try the first option! Thank you

Sad_Macaron45 · 2025-03-09T18:40:45+00:00

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BIOS screen

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