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An incompetent American attempt at manufacturing games locally (www.superheumann.com)

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Edit: Title was changed since many people don't seem to get the term 'hilariously incompetent'.

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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We found that producing a board game here in the states would cost us almost double what it would in China, meaning we would have to charge double in order to pay for everything.

You'd think this would be the sort of figures they'd run BEFORE buying millions in equipment.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

There were so many plastic miniatures in the game that tooling alone was a crushing financial burden that would cripple the merchandise line commercially before anything else was even produced.

Injection molding NREs are high? Such a well kept secret up to now. I never would have guessed.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

Neither did they.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If only there was something that's much cheaper to scale slowly over time that's actually cheaper to use until you get into some millions+ of pieces.

3D printers are the future for everyone who wants to create something and doesn't have to of money to burn (that includes from preorders, aka confirmed sales).

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I very much doubt 3d printers can handle commercial scale production on any kind of reasonable timetable.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They sure do, even if you get a 3rd party print farm to print it for you. I read some analysis and up until around million pieces it's cheaper than molding without trying. If you optimize, it was some larger number which I forgot.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Interesting, I assume that's a different level of 3d printing than the usual hobby level ones.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 1 points 21 hours ago

Same level, just different scale. Like, you have a thousand 3D printers in a single room printing.