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It's no secret that we're a small company, evidenced by the fact that you probably haven't ever heard of us before. I'll go as far as to say we try our best to stay a small company. To some, this may make absolutely no sense. To others who have been our customers for years, I think it will make perfect sense. I don't try to paint ourselves into some sort of ivory tower, but I feel we use Kickstarter slightly differently than most other game companies do. When we post something on Kickstarter, it's a finished game. It isn't vaporware, it isn't an idea, and it isn't an unfinished prototype that's still in development. Basically, at its core, we're offering preorders for one of our games in exchange for helping us cover the printing costs. This isn't that different or different at all really, from any other preordering system used outside of Kickstarter.

You really need to do as much research as possible on your costs because chances are you will lose money. Even if you overfund, you still may lose money. Shipping is killer. You will need to ship from the manufacturer to you, then from you to the backers. And then when some of the $40 overseas packages come back to you (for many reasons), you need to pay $40 more to ship it back out. You'll need to plan stretch goals if you overfund. Many creators get caught up in the momentum and offer stretch goals that weren't researched as well as everything else, and they wind up costing more money than intended. There is so much to plan.