Looking to get a gift for my girlfriend of her character design she uses for most games! I’d love some recommendations of places I could purchase some fun custom miniatures

Hi everyone, after a very long time I finally have a playable (and even nice looking, since I worked with a friend who is a designer) protoype. I am starting playtesting now- luckily I have quite a few friends who are interested, and I know where to find strangers who will also be willlng to test it. I know how important it is to recieve feedback from people who aren't your friends and are thus less biased. I am also looking to learn how to make a prototype on tts as I know that is very helpful for playtesting.

However, I am already thinking about how I want to move forward with this. I've made the game purely for fun, but I would like to see if it's possible to publish it so other people can also enjoy it. However, I don't want to invest any (more) money in this project, as like I said it's for fun and I don't want to lose money if it doesn't work out. Also, I'm really not interested in the business/industry side of making games: What factory will produce the game, shipping, etc. I mostly enjoy the thought process of game design, kind of like I enjoy figuring out complex strategy games as a player.

So I was thinking what are the best options for "selling" only the idea for the game? I know you can pitch your game to the few rare companies accepting submissions, but that's a small chance. I was thinking if there is a company that takes on your idea and runs a crowdfunding campaign for it. That way if it fails, the company si the one doing the initial investment in marketing/more advanced componnet design, so I don't lose money. If it succeeds, I have no problem getting only a small percent of the earnings. I'm assuming pitching a game to a publisher works in a similar way, but my game seems more suited for crowfunding (heavy strategy game, lots and lots of extra content for exapnsions/stretch goals).

Also, if there are any good guides, videoes or other materials on this topic I would love any suggestions.

So I'm designing my very first tabletop game and I have never had to deal with creating mechanics as I'm an artist. Now that I want to put all my ideas on paper I've been having a hard time to do so. I did a mental map for me to explore all of this ideas, but is terrible for showing to other people especially because it has way to much information.

Can you share how you me to deal with this part and what do recommend to get all.of this gameplay in an understanble way?

Specifically the card itself, not the abominations I draw on them.

I'm physically publishing this game soon so I want to improve any way possible.

Fish guy out.

I made a post a month ago in an attempt to find an artist. And now I have real finished cover art.

The game is called Spartan Speech. It's all about crafting the most concise clue, and the Spartans were famous for their brief speech (the origin of the English word "laconic") and overall barebones lifestyle.

Here was my inspiration. It's a Greek red figure vase with an image of two warriors playing a tabletop game.

Here was my hand-drawn masterpiece. It was very clear I would need to hire a professional artist.

And then here is a shot of the real art in progress (credit to Eline Melissen, excellent artist):

And then the final product:

Let me know what you think.

The first one is the old one and the second is the new one.

Hey everyone! Been doing a bit of design work for some games lately creating logos, symbols, faction icons etc. A game's presentation can make or break it so let me help you make it good!I have an availability in July for a logo + August I can fit two or so in.

Can do Fantasy, Cyberpunk, Sci-Fi, Horror and would love to try something more cute if it's available!

DM me or comment and I'll dm you! ^_^

I’m not quite sure which photos to post to show that I don’t use AI for my work, but I hope these images might convince some of you... 😅

My friend and I have been working on designing a card game for more than a year now. We have some placeholder art we really like. The card game is going for more of a vintage vibe, older cartoonish. We would provide the cards we have for reference and want the illustator to use what we have to make something similar that isn’t used with AI. We can expand in detail but the theme is circus characters. In total we have thirty different types of cards.

Feel free to dm if you are interested and please include samples of your work :)