Publishing and Language (and Translations)

[Carlos.R]

@jasonstevanhill

Moreover, Kickstarter is heavily tilted towards the English-speaking world

https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/kickstarter-ya-esta-disponible-en-espana

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@jasonstevanhill

And, Carlos, you’re right that people don’t get charged if the project isn’t funded, but $45,000 means we don’t actually make any money on the project. It just means that we break even (or, actually, lose money, because Kickstarter + Amazon payments takes 10%). So, all the time that we would invest in promoting the Kickstarter, coming up with a marketing campaign, etc etc would be unremunerated.

As for the marketing campaign, well I’ll leave that to the professionals. Choice of the Dragon was translated into Spanish though, right? And that game is free? Assuming that it wasn’t a labor of love and COG expects to recoup their investment, some of the strategy for how to do that must either exist, or be in the works. How much of that could carry over to the next project?

Also yes, you’re right, of course, about the potential money loss while the project is in the works. But is that amount less than the $45,000 estimate + overhead? The idea of mine isn’t a silver bullet, but at the very least I hope it helps.