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I think it's enough for one interview. Before we say goodbye, I have to ask about one thing or my editor-in-chief won't leave me alone: you said that appearance of boxed edition depends on sales of the game. How is it going?
The game is selling well on Steam and GoG, but the comment about sales was mainly in regard to our direct sales (back when we were taking pre-orders) as they are the only indication of how many people would buy directly from us. So far it’s not enough to consider a boxed edition.
In the printing industry quality is related to your ‘run’ size (which ‘unlocks’ better printing presses that simply can’t run a few hundred of anything). Ideally, I’d prefer to order 5,000 copies but you can get decent quality with 1,000 copies too.
So if we do that, we’d have to place a blind order upfront and then hope that enough people would want to buy it, which isn’t a good plan. Had we sold 5-7,000 copies directly, we could count on 15-20% people wanting to buy a boxed edition.
The way it stands right now, maybe we’ll sell a hundred copies, maybe two, the rest will be sitting in my garage, gathering dust. I’d say that Kickstarter is probably the best platform for offering boxed editions but this ship has sailed. Next game, perhaps?
