They say nascar and American motor sport has it roots in the modifications the bootleggers did to their cars to avoid the police. Bottom line is that if you want to sell games it has to have many avenues as people these days have no attention spans. Also adding stuff to games generates revenue and income for the developer. So he needs to find a way to sell add ons or he will fail.
Really cool idea with great ideas coming from everyone. I too remember Oregon Trail and loved it. App probably easier for a software developer to...develop.
I agree with you if I was looking for a commercial success. I'm not trying to compete with Hasbro and I am not looking to make money here. This is clearly a niche market. I'd probably hope to sell 100 copies. I'd probably use Kickstarter to help raise funds and ensure a run of manufacturing for about 100 and go from there.
This is hilarious I like it! Lose points for: not using safety equipment, pinching saw, dropping a tree on your truck/tractor, cutting a tree that is on neighbors property, burning wet wood, leaving your saw in the wood lot and have to go back to get it, running out of fuel half way through a days work, dropping a round on your foot, not CSS because your inside watching QVC instead, running out of the woods because Big Foot was spotted, leaving the wood lot to see if you left the coffee maker on, get poison Ivy/Oak because you were going to harvest it to make a Christmas wreath...
Kickstarter for the $20k to fund the app and then use proceeds to develop and manufacture the board game. You build the following then the boards sell themselves. The app will be a free marketing tool as you can then advertise the board game in the app. If you build the board game first you will have massive advertising costs. The app gives you this for free you just advertise it inside the app when it’s available for purchase. This is also a hell a lot easier.
Those are all great ideas for cards you could draw that effect your haul for the day. Great ideas, keep'em coming!
Thinks its an awesome idea! But like many said am not sure how popular it would be to most of society BUT I think there would be interest. I know am interested and would play it for sure. I love those types of games where you have to plan and build stuff. I would probably opt for the mobile app game.
I'm looking forward very much to playing this game. Is it finished yet? Seriously, I don't pay for apps on my "silly" phone, but I would (or should I say "wood") pay for this one. Would get a board game version too.
It would a cool game if I played them. I sort of make real life hoarding a game. It obviously involves getting wood, but it also involves trying to acquire equipment (saws, axes) without the getting caught by my wife.
One stack falls over...? Sure, lose turn- I like that suggestion above. Two stacks fall over? No going to jail... have to wear your Feed Thong at a GTG... and only your Feed Thong.
Unforseen circumstances... Bugs eating your wood Tornado (bonus hoarding opportunity) Flood (your wood floats away downstream). That happened to Ralphie Boy.
