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talks about quitting his job in order to make games for a living:<\/p>\nOver at A Year of Frugal Gaming, board game designer Jackson Pope of Reiver Games talks about quitting his job in order to make games for a living:<\/p>\n
The amount of a working computer game you can make in your own time is about a thousandth of a working computer game, whereas I thought I could make a boardgame and get it be a finished product. Over the next three years I worked on a game which eventually became Border Reivers<\/strong>. I was very happy with it but I put it in a tupperware box and left it on my shelf.<\/p>\n
A couple of years later I came back to it and thought \u2018Wait a minute, I\u2019ve got a working finished game here so I might as well do something with it\u2019. I worked out I could make 100 copies, largely by hand, and sell them over the internet and hopefully make a little bit of money, so I did and 11 months later I\u2019d sold them all! During that time someone else had sent me another game, which became It\u2019s Alive. I made 300 copies of that by hand and sold them over the internet in 11 months, at that point I took the mad decision to quit my job and try and do it full time.<\/p>\n
– Jackson Pope @ A Year of Frugal Gaming<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nReiver Games<\/a><\/p>\nPope adds:<\/p>\n
“I\u2019ve been blogging on Creation and Play<\/a> for three years now, most people initially heard about me on there or on BoardGameGeek<\/a>, publicising my game. I\u2019ve now had 150 submissions; some good, some awesome, some not so awesome.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Interview posted by Dave @ A Year of Frugal Gaming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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