Laughing Jack: Tabletop Accessories Kickstarter
Es ist soweit seit gestern Abend ist der Kickstarter von der Tagewerk-Fabrikateure GmbH online.
Hi Everyone,
welcome to our first Kickstarter, that we run to start the production of premium UV-Printed and laser engraved Acrylic tabletop gaming accessories for Infinity, X-Wing and Guild Ball.
Starting out as tabletop gamers ourselves, we started our business of producing and distributing products for tabletop games in June 2014.
We decided, that it is now time for us to bring our love for games and our experience in producing high quality gaming accessories to Kickstarter. What we offer you here, is not only new from a design perspective, but it also shows our knowledge of high quality UV-Prints, directly on Acrylic, that we’ve been able to achieve.
Because of this, we can guarantee a higher resolution print and look and feel with these premium gaming accessories, that sets you apart from your friends’ and opponents’ equipment.
Samples for motive print templates on acrylic
First samples for the X-Wing pledges
Production:
Everything we do – from design to prototyping and production – is done in-house.As a small company, we pride ourselves on having full control of all production steps, as well as fulfillment of the KS, to guarantee a high quality standard. This way, we can also react faster to backers’ suggestions and introduce changes quickly during the KS.
Laser engraved Acrylic:
We cut and engrave directly on acrylic with our lasercutters (quality machines from Trotec Laser).
What’s special with this KS: We can offer you a larger range of colours of Acrylic, that you’ll be ablte to unlock during the campaign and also the option to get some of the products as UV-Print version.
UV-Printed Acrylic:
We print all of our UV printed tokens and templates directly on acrylic with a resistant UV-Ink and Primer in CMYK+White+Clear. The print has a resolution of 720×900 dpi, that is done by our industrial UV-Printer from Mimaki. The result is a high-res print, which holds up from up close as well as from a distance
Prototypes – Infinity Tokens
Goals and Benefits of the KS:
What do you fund with your pledges?
You fund the raw materials, like acrylics and UV ink to produce these game accessories and bring them to a local store near you.Why Kickstarter?
KS is the best way for us to fund the raw materials. We get the funding under better terms than we would with current loan conditions and can also promote the product lines. What’s even better: We can get your direct customer feedback and take it into account for an even better quality product.What are your benefits?
You get about 15% discount on all the products, compared to the MRSP. There’s also early access to the new product lines and access to KS freebies and exclusive products. Hint: Not every motive of our X-Wing templates will be available for regular sale.How to pledge Add-Ons:
You want to pledge for an Add-on? Just add the price of the Add-ons to your pledge. Not sure yet, what to get? You can still decide later in the Backerkit, but adding them directly will unlock more stretch goals now.Stretchgoals:
We have several kinds of stretch goals:Add-Ons: Unlock these and you can add the items by just adding their price to your pledge.
Option-Add-ons: Unlock these and you can choose between colour or shape options, the prices stay the same.
Freebies: Unlock these and you’ll get the items added as freebies on top of your pledge Level.
Fischers Guild Tokenset sample in standard shape
Brewers Guild Totenset sample with the first shape-option as Strechtgoal
GuildBall Engineers Guild sample of token shape option (Streichgoal option-add-on)
Pledges:
Infinity Add-Ons and stretch goals:
X-Wing Add-Ons and stretch goals:
Guild Ball Add-Ons and stretch Goals:
You are missing the Hunters and Union Guild Tokens?
We will add these as soon as possible, but they are not ready at the start of the KS due to a good timing of a cold and family holidays at our company, but if you pledge one of the Guild Ball pledge levels you also get access to this two sets.
Retailer Pledges:
As a retailer, we offer you the chance to be one of the first stores in your area to sell this great line of tabletop gaming accessories. Here’s what you get as retailer:
- Earlier shipment of our products (your orders will be shipped about 1 month earlier than regular orders)
- All pledge sets of your order will include the KS Freebies.
- You get access to the KS exclusive products for your KS order, that will not be available for regular sale later.
- Additional percentages to the regular retailers discount.
What do you have to do:
- Pledge the Retailers Level for 100 €
- Send us documents to prove your retailers status (incl. webshop and or store address)
- Get access to the Backerkit and place your order
- Pay half of the amount in advance and the rest the week before shipping
If you have any questions about pledging as Retailer, then please write us a message and we will gladly answer your questions.
Shipping and Fullfilment:
We’ve worked with several partners on other projects in the past, so we already have a proven supplier and shipping infrastructure in place. Because of that, we can offer you great shipping conditions and prices (not for Retailers):
Germany – 3,00 €
EU – 7,00 €
Europe (non EU) – 12,00 €
USA – 14,00 €
Rest of the World – 20,00 €
Please make sure to calculate this prices on top of your pledge.Early bird pledges will be sent out in October or can be picked up at SPIEL’16 trade fair in Essen, Germany (13-16th October) at our booth.
All other pledges will be shipped after that and all US orders (except Early Birds) will be sent to our US partner, who will then proceed to send the individual packages from inside the US.
For orders from outside the EU it might happen, that you have to pay customs fees depending on the customs policy of your country.
Availability after the KS: Each produc line will be available for sale after the KS to customers and retailers, except KS exclusive products:
X-Wing products under the brand WareXpert by Warehouse Games.
Infinity and Guild Ball under the brand Laughing Jack Games & Scenery by ourselves.
Der Kickstarter läuft noch 18 tage.
Hey Leute,
ein riesen Dank an alle die unser Projekt schon unterstützt haben, ihr seid genial. Successfull funding in 10 Stunden, damit haben wir nicht gerechnet, vielen Dank!!!
Wir haben natürlich noch einiges in der Pipeline für euch in den nächsten 19 Tagen 😉
Eure Laughing Jacks & Jackies
Da sind schon ordentlich schcike Sachen dabei, ich glaube da muss ich mal ein wenig stöbern. 🙂
Sehr cooler KS.
Was mich „leider“ etwas stört ist, dass der Focus mehr auf Infinity (und X-Wing) liegt. Die Token sind durchdacht und anspruchsvoll gestalltet.
Die GB Token hingegen sind sehr mau. Optisch kein Vergleich zu dem Original.
Hordes / Warmachine vermisse ich hingegen sehr. Da gibt es zwar schon viele gute Hersteller aber gerade da kann man mit coolen Design aber vorallem im Preis punkten.
Für alles zu haben klingt gut. Hinterlasse doch bitte mal deine Mail.
=)
@Bromrok:
Die GB Token bekommen ja 7K € noch mal ne andere Form mit eingearbeitetem Logo. Beim Design haben wir schon darauf geachtet dass die gut zu produzieren sind damit wir auch diesen Preis anbieten können. Die Gestaltung der original Tokens ist ja für den Preis verantwortlich, dafür sind unsere preislich niedriger angesetzt.
Hordes und Warmachine ist für uns nicht rentabel anzugehen, da wir dann für ein weiters System einige Designs anlegen und auch für Stretchgoals etc. vorhalten müssten, da lassen sich unsere Designkosten leider nicht decken. Aber durch die vielen Hersteller konnten wir das ja auch vernachlässigen.
Da ist echt interessantes Zeug dabei. Ich werde aber warzen müssen bis der Markt regulär bedient wird. Habe leider keine Kreditkarte.
Ich wünsche euch trotzdem viel Erfolg!