I have been seriously stressed and overwhelmed for the past few months.
Maybe I'm doing too many new games for UKGE 2024. But doing old games also takes it out of me. Trying to make sure my old games are available at UKGE just doesn't seem worth it for various reasons.
It's entirely possible I'll stop making games. I love designing, but the publishing is just too stressful and I struggle with all the organisation/management/logistics.
But if I don't stop, I think I'll slow down. And stop doing reprints of everything.
Maybe I'll do 3 games a year at UKGE 2025.
I'd make sure they are also available at the following UKGE, maybe as a 2nd edition. But then they might be discontinued. It represented me for that moment, but not forever.
And each year, I could do a BGG poll to ask what games folk would like me to revisit.
Give myself time to 'revisit' the game, and bring out something that I feel happier with, rather than scramble to reprint an ever-growing library that is overwhelming me, let alone my UKGE helpers or anyone visiting.
This is a shift I will make.
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