The Mayday Games Blog

I just wanted to post a quick bit of advice for all you project creators. We have done 25+ projects and here are a few pointers that we believe help us to keep our projects from flat-lining after that initial 3-day burst. 1) Consider a $1 backer level for say the first 5 backers when you start your campaign. Announce it ahead of time and let people know when you will be launching. We have done this on just our last two campaigns and we are getting more than triple the backers in the first hour compared to our previous...

AN INTERNAL MAYDAY COMMUNICATION, RELEASED INTO THE WILD: Everyone, Please welcome Scott to our little Mayday Team. He will be part-time running our Kickstarter projects for us, AKA doing my job so I can sleep a few hours per night! He has run several game projects quite successfully and I believe he will be a GREAT addition to our team. He will be on Slack soon enough and included on just Voodoo ad other non-released games for now. Ryan, be sure he is set up on a payroll spreadsheet and send him a W9. Scott, Just so you know who...

Update 4: Check out our top 20 board gaming shelfies post that is a round up of our favorite shelfies entered into this contest. Thanks again everyone for entering! Update 3: We just randomly selected the winner of the contest and ... *drum roll* ... HUGE congratulations to Michelle E. for having the luck of the internet contest randomizer Gods on her side!!! Michelle has been contacted and we're excited to sleeve her whole collection! :D Check out Michelle's collection: Update 2: Thanks so much to everyone that participated in this contest! We will be announcing a winner within 48 hours!...

    Hello friends, Daniel Peterson the Lead Developer for Mayday Games. This morning I awoke with something in my mind that I have not thought about in decades, Numeral Systems. About 30 years ago when I was in my teens I was fascinated with computers. I would stay after school to use the Apple IIE. My first computer was a TI-99 4A with 16k. Yes, you read that right only 16k. My data storage was a cassette tape and it took a long time to load previously stored data. In those days you did not have a graphic user...

This article was published in Casual Game Revolution in 2013   Humble Beginnings Mayday Games entered the Board Gaming industry in late 2008 with a splash as big as you'd expect a company with a single product, a single person and not even a single marketing plan. I should say as big as you'd expect pre-Kickstarter. That is to say, no splash at all. Many board game companies come into this world because of a run-away hit or an amazing license or a great idea that sells so well that a company is almost accidentally created. They come from people...