177 - 5BYN?

[captain_slinky]

Came to me in a dream last night that I should work on self-publishing all my game ideas under the publishing title of 5BYN Games, pronounced "Five Bin" or "Sigh-Bin" by my fans/customers but it stands for "Five Bucks, Why Not?"... the gimmick of our games being that every game was $4.99.

Every game was the size of a standard deck of cards, maybe a little bit bigger if the box needed to include dice and/or tokens... and this has left me a bit "sparked" for trying to convert all my games to minimalist five-dollar versions that boil down to the basics of the game.

Comments

[aurora77]

Kinda like Cheapass Games?

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Very much like Cheap-Ass Games - people at the FLGS in my dream were making that comparison. Like Cheap-Ass, only without *feeling* cheap like the original Cheap-Ass Games did in their "photocopies in an envelope you have to cut out and scavenge pieces from other games to play" cheap look. Mine were polished. I wasn't making much money off the games at all, it was mostly just making games for the fun of it and for getting games out and and to the hands of gamers. Like my cost per unit came to $3.50 and I sold them to shops for $3.75 each.