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Design & Development / Re: Sketch deck v1
« on: March 25, 2016, 03:43:10 AM »
Thank you both!
I received the fulfillment service prices from gamblers warehouse. They are way better than the shipping costs from MPC.
Now I will calculate what it costs to ship all the decks to gamblers warehouse and then let them handle the fulfillment.

@Don Boyer: Now that I do have pretty much all the costs (shipping, printing, advertising) I will start to calculate all over again to get the exact costs I have. As exact as possible ^^

@DoubleOOJ: Thank you! :)
My redesigned deck should arrive next week I guess. As soon as I have the cards I will shoot a few more images.
Don really has great advise. :) Thank you Don!
Thank you for the link! I will definitely take a look.

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Design & Development / Re: Sketch deck v1
« on: March 20, 2016, 11:50:57 AM »
Yes, as far as I know the handling and packaging is included within the shipping costs. The fulfillment service costs extra (of course).
To include a part of the shipping costs in the deck price was a thought of me too.
I do not want to include the whole shipping costs in the deck price, because the price of the deck would be pretty high. Sure, the price is the same actually, but I think high deck prices distract people. Even if there are no shipping costs at all.

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Design & Development / Re: Sketch deck v1
« on: March 17, 2016, 10:08:18 AM »
ok. I removed my wishlist.
The number I have comes from the shipping costs calculator of the MPC site. I think it was about 5$ per deck, for 3 decks it's 3$ per deck and so on. It actually has a "bulk discount". But this one is per delivery, which makes it pretty expensive I guess.
But I am not 100% sure if this calculation is right.
I asked at Gamblers Warehouse and currently I am waiting for a response. Lets see what they offer.

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Design & Development / Re: Sketch deck v1
« on: March 15, 2016, 04:16:17 AM »
Well then. I think I will give the ads a try as my campaign starts.
I am sure it's paying off.
Of course there is no way of knowing how many decks are wanted. With the wishlist, I just want to get an idea of how many there are.

Yeah, I guess 100 decks is kinda affordable. The only problem I have are the shipping costs. As far as I can see, the fulfillment service costs about 1$ - 2.5$ per delivery without the shipping itself. The shipping itself is pretty expensive. I think it was about 5$ per deck regarding to http://www.makeplayingcards.com/shipping.aspx.
That means, that the shipping costs raise with the amount of decks which also means, that two decks have a shipping charge of about 11$ - 12.5$.
Am I right with my calculation?
I just ordered small amounts of decks, so I have almost no information about the shipping costs for huge amounts.
In my calulations for the campaign, I simply calculated with 5$.

For sure I will set stretch goals. At least I want to mention the LPC quality as a stretch goal.

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Design & Development / Re: Sketch deck v1
« on: March 11, 2016, 03:40:34 AM »
Thank you for the response.
I calculated pretty much everything. I even calculated the costs for different manufacturers like LPCC, MPC, USPCC, ...
All in all I have the estimated costs and know how much the scenarios (worst, best) will cost.
But I do not want to start a Kickstarter campaign for about 10 decks. My goal is at least 500 decks. Otherwise the printing would be too expensive.
This is actually the reason I have the wishlist, to get an idea of how many people would like to have the deck.

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Design & Development / Re: Sketch deck v1
« on: March 10, 2016, 04:48:30 PM »
Hey there!
Finally, I redesigned my website. Now I offer a wishlist for those who want to have this deck.
The wishlist provides only an estimation of the amount of decks, which would be bought on Kickstarter. I do not want to start a campaign, if there are to less decks, because of the minimum order amount of course. ^^
So, please sign up to the wishlist and share this deck for a Kickstarter success. :D
I think I will give out free decks for a few which are on the wishlist. :D
Here's the link to the deck and my website: http://lukasirzl.at/cards/sketch-deck
The images are a bit old and will be changed as soon as the new deck arrives.

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Design & Development / Re: Sketch deck v1
« on: February 29, 2016, 02:41:55 AM »
Thanks!
I think I will promote the deck in those forums.
Banner advertising is a nice idea, but I don't have the resources ^^
As you mentioned, there is no guarantee of the project succeeding.

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Design & Development / Re: Sketch deck v1
« on: February 27, 2016, 12:07:41 PM »
Thank you so much for the answer. I really appreciate it.
The shipping is the difficult part, but as far as I can see, MPC offers a fulfillment service. This lowers my effort pretty much.
I planned to do a campaign with at least a 100 decks using the MPC linen stock (it is not that bad at all in my opinion). As I reach a thousand decks I would print them with LPCC. I really love the LPCC quality.
Both offer fulfillment services.
Do you have any ideas regarding advertisment?

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Design & Development / Re: Sketch deck v1
« on: February 25, 2016, 11:19:37 AM »
Hey there!
Do you think this deck is worth a Kickstarter campaign?
I definitely want to sell this deck, but in order to get a good quality stock, you have to order at least a thousand decks.
And this could be accomplished by a Kickstarter campaign, but if there are no people who would buy this deck, it is kinda difficult ^^
What do you think?

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Design & Development / Re: Sketch deck v1
« on: February 17, 2016, 02:34:17 AM »
Thank you all for the replies.
@Sarah F: I made the pips a bit bigger. But making them too big looks horrible in my opinion. ^^
Yeah, the courts are a bit too small, I will increase the size for sure.
@sprouts1115: In my opinion, the border fits quite well for the spot cards. I think the "minimal and sloppy" way fits pretty good for the sketchy theme. Additionally, I wanted a bit more white space than usual.
@Don Boyer: Thank you for the support.
I will print the deck once more in a few days to see if the indices are easy to read. I hope so :)

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Design & Development / Re: Sketch deck v1
« on: February 14, 2016, 10:33:36 AM »
Thank you!
I increased the letter size a bit, decreased the size of the pips and centered the letters above the pips. Looks pretty neat now.
Example is attached.

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Design & Development / Re: Sketch deck v1
« on: February 14, 2016, 03:55:13 AM »
I moved the index a bit more to the corner.
Additionally, I "filled" the spades and the diamonds for an easier distinction.
Is it better now?

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Design & Development / Re: Sketch deck v1
« on: February 10, 2016, 02:38:11 PM »
Thank you!
I tried the full sized zero before, but i really disliked it. The smaller one fits better to the sketchy way it is drawn.
Actually, there is no real font used. I drew all the letters and numbers by myself to make it match the suits.
What do you think about filling two of the index suits for better distinction? (e.g. spades and hearts)
You are right. Now, that you speak of the positions of the indices, they are way too much on the right side. I think of putting them to the left side instead of centering them. Personally I think the sloppy way makes the deck more "unique" and it fits much better. But that is only my opinion :)
What do you think?

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Design & Development / Re: Sketch deck v1
« on: February 09, 2016, 02:35:18 AM »
Thank you very much for the response.
I attached some artworks of the deck. Should be better quality now.
Hope you like it :)
I will push the indices a bit more to the corner for the next print run.

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Design & Development / Sketch deck v1
« on: February 08, 2016, 04:22:58 AM »
Hey there!

I am new here but I want to show you the last deck I designed.
A picture of it is attached.
It was printed by http://www.makeplayingcards.com/ with a simple 310gsm linen stock. I used the simple linen stock because it has no minimum order amount. Otherwise I would have chosen the linen air stock. :)
All cards are custom. The face cards, the suits and even the numbers.
Hope you like it and please give feedback. :D

Best wishes,
Lukas

PS: sorry for the horrible spread ^^

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