*NOTE: The different manufacturers will actually use different file formats + color models (CMYK, RGB, etc.).

designed you can either work with the manufacturers who frequently have designers on staff or find a board game designer on Upwork as well. You can find great designers on Upwork/Fiverr, just make sure to look through their portfolios to get a sense of the art style and you’ll definitely want someone highly communicative since there will be lots of small adjustments + back and forth. I actually ended up using the same designer who did my children’s book! It cost about $1100 to do everything. Once I settled on a card game, I wrote out text for the image + text on each card, box art, and instruction manual. If you’re trying to create something from scratch, be prepared to invest the time in figuring out game mechanics. I joined a few online board game groups to understand the process of making a game and people spend years refining the game mechanics, getting playtesters online to give it a shot, use paper/cardboard cutouts to prototype things, etc. However, if you’re thinking about making a card game with entirely new mechanics, this will be the hardest part. I’m going to skip over this, because I took some well-known game mechanics, adjusted them slightly, and then made it a healthcare game. If you want to help me convince your HR department to include this game as a part of new employee onboarding or customer success teams to give to clients, hit me up at :). For anyone that wants to make their own board game, I thought I’d walk through the process + costs + profits. This was a good project to learn more about the world of e-commerce. You can read more about that process here if you’re interested in writing your own children’s book (including the economics as a writer).

For “If You Give A Mouse Metformin”, that was handled entirely through Amazon’s Kindle Direct publishing which meant Amazon printed it on-demand, warehoused it, fulfilled it, and handled all payment/tax stuff. This project was much more of a challenge for me than the children’s book, because it required a third-party manufacturer. If you want to be really nice, please leave a review on Amazon :) The game takes 2 minutes to learn and 15 minutes to play. ‍ The game doesn’t require any healthcare knowledge to play it, but you’ll learn about some of the wild and wacky ways money flows through the healthcare system, some of which might bankrupt you.

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