The engineers behind these (any) factory machines are the unsung heroes. They deserve 6-figures in my book. Board games bring me so much joy that I'm thankful for everyone involved with the process. All for the cost of one dinner out, I get hours and hours of thoughty connection with friends.

@StephenConway

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed on all accounts. Thanks for watching!

So many people's efforts come together to enable someone else's few minutes of joy!

Wooden/plastic pieces are important to some games, sure, but the color printing and the cardboard for boxes and tokens are very important to the process for every game Ludo Fact makes. If you watch the entire documentary, I think we show how these parts are essential to every game.

Very good film, I use it in my Advanced Marketing class and my students get to design their own games and we play the games on the last day of the unit. This film was very informative about the manufacturing and logistics process of creating game. Thank You!

This really makes me value the hard work that is required to create board games. Amazing documentary.

@StephenConway

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot. Glad you enjoyed it!

@Botanica_Gaming

5 жыл бұрын

This is sure to make any communist shudder in their commune.

Great job. After watching the assembly line, I am amazed more games don't get opened to missing components. That looks to be an insanely tough job.

This video is amazing. As I get myself into a hobby of Desktop Publishing and print-and-play games and design, I realize after watching how much I take for granted in the large-scale production of even the smallest of game print runs.

Thanks for watching! We certainly hope the film gives people a new appreciation and perspective on the world of games.

@aurabozzi228

2 жыл бұрын

This was a great video!

@StephenConway

2 жыл бұрын

@@aurabozzi228 thanks so much!

Incredibly useful insight into the manufacture of games, from someone about to embark on a PhD that incorporates elements of board game design and making.

@StephenConway

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the kind words. I am very glad to hear you found the film helpful!

Thanks to you all. There's a tremendous effort behind each box and we hope the film does a good job highlighting all the fine work that goes into every game.

This is a fantastic documentary! I have not been able to find one so thorough yet digestible as this. Thanks to you and LudoFact for the inside look!

This was spectacular! Thank you for making this video, and thanks to every single man or woman working in Ludo Fact for bringing the fun on our tables!

I would like a documentary on the story BEFORE the producing and printing (i.e. Develoment, ideas, testplaying, making the rules etc.)

@StephenConway

7 жыл бұрын

Certainly an interesting topic. Hopefully someone will do a film on that some time.

@funkygamesninja2782

4 жыл бұрын

Check out Off The Page games, Jay has done a series of videos on those very subjects

@alejandrolozano1258

4 жыл бұрын

Game designers documentary

@Luchiop

3 жыл бұрын

Plenty of those out there.

Thanks so much to everyone. We're so excited to be able to share the film with you all and are so glad to know you enjoy it.

Amazing! I learned so much from this documentary. It’s so awesome to see the hard work and production that goes into these games. This was a delightful window into the world of board game manufacturing. Thank you!

@StephenConway

Жыл бұрын

So glad the film helped you appreciate and learn about games! Thank you!!

Sample Room = A Board Game Geek's Fort Knox! But really, this is an amazing documentary. It's the A to Z for board game manufacturing. And my hat is off to those ladies and gentlemen on the assembly line. Everytime I see assembly lines like that, it truly amazes me.

Wow the color kitchen and other methods of cataloguing custom tools,shapes, and print runs are awesome =)

@StephenConway

5 жыл бұрын

It was really cool!

Such a professional production. Very impressed.

@StephenConway

8 жыл бұрын

+Rick Heli Thank you very much!

@Hgkbukk

3 жыл бұрын

its German.

Thanks for watching, Hertzog! It's great to know we can help other people interested in games understand all the different people and decisions that go into every box.

I enjoyed watching this so much, thank you for taking the time to make this documentary.

@StephenConway

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words! Great to know you enjoyed it.

I certainly have a greater appreciation and understanding of the cost of the games I purchase

This is a cool documentary about the technical aspects of making board games! Very interesting :)

@StephenConway

6 ай бұрын

thanks very much!

This is exactly what I've been wanting to see.

@StephenConway

Жыл бұрын

thanks so much!

beautiful !

@StephenConway

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much!

31:33 we all need such "sample room" in our houses ^_^

Wonderful!!!! Keep up the good work and I'll look forward to supporting more of your efforts!

Thank you so much Matthieu! So glad you enjoyed the film!

Thank you for this video, sir. Not enough of these out there.

Awesome job Stephen and Dave!! Very entertaining and informative...really enjoyed seeing a "How it's Made" approach to my favorite hobby.

Thanks for this wonderful video, and thanks to all these people that are creating our games!!!!

Really well done. Fantastic production quality, educational, and great music too!

That was really cool. I would love to see one on the entire DESIGN & ART process.

Time for another round of thanks. Response has been just great thus far! We're glad the film helps show people the world of games from a perspective they've probably never seen before.

A great cool video for table top gamers to see how their favorite German board games are made. I saw my 7 Wonders! "The Windmill" machine for game boards spinning around was very European in the windmill design. Love it! Ludo Fact has a secret vault of every game run they've ever made for every publisher? Treasure trove!

Thanks, Sascha! So glad you enjoyed it.

Awesome work guys. I really enjoyed the in depth look into the making of boardgames. I have to go donate now. Content this good should be rewarded. Thanks for providing it for free.

Thank you so much for uploading this. It's a wonderful insight into the board game manufacturing process! And I'm sure many hobby designers like myself will benefit from watching it :)

Wow, as a budding game designer this was simply fascinating to watch and learn. Thank you so much!

That was super professional, very nicely done!

Great documentary.

Such a great insight to the industry for inventors like myself. Thank you for sharing this video!

@StephenConway

10 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome. I am glad our film can help people understand the world of games a little better.

A really excellent production, congratulations gents!

Extremely well done, interesting and fun. Congrats!

Thank you for making such a wonderfully informative film!

@StephenConway

6 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome. Glad you enjoyed the film and found it helpful!

Great film, thank you!

Thank you for making this. Made my day

@StephenConway

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! It makes my day to know I made yours. :)

This was great, thanks.

awesome! i work in a direct marketing print shop in sweden and its great to see how anorher big company works! alot of the production is the same. thanx!

You are very welcome. Glad you enjoyed the film and found it helpful!

Fantastico! Thanks for the hard work!

there are several manufacturing processes detailed in the film but primarily we talk in detail about printing and cardboard fabrication (into boxes, boards and tokens).

This is awesome and enlightening. Great work!

@StephenConway

8 жыл бұрын

+Joe Walerko thanks very much!

Absolut amazing!! Thanks for this great film!

Excellent work on this!

@StephenConway

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much!

Guys... That was amazing!!

Very Details! Love it

I own the featured Cyclades & "Masters of Commerce"'s reprint, which is Panic on Wallstreet (& now out of print). They are favorite's of mine. I also have Saboteur.

You guys are great!

I can't wait to be doing business at this scale.

This is one of the coolest things I've watched in a long time. I've been really interested in printing presses lately, and combining that with the way board games are manufactured was a really cool way to see it all in action.

@StephenConway

8 жыл бұрын

+Jacob Wood thanks very much! So glad you enjoyed the film..

Really nice work !

Cool stuff and great video!

What a fantastic and professional job - I'm proud to be a backer!

Wow I'm really impressed. Currently looking for a manufacturer and Ludo Fact has just become a highly considered option for me. Take care!

This is a great documentary on the board game manufacturing process. Great work! :) It is amazing being able to publish board games. We're very fortunate to be in such an inclusive and overwhelmingly positive industry.

@atherisentertainment2208

6 жыл бұрын

We wonder how things have changed in LudoFact's printing capabilities and technologies since this video.

Thank you for this video.... it was really fun to watch... :)

super interesting video ! many thanks !

@StephenConway

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it. :)

thank you for this video, just what i needed to know to make my game

@StephenConway

4 жыл бұрын

That's great to know! So glad it was helpful.

"... to keep the cardstock from bending or warping before they are assembled." After they are in the box though, you're on your own. lol. Thanks for the great video!

@StephenConway

6 жыл бұрын

Hard to account for humidity and other factors that can cause warping once the games leave the factory, that's for sure! Glad you enjoyed the film!

very informative thank you

Awesome!

We really appreciate all the kind words. Thank you all. And we certainly hope this gives people new insights into the world of games.

@conradbarrettyear1032

4 жыл бұрын

Stephen Conway how long does it take to produce the boards and how long does it take?

wakertwojerk: it was difficult to pry us out of the Sample Room! Definitely a board gamers' paradise. I am sure the Ludo Fact people were rolling their eyes at us walking around the stacks like giddy schoolgirls. daniel: thanks. so glad you enjoyed it!

Well Done Guys!!

Such a great video!!!

@StephenConway

8 жыл бұрын

+Neanderthal Games thanks very much!

@neanderthalgames6205

8 жыл бұрын

I hope to be producing my game within the next year so this was just the perfect thing to see! I'll have to check out this manufacturer now! :)

@StephenConway

8 жыл бұрын

+Neanderthal Games here's a link to their web site www.ludofact.de/

You're very welcome, Oliver. Glad we could help you out. :)

Amazing.

@StephenConway

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Great documentary. Really interesting insight into how board games are made. There's a game I'm designing that I would like to see produced one day. Luckily, it doesn't have any unique shapes with any of the cardboard pieces. There are lots of tiles required but they are square shaped.

This needs more views.

@StephenConway

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I agree :)

Well done, well worth the money I spend on the Kickstarter campaign, and that's not counting all the interviews that have already been posted. See you in Essen in October? ;)

Really nice video!

@StephenConway

8 жыл бұрын

+Drowsy Emperor thanks. glad you enjoyed it!

Very interesting. I worked primarily as a scupltor for a table top miniatures company in the 80s' (Heritage Models, Dallas, Texas) but I was also involved with mold making and casting for a while. In this video I saw lots of parallels with the behind the scenes manufacturing, packaging and shipping process.

@StephenConway

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much! Gosh I think I may have a few of y our minis here in my collection! :) I can see how there would be lots of parallels in the process since both start out as creative endeavors and end up as a series of manufacturing challenges that are interesting in their own way.

@reftomgreen82

7 жыл бұрын

There were at least a dozen sculptors that contributed to th evarious Heritage lines over the years. I did a lot of 15 mm historical figs but also contributed to the 25 mm fantasy lines. There are a few pics in my gallary on BoardGameGeek dot com under user = RefTomGreen.

16:21 "It's a me, Mario!" Videogame character doesn't want people to know he works making board games.

@Hieronymus-Pseudonymous

6 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. :)

I have a dream to create my own boardgame and sell all over the world : )

@dforte6195

5 жыл бұрын

I too have a dream...but shhhhhh...dont say that here. They crush dreams, stamp them out into the same cookie cutter concept, and the next thing you know, you are a sleepwalking zzzzzzombie. Its a conspiracy I tell ya!

@lollol44577

5 жыл бұрын

And how are you doing so far after 3 years?

@meenki347

5 жыл бұрын

I have a dream too. My dream is to play all the games I own.

@IskandarStrategist1689

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@ClarkPotter

2 жыл бұрын

Same here. 3 prototypes set up in my office!

Que buen video!

@StephenConway

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

Wood be interesting to see how the numbers hold up now, ten years later!

An awesome video - very informative... ;-) Thank you.

@StephenConway

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much!

@shett8320

6 жыл бұрын

maybe you know the name of cutter for gaming cards? Very interesting machine, never seen something like that, and want to learn about it.

Impressive!

@StephenConway

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

nice video....

The Sample Room in Ludo Fact - a boardgamer's Paradise!

@StephenConway

6 жыл бұрын

We didn't want to leave the sample room. Could have spent hours in there! :)

Did I see full size Ticket to Ride train cards?!?! What the hell, I'm super jealous my edition has tiny cards.

Have you toured this film in festivals or pitch it to any networks? It was really made well.

If you like this documentary please consider backing the spiel's current kickstarter (link in video description) for more great documentaries about the games we love.

Just what I was looking for

@StephenConway

6 жыл бұрын

Great! Thanks for watching!

Fascinating! 2.5 million Euros for a 6 color printing press setup ... that was 11 years ago ... I wonder how much that would cost today!!

3 years from this video, is anything changed in the process? thanks to upload this, it is incredibly interesting.

@StephenConway

8 жыл бұрын

+Raffaele Passarelli the process has not changed much at all. Some publishers use digital printing instead of the traditional 6 color process shown in the film but the basic steps are essentially the same.

nice video

@StephenConway

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

Whenever I feel doubt about spending upwards of 80$ on a big box game,... I watch this.

@StephenConway

7 жыл бұрын

:) I feel the same way. Thanks for watching!

@paulstaker8861

7 жыл бұрын

Entirely my pleasure :")

I like this video!

@StephenConway

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Realmente interesante buen video

@StephenConway

6 жыл бұрын

Muchas gracias!