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An incompetent American attempt at manufacturing games locally (www.superheumann.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Edit: Title was changed since many people don't seem to get the term 'hilariously incompetent'.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There were so many plastic miniatures in the game that tooling alone was a crushing financial burden that would cripple the merchandise line commercially before anything else was even produced.

Injection molding NREs are high? Such a well kept secret up to now. I never would have guessed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Neither did they.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If only there was something that's much cheaper to scale slowly over time that's actually cheaper to use until you get into some millions+ of pieces.

3D printers are the future for everyone who wants to create something and doesn't have to of money to burn (that includes from preorders, aka confirmed sales).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I very much doubt 3d printers can handle commercial scale production on any kind of reasonable timetable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They sure do, even if you get a 3rd party print farm to print it for you. I read some analysis and up until around million pieces it's cheaper than molding without trying. If you optimize, it was some larger number which I forgot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Interesting, I assume that's a different level of 3d printing than the usual hobby level ones.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Same level, just different scale. Like, you have a thousand 3D printers in a single room printing.