That's not a moon

[drivingblind]

I've got the sinking feeling that after spending the better part of the week putting together a map for a product that's probably still a couple months away from launch, that I've made something too damn big (it's big; really big). But having put in all of that effort, I still think I want to try to productize the thing, win or lose.

Comments

[chadu]

I say go for it.

Go big, or don't go at all.

[animadversio]

Jeebus! It's really freakin' cool, that's for sure. And it's on a grid. :)

I don't know what it is, but after staring at it for a minute or so, I came up with about a bazillion ideas what I could use it for ...

[yojimbob]

Could you produce it on the same material they make battlemats out of? That way it could roll up into a compact package and be easier to ship (perhaps).

[drivingblind]

Well, that's just it. What you're talking about would involve printing a thousand or more units ... and this is for a job that's very PDF-market driven, so not exactly in the same budgetary ballpark.

[yojimbob]

Hmmm... That IS a bit of a logistical nightmare. Having to tape together several trimmed PDF files would be annoying, and few people have a printer that works at such a large format...

[princeofcairo]

I think your funk comes from having used the word "productize."

Perhaps more helpfully, why not just PDF a small, do-able portion of the Big Thing? Do the Big Map for free on-line as a game aid (read: ad) with just enough text to make it basically utile.

Then, if you wind up selling a thousand PDFs of Big Thing: Space-Dock Seven, or even 250 PDFs each of Big Thing: Space-Docks Seven through Twelve, then you know you can likely support a battle-mat or other expensive physical artifact, along with the "anthology" version of Big Thing in POD.

[ex_gobi]

I keep seeing this as a folding fan for some interstellar debutante. :D

[fingolfin_aeros]

Looks sexy.