How Trump's Tariffs could tank the board game industry

Published: Tue 8th Apr

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This video was condensed from a 3 hour stream, watch the full stream here: https://www.youtube.com/live/yobXb4q2ZmU?si=hMcFu1fgrIwX6p8s

Chapters:
4:45 - The Game Manufacturers Association's response to tariffs
13:33 - The Tabletop Game Designers Association response to tariffs
18:05 - What I predict will happen if these tariffs continue
20:22 - Jamey Stegmaier's response to tariffs

What us indie designers can do moving forward:
29:47 - Explore Print and Play games
34:29 - Explore Mobile/Web games
36:16 - Explore Print on Demand services based in the US like The Game Crafter
41:24 - Continue to pitch to publishers
42:07 - Why I don't ONLY pitch to publishers (Talking about how 2 of my games were cancelled before release)
46:06 - Create digital version of game for Board Game Arena and/or Tabletopia

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