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To Buy or Not to Buy, that is the question. Maybe it comes down to Gen X vs Millennial, but the preferences to buy or subscribe are strong!  Instead of forcing our community into one or the other, we give our players the option for either/both. Buy If you are of the buy persuasion, you can still buy a game (perpetual digital rights).  TLG doesn’t set the cost of the game. We charge our game creators a flat 30% (just like Google Play or Apple App Store) for outright purchases.  You can expect the digital versions to cost much less than standard retail. Why? Let’s take a look at an example: Retail game cost at local game shop:   $50 Wholesale...

There is a common mantra out there today: “Hardware is hard.”  There is a lot of good anecdotal evidence of this too. How many of us have backed something on Kickstarter only to see it go up in smoke?  So why does TLG think we can do any better?  …This ain’t our first rodeo. Gameboard-1 is coming. To be successful in a hardware/software platform, you need real world experience and experienced partners.  TLG fully understands this and has assembled an incredible team and partner network to ensure our success and ability to deliver a paradigm shifting tabletop gaming experience. Ideation That is the most common response we get at TLG.  This is an idea who’s time has come.  We have spent the...

An indepth interview between TLG CTO, Rob Wyatt, with renown geek filmmaker and content creator, Ben Bobyns of Zombie Orpheus Entertainment.I’m in the studio when my phone rings. It’s the final week of a massive Kickstarter campaign and we’re livestreaming like it’s a PBS pledge drive, celebrating every dollar as we inch closer to our $430,000 goal. The last thing on my mind is designing and running another campaign. But I take the call and listen to the pitch… and the more I listen, the more I realize that I’m going to say yes to help bring the Gameboard-1 to life.Crowdfunding at a high level is a full-time job. It’s mentally and emotionally exhausting. Asking for money is hard and...