I've had the pleasure of doing a bunch more play-test sessions over the last few weeks (and two more to come this weekend!).

Here are some quotes culled from the feedback forms that people fill out after playing Anomia. In this case, the players were responding to the challenge of describing Anomia in one sentence. Below are a few of my favorite responses.

"It's exasperating, tense and mind-boggling."

"Cards for people with diarrhea of the mouth."

"Crazy, fast paced word-thinking madness!"

"Remember everything - Now!"

"A constantly evolving battle of speed and tip-of-the-tongue craziness."

"It's slap me and call me a pig fun!"

"Braincrunching fun for the whole family."

So far, I've sold 127 copies of Anomia to 57 people, thanks everyone! Don't forget to pre-purchase your copies now!

Hey there, another BIG order came in today! A friend bought 20 copies of Anomia!

This brings the total so far to 118 games, purchased by 53 people. Thanks so much to everyone!

Hey there, I just got my sixth $100 dollar order (for 4 copies of Anomia)!   So far, I have pre-sold 93 games to 50 people. YES! 

The largest individual order to date has been for 15 games...somebody I know is already done with all their holiday shopping!

Well, the orders are starting to come in, so far I have pre-sold 60 games to 29 people, and have raised $1500! Thank you to everyone who has pre-purchased one or more copies of Anomia!!!  I still have a long way to go, but his is a wonderful, wonderful start!

Many thanks to all of you!  You know who you are!  : )

I'm so excited to announce that I have officially opened the doors of Anomia Press for business!  Hoooray!

Thanks to everyone for your past, present and future support!

Cheers!
Andrew

Well, it's 1:30 am, Sunday evening.  I have just finished setting up the official Anomia Press launch email blast.  It will go out tomorrow around 10 am.  The email list is composed of around 650 friends, family and acquaintances. Almost a quarter of the people I am sending my launch email to have actually played Anomia! 

I spent a good amount of time figuring out the best way to handle shipping costs for the investor copies of Anomia. It's a bit confusing as I intend to distribute a good deal of the investor copies via launch parties in NYC and Boston this September. I finally decided to just charge a flat fee of $5 bucks. That means I'll wind up eating some of the cost of shipping to the west coast, and i'll just refund the $5 to anyone I wind up hand delivering the game to.  Details, details...

So basically, everything for the launch is pretty much done. I am very excited and wonder how much sleep I will really get tonight! 

Hey there, so some very significant progress has been made! I haven't had a moment to spare to post anything here, but taking a minute now to give a general update.

Had two really great play-test sessions in the last few weeks. One was with a group of six 12-year old boys.  If you have ever played Anomia, you can just imagine how funny and intense this was! I was also very excited by the response their teacher had.  She immediately saw how much fun the kids were having and also how much potential Anomia has in the education world!

The second play-test session was with a bunch of friends from all these different parts of my life. My friend Gregg (an old friend from  elementary & high school) and his wife Zvia, my friend Liz (I know her from walking my dog in Prospect Park), My friend Juliet (from college) and the gracious hosts, J. and Pam (who I know through my wife!) A great group of people, none of whom knew each other at the start of the night. By the end of the evening we had spilled wine, broken glass and a lot of laughs, always a sign of a good play-testing session in my book!

Also of major significance:  I got my first pre-purchase orders for Anomia!  The award for first customer goes to Emily Flitter, a colleague of mine! Thanks for buying a game Emily!  I also got my first order for $100 (4 games). Thanks to Dale Houston!  In all, I have sold my first 8 games, and I haven't even sent out the official announcement emails yet!  I'm taking this as a good sign.

Finally, I finished making my way through my entire email list..one by one, personally emailing people and letting everyone know to expect the Anomia Press launch email on June 15th, next week.  That's over 600 emails...it took a long time, but I think it was well worth it.

Ok. Off to bed, it's late, I am tired, and there is lot's more to do before next Monday rolls around!

 

Howdy! Well, the next phase has begun... This is where I start personally emailing everyone I know to tell them what I am up to!  I'm not sure how I actually came to know personally, on a first name basis, 600+ people..but wow, I guess I DO know a lot of people! 

I sent notes out to everyone with last names in the A's, B's and just scratched the surface of the C's. I'm just trying to connect personally with everyone before I start sending out the more impersonal, mass emails about the official launch on June 15th or 16th.

Some lovely people commented on my FaceBook status which said "I'm starting a business, finally!" That reminds me, I gotta go get the Anomia Press Face Book page up and running!