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Mike McCain

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
183 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Video Gamers Podcast
Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast

Jordan, our founder, has a long history. He's made tabletop games. He's done a lot of physical goods fulfillment over the years. But if you're running a campaign back then and you didn't have that experience, I do think there were some people that got overcommitted on the amount of backpacks or figurines or whatever they were going to send out.

Video Gamers Podcast
Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast

Jordan, our founder, has a long history. He's made tabletop games. He's done a lot of physical goods fulfillment over the years. But if you're running a campaign back then and you didn't have that experience, I do think there were some people that got overcommitted on the amount of backpacks or figurines or whatever they were going to send out.

Video Gamers Podcast
Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast

Jordan, our founder, has a long history. He's made tabletop games. He's done a lot of physical goods fulfillment over the years. But if you're running a campaign back then and you didn't have that experience, I do think there were some people that got overcommitted on the amount of backpacks or figurines or whatever they were going to send out.

Video Gamers Podcast
Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast

So it all, you know, it's, it's, uh, yeah, it's, it's, uh, interesting.

Video Gamers Podcast
Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast

So it all, you know, it's, it's, uh, yeah, it's, it's, uh, interesting.

Video Gamers Podcast
Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast

So it all, you know, it's, it's, uh, yeah, it's, it's, uh, interesting.

Video Gamers Podcast
Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast

I think there's always... there's always a client or there's always a relationship that you have, right? So it's more similar in more ways than one might expect. But with the community, I think that there's a lot of powerful energy and momentum that you can tap in that relationship. So at its best was like, we released the Battletech backer beta, right?

Video Gamers Podcast
Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast

I think there's always... there's always a client or there's always a relationship that you have, right? So it's more similar in more ways than one might expect. But with the community, I think that there's a lot of powerful energy and momentum that you can tap in that relationship. So at its best was like, we released the Battletech backer beta, right?

Video Gamers Podcast
Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast

I think there's always... there's always a client or there's always a relationship that you have, right? So it's more similar in more ways than one might expect. But with the community, I think that there's a lot of powerful energy and momentum that you can tap in that relationship. So at its best was like, we released the Battletech backer beta, right?

Video Gamers Podcast
Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast

And that was our first combat demo of the game.

Video Gamers Podcast
Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast

And that was our first combat demo of the game.

Video Gamers Podcast
Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast

And that was our first combat demo of the game.

Video Gamers Podcast
Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast

uh we put that out to all of our backers and not only was that like a really exciting beat of our marketing and of our discoverability for the game but we also got some great feedback right like this was sort of like not public early access but this was our version of you know being able to reach these players directly and and see their experiences with the game and react to them uh

Video Gamers Podcast
Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast

uh we put that out to all of our backers and not only was that like a really exciting beat of our marketing and of our discoverability for the game but we also got some great feedback right like this was sort of like not public early access but this was our version of you know being able to reach these players directly and and see their experiences with the game and react to them uh

Video Gamers Podcast
Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast

uh we put that out to all of our backers and not only was that like a really exciting beat of our marketing and of our discoverability for the game but we also got some great feedback right like this was sort of like not public early access but this was our version of you know being able to reach these players directly and and see their experiences with the game and react to them uh

Video Gamers Podcast
Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast

So I do think Kickstarter for us was very good to us in that way. And publisher relationships run the gamut, right? So you can have opportunities for that sort of thing in any business relationship. You can have challenges. Certainly with a democratized funding partner, there's a lot of different voices that may want different things.

Video Gamers Podcast
Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast

So I do think Kickstarter for us was very good to us in that way. And publisher relationships run the gamut, right? So you can have opportunities for that sort of thing in any business relationship. You can have challenges. Certainly with a democratized funding partner, there's a lot of different voices that may want different things.

Video Gamers Podcast
Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast

So I do think Kickstarter for us was very good to us in that way. And publisher relationships run the gamut, right? So you can have opportunities for that sort of thing in any business relationship. You can have challenges. Certainly with a democratized funding partner, there's a lot of different voices that may want different things.

Video Gamers Podcast
Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast

I think their spaceships are really cool.

Video Gamers Podcast
Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast

I think their spaceships are really cool.