AGS needs a CafePress store - now!

[Akatosh]

Yesterday, I discovered an online shop where you can customize yourself a T-Shirt together. Of course, I started creating an AGS T-Shirt right away. After fiddling around with their idiotic editor for over an hour, I ended up with this:


Which doesn't look too good, in my opinion  . Still, I want some kind of AGS merchandise, so here is my suggestion: PLEASE register an official AGS CafePress merchandise store and make up for my lack of T-Shirt creation talent.

Seriously. It's really easy to register a store at CafePress.com, and AGS needs one. How will we be able to survive without official blue cups?

[Privateer Puddin']

AGS merchandise has been long discussed, nothing produced though really.

CafePress isn't that great anyway.

[LimpingFish]

Yes, I remember a thread about this. I remember it sounded like a good idea. We came up with quite a few products (T-Shirts, little blue cup keyrings, mouse mats, etc), but could never hammer out the logistics of such an endevour.

Regardless of Cafe Press, I still agree with Akatosh's basic point. Something along these lines could be a boon to the community, and a handy way of financing various projects.

But the reality of pulling it altogether is a different matter.

[monkey0506]

This brings back horrible, horrible memories of when a MI fan over at MILegend.com wanted to start selling his exclusive MI T-shirts. They actually looked okay...until he announced the price. He wanted $30 a shirt.

However, I'd be all for reasonably priced AGS merchandise.

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

I've never really understood the urge to have merchandise for every website unless it's purely to make money.  Either way it's not something I'd be interested in, personally.  Aren't we all hopelessly geeky enough without walking around with a giant pixelated cup on our shirts?

[Boney]

No...  :'(

[SSH]

Spreadshirt is better as it has local stores in the UK and US

[Akatosh]

Need... pixellated cup T-Shirt... now!

[SSH]

Of course, inkjetable transfers are cheap, as are white T-shirts. Make your own.

[Erenan]

At one time I would have been interested in something like this. Now, I'm increasingly becoming more interested in wearing only clothes that don't advertise anything.

[Gregjazz]

Zazzle looks better than CafePress. I've heard a lot of horror stories about CafePress. Zazzle tends to be more expensive, but from what I hear it's higher quality.

[rodekill]

I still have my Larry Vales shirt.
It's really faded now though. Cafepress sucks.

[m0ds]

Yay! Vales t-shirts! The good old days 

Still, Cafepress badges are good quality!

AGS does need a t-shirt!
and a boxed edition!
and a donate button!!

But a flood of opinions & a lack of doing makes them all non existent

[Domino]

This has been talked about before...

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=29099.0

[TerranRich]

Zazzle looks better than CafePress. I've heard a lot of horror stories about CafePress. Zazzle tends to be more expensive, but from what I hear it's higher quality.

What kind of horror stories? I'm just curious.

I sell one shirt (which says "O RLY?" on it and I've sold quite a few without ever advertising), and a replica of the Gray's Sports Almanac from Back to the Future Part II that sells fairly well at $40 a pop. Never had any problems.

I even made a shirt for my wife (g/f at the time) with her name is a lovely-looking logo style, and I bought it and it looked perfect.

[Afflict]

Personally I agree that Zazzle is the better choice, cafe press (I had a cafe press and a Zazzle store) I still have my Zazzle Store.

Zazzle has a easy to use interface, and I dont miss the bulk editor from cafe press cause let's face it every item is requires a different size picture for best results. So the users have to create the correct picture size for the pics.

Another great thing is you don't have to pay to have a monthly fee to have a store with more than 5 products and this is the case with cafe press. Zazzle also has nice API's which you can implement into your website and also a really kewl flash widget that plugs directly into any website displaying any merchandise. (You choose) Heres an example.  StreetCrew. The look and feel is customizable. (but only from there templates.

My take on the whole merchandise thing is why not, but I also think that BigBlueCup.com needs a donate button. Funds can all go to CJ and he can decide what he does with the cash.

Later,

Francois.

[Tuomas]

then why not just send him a check and print your own shirts?

[magintz]

I discussed this with some people at Mittens last year with the idea of kinda "tour shirts". But the idea just seemed to lack interest on the most part I think.

[spaceship789]

AGS does need a t-shirt!
and a boxed edition!
and a donate button!!

I agree, the AGS website needs a big donate button! It would be good to have donating status reflected on our forum avatars aswell. Lemon64 is a good example of how to do it.

[Bluesman]

I think AGS would work great as a CD attached to the bottom of a huge blue mug.

I'd drink to that.