A good way to publish your created games

[Joseph DiPerla]

If you guys want to sell your games that you make, and have the cover design and Jewel case design all set up for you and you dont want to pay for publishing rights etc..., then goto Cafepress.com.

Open a shop and add a CD as a product and there it will tell you how to setup everything for you to sell a game or whatever on CD.

Thought this would be good if you were making an Adventure game youwanted to sell buy didn't have a publisher or anyone to mass produce the product...

JD

[Privateer Puddin']

I heard it was pretty poor quality actually, think it was tested for The Adventures of Fatman but due to the quality, it was not used.

[m0ds]

I heard the same. Their t-shirt designs fade after a couple of washes (so I'm told) and their CD quality isn't too brilliant either.

But then, things might be better now, or in the future.

[SSH]

Most online digital photo printers will do the job cheaper for T-shirts, mugs, etc/ (and if you're outside the US shipping will be much less with a local one)

All we now need is someone to do a definitive AGS T-shirt design...

[Anarcho]

Yeah, beware of cafepress, I remember reading of some awful experiences with that crowd.  Not sure where, probably here, but either way...

[Davis]

Their mousepads aren't too shabby.

[Toefur]

Cafepress aren't as bad as most people here seem to let on. Shirts fading is a very, very rare thing. It may have been more prevalent a few years ago before they had their techniques perfected... but these days their shirts (and other clothing lines) are pretty decent quality.

I've had one CP shirt for about two and a half years now, and it's faded only as much as any regular silk screened shirt would have.

Their CD pressing quality is amazing, I think. However, they do have their downside: they're very pricy.

What are the CD prices? I think about $8.99 for jewel case, and $4.99 for paper sleeve? That's a bit.

Like the old saying, 'You've got to spend money, to make money...' So, I think if you plan on selling an Adventure Game you made, I think it's best to get it professionaly pressed and printed.

It will only cost a few hundred dollars to get a few hundred CD's done (most pressing companies these days will do a minimum of 200, or 300, when a few years ago it was hard to get as little as 500). But for a few hundred dollars, and a few hundred CD's... you end up paying only $1-3 or so each... which means you can either a) have a much lower price, so  maybe sell more copies, or b) have the same prices as a CafePress base price, but make a heap load of extra money.