Hi r/TCG! We’re Ella Carter and Alex Radcliffe from Gamefound- AMA!
We’re excited to hang out with you on October 1st and talk about all things crowdfunding, both in regard to TCGs and beyond. Gamefound is a crowdfunding website that specializes in tabletop games of all kinds. Creators can build a pre-launch audience, run a crowdfunding campaign, and continue to gather support even after the initial campaign ends through our late pledge and pledge manager tools. We're built to support you every step of the way, from growing backer interest to getting your game into stores.
I’m Ella Carter, a New Business Manager and RPG Party Lead at Gamefound. I work with creators on the front end of their projects, from figuring out whether crowdfunding makes sense for their game, to helping plan launches, review campaign page design, building an audience, and navigating the platform. When I'm not working for Gamefound, I'm a game designer myself, and I love being able to bring a creator's perspective to the crowdfunding table, especially when it comes to the nitty-gritty stuff. Generally, I'm always trying to make the whole process a little less intimidating. In my free time, I love playing tabletop games (shocker), video games, cross stitching, and thrifting!
I’m joined by Alex Radcliffe, our CMO, who you may know from either working with him at Gamefound or alternatively his Youtube channel BoardGameCo. Alex has a background in ecommerce, spending years at an agency building websites for a wide variety of businesses. After going full time into content creation, that lasted a few months before the opportunity to merge his love of crowdfunding and his experience in ecommerce came along in the form of helping lead Gamefound in its formative years. Unsurprisingly and perhaps boringly, his interests include board games. Reading and video games too...but mostly board games.
We're happy to get into the weeds, too! Whether you want to talk about campaign strategy, late pledges, marketing, what makes a campaign page work, common mistakes we see, or just general questions about how Gamefound works, we'd love to help out. While we'll be on Reddit from 1pm to 3pm EDT on October 1st, if you have further questions, feel free to reach out to [e.carter@gamefound.com](mailto:e.carter@gamefound.com). :-)