Made for Play: Board Games & Modern Industry
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ส.ค. 2024
- Jettingen Germany is home to Ludo Fact, one of the world's largest manufacturers of board and card games.
This documentary shows how a board game makes the leap from an idea to your table.
You'll see every aspect of the manufacturing process: the technology and machines, the many detailed steps, and the hundreds of people that are involved in the production of a single game.
Mostly, we hope the film gives you a greater appreciation of the time, effort and investment that goes into every quality board game that makes it to the marketplace and your home. The business of fun requires a lot of hard work!
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Very good film, I use it in my Advanced Marketing class and my students get to design their own games and we play the games on the last day of the unit. This film was very informative about the manufacturing and logistics process of creating game. Thank You!
So many people's efforts come together to enable someone else's few minutes of joy!
The engineers behind these (any) factory machines are the unsung heroes. They deserve 6-figures in my book.
Board games bring me so much joy that I'm thankful for everyone involved with the process.
All for the cost of one dinner out, I get hours and hours of thoughty connection with friends.
Agreed on all accounts. Thanks for watching!
This really makes me value the hard work that is required to create board games. Amazing documentary.
Thanks a lot. Glad you enjoyed it!
This is sure to make any communist shudder in their commune.
I enjoyed watching this so much, thank you for taking the time to make this documentary.
Thanks for the kind words! Great to know you enjoyed it.
This was spectacular! Thank you for making this video, and thanks to every single man or woman working in Ludo Fact for bringing the fun on our tables!
Thank you so much Matthieu! So glad you enjoyed the film!
This is a fantastic documentary! I have not been able to find one so thorough yet digestible as this. Thanks to you and LudoFact for the inside look!
Thanks to you all.
There's a tremendous effort behind each box and we hope the film does a good job highlighting all the fine work that goes into every game.
Time for another round of thanks. Response has been just great thus far!
We're glad the film helps show people the world of games from a perspective they've probably never seen before.
Awesome job Stephen and Dave!! Very entertaining and informative...really enjoyed seeing a "How it's Made" approach to my favorite hobby.
Awesome work guys. I really enjoyed the in depth look into the making of boardgames. I have to go donate now. Content this good should be rewarded. Thanks for providing it for free.
Such a professional production. Very impressed.
+Rick Heli Thank you very much!
its German.
This video is amazing. As I get myself into a hobby of Desktop Publishing and print-and-play games and design, I realize after watching how much I take for granted in the large-scale production of even the smallest of game print runs.
Wonderful!!!! Keep up the good work and I'll look forward to supporting more of your efforts!
Thanks, Sascha! So glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks for this wonderful video, and thanks to all these people that are creating our games!!!!
Amazing! I learned so much from this documentary. It’s so awesome to see the hard work and production that goes into these games. This was a delightful window into the world of board game manufacturing. Thank you!
So glad the film helped you appreciate and learn about games! Thank you!!
A great cool video for table top gamers to see how their favorite German board games are made. I saw my 7 Wonders! "The Windmill" machine for game boards spinning around was very European in the windmill design. Love it!
Ludo Fact has a secret vault of every game run they've ever made for every publisher? Treasure trove!
That was super professional, very nicely done!
Really well done. Fantastic production quality, educational, and great music too!
Thank you for this video, sir. Not enough of these out there.
Wooden/plastic pieces are important to some games, sure, but the color printing and the cardboard for boxes and tokens are very important to the process for every game Ludo Fact makes. If you watch the entire documentary, I think we show how these parts are essential to every game.
Thank you so much for uploading this. It's a wonderful insight into the board game manufacturing process! And I'm sure many hobby designers like myself will benefit from watching it :)
Thanks for watching, Hertzog! It's great to know we can help other people interested in games understand all the different people and decisions that go into every box.
Incredibly useful insight into the manufacture of games, from someone about to embark on a PhD that incorporates elements of board game design and making.
Thank you for the kind words. I am very glad to hear you found the film helpful!
That was really cool.
I would love to see one on the entire DESIGN & ART process.
Great job. After watching the assembly line, I am amazed more games don't get opened to missing components. That looks to be an insanely tough job.
Such a great insight to the industry for inventors like myself. Thank you for sharing this video!
You are very welcome. I am glad our film can help people understand the world of games a little better.
Thanks so much to everyone. We're so excited to be able to share the film with you all and are so glad to know you enjoy it.
Great documentary.
I would like a documentary on the story BEFORE the producing and printing (i.e. Develoment, ideas, testplaying, making the rules etc.)
Certainly an interesting topic. Hopefully someone will do a film on that some time.
Check out Off The Page games, Jay has done a series of videos on those very subjects
Game designers documentary
Plenty of those out there.
Wow, as a budding game designer this was simply fascinating to watch and learn. Thank you so much!
Thanks for watching!
We certainly hope the film gives people a new appreciation and perspective on the world of games.
This was a great video!
@@aurabozzi228 thanks so much!
Absolut amazing!! Thanks for this great film!
Extremely well done, interesting and fun. Congrats!
Fantastico! Thanks for the hard work!
A really excellent production, congratulations gents!
Wow the color kitchen and other methods of cataloguing custom tools,shapes, and print runs are awesome =)
It was really cool!
Wow I'm really impressed. Currently looking for a manufacturer and Ludo Fact has just become a highly considered option for me. Take care!
Great film, thank you!
Thank you for making such a wonderfully informative film!
You're very welcome. Glad you enjoyed the film and found it helpful!
Sample Room = A Board Game Geek's Fort Knox!
But really, this is an amazing documentary. It's the A to Z for board game manufacturing.
And my hat is off to those ladies and gentlemen on the assembly line. Everytime I see assembly lines like that, it truly amazes me.
This is awesome and enlightening. Great work!
+Joe Walerko thanks very much!
This is a great documentary on the board game manufacturing process. Great work! :) It is amazing being able to publish board games. We're very fortunate to be in such an inclusive and overwhelmingly positive industry.
We wonder how things have changed in LudoFact's printing capabilities and technologies since this video.
Thank you for making this. Made my day
Thanks so much! It makes my day to know I made yours. :)
Very Details! Love it
This was great, thanks.
awesome! i work in a direct marketing print shop in sweden and its great to see how anorher big company works! alot of the production is the same. thanx!
You are very welcome. Glad you enjoyed the film and found it helpful!
Cool stuff and great video!
This is a cool documentary about the technical aspects of making board games! Very interesting :)
thanks very much!
super interesting video ! many thanks !
Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it. :)
This is one of the coolest things I've watched in a long time. I've been really interested in printing presses lately, and combining that with the way board games are manufactured was a really cool way to see it all in action.
+Jacob Wood thanks very much! So glad you enjoyed the film..
Thank you for this video.... it was really fun to watch... :)
Really nice work !
Excellent work on this!
Thanks very much!
beautiful !
Thanks very much!
You guys are great!
What a fantastic and professional job - I'm proud to be a backer!
Guys... That was amazing!!
there are several manufacturing processes detailed in the film but primarily we talk in detail about printing and cardboard fabrication (into boxes, boards and tokens).
Well Done Guys!!
wakertwojerk: it was difficult to pry us out of the Sample Room! Definitely a board gamers' paradise. I am sure the Ludo Fact people were rolling their eyes at us walking around the stacks like giddy schoolgirls.
daniel: thanks. so glad you enjoyed it!
Well done, well worth the money I spend on the Kickstarter campaign, and that's not counting all the interviews that have already been posted.
See you in Essen in October? ;)
This is exactly what I've been wanting to see.
thanks so much!
Great documentary. Really interesting insight into how board games are made. There's a game I'm designing that I would like to see produced one day. Luckily, it doesn't have any unique shapes with any of the cardboard pieces. There are lots of tiles required but they are square shaped.
thank you for this video, just what i needed to know to make my game
That's great to know! So glad it was helpful.
I own the featured Cyclades & "Masters of Commerce"'s reprint, which is Panic on Wallstreet (& now out of print). They are favorite's of mine.
I also have Saboteur.
You're very welcome, Oliver. Glad we could help you out. :)
I certainly have a greater appreciation and understanding of the cost of the games I purchase
Awesome!
Really nice video!
+Drowsy Emperor thanks. glad you enjoyed it!
very informative thank you
I can't wait to be doing business at this scale.
We really appreciate all the kind words. Thank you all.
And we certainly hope this gives people new insights into the world of games.
Stephen Conway how long does it take to produce the boards and how long does it take?
Very interesting. I worked primarily as a scupltor for a table top miniatures company in the 80s' (Heritage Models, Dallas, Texas) but I was also involved with mold making and casting for a while. In this video I saw lots of parallels with the behind the scenes manufacturing, packaging and shipping process.
Thanks very much! Gosh I think I may have a few of y our minis here in my collection! :)
I can see how there would be lots of parallels in the process since both start out as creative endeavors and end up as a series of manufacturing challenges that are interesting in their own way.
There were at least a dozen sculptors that contributed to th evarious Heritage lines over the years. I did a lot of 15 mm historical figs but also contributed to the 25 mm fantasy lines. There are a few pics in my gallary on BoardGameGeek dot com under user = RefTomGreen.
This needs more views.
Thanks! I agree :)
Such a great video!!!
+Neanderthal Games thanks very much!
I hope to be producing my game within the next year so this was just the perfect thing to see! I'll have to check out this manufacturer now! :)
+Neanderthal Games here's a link to their web site www.ludofact.de/
Que buen video!
Thank you!!
Amazing.
Thank you so much!
What an informative video for me. My board game might take time to be released. But it'll be hot :)
nice video....
An awesome video - very informative... ;-) Thank you.
Thanks very much!
maybe you know the name of cutter for gaming cards? Very interesting machine, never seen something like that, and want to learn about it.
"... to keep the cardstock from bending or warping before they are assembled." After they are in the box though, you're on your own. lol. Thanks for the great video!
Hard to account for humidity and other factors that can cause warping once the games leave the factory, that's for sure!
Glad you enjoyed the film!
Impressive!
Thanks so much!
I have a dream to create my own boardgame and sell all over the world : )
I too have a dream...but shhhhhh...dont say that here. They crush dreams, stamp them out into the same cookie cutter concept, and the next thing you know, you are a sleepwalking zzzzzzombie. Its a conspiracy I tell ya!
And how are you doing so far after 3 years?
I have a dream too. My dream is to play all the games I own.
Same
Same here. 3 prototypes set up in my office!
The Sample Room in Ludo Fact - a boardgamer's Paradise!
We didn't want to leave the sample room. Could have spent hours in there! :)
Just what I was looking for
Great! Thanks for watching!
the other side of game-mechanics :) very good documentary with a few well placed promotional facts about Ludo Fact. See it if you like board-games culture!
3 years from this video, is anything changed in the process? thanks to upload this, it is incredibly interesting.
+Raffaele Passarelli the process has not changed much at all. Some publishers use digital printing instead of the traditional 6 color process shown in the film but the basic steps are essentially the same.
I like this video!
Thanks!
16:21 "It's a me, Mario!"
Videogame character doesn't want people to know he works making board games.
I was thinking the same thing. :)
31:33 we all need such "sample room" in our houses ^_^
nice video
Thanks
Great video, i am a game designer, this is very useful
Thanks very much! Glad to know you found the film helpful.
Realmente interesante buen video
Muchas gracias!
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Have you toured this film in festivals or pitch it to any networks? It was really made well.
26:28 I like that there's a punk rock girl working at the board game company.
As well as ska sounding music during the video.