I'm a manager of PMs at Amazon. Also 26 and also trying to quit and travel SE asia for 3-6 months. Email me if you'd want to talk: jstoneproductions@gmail.com. It's scary for sure.
Yeah I've tried a lot of these and every time I find that I'm not actually doing anything productive, but just linking pieces of text together. They seem like the ultimate busywork tools.
Thanks for this! We did check out CAH and quite a few Kickstarters.
Agreed on the scope of our video. Our thoughts are:
1) Game is pretty simple, so you could get that from the text
2) This was probably a miss. We may try to shoot some footage and change up the video to add in a face-to-face. Thanks! We were hoping the strangely high production value of the video would add credibility and wanted focus on the game.
3) We found that people reading the cards and visualizing themselves played better than showing another group of friends playing the game.
As for the lower-tier, we were worried this would mix shift to the lower tier, when we really need manufacturing funds for a first run.
It is a BLAST with a close group of players. But also works really well with a few people who know each other well and a few other people who know each other well. We've also had strong success with a group of complete strangers where people are inebriated / and there's at least 1-2 outgoing strangers but you are right, not ideal for a group of all more introspective strangers.
The Life is Life cheers is strangely fun when you actually do it, but I get that it reads cring-worthy. As it's hard to visualize, I think you're right.
Thanks so much for the feedback. Will take it all back.
