2018 Goals for AnSR Games

Each year, AnSR Games sits around and decides what they are wanting to do in the next year. We finally completed our discussions and presented here are our goals for 2018.

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The Philosophy

In 2017, we looked at the how of making games and decided that we wanted our games to fit a certain "mold". We like a certain box size, price, and complexity level. We then began reformatting our games to meet those criteria. 2018's goals are a direct reflection of those decisions and more. 

The theme for this year is Streamline and Focus. We looked at our library of games we want to launch and what we want to support in the future, and we made some hard decisions on what we wanted our company to do. To that end, we are going to retire older games (something we have not done in years), and refocus our time and energies on some core games and "lines" if you will. We even built in a little experimentation time... but not much. We have a goal to build a few kinds of games, the way we want this year, and we are on our way to doing that.

The Goals

Here are our 2018 Goals, in some particular order.

1. ​Make enough money from game sales to pay for the web site services we have (~$20).
2. Release the following games
   1. ConEx RPG: Controlled Experiments (U3 edition)
   2. ConEx RPG: Quick Start Game (U3 edition)
   3. The Siege of Tyler City
   4. [possibly] Birthday Fairy Wish Race
   5. New untitled game in Drop Racers "line" of games
   6. [optional] Angels RPG: City of Angels (U3 edition)
   7. [optional] untitled fantasy RPG game (U3 edition)
3. Retire the following games and all expansions:
   1. Emperor of the World
   2. ZipWarz: Elves vs Orcs
   3. Authorials
   4. Roll5s RPG: Charter of Chance
   5. -U- The Game of Stories (editor note: this is a big one)
   6. [possibly] Pyramids of Mars
4. Make quick, how to play videos for all remaining and upcoming games
   1. Angels - Michael's War
   2. Angels - Michael's War Expansion
   3. The Siege of Tyler City
   4. Faith Hope Love The Card Game
   5. Drop Racers
   6. ConEx RPG
   7. [possibly] Pyramids of Mars, Birthday Fairy Wish Race, and any new games made
5. Enter at least 1 Game Design Contest in 2018.

Final Thoughts on the goals

We honestly expect that some of these decisions will create a short-term slump on sales. The fact is, we make money on a game that we released in 2009 with no advertising every month. That is awesome. We are looking to retire that game. That's going to hurt. Long-term, though, making sure that the games we have are the ones we can spend time and energy on supporting and promoting is really great.

​We have a chance to make a strong, focused line of games that we can show and enjoy with people. In fact, the games we are making right now are even showing a focus on the experience we want players to have. It is all very intentional and we look forward to seeing the results not just in this year, but the next and the next. Streamlined and Focused.