Here we go with the Q3 sales. Overall, there was a pleasant increase in sales over Q3, mainly down to the boost that the ENnies nominations and our celebratory sale had. However, it's important to note that (from where I'm sitting), it was the direct sales boost that really affected our numbers. IPR did not experience a sharp increase due to the ENnies.

a|state

a|state continues to tick along, showing a bit of an increase this quarter.

IPR: 9
Direct: 3
Con: 0
PDF: 12

Total: 24 (Q2: 15)

Lifetime: Vague

Cold City

Spun off from this thread on the sales of Barbarians of Lemuria. Any discussion of that topic should go in the original thread.

In that thread, Brennan from IPR said this:

"There are a lot of fantasy games out there, and I get a lot of fantasy game submissions. I have a pretty high bar for fantasy games because of this.

There are two main criteria I use: One, is the mechanic unusual or innovative? Two, is the setting something I have never seen before?"

As of a couple of days ago, a|state has gone out of stock at our online shop.

What this means is that the last copy we had has gone. In many ways, this is both saddening and pleasing. a|state, despite its ups and downs, was the first game that CGS produced and has continued to be a stalwart in sales, shifting a few copies a quarter.

Our online shop now has the main book removed from sale. It does feel a bit like the end of an era, I must admit. It's still available in PDF and from IPR, though.

Hi Folks,

Well Dragonmeet was a great success and much fun was had by all involved. The stall was exepertly dressed by Claire with assistance from the rest of us and I think it was the most professional we have ever looked. The sales where phenomenal coming in at (drum roll please)

£1034.40

Hi Guys.

Sorry it took me a few days to get round to posting these, I know you are usually eager to see how the stall went.

We manned the stall on day 1 in the morning and afternoon slots, but came to realise it was a bit pointless as everyone was taken up with games most of the time. For sunday we just had whoever was running a game near the stall keep an eye on it, but most of the business was between slots anyway.

So the numbers are:

Day 1

3:16 (2)
Cold City (2)
Hot War (3)
B-Movie (3)
Duty & Honour (7)
Play Unsafe (3)

Day 2

Mob Justice (1)
Duty & Honour (2)

Following up from my initial sales thread...

OneBookShelf had a problem with their database in August and so they've lost track of the pre-GenCon sales. They've written to customers and publishers about this, but it does mean that I'm waiting to find out how many PDFs they are going to pay me for during August. I'm certain I had 20+ sales by the 11th of August, when I last checked before heading to GenCon. We'll see what the numbers come out at. Since the system was reset it's been doing well on OBS, though.

GenCon was 114 sold and 18 comps handed out (mainly to the Ennies and so on).