How Kenny Goodman Makes Money Digitizing Board Games (Tabletop Simulator)

What if I told you that you don't have to be in the same room with someone to play board games? It's true - and that's how Kenny Goodman, owner of Overboard Games, was able to build a business out of digitizing board games on Tabletop Simulator.

In this episode, we talk about how Kenny takes a physical product and makes it digital, why the business works so well, and how he got started in the first place!

Learn more about Tabletop Simulator and Tabletopia here.

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Chapters

• 0:00 How Kenny Goodman Makes Money Digitizing Board Games
• 0:52 What is Overboard Games and who is Kenny Goodman ?
• 1:51 What is Tabletop Simulator and how do board game publishers use it?
• 3:32 Where people find digital versions of board games
• 5:42 How do you make digital versions of board games on Tabletop Simulator?
• 7:47 Why Kenny's business is working so well
• 10:22 How some parts of board games can even be automated
• 12:42 Kenny is smart about outsourcing highly technical work
• 13:46 Tabletop Simulator helps board game publishers refine their games as products
• 14:50 The difficulty of getting board game publishers to adopt a new way of doing things
• 16:36 The rise and fall of online board gaming conventions
• 18:36 How Kenny got into making digital versions of board games for money
• 20:25 How Kenny was eventually able to start creating digital board games as a full-time job
• 21:49 A hard, but reliable way to get noticed for the first time
• 24:14 Kenny's favorite project: Merchant's Cove
• 26:04 How to know Tabletop Simulator mods are actually worth it
• 26:56 Advice Kenny would give to someone just starting a business
• 29:43 The importance of finding a really specific niche
• 30:36 What's next for Kenny and Overboard Games?
• 33:49 Where you can find Kenny online