Written by Ariele.
The merchandise should be small and lightweight, so that it’s cheap and easy to manufacture and distribute at events etc. These will come in the form of stickers and possibly keychains showing images of visuals from our game and/the game’s logo.
Here are some visual examples.
The manufacturer I selected for this task is Vograce.
Custom acrylic keychains and animation peripheral products
This website offers affordable and sustainable offers for any type of custom merchandise, including lanyards, pins, keychains and stickers. At this point I'm only looking into keychains and stickers to distribute at cons and events, or as rewards for donations.
The material I selected is synthetic wood as it’s more environmentally friendly than acrylic or PVC. It also coincidentally matches the look of the board.
The shipping rate increases with the number of keychains ordered, which is ok since the keychains will be treated as a more premium option for merchandise, Vograce also offers discounts based on the number of items ordered. The shipping takes more than two weeks so we should keep that in mind when ordering for certain events.
50 keychains= £66.99 20 keychains= £26.59
Stickers are subject to a similar discount, the shipping for stickers also is free. Stickers come in sets of 10, meaning that an order of 2 would get us 200 stickers. This would mean that 100 stickers would cost us around a fiver.