Or take Meredith Placko, the CEO of Steve Jackson Games, which produces video games like Munchkin. “Some people ask, ‘Why not manufacture in the US?’ I wish we could,” she composed. “But the infrastructure to support full-scale board game production—specialty dice making, die-cutting, custom plastic and wood components—doesn’t meaningfully exist here yet. I’ve gotten quotes. I’ve talked to factories. Even when the willingness is there, the equipment, labor, and timelines simply aren’t.”

Certainly, you state, a box of cards need to be possible. And it is. CAH informs me that the drawbacks of United States production for its video game are still substantial.

“We actually tried diversifying our suppliers by working with a US factory several years ago, but they were twice as expensive, three times slower, and much lower quality—something like 20 percent of games were unsellable due to production errors,” stated a representative for the business.

And although it is possible to print card video games in the United States, CAH makes other items too and would choose to deal with a single producer who can deal with all of it. More recent CAH video games like Head Trip utilize “wooden tokens and a round folding board,” while another title called Tales “has a bound book and 20 tiny matchboxes of prompts.”

In the end, however, it’s not almost dollars and sense. It’s likewise about relationships and trust. CAH has “used the same factory in China since 2010, and they’ve grown alongside us from a small business to a huge operation,” I was informed. “They do great work, we like them, and we feel a moral obligation to stand by them through Trump’s insanity.”

(If you wish to produce Cards Against Humanity in the United States, nevertheless, you can constantly download the totally free apply for the video game [PDF] and print it yourself. Be alerted that it is rather repulsive!)

Board and card video games are not one of the significant pillars of the United States economy, obviously, however checking out how complex it can be to get a video game made does brighten complicated concerns around globalization and production that are frequently developed into easy soundbites.