Is There Money to Make by Selling Game Merchandise?

Recently I read a very interesting post on GameProducer.Net: 7 Witty Tactics for Funding Your Game Production. One of the ideas presented there is to sell merchandise based on game art through CafePress.

Years ago, when I created the backgrounds for Bubblomania X, I already had the idea that it would be cool to use them for things like mousepads and clocks etc. But I never got around to investigating this option.

But now I discovered that you can actually set up a gift shop for free at CafePress! So there’s no reason anymore not to try! It took only a minimal amount of time to set up my two shops. Why 2? Simply because the free shop does not allow more than 1 product of the same type, and I have used 2 Bubblomania X backgrounds for use on a mousepad and a clock.

So I proudly present…

I have no idea whether people will actually buy these items, but I think they look quite nice. Especially if you like psychedelic computer art like I do

These items are also for sale in my games shop. If there’s some interest then I’ll probably add more stuff, and use some of the other artwork. And if not, than at least I’ll know the answer to the question in the title! And I’ll probably buy them myself just to show off…

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