Design a T-shirt for IGM – Get Paid!

Are you artistically inclined?

Are you artistically inclined? Are you a clever caption creator? Do you keep up with current events in the gaming industry? If so, put those talents to good use with IGM’s new initiative, and make some money for having fun! As you may already know, IGM is partnered with Teespringto promote and support indie game crowdfunding efforts. (Such as the recently successful Freedom Planet campaign, based on our May cover story.) We figure, while we’re supporting all these indies, perhaps we can gather a bit of support from the community as well. So here’s the plan:

We want to run a series of micro campaigns every few months. (Or, ideally, as often as possible.) By “micro campaign,” we mean Teespring campaigns with very low goals (in the range of 15-25 shirts). The idea here is less about making money, and more about coming up with quirky, silly designs that the community would enjoy picking up. The point of the low goal is that even if these niche or “inside joke”-esque designs only appeal to a few people, the campaign still gets funded, and folks get to pick up a limited edition shirt.

For starters, we’d like to run our first campaign about the recent “Women are too hard to animate” shenanigans, and that’s where the community comes in. If you come up with a clever slogan, or submit great artwork for the front of the shirt, we just might select your design! If so, you’ll get a flat percentage of the profits we make from the campaign. That percentage will be 20%. That’s right, you get 20% of whatever profits IGM brings in from the campaign!  (Money will be sent via Paypal, and you can see right on the campaign page how many shirts were sold. But we’ll also work closely with you, so you know exactly how much we make per shirt.) Any money left over will be put into a project budget so we can improve and expand IGM. (For more on how we plan to do that, stay tuned for my August issue editorial, when the Mag goes on sale August 1.)

To submit an idea for a shirt, a caption for the WATHTA shirt, or a graphic to feature, please send an email to vparisi@indiegamemag.com , with the Subject Line: “ Teespring Micro Campaign ” and I’ll be sure to get back to you as soon as possible. If we get a high volume of submissions, I’ll post a list of the team’s favorite designs/captions, and then leave it up to the community to decide which one we go with. I think this will be a really fun way to work alongside the community, while having a bit of fun designing great shirts.