What's a designer associate?

Adding a Designer Associate allows you to give privileges to other users to edit and purchase the games this designer controls.  It also allows you to share profits with those users.  Another benefit is that designer associates are able to purchase the game(s) listed under the designer at the manufacturing cost and take advantage of bulk pricing, just like the designer.

First, every person that you wish to add as a designer associate must have a user account set up on our site.  

To create an associate, simply go to your Designers page at https://www.thegamecrafter.com/make/designers and click on "Edit" next to one of your designers.

Click "Associates" on the left-hand side of the screen, and type in the username or email address for the user account you want to add as an associate.  This will allow you to select a user to become an associate.  You can then assign a profit sharing split with that associate, which can be anything from 0-100%. You can add as many associates to your designer as you like, and assign them each individual shares. 

In addition to getting profit sharing, associates serve another function as well. Associates are allowed to edit the games attached to this designer. In this way, you can collaborate and delegate with friends, artists, and publishers by giving them permission for specific games without giving them access to your account.

ONE THING TO NOTE:  Images that are uploaded to a game by a designer associate are "owned" by the designer associate.  This means there are a few things to be aware of:

1.  Only the designer associate who uploaded the image will be able to download the image from the game.

2.  The designer/associates who did not upload the image will not see the full-resolution image in the Proof screen, for larger images (such as for large folding game boards).  

3.  The designer/associates who did not upload the image will not be able to create a PNP file using the image through the PNP Creator