We’re just over a month away from GDC 2015, or, what’s basically the busiest week of the year for us. Jared and I will be on the scene meeting with as many developers as we can, and we’ll be having a party at some point during the week. We’re still ironing out the details on our meeting schedule and when the party will be, but I’ve had quite a few people suggest that the theme of our party be sticker trading again.
If this is your first GDC, basically what happened is a couple years ago is we threw a party with the whole idea being you get stickers made of your app icon and trade them with other developers at GDC for a sticker of their app icon. It was awesome, and basically everyone dumped their bag out when they got home and had a pile of stickers like this:
34 days (as of this writing) away from GDC is the perfect time to start thinking about what kind of stickers you want to get made and getting the process started. As far as where to get your stickers made, Sticker Mule is the best place I’ve found. I’ve personally gotten thousands of stickers made through them, and their quality is always consistently great. Additionally, another nice thing about them is they’ve got actual humans that you work with during the proofing process. If you’ve used Cafe Press or other similar services online, they just print whatever you send them in a nearly fully automated process and it’s entirely possible that your order of 1,000 stickers could look totally wrong. With these guys, you’ve got to approve the final proof and you can work back and forth on how you specifically want it to look with things like should the sticker be edgeless, do you want a border, or other stuff like that.
I don’t have any kind of killer coupon this year, but if you click through our referral link you’ll get $10 off your first order and we’ll get $10 credit to put towards whatever TouchArcade swag we get made up. The 2" x 2" rounded corner sticker is perfect for app icons, and is what you see in the photo above. I’ve also had both die cut and kiss cut stickers made through them and they’ve all turned out rad as hell. At this stage in the game with so many developers having so many different app icons now,. maybe sticker sheets with all of them makes sense?
Our GDC sticker swap party this year won’t have any kind of invite list or anything, everyone will be welcome who is in San Francisco and has anything to do with iOS gaming (including local gamers who just want to collect some stickers). We’ll announce more details soon on our GDC plans, but as mentioned before, with how many people have asked me to do another huge sticker making drive and sticker swapping event, who am I to say no?
If you’re going to GDC, drop a comment on this story and let us know what day works best for our party. It doesn’t look like anyone has claimed any particular nights yet, but I don’t want to step on the toes of anyone who is either hosting (or attending) other parties with expensive venues or anything like that. The best part about the TouchArcade parties is they’re ultra-low key so we can just do it whenever! Previous years we’ve done it on both Tuesday or Wednesday, so either of those days will probably work again this time around.
