Want To Bring Your Indie Game To PAX? It Could Cost $11,758.70.

Got a hot new game? Want to bring it to PAX? Hope you’ve got a trust fund.

The people at BitFlip Games have written an entertaining (and eye-opening) blog post that breaks down how they managed to spend close to $12,000 just to get their game Minion Master out on the show floor.

Here’s their numerical breakdown:

The Recap:

Booth: $1300.00

Furniture: $435.28

Mounts: $67.40

Beer/welding: $14.75

Server Stand: $60

Computers (8): $3265.36

Screens (7): $1813.21

Router, Cabling, Power: $186.92

Misc. Supplies: $78.20

Promotional Cards: $1836.10

Shirt/Caps: $600

Electricity: $219.50

Incidentals: $1650

Airfare: $1257.40

Housing: $710

Total: $11758.70.

Pretty crazy stuff. Check out the full blog post for explanations of why everything cost what it did.

If you’re a game developer and you’ve brought a game to PAX or a similar trade show, how much did you wind up spending? Let us know in Kinja below.

So, You Want to Take Your Indie Game to PAX. [Bit Flip Games — thanks, David!]

Note: The headline for this article originally read “Want To Bring Your Indie Game To PAX? That’ll Be $11,758.70.” Some folks pointed out how that could be seen as misleading, so we’ve changed it.