Games Companies
We're not the only games company to have a web
presence. Here's a few of our favourites.
Dice & Games
provide us with games components, including the cyclists
for Breaking Away and the plastic discs in Office
Politics and Traffic Lights.
Gibson's
Games is just about the last major UK owned board
games company around now. It is good to see Diplomacy still in their line.
I've
invented a board game, what do I do now? We quite
often receive this sort of e-mail and for those doing a
"hobby" type game we try and give some advice
but if your game is aimed more at Toys R Us
then try The
Interational Toy & Game Innovation Conference. Alternatively, see the Fiendish game design section of this web site
although Kickstarter has made a lot of this DIY advice ludicrously
dated.
Tom Jolly of Diskwars
fame also has a game
design page
You might also want to try Taylor
& Clifton, a printing company in Oldham, Lancashire (is it still
Lancashire or some ludicrous new made up county?). Geraldine Dick was the
contact name I had back in 2005.
The term "meeple" was apparently featured in a question recently on
the quiz show "Pointless"; the contestants got the answer wrong.
Nevertheless, the term has gained some currency as evidenced by the web
site Assorted Meeples, which has a web page entitled
12 Best Board Games With Cards.
"Hmmm, nice bits" is the first thing you
normally hear when one opens a German game for the first
time. There's something pleasing about wooden components.
Vintage Games
Woodworking Plans have a nice "woody" site,
featuring woodworking plans for vintage board games:
mechanical table hockey, pin-ball baseball, crokinole
board.
There are a number of
independent game publishers out there (we are not alone).
Here are some of them.
Guild of Blades Home Page - Grunt, Dark Realms, The War
to End All Wars
Real Action Games - Makers of The Ultimate Racing
Board game
If you have a site which you think should be
listed here, drop us a
line.
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