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Heather Newton

By Heather Newton

BGDF: Richard Durham

The Board Game Design Forum is one of the oldest still operating board game design discussion forums.

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By Heather Newton

Atlas Games: Kayla McT & Michelle Nephew

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At Atlas Games, we publish board games, card games, and tabletop roleplaying games. Our first books came out in 1990, so we’re one of the oldest hobby game publishers in business. Bestselling lines include Gloom, Once Upon a Time, Lunch Money, Ars Magica, Feng Shui, Unknown Armies, and Over the Edge.

We believe in creative curiosity and sensible operations. We love new ideas and always keep our word.

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Seeking to Publish:

The game submissions we tend to love often have these features.

  • Fun! We want to publish games that are fun to play.
  • Immediacy of Play. Minimal set-up and light rules, so players can get into the game quickly. Limited downtime.
  • Player Interaction. Players can affect each other, rather than interacting primarily with their own pieces. Designs should encourage table talk.
  • Meaningful Strategy. Players make meaningful decisions that determine whether they win or lose. Diverse strategies are viable paths to victory.
  • Interesting Themes. Themes must grab gamers’ attention and help sell the experience. We’re partial to comedy.
  • Immersive Experiences. Players should be able to imagine that they’re part of a story as well as a game, and feel invested in it.
  • Elegantly Related Theme and Gameplay. Theme and gameplay should complement one another.
  • Solid Mechanics and Rules. Designs feature months or years of testing and revision, with clearly written and well-edited rules.
  • Innovative Gameplay. Original concepts rather than thin variants of what’s been done before.
  • Innovative Components. For example, the transparent playing cards that make Gloom unique.
  • Targets Our Customers. We primarily sell games to gamers, and new design must target that demographic first and foremost. Having the potential for mainstream break-out is great, but not at our core’s expense. (Once Upon a Time is a good example of a gamer’s game with breakout appeal.)

Not Seeking to Publish

  • Classic game variants (e.g., “chess but with powers”)
  • Collectible games of any type
  • Drinking games
  • Educational games (that is, games that put education before entertainment)
  • Trick-taking games
  • Trivia games
  • Roll-and-move games
  • Religious games

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Protospiel Online January 2021 Badges On Sale

October 26, 2020 By Heather Newton Leave a Comment (Edit)
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Our next Protospiel Online weekend will be January 8-10, 2021, and badges are now on sale!

Event Starts: Friday, January 8 2021 at noon EST
Event Ends: Sunday, January 10 2021 at midnight EST

Early Bird pricing will be available through Monday, December 21 at midnight EST.

If you are one of our Alumni, be sure to check your email and/or the #badge-discounts channel in Discord to get your fast-action Alumni coupon code. This code takes 25% off the publicly available Early Bird badge prices and expires Monday, November 2 at midnight EST.

Moving Badge Sales Away from Tabletop.Events

While Tabletop.Events has served us well throughout our startup phase, we needed to switch to a system that would allow us to automate more of our workflows in Discord. We also needed more control over how badge sale prices are displayed and more room to write detailed product descriptions for what’s included in each of our badge types.

We are now using WooCommerce to sell our badges, which allows us to keep the entire checkout and registration process on our website. This should make for a smoother, more efficient registration experience for both our attendees and our staff.

If you have purchased a badge for one of our past events, you may be surprised when you’re prompted to create a new account during checkout. Don’t worry. We still have a full history of your past purchases in the system we use for email communications. This new account you’ll be prompted to create is for the payment processing system. (We’re still using Stripe to process credit cards, but now it’s integrated through WooCommerce Payments instead of through Tabletop.Events.)

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By Heather Newton

Pencil First Games: AnnaMaria Jackson-Phelps

Pencil First Games is an Indie game development company focused on mobile, card, and board games. Design with Passion, Pencil First.

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By Heather Newton

SilverPhoenix.Net: Charles Moisant

CHARLES D. MOISANT, is a comic book Publisher, artist, writer, and the creative director of Silver Phoenix Entertainment (a 100% female owned company).

Charles has been publishing comic books since 1991, starting with Kremin.

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Silver Phoenix Entertainment works with many artists, printing comic titles like Myth Told Tales by Robert Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye, Mystery Manor Haunted Theatre, and Whispers from the Void. Charles is also known for his Roller Derby Drama, which is loosely based on the Chicago Outfit Roller Derby Team.

Charles can usually be found on his roller skates at Silver Phoenix Entertainment promoting some of the
newer titles such as ‘Whispers from The Void’ where all monsters are reflections of the Seven Deadly Sins.

Philo Barnhart is drawing the second issue. Some of his works currently in production include ‘Zombie
Annihilation’, where Doctor Zarvin is working with local heroes from Chicago to save the world from zombies; ‘Danni and Dayna in Dino World’ in which two Woman: IDA DANNI, a modern day military refueling pilot, and Dayna Onli, an African-American woman from Chicago 1902, are trapped 65 million years ago. Working against them are intelligent dinosaurs, lizard people, and the Atlantians a space-faring race who are stealing the world’s only major resource: Magik; and ‘Thunder World’ a story
about three giant robots and a giant monster learning how to work with each other and saving the world, which is being written by him and Doug Rice of Dynamo Joe. And Haunting Tales of Bachelor’s Grove with Brian K Morris a Kickstarter success.

Charles’ Latest works “Outer Planet Panic™” a Sci Fi board game and The Ultimate Adventure of the Cockerels Fist. A Fantasy web series.

Lastly, Charles has been developing free Educational comic books for the masses.

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