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North America’s biggest board games industry trade show, GAMA Expo, has sealed another record attendance as it prepares a move to Baltimore to contend with rapidly growing demand.
More than 3,820 attendees showed up to this year’s event in Louisville, Kentucky, up almost 12% on last year’s previous record of 3,425 – which had already left the show pressed for space across the exhibition hall and its extensive programme of seminars.
The shift to Baltimore next year will be GAMA Expo’s second new home since 2023, when it was relocated from Reno, Nevada after the growing attendance numbers eclipsed their pre-pandemic highs.
GAMA Expo’s attendance this year is more than double its pre-pandemic record of 1,800 set in 2019, and up more than 87.5% compared to the event’s final Reno show in 2023.
GAMA initially signed a three-year contract in Louisville for 2024 to 2026, but agreed to extend that for a year after the KICC helped GAMA shift the dates of last year’s Expo, when the trade organisation realised it had outgrown the footprint available across its original dates.
The organisation later decided to bring its move to Baltimore forward to 2027 as demand continued to grow, paying a fee to break the KICC contract a year early.
The one-year extension for Louisville was signed despite GAMA’s own prior reservations over remaining in the state, which came in the wake of Kentucky passing a suite of anti-LGBTQ laws in 2023, including a ban on transgender medical treatment for those under 18.
GAMA told BoardGameWire last year it had earmarked 300,000 sq ft of exhibit space for year one in Baltimore – almost double the roughly 176,500 sq ft of this year’s vendor hall, and with room to grow to 500,000 sq ft by year three or four at the new site.
Chicago and Minneapolis were also in the mix as potential destinations, with Baltimore being praised by GAMA’s site selection committee for its selection of hotel options, reasonable convention centre rate and incentives to bring the show there.
Several publishers BoardGameWire contacted after this year’s GAMA Expo were all positive about how busy it had been, with two first-time exhibitors both particularly excited about how the event had gone for their companies.
BoardGameWire asked GAMA on March 9 for a breakdown of this year’s attendance for its respective member groups, which it provided last year to show the growth of individual areas, but is yet to receive those figures.
One complaint which has been emerging post-Expo revolves around GAMA’s plan to get rid of ‘priority points’, which have rewarded repeat exhibitors with the ability to exert more power over where their booths are positioned within the vendor hall.
That system has been scrapped for both next year’s Expo and this year’s Origins trade fair, GAMA’s long-running tabletop gaming convention set to take place in Columbus, Ohio in June.
Some frequent exhibitors have expressed dismay at the decision, which came to light as a bullet point in the renewal documents for next year’s event rather than being highlighted for discussion with members ahead of GAMA implementing the policy.
GAMA president Nicole Brady said of this year’s GAMA Expo, “Every year, GAMA staff and volunteers strive to make GAMA Expo better than the year before. That was evident this year in various areas such as the extensive educational programming, overflowing interest at networking events and engagement during game nights. Beginning with registration on the first day to exhibit hall tear down on the last, GAMA Expo 2026 was top notch.
“This would not have been possible without the tireless efforts of the staff, the community members who brought their passion to the event and, of course, the sponsors that supported the various events and initiatives.
“Throughout the week and beyond, I’ve heard or read on social media countless people praising the event. Many comments about the ability to conduct business with others in the industry. This annual event is the place to be and people are already making plans for next year in Baltimore!”
Zaria Davis, GAMA’s interim executive director, added, “As a first timer at GAMA Expo and someone still very new to this industry, I was blown away by the experience. I loved getting to meet members face to face, ask questions, and better understand how the business side of tabletop games really works.
“Having the chance to share my own insights in sessions made me feel welcomed and valued, and I’m leaving excited, inspired, and eager to come back.”
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Angekündigt: Neu: Updates: ANGEKÜNDIGT In der kommenden Woche Crowdfunding. Wenige Projekte sind angekündigt. Hier der Überblick über die kommende Woche: APEX APEX: Carnivore ist ein direktes Deckbuilding Duell, in dem ihr aus einem gemeinsamen Vorfahren eure eigene Raubtierlinie entwickelt. Von der Miacidae Ausgangsart aus evolviert ihr in drei mögliche Familien: Felidae (Katzen), Ursidae (Bären) oder Mustelidae (Marderartige). Jede neue Eigenschaft […]
Die Menschheit hat die sterbende Erde verlassen und nach tausenden Jahren in den Tiefen des Alls eine neue mögliche Heimat gefunden: Eden. Doch das Paradies ist nicht unbewohnt. Menschgemachte Evolution hat eine Spezies erschaffen, die mit den Neuankömmlingen zusammenstößt. Dies ist die Prämisse von Children of Time.
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Co-operative puzzle challenge game Take Time has triumphed in this year’s Swiss Gamers Award, which is voted on by members of board game clubs, game and toy libraries and gaming associations from across the country.
Alexi Piovesan and Julien Prothière’s design sealed top spot above Eric Olsen’s Flip 7 – which won the separate family game prize – and also finished in third place in the family-weight category.
The win is the second year in a row a game from Asmodee studio Libellud has won the Swiss Gamers Award, following last year’s success for nature-themed tile-laying game Harmonies.
Flip 7’s win in the family game category this year saw it add to the best party game gongs it won last year at both the Origins Awards and BoardGameGeek’s Golden Geek awards.
The game fought off tough competition in the family game category this year from titles including Paolo Mori and Alessandro Zucchini’s Toy Battle, the winner of the 2026 As d’Or.
This year’s Swiss Gamers Award featured an expert game category for the first time, which was won by Yeom Cheolwoong’s design Wondrous Creatures – a strategy title based around players building fantasy animal reserves.
Endeavor: Deep Sea, the winner of last year’s Kennerspiel des Jahres, came second in that category, with Hiroken’s limited communication co-op design Eternal Decks finishing in third place.
The Swiss Gamers Award has been held every year since 2010, following the demise of the Schweizer Spielepreis in 2006.
Although the award is given by gamers living in Switzerland, all games published in the prior year can be nominated, regardless of the nationality of their authors and publishers.
This year’s award marked the third in a row presented to a relatively light game, following Harmonies last year and Faraway in the 2023 awards (presented in 2024).
The far more heavyweight Ark Nova triumphed in 2022, and mid-weight euro The Lost Ruins of Arnak won in 2021.
The award is organised by Ludesco, Switzerland’s biggest board game festival, in partnership with the Swiss Federation of Toy Libraries and the Swiss Game Museum.
Swiss Gamers Awards full results 2025
Main Award
Winner: Take Time, designed by Alexi Piovesan, Julien Prothière (Published by Libellud)
2nd Place: Flip 7, Eric Olsen (Catch Up Games, Kosmos)
3rd Place: Zenith, Grégory Grard, Mathieu Roussel (PlayPunk)
Family Award
Winner: Flip 7, Eric Olsen (Catch Up Games, Kosmos)
2nd Place: Toy Battle, Paolo Mori and Alessandro Zucchini (Repos Productions)
3rd Place: Take Time, Alexi Piovesan and Julien Prothière (Libellud)
Expert Award
Winner: Wondrous Creatures, Yeom Cheolwoong (Super Meeple, Strohmann Games)
2nd Place: Endeavor: Deep Sea, Carl de Visser and Jarratt Gray (Super Meeple, Board Game Circus)
3rd Place: Eternal Decks, Hiroken (Pixie Games, Strohmann Games)
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OffDutyNinja, the tabletop marketing specialist which has worked on $25m of crowdfunding campaigns since its 2018 launch, has been acquired by industry peer Game Brands.
The combined company will operate under the OffDutyNinja name, with Game Brands adding its web design, search engine and answer engine optimisation, and blog content creation offerings to ODN’s marketing and crowdfunding services.
ODN’s work over the years has included crowdfunding and marketing support for companies such as Roxley Games, Indie Boards & Cards and Stronghold Games, Devir North America and Allplay, while the more than 100 campaigns it has worked with include the $2.2m More Terraforming Mars! Kickstarter and Marvel Dice Throne X-Men, which raised over $4.2m.
The acquisition follows a period of ODN quietly closing down its operations, Game Brands founder Ryan Eichenwald told BoardGameWire, with company founder Kira Peavley having shifted to a full-time director of operations role at Brass: Birmingham publisher Roxley Games over the past couple of years.
Eichenwald becomes CEO of Off Duty Ninja, with former CEO Peavley staying on in an advisory capacity for the next year to help ease the transition.
Peavley told BoardGameWire, “It came down to timing, and the timing was right. I had reached a point where I was ready for my next chapter, and when the opportunity with Ryan and Game Brands came together, it just made sense.
“The clients, the team, the work they have all built deserve to keep going and growing, and this deal makes that possible. It felt like the right ending to my chapter and the right beginning for theirs. It has been quite emotional but also quite positive.”
Speaking of ODN’s growth and the changes in board game crowdfunding and marketing over the years, Peavley said, “OffDutyNinja launched October 31, 2018, originally as a media management consultancy. That lasted about five minutes, honestly, because clients needed more and I was able to offer it.
“Very quickly it evolved into a full digital marketing agency for tabletop games, helping publishers with their everyday marketing needs as well as crowdfunding. The scope grew, and then ebbed, and then grew again.
“Covid hit hard and when publishers/creators are having to make difficult decisions about whether they can afford to keep their doors open and keep making games, marketing support understandably moves down the priority list.
“Tariffs have brought that same energy back in a different way. Through all of it we just tried to stay flexible and meet clients where they were.
“The other challenge has been the shift in how Kickstarter works. Ten years ago you could launch with no budget and no existing audience and still find success because the platform itself was driving discovery.
“That window has been closing for tabletop for a while now, and it has fundamentally changed what creators need to consider before launching a crowdfunding project.”
She continued, “That discovery shift really gets to the heart of the biggest challenge we see now. The audience has to exist before you launch. Full stop.
“The campaigns that succeed are the ones where the publisher has spent months, sometimes a full year, building a community that is genuinely excited to back on day one. The first 24 to 48 hours drive the algorithm, and the algorithm doesn’t care about your campaign if you don’t come in with momentum already built.
“The biggest obstacle to that? Time. Creators sometimes wait way too long to get started. We’d sometimes hear from people who reached out only a month or two before their planned launch date, or in some cases after they had already gone live.
“At that point every job gets harder: the audience building is rushed, the creative is rushed, and the campaign pays for it. The earlier you start, the better every single piece of it gets.
“The other big thing is expectation calibration. There are a lot of headline funding numbers out there from mega-campaigns that skew what success looks like.
“For most publishers, especially indie and first-time creators, a realistic and fully funded campaign that delivers well is worth so much more than swinging for a number you can’t hit.”
When asked about her take on ODN’s biggest successes in the crowdfunding space, Peavley said, “Honestly, it’s hard to point to a single success.
“People probably want to hear about the big IP projects, and those are genuinely exciting. Getting to work on something like Power Rangers: Heroes of the Grid across multiple campaigns, or Marvel Dice Throne, or Lord of the Rings, or Terraforming Mars is a thrill for obvious reasons.
“But the truth is every project we worked on was a big success to us, from a first-time creator finding their footing to a major publisher launching their next big title. The scale is completely different but the care that goes into it is exactly the same.
“And that’s really the point. A tremendous amount of love, heart, and work goes into every campaign, and that’s not just from our side. It’s from the client, the designers, the artists, the playtesters, the partners, the backers, the community.
“Tabletop is a real group effort, and when all of those pieces come together the way they’re supposed to, that’s the success. Every single time. That never got old.”
Crowdfunding Future
Game Brands launched three years ago as Board Burst, before renaming itself to Digital Wizard. That company consisted of Game Brands, which focused on digital marketing and web support for the board, tabletop, and video game industries, and Opmasis, which provided the same services for realtors, personal injury lawyers and contractors.
Eichenwald told BoardGameWire that Opmasis would be closing its doors following the ODN acquisition. He said the new company would also cease reaching out to potential video game clients “for at least the time being” – although added that it would still accept video game clients if they request its services.
Game Brands’ previous experience in the tabletop industry includes working with Steve Jackson Games “to help them wrangle their website”, backend work for Restoration Games which Eichenwald said doubled the company’s website traffic, and providing website design assistance for Gamelyn Games prior to its acquisition by Tabletop Tycoon (now Tycoon Games).
Eichenwald said, “ODN’s number of clients is currently at 11, including the combined client bases of both companies. ODN has started moving in a very crowdfunding-heavy direction over the last few months, and I’m very excited to continue that work.
“ODN’s crowdfunding team is second-to-none, and I’m looking forward to being able to help new games reach audiences in much more concrete, measurable ways than ever before.
“ODN has also had a very board and card game-focused history, but the addition of the Game Brands team – and Brad Bound especially – gives us deep roots in the TTRPG space as well that we’re eager to bring to ODN’s experienced team.”
The ODN team will also include CFO Chris Ortega and backer experience manager Carissa Yaffe, in addition to lead graphic designer Kevin Haemmerle. Editorial manager Anais Torres was already in the process of leaving ODN prior to the sale, but is currently helping with the company’s transition, Peavley added.
Asked to give her predictions for how tabletop crowdfunding might change over the next year or so, Peavley said, “I think we’re going to continue seeing Gamefound grow, and I’m genuinely hopeful that the increased competition will push Kickstarter to make some positive changes. A little pressure never hurts.
“I personally love what the BackerKit crowdfunding platform is doing and I hope to see it pick up more momentum in our space. The platform landscape is more interesting right now than it’s been in a long time, which is good for creators and backers both.”
Eichenwald, who attended the GAMA Expo trade show as part of ODN at the end of last month, said, “One of the big things that came up was just how many people were looking for crowdfunding support, especially after the economic shocks from last year.
“A lot of the newer games seemed to be small-box or app-enabled, and I got a sense of excitement this year that hadn’t been there the year previous – which makes sense, given that GAMA 2025 was overshadowed by the first round of tariffs.”
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Mit dem Verlag HeidelBÄR Games ist vor einigen Jahren der spirituelle Nachfolger des legendären Heidelberger Spieleverlags entstanden und bringt seitdem jedes Jahr spannende neue Brettspiele auf den Markt. Auch 2026 gibt es wieder einige interessante Neuheiten, die bereits bekannt sind. Im Folgenden stelle ich deshalb 4 spannende Brettspiel-Neuheiten von HeidelBÄR Games genauer vor. Ich bin […]
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Elf Creek Games has begun fulfilling a wave of overdue crowdfunding campaigns after returning to profitability under the leadership of Genius Games founder John Coveyou.
The publisher said it has broken a three-year run of losses since bringing in Coveyou to restructure the company last July, with the profits allowing it to get Santa’s Workshop into the hands of backers, as well as starting to pay some of the backlog of royalties it owes designers.
Elf Creek raised $1.6m through eight Kickstarter campaigns following its launch in 2017, scoring significant successes for games including Merchants of the Dark Road and Honey Buzz.
But the publisher entered years of turmoil after being hit with a $226,000 freight bill for shipping Merchants of the Dark Road in 2022 – more than four-times its initial $50,000 estimate – when global freight costs soared in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Rather than hold back fulfillment until prices fell, Elf Creek ploughed on in delivering the game at the vastly inflated cost, relying on the entirety of the game’s profits, credit, and forecasts for future sales – a decision from which company founder Brent Dickman admitted in 2024 the business had “never fully recovered”.
Elf Creek had almost $340,000 of entirely unfulfilled Kickstarter projects when Coveyou came on board seven months ago, including Secret Villages & Santa’s Workshop (+Related Story Puzzles!) and Paradox Initiative – while some backers of its Atlantis Rising: Monstrosities campaign from 2020 are still waiting for French and German language editions of the game.
The announcement of Coveyou’s appointment last summer ended almost a year of silence from Elf Creek about the status of its undelivered crowdfunding projects – although company founder Brent Dickman confirmed to BoardGameWire in December 2024 that he was “actively looking for a home and way forward for all of our games, including our unpublished Kickstarter projects, and will make official statements when I am able”.
Coveyou founded Genius Games in 2013 following a career as an engineer, a science and chemistry teacher and a spell in the US Army. That company specialises in science-themed games with an educational bent, with its best known releases including 2019’s Ecosystem and 2021 release Genotype: A Mendelian Genetics Game (2021)
He is also the founder and director of accounting and tax firm Simple Financials, which Elf Creek said last year specialises in “helping small businesses recover from crises like ours”.
Elf Creek revealed at the end of February this year that it posted a 12.3% profit as a percentage of gross revenue in 2025, following losses of 8.8% in 2024, 33.25% in 2023 and 11.6% in 2022.
The detailed announcement from Coveyou and Dickman expounded on the extensive financial and operational changes the company had undertaken since the Genuis Games founder’s arrival.
It said, “Turning a business around isn’t about discovering a new or a secret playbook. It’s about returning to the fundamentals that every healthy business runs on. These are the things that, somewhere along the way, were deprioritized, deferred, or lost amid growth and day-to-day stressors.
“Most business crises are not sudden events; they are the outcome of the slow accumulation of small decisions that move a business away from the basics.
“None of this changes the impact on backers and partners who have been waiting, or the seriousness of outstanding obligations. The goal has been to restore operational stability so commitments can be met consistently and transparently.”
Those measures were listed by the company as:
The company added that it had also paid all outstanding 2025 designer royalties across the Elf Creek Games product line, and was making “steady payments” toward remaining balances from 2024 and earlier.
It said, “Our business exists because of the games we publish. And those games exist because of the designers who create them. Without great products, we simply don’t have a company.”
BoardGameWire reported last December that Paul Salomon, the designer of Elf Creek’s Honey Buzz and Stonemaier Games title Stamp Swap, had left the publisher in September 2024 while owed “an enormous and life changing amount of money”.
Speaking in the wake of Elf Creek’s new announcement, he told BoardGameWire, “I finally received a statement of all of the royalties that I am owed, which hadn’t happened in several years.
“Looking at it now, ‘life-changing’ may have been a bit hyperbolic, but it is definitely making a big difference in the financial reality for my family. I have in fact been paid all of my 2025 royalties! Amazing.
“And in fact, I have been receiving steady and substantial payments on back royalties. Again fantastic.
“Finally, I renegotiated my contract so that Elf Creek can continue to print and sell Honey Buzz products. I am really happy with how that worked out and there’s no question that John Coveyou has done an amazing job as executive director.”
Elf Creek said that now fulfillment of Santa’s Workshop is complete in the US, and expected to be delivered worldwide in April, it would be prioritising small-batch fulfillment of Atlantis Rising Monstrosities, production of The Paradox Initiative, finalization and production of Secret Villages, and reprints of base games for Honey Buzz, Atlantis Rising, Merchants of the Dark Road, and Santa’s Workshop.
The company announcement said, “The hardest parts are mostly behind us, but there is still a long road ahead. We are hopeful that the future holds more opportunity than heartache.
“Our focus now is on executing the next phase responsibly and bringing the right people around the table to support long-term stability and reliable fulfillment.
“We’re looking to build a board of advisors, including those who have been in the trenches and understand what it takes to run and grow a business, as well as individuals who can contribute expertise, resources, or connections. If you have experience, resources, or a network that could help, we’d welcome a
conversation.
“We’re open to exploring strategic partnerships, outside investment, or proposals that support operational stability and our next phase of growth. If there’s a business, brand, or operator out there who sees the value in what Elf Creek can become, the door is open.”
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Ein Solo-Entwickler hat nach über 18 Monaten Arbeit das Slayer Pack veröffentlicht, eine kostenlose Homebrew-Erweiterung für das Slay the Spire Brettspiel. Das Pack umfasst 300 neue Karten und wurde in enger Zusammenarbeit mit der Community entwickelt und getestet. Alle Details und Druckdateien sind im zugehörigen BoardGameGeek-Thread zu finden.
Die Erweiterung ist vollständig mit dem Basisspiel kompatibel und fügt sich nahtlos in das bestehende Material ein. Viele der enthaltenen Deck-Karten, Relikte und Tränke sind Adaptionen aus dem Videospiel, die es nicht in das offizielle Brettspiel geschafft haben. Ergänzt werden sie durch Eigenkreationen des Entwicklers.
Im Detail enthält das Pack 21 Jumbo-Karten mit neuen Bossen und Akt-4-Eliten sowie 198 Standard-Karten. Darunter befinden sich 21 neue Ereignisse, 115 neue Gegner samt Summons und Eliten, 28 Charakter-Karten, 17 farblose Karten, 4 Flüche und 10 Upgrade-Belohnungen. Hinzu kommen 84 Mini-Karten mit 17 Tränken, 47 Relikten und 20 Boss-Relikten.
Bei den Gegnern hat der Entwickler besonderen Wert auf Originalität gelegt. Fast alle sind Eigendesigns mit neuen Mechaniken, die sich deutlich von bekannten Gegnern unterscheiden sollen. Ein ausführliches „Monster Manual" mit Erklärungen zu allen neuen Gegnern und Mechaniken liegt als FAQ-Dokument bei.
Für den professionellen Druck stehen zwei Optionen zur Verfügung. Über den Druckservice MPC aus China lässt sich die englische Version für etwa 130 bis 140 Euro inklusive Versand und Importgebühren bestellen. Die Karten nutzen dabei das gleiche Material und die gleiche Druckqualität wie das Original. Alternativ bietet MB Print aus Polen sowohl eine englische als auch eine deutsche Version an, zu einem geschätzten Gesamtpreis von etwa 94 Euro inklusive Versand.
Wer die Kosten niedrig halten möchte, kann das Pack auch selbst ausdrucken. Druckbögen im A4- und Letter-Format stehen zum Download bereit. Der Entwickler weist darauf hin, dass 59 der Standard-Karten blickdichte Hüllen benötigen, damit sie im Deck nicht vom Rest unterscheidbar sind. Bei Nutzung entweder der Standard- oder der Ascension-Varianten soll alles gesleevt in die Originalbox passen.
Eine deutsche Version der Karten ist derzeit in Arbeit. Die Mechaniken wurden zudem vorausschauend so entworfen, dass sie mit künftigen Erweiterungen wie Downfall kompatibel sein sollten. Zusätzlich gibt es eine eigene Mod für den Tabletop Simulator, die mit der bestehenden Slay the Spire Brettspiel-Mod funktioniert. Alle Kartendateien sind öffentlich über einen Google-Drive-Ordner zugänglich. Das Slayer Pack ist kostenlos für den persönlichen Gebrauch und darf geteilt werden, solange kein Profit damit erzielt wird.
Bei Amazon gibt es bis zum 16. März die Frühlingsangebote*. Da gibt es viele günstige Angebote mit bis zu 50% Rabatt (teilweise sogar noch mehr), unter anderem für Brettspiele und Kartenspiele. Da könnt ihr viele interessante und günstige Spiele-Schnäppchen machen, sogar von relativ aktuellen Brettspielen. Und natürlich gibt es noch vieles mehr, was für Brettspieler […]
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Noch fünf Tage, dann öffnet die deutsche Messe für Live-Rollenspiel LarpCon ihre Tore. Wer also nächstes Wochenende noch nichts vor hat, sollte einen Ausflug nach Kassel in Betracht ziehen. Die Orga hat ein buntes und vielfältiges Programm aufgestellt. Lest hier was euch erwartet.
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Two more significant hires in the board game industry across the marketing side of the hobby. If you have news of a new role, hire or job change within the hobby that you’d like mentioned on BoardGameWire, please send an email with the details to the editor, Mike Didymus-True, on:
Former Lucky Duck Games sales and marketing specialist Risa Petrone has been hired by Alderac Entertainment Group as its new marketing manager.
Petrone brings several years of board game industry experience to the business, having previously worked across social media management, marketing and comms across roles at Incredible Dream, Calliope Games and GTS Distribution.
She spent just over a year at Lucky Duck after joining in the summer of 2024, with notable successes listed on her LinkedIn page including contributing to a 65% gross sales increase at Gen Con – where she was responsible for redesigning the company’s booth layout and driving new marketing ideas.
Petrone was also responsible for Lucky Duck’s striking exhibitor booth at GAMA Expo last year, which was fashioned in the style of a kitchen to show off Cardboard Alchemy’s release Critter Kitchen.
Prior to entering the board game industry in 2019, the former teacher also previously worked at the New York Renaissance Faire as a performer, director and choreographer.
AEG’s 2026 activity is set to include the retail edition of Flatout Games’ Kickstarter titles Honeypot and Forage, crowdfunded John D Clair design Mystic Lands and an upcoming Kickstarter for Josh Wood’s Let’s Go to Japan follow-up, Let’s Go to France.
Experienced board game industry graphic designer David Bock has left Red Raven Games after almost five years to become marketing director at Nature publisher NorthStar Games.
NorthStar said Bock will lead brand strategy, product launches, convention presence, and community engagement as Northstar looks to expand its hobby gaming catalogue.
Bock joined Sleeping Gods publisher Red Raven as a social media manager and web developer in 2021, before taking on a graphic designer role at the business two years later.
During that time he also took on graphic design contract work at Gloomhaven publisher Cephalofair Games and at PickPocket Games, where he worked on the company’s debut release Thief’s Market, according to his LinkedIn page.
Bock also worked as a marketing manager and consultant for TTRPG-focused Son of Oak Game Studio from June 2025, to guide the retail launch of Legend in the Mist and its marketing and comms rollout.
He began working in the tabletop industry in 2019 as marketing and comms manager at Japanime Games, and also undertook contract social media manager work at Arcane Wonders and graphic designer and art direction at Grandpa Beck’s Games.
Bock also founded his own publishing business Binxadinx Games in 2022, and raised just over $25,000 for its sole Kickstarter campaign for his design, Rocket Ranchers: Herding Cats in Space!, two years ago. He sold the intellectual property of Binxadinx to PickPocket Games earlier this year.
Speaking about his new role at NorthStar, Bock said, “NorthStar already makes games people connect with. I want to make sure future releases line up clearly with players’ expectations.
“My first major initiative is growing the Nature community by launching an annual, community-designed Nature mini-module contest. This will give players a real voice in shaping the future of the Nature game ecosystem.”
NorthStar CEO Dominic Crapuchettes added, “David knows this space because he’s been a part of it for years. He understands both the creative side and the player side, and that perspective helps ensure we’re speaking as members of the community, not just to it.”
Bock joins NorthStar two months after former marketing manager Ross Connell left to become head of crowdfunding at UK fantasy and sci-fi board game and miniatures maker Mantic Games.
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US-based board game stores have sealed another clean sweep of trade association GAMA‘s annual Power Retail Awards, which aim to recognise outstanding excellence in tabletop game retailing around the globe.
Arizona-based Silver Dragon Games scooped Retailer of the Year at this year’s awards, adding to the Innovation In Games (Retail) and Outstanding Store Design titles it won at the same awards in 2024.
They were joined this year by Illinois-based Fantasy Books and Games, which won the Innovation in Games (Retail) award, Minnesota’s The Gamers Den, which sealed Outstanding Contribution to the Games Industry (Retail), and Wisconsin-based Oddwillow’s Game Haven, which won Outstanding Store Design.
More than 750 retailers were submitted for inclusion in this year’s awards, with nominations coming from Friendly Local Game Store (FLGS) customers before being voted on by a GAMA committee of retailers and emeritus ‘team retail’ members.
This year’s Power Retail Awards also saw a special prize presented to awards committee chair Jax Ward – declaring her a ‘Knight of the Order of the Brass Squirrel’ – for her long-time service to GAMA’s retailer members.
Ward, who owns Crazy Squirrel Games in California, is a former GAMA board of directors member and ex-chair of its ‘team retail’ segment.
GAMA said her continuing service to the organisation and the tabletop retail included revitalising the Power Retail Awards and “promoting a standard of excellence throughout the retail community”.
GAMA president Nicole Brady said, “These retailers represent the very best of the global tabletop community. Their dedication to creating welcoming spaces and growing the hobby continues to strengthen the entire industry.”
The result is the second time in three years that US-based stores have won every category of the Power Retail Awards – and means retailers from the country have scooped 17 out of the last 23 awards handed out through the process.
That total does not include the 2021 Retailer of the Year award, which was presented to every GAMA retailer member at the time to recognise and celebrate them having survived the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Just one non-US store was among the 19 finalists for this year’s Power Retail Awards – UK-based Eclectic Games, which was the sole non-US winner in last year’s ceremony. Previous winners are not eligible for categories they have won, according to GAMA rules, but may be eligible for other categories.
Last October GAMA set its sights on becoming the “epicentre” of global tabletop gaming through the unveiling of its first-ever 10-year plan, which includes expanding itself into a global organisation. That expansion is part of its ‘second phase’ of priorities, slated for between 2028 and 2030.
Such international expansion hopes are not new for the organisation. Brady’s predecessor as GAMA president, Eric Price, said in 2023 that he was focused on growing the organisation’s membership and adding more international connections, starting with European members and organizations.
At that time about 90% of GAMA’s membership hailed from the US, with just 5% coming from Canada and 5% from the rest of the world.
US-based GAMA’s other projects within the 10-year plan include boosting its membership within both hobby games and the mass market, shifting its finances away from their heavy reliance on the annual GAMA Expo and Origins shows, and leading the conversation on sustainability within the industry.
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