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The board game (and board game-related!) news that caught our attention for the week ending September 20, 2019.
Gaming News
- A new industry award was announced this week. The American Tabletop Awards “are a new award given to various board games released over the previous calendar year by a committee of tabletop media professionals all based in the United States.” The committee includes GeekDad’s own Jonathan Liu. The first set of honorees includes The Quacks of Quedlinburg and Root.
- Tragedy struck the industry this week when a truck carrying 3 pallets of pricey Chessex 6-sided dice took a turn in Atlanta too quickly and dumped about half of its load, totally 216,000 dice, onto the highway. The dice (and, for what it’s worth, I was today years old when I learned that a pallet holds 144,000 dice) was on its way to game designer Trivium for an as-yet-unannounced but presumably dice-based game that will be released in 2020. According to Kotaku, which reported the incident, the “truck was undamaged, having made its saving throw.”
- Tabletop Wire is reporting that FedEx is raising its rates across the board next year. Given the number of prototypes I get via FedEx, it’ll be interesting to see what impact that has on designers and studios.
