Short Announcement: I am leaving Plaid Hat Games, on good terms, and going off on my own. However, it would no longer own many of its most successful board game properties, such as Mice and Mystics, Stuffed Fables and Dead of Winter (plus its card game spin-off Raxxon), which will now be controlled by Asmodee studios Fantasy Flight Games - home of Keyforge and Arkham Horror - and Z-Man.įollowing the announcement, Dead of Winter and Forgotten Waters co-creator Isaac Vega revealed that he would be leaving Plaid Hat to pursue his own creative projects, after a decade working at the publisher.
#WHEN DID ASMODE BUY PLAID HAT GAMES SERIES#
In its announcement of the reacquisition, Plaid Hat said that it would retain the rights to titles including Emerson Matsuuchi’s stealth action board game series Specter Ops and last year’s Quirky Circuits, by Mansions of Madness co-designer Nikki Valens. It was also the publisher of SeaFall, the legacy board game by Pandemic Legacy co-designer Rob Daviau.
The studio also produced family board game Mice and Mystics, which was followed by spiritual successor Stuffed Fables and other titles in the Adventure Book Game series, which see a book used as the games’ board, including last year’s post-apocalyptic survival game Aftermath Dead of Winter was the first release in the Crossroads series, which has since been expanded by sci-fi game Gen7 and this year’s upcoming pirate adventure Forgotten Waters. Plaid Hat is best known for Dead of Winter, the co-op horror board game set in a zombie apocalypse published in 2014. Asmodee took control of Plaid Hat, along with Pandemic publisher Z-Man, as part of a buyout of the firms’ previous parent company F2Z Entertainment. The independence comes as the result of Plaid Hat Games founder and studio head Colby Dauch reacquiring the company from board game giant Asmodee, which has owned the firm since 2015. I recommend reading it if you are interested in the matter.Plaid Hat, publisher of co-op board games Dead of Winter and Mice and Mystics, is an independent studio once again. Jamey Stegmaeir, president of Stonemaier games, shared his opinions on Asmodee’s decisions and dives deeper into their potential ramifications. It’s been a hot topic in board gaming circles, and fuel has been added to the fire with their recent price increases. In February, they made controversial changes to their parts replacement policy that required retailers to provide whole replacement copies of games with missing or damaged pieces. Early on, some voiced concerns that the number of publishers they were acquiring would decrease their competition to the point that they would start cutting corners and hurt consumers and their smaller retailers. In case you aren’t aware of what’s going on with Asmodee, here’s a brief overview.Īsmodee is a French board game publisher that has grown exponentially in the last five years acquiring a huge number of major publishers including Fantasy Flight Games, Z-Man Games, and Days of Wonder. I highly recommend supporting this re-newly independent Studio. You can find out more and pre-order on their site. It is an app-assisted, Crossroads game with a pirate theme. Plaid Hat Games announced their first release since becoming independent again, Forgotten Waters. Then, he bought the studio back to fulfill a new-found purpose centered around a different measure of success, “creating joy.” He sold it to help the business grow but lost the sense of community that came with running the business himself. His reasons for buying his studio back are pretty wholesome. Asmodee has been getting bad press lately (see below), but it seems Colby doesn’t have hard feelings after parting ways with them. He posted his thoughts on the matter and they are absolutely worth a read.Ĭolby founded Plaid Hat Games in 2009 and was bought by F2Z Entertainment in 2014, who was then purchased by Asmodee a year later. Colby Dauch, founder of Plaid Hat Games, announced early this month that he reacquired his company from Asmodee.
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