Hello Everyone,
The following are just a few sources to locate parts, components, printers, licensing publishers and distributors for anyone looking for these things. This is just the short list of companies that I have either dealt with in the past or located, but haven't dealt with personally.
I hope this information helps my fellow game designers.......
GAME COMPONENTS and PIECES:
DICE & GAMES, LIMITED / GERMANY
www.dice.co.uk
Dice, pawns, misc. game parts and promo items
General Box Company
www.generalbox.com
Game Boards, Setup Boxes, Inserts, ect.
MrChips Inc.
www.mrchips.com
Transparent and solid counters, custom counters, pawns, ect.
PRINTERS:
Arjo Wiggins USA
www.awusa.com
Playing cards, Board games, CCG, ect
Carta Mundi USA
www.cartamundiusa.com
Card games, CCG, ect.
Central Plains Book Manufacturing
www.centralplainsbook.com
Dallas Offset Inc.
www.dallasoffset.com
Specializing in print runs of 3000 or more
DeHarts Printing
www.deharts.com
On demand digital printing
C.J. Krebiel Company
www.cjkrebiel.com
Specializing in economical runs 500 to 5000 books
DeLano Service
www.delanoservices.com
Domestic Game Printer
Eureka! Printing & Distribution
http://eureka.goldrushgames.com
Specializes in POD printing, book & hobby trade distribution small press publishers
FRV Group
www.frvgroup.com
Complete game manufacturer
Gemaco Playing Card Company
www.gemococards.com
Printer for card games
Portal East
Anthony Valterra
206-713-9710
valterra@portaleast.com
Print and manufactureing for all of your RPG, TCG, cards, board games, and minuture needs.
Thomas-Shore,Inc.
www.tshore.com
Small to medium run printer, binder, book manufacturer 200 to 20,000, casebound and softbound in-house.
Yaquinto Printing Company
Gina R. Williams
800-234-4809
www.yaquinto.com
Board games, accessories, family games, RPG and card games.
SVH Printing Company
http://www.svhgroup.com/who.html
Commercial Printing, including game boards and rule sheets.
PROTOTYPES AND PRODUCTION:
Wommy Toys LLC
www.wommytoys.com
Marketing, design & prototypes
Good Marketing,Inc.
www.thekidexperts.com
Marketing, production and Prototypes
INSURANCE:
RP Wessel CO.
www.rpwessel.com
Insurance programs, Member of ASTRA
NON-USA Distributors:
999 Games
www.999games.nl
The Netherlands
Lion Rampant Imports
lion@lionrampantimports.com
Canada
Ventura International Pty Ltd.
farago@bigpond.com
Australia
Fantasiapelit
www.fantasiapelit.fi
Finland
Midgaard Distribution AS
Thomas Kirknel
+45-3296-6932
Denmark
El Viejo Tercio SL
quijanotercio@eresmas.net
Spain
Everest Wholesale
Bob@everestwholesale.com
Canada
Tradition Svensula AB
www.tradition.se
Sweden
Hobbygames Ltd
44-190-373-0998
John Maitland
UK
Gargoyle Games Ltd
44-1234-306655
UK
USA Distributors:
Aladdin Distribution
800-377-4627
Ken Storm Jr.
MN
Alliance East
Terry Mahoney, Sales Manager
800-669-4263 ext 1002
MD
Alliance Midwest
Danny O'Neill, Sales Manager
800-444-3552 ext 248
IN
Alliance Southwest
Neil Moore, Sales Manager
800-424-3773 ext 1000
TX
Alliance West
Rod Proctor, Sales Manager
800-366-5456
CA
Black Hawk Hobby Dist
Dan Matheson
877-747-4263
IL
Centurion Hobby Distribution Inc
888-657-1802 (toll Free)
NJ
Gameboard Distributors
Tim Avers
800-914-2597
GA
Hobbies Hawaii Distributors
808-423-0265
www.hobbieshawaii.com
HI
COMPANIES THAT LICENSE GAMES:
Aristoplay
800-643-7738
MI
Decipher Games
800-654-3939
www.decipher.com
VA
Endless Games
201-386-9465
www.endlessgames.com
NJ
Fundex Games
www.fundexgames.com
IN
Gamewright
617-924-6006
www.gamewright.com
MA
Great America Puzzle Factory
203-838-4240
CT
LinguaPlay Games
260-338-0745
John Kaufeld
john@linguaplay.com
IN
Patch Products Inc
800-524-4263
www.patchproducts.com
WI
Steve Jackson Games
512-447-7866
www.sjgames.com
TX
Talicor
800-433-GAME
www.talicor.com
I hope this list of sources will help anyone who can use this information. This is only a small part of the sources that I have collected over the past 20+ years. Way too much to publish on this site.
Attention: To the BGG staff: If this is the wrong forum to publish this information in, then please move it to the correct forum.
Thank you all for helping me in the past month and I hope that this information will help some of you.
Please, spread the word to other BGG'ers that may need the information listed here, so that they may get the help that they need.
Nventit
(UPDATE):
Recently, I started to seek out new venues for budding game designers who have successfully published a game to sell them. To create new markets and reach more people who maybe interested in purchasing these new games.
So, I figured one of the best ways to reach or build a new market is to sell via auctions. I know many millions of sellers use Ebay Auction the biggest and most expensive to use, but there are many others now that is cheaper to sell on than this one. Not saying that sellers should not sell on ebay, but to expand out to other smaller less expensive auctions.
You know ebay was once to a small auction site...one time a long time ago. And, I believe that the smaller auctions available today makes it possible to make sellers more money and assist buyers who are interested in finding bargains much more in their favor.
www.tiptopwebsite.com/freezone
Thank you and drop-by later for a whole new batch of industry sources that I have been working on offline.
New Addition: www.nationalgamesweek.net
(The National Games Week is the brainchild of Matthew Simmons Marketing Group - the publisher of Games Quarterly Catalog and Games Quarterly Magazine). If you really love games, then visit their website to learn more about National Games Week activies happening in your neck of the woods.
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