Dominant Species

We've got these new imprints of bigger games, even though we often, um, value and love Allplay for being compact and beautiful, but we have some really big, big games coming out too.

Some big announcement with Dominant Species reprint.

Um, you know, we have a lot of personal favorites.

I can't even list all the games.

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Just trust the process.

Um, and, uh, but also in March, uh, we will be launching Dominant Species, which is the first game in our Masterwork series, which is a partnership with Ian O'Toole, where we are publishing, um, very heavy Euro games, uh, the first one being, of course, bringing Dominant Species to the market in a way that it's never been seen before.

Mm-hmm.

I'm no longer forcing the games I want to play down people's throats that obviously don't want to play.

The classic example of this is early on, first, like, three years into the board game hobby, we loved Dominant Species, and I remember playing with a person that just hated it so much, and that it ruined kind of the whole game, the whole four hours for everyone.

And it's just realizing you need to build yourself up or build your friends up to a game that you really want to play with them.

Because I, like, I would love everybody to know Gaia Project, but it takes time to, to be like, "Okay, are you ready to learn this? Are you ready to maybe not win this game? Are you re- Like, there's a lot of different considerations you make for that aspect.

Yeah, I still force people into playing Dominant Species, but, um- Yeah.

Yeah ...

but yes, that, that is a, that is a fair point where, where you need to look at your audience and try to create the best experience for them.

So we had something that we'd been messing about with.

So Philibert, the French game shop, were knocking out copies of Dominant Species for like 20 euros a pop at one point.

And so we bought a few of those because it's like, you must buy it for the components, right? And we made a game based on an old fighting fantasy book called Scorpion Swamp, whereby you could walk through the swamp and you can map it.

And Sam's like, no, we need to make a game that is like Talisman, but interesting, but with dice.