Allplay is making its biggest strategic shift since its predecessor Boardgametables.com entered publishing in 2018 - launching a trio of new product lines aimed at markets well beyond the accessible, smaller-box strategy games that have defined it to date.
The hire puts a familiar face from board game media in charge of planning and delivering one of the tabletop industry's largest event programmes.
The Tabletop Game Designers Association has begun scoring and comparing the standard contracts board game publishers offer to designers, with the aim of improving how game creators are treated and paid.
Pax Aus has featured tabletop games since the Melbourne-based con was launched in 2013, with the segment having grown over the years to take up a significant share of the show's floor space.
Galactic Cruise also picked up gongs for best strategy game and best game from a new designer, while Luthier from Paverson Games won best theme, best production and best game from a small publisher.
Hues and Cues designer Scott Brady, Sagrada co-creator Daryl Andrews and Friendly Skeleton CEO Jacob Way said Best in Play will offer everything from interim executive leadership and designer representation to publisher submission management and crowdfunding strategy.
Few people in the hobby game industry have have seen as many sides of the business as Scott Morris - from leading global strategy at Lucky Duck Games, building publishing partnerships at GTS Distribution and running sales, marketing and social media at Arcane Wonders. Now Morris is applying that experience to his own venture as founder of Steelwing Games, whose debut title Rainbow Blvd. has been nearly a decade in the making.
The convention, which has sold out before opening for three consecutive years, is currently operating at a hard capacity ceiling at the Indiana Convention Centre.
TCG distribution remains the engine behind Asmodee's ongoing growth, with trading card games responsible for more than two-thirds of that quarterly revenue, according to the company's latest financial report.
Rozum has been devastated by the strike, with parent business Factor Group estimating the losses at up to $670,000 - a situation which has prompted Rozum to launch a fundraising appeal to help it reprint its lost inventory.
