{"id":1575,"date":"2024-02-07T16:13:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T16:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2024-02-07T16:19:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T16:19:35","slug":"hachette-takes-over-super-meeple-us-distribution-rights-from-asmodee-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/07\/hachette-takes-over-super-meeple-us-distribution-rights-from-asmodee-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Hachette takes over Super Meeple US distribution rights from Asmodee USA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/19\/sky-team-nucleum-lead-most-wished-for-games-in-august-bgg-stats\/\">Sky Team<\/a> and Decrypto publisher Hachette has agreed a deal to distribute Parisian board game company Super Meeple&#8217;s games in the US, taking over from Asmodee USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asmodee USA had signed an exclusive worldwide English language distribution agreement with Super Meeple in the summer of 2021, bringing the company&#8217;s entire library of titles into the Asmodee catalogue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Super Meeple, which was launched in 2014, says it has &#8220;embarked on a mission to revitalize gaming classics&#8221;, including visual enhancements, rules refinements, and improving the quality of materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hachette will kick off the partnership by bringing Wolfgang Kramer design Expeditions: Around the World to the US market this year. The game is a reimplementation of Kramer&#8217;s 1996 design Expeditions, which is itself heavily based on Kramer and his wife Ursula&#8217;s game Wildlife Adventure from 1985.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Super Meeple&#8217;s publishing catalogue also includes Michael Kiesling and Wolfgang Kramer&#8217;s Spiel des Jahres winner Tikal, the pair&#8217;s Java remake Cuzco, and Nicolas De Oliveira design Colors of Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-black-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/buttondown.com\/boardgamewire\" style=\"background-color:#f6bf00\">For more stories like this direct to your email inbox, click here to sign up for BoardGameWire&#8217;s free email newsletter. \n\nAnd if you&#8217;ve found our reporting interesting or useful, please consider a paid subscription to help support our journalism!<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sky Team and Decrypto publisher Hachette has agreed a deal to distribute Parisian board game company Super Meeple&#8217;s games in the US, taking over from Asmodee USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[687,688,358,686,689,96,690,535],"class_list":["post-1575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-asmodee-usa","tag-expeditions","tag-hachette","tag-super-meeple","tag-tikal","tag-us","tag-wildlife-adventure","tag-wolfgang-kramer"],"blocksy_meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1579,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions\/1579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}