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2 years

It's been a busy few years!

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3 years

The first pre-production copies have arrived, and look oh so good! Reviewer copies will be sent out this week.

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2 years

Look what arrived today! We’ll be announcing the Kickstarter launch date within the week.

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4 years

I did it! My top 100 of all time, as of... right now.

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2 years

LEGACY OF YU is coming to Kickstarter Sep 6th

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4 years

So I started designing my first solo-only game this week. It’s coming together rather nicely too. Deck building, worker placement, resource management and plenty of tension.

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5 years

First look at the player board in Viscounts! The game features a mix of deck building and tableau building with the constant flow of townsfolk cards across the bottom half of the board.

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1 year

Ezra and Nehemiah will be coming to Kickstarter in October. The exact date will be announced soon. This is a medium/heavy, thematic Euro game for 1-4 players, designed by Shem Phillips and Sam Macdonald, and illustrated by Sam Phillips.

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5 years

Only two weeks till launch! Check out some new photos of the game in action over at BGG -

Viscounts of the West Kingdom

Game in Progress - Prototype Components Shown

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2 years

The date is set! Part 2 of the South Tigris trilogy is coming to Kickstarter on March 7th.

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4 years

Something mysterious has appeared on BGG...

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4 years

It's looking increasing more likely that Sam and I will have designed the entire South trilogy by the end of the year. We've never been so far ahead of schedule, it feels weird. We had an awesome day of workshopping ideas for game no.2 today. So good!

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1 year

My latest project is complete! Four Lego microscale builds, each inspired by one of our trilogies.

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3 years

In just under 2 weeks, Sam and I will be running a full live playthrough of Wayfarers! We're excited to finally share the first South Tigris game with you all. At this point we are still aiming for an April Kickstarter date.

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4 years

Sam and I have been making a lot of progress on the South Trilogy over the past 6 months. 1 game fully designed. Another 2 in development. We want to make them all feel like they belong together, while also standing apart from the North and West. I love creating stuff with Sam!

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3 years

Announcing another upcoming release from Garphill Games!!!

Legacy of Yu

Legacy of Yu - Box Cover

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2 years

So many new things were shared on our livestream today! It is now available to re-watch on our YouTube channel.

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2 years

We will be announcing our next two releases in a few weeks. We can't wait to share these games with you! Keep an eye out for a livestream announcements video on the horizon. We'll also be sharing a bit more about Inventors of the South Tigris, and an upcoming game from Arkus!

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3 years

The first sample for Chaos Order arrived today, and I feel like a kid in a candy shop.

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4 years

Who's been watching @thedicetower Top 100? Four of our games managed to get a few mentions.

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3 years

The free Solo Campaign for Hadrian's Wall, designed by Bobby Hill, is available now -

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3 years

It's time to start building that Kickstarter page...

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2 years

I've been getting back into Lego a lot recently. Here's some of my recent work, based of art from our games.

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5 years

Here's a little art from Sam Phillips Illustration for a secret project we are working on this year. More to come soon!

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1 year

Look what samples arrived today! Shipwrights: Redux, Explorers Collector’s Box, and the 4 Box Sleeves for previously released Collector’s Boxes.

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11 months

The next two Ancient Anthology games have been announced! Keep an eye for these on BGG shortly.

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4 years

How our top 9 games are currently ranked on BGG. How many have you played - and have you rated them on BGG yet? #garphillgames

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2 years

Legacy of Yu will be coming to Kickstarter in a few months. Here's a little sample of how the game looks after a few rounds of play.

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4 years

Lost Ruins of Arnak - yea, it's good. Real good. Can't wait to play it more.

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6 years

10 Hours Till Launch!

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5 months

Legacy of Yu has been voted the best solo game of 2023 by BGG users. Thank you to everyone who voted! This is a great honour.

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3 years

The date has been set!

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5 years

It's official - an expansion for Architects is coming!

Architects of the West Kingdom: Age of Artisans

Age of Artisans Box Cover

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4 months

Skara Brae!

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4 years

Take a look behind the curtain. This was so hard (and fun) to figure out, but once we cracked it, Paladins really started to come together.

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11 months

We'll be sharing more details about Inventors live on YouTube in two days!

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5 years

One week till pre-orders open for Age of Artisans! This will be a limited first printing, but we will also have it available as an add-on in the Kickstarter campaign for the follow up to Paladins in March next year.

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6 years

Just when you thought we were done with the North Sea saga...

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5 years

36 Hours! -

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3 years

Join us live in a few days as we reveal the names and box covers of all 3 South Trilogy games!

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6 years

We are live!

Paladins of the West Kingdom

Build fortifications, commission monks and defend the city in this unique worker drafting, action selection game for 1-4 players.

www.kickstarter.com

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4 years

Paladins: City of Crowns - We'll be smashing out 3-4 full playthroughs of this with 4 players tomorrow. Can't wait!

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3 years

Reviewers - we want to show you Chaos Order. Given the current climate and lockdown restrictions around the world, finding reviewers who can get 4-5 people together in a room to play this beast of a game is challenge, especially since you'll want to play it multiple times.

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2 years

With all the illustration work completed, we are now just putting the final touches on Legacy of Yu. It's looking like part 3 of the Ancient Anthology should be live on Kickstarter towards the end of August.

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4 years

Guess who just started their first day of fulltime employment at Garphill Games? None other than the insanely talented, Sam Macdonald!

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3 years

One day till the Works of Wonder Kickstarter goes live!

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2 months

📦Unboxing ➡️The Anarchy⬅️ by Bobby Hill! Coming to ✅Kickstarter✅👉 24 September!!! Kickstarter link➡️ #boardgame #boardgames #garphillgames #flipandwrite #rollandwrite #strategygame #boardgamegeek

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4 years

Two weeks to go! Sign up to get notified once it goes live...

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5 years

We are live!

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6 years

Look what arrived today!

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3 years

Sam Phillips has been busy over the past few weeks illustrating all 30 townsfolk characters from Legacy of Yu. Here's a few of the starter cards. You can find more on BGG. Who's your favourite?

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5 years

Today!!!

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8 months

Join us on Mar 12th for the launch of Inventors on Kickstarter!

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4 years

Doing our bit to try make next year better than the last. What are you most looking forward to?

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3 years

Sam and I have released our current top 50! Who do you most align with?

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3 months

The Anarchy is the next game from Bobby Hill (Hadrian’s Wall), coming soon to Kickstarter! So for all the Hadrian’s Wall fans out there, we asked Bobby why a fan of Hadrian's Wall would want to try The Anarchy… here’s what he had to say ⬇️ 🗣️"It shares similar DNA to its

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5 years

It seems that a lot of the world has gone into isolation at this time. So with that in mind, I've decided to release a print-and-play mini expansion for Explorers. You can download it for free here:

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4 months

Skara Brae comes with over 400 wooden tokens in the box! More details coming soon.

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3 years

We just finished an epic 5-player game of Chaos Order. This was our first time playing with all final physical components. So great to look at on the table, and so much fun to play!

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4 months

The pre-launch page for Skara Brae & The Anarchy is live! We'll be announcing the launch date very soon.

Skara Brae & The Anarchy

Two brand new standalone strategy games from acclaimed designers, Shem Phillips and Bobby Hill, beautifully illustrated by Sam Phillips

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6 months

Get a first look at The Anarchy all set up on the table over at BGG:

The Anarchy

A four-player game of The Anarchy in progress

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2 years

Wayfarers is live now on Kickstarter!

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3 years

Check it out! We just received this gorgeous piece of art from Logan Schmitt -

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4 years

So close! I filmed a solo playthrough today, with both City of Crowns and the Vassals Mini-Expansion. It should be available to watch inside the next few hours.

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9 months

The landing page for Inventors is now available. We'll be announcing the launch date in a few weeks.

Inventors of the South Tigris

Invent, build, test, and publish your ingenious devices in the latest 1-4 player heavy Euro game from Shem Phillips and Sam Macdonald.

www.kickstarter.com

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4 years

I love seeing art for new projects coming together. @whitecloudart @txemico @samphillipsilo

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4 years

City of Crowns is live now on Kickstarter -

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8 months

There's only two weeks till Inventors of the South Tigris hits Kickstarter!

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2 years

It's that time of the year again. Shem and Sam have updated their top 50 games of all time!

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1 year

There's less that 3 days till Ezra and Nehemiah goes live on Kickstarter!

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3 months

Skara Brae is one of the two new titles we will be bringing to Kickstarter later this year. Designed by Shem Phillips, it is a tight resource management puzzle in neolithic Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 as you try to develop and grow your village while feeding and sheltering your people.

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2 years

Huge thanks to our amazing 3,607 backers for helping bring Legacy of Yu to life.

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1 year

One week till launch!

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3 months

The Anarchy is one of the two new titles we will be bringing to Kickstarter later this year. It is designed by Bobby Hill who designed Hadrian’s Wall, and it is very much a spiritual successor. Follow on Kickstarter👉

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3 months

Design Insight ➡️ Paladins of the West Kingdom Paladins took many twists during development. Some major breakthroughs included the 12 Paladin cards and the Suspicion system. One of the hardest challenges was integrating all the attributes both mechanically and thematically.

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2 years

Legacy of Yu will be live on Kickstarter in two days! Here's a little sample of the free promo packs that will come with every Kickstarter copy of the game.

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3 months

We know that the board game community and industry is often all about the next big thing! But we know that many of you out there love and continue to play all our games.

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1 year

The date is set, and the landing page is live. See you on June 27th!

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4 years

My 3D insert design for Viscounts is now on Thingiverse. This does not support sleeved cards, but I'm sure someone could do a remix of the card section to make it work.

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4 years

Reviewers. Just a little suggestion - perhaps stop using the word "theme" when you specifically mean "immersion". Theme can mean so much more - like setting, story or topic. I love games with great theme, but for me that doesn't necessarily mean immersion.

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8 months

ONE WEEK!

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6 years

Coming to Kickstarter, along with The North Sea Epilogues on Sep 12th. This deluxe play mat will be available as an add-on, or on its own. #raidersofthenorthsea #garphillgames

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5 years

Have you seen the board art for Raiders of Scythia yet? Head on over to BGG...

Raiders of Scythia

Raiders of Scythia - Board

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2 years

Architects of the West Kingdom is now available to play (Beta) on BGA:

Play Architects of the West Kingdom online from your browser

Play Architects of the West Kingdom online from your browser with the whole world!

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3 years

If you are interested in playtesting Chaos Order on Tabletop Simulator, you can find out more, and book a session over at the Garphill Games Discord server -

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2 months

Our latest release, Ezra and Nehemiah, has been garnering rave reviews and currently boasts an impressive 8.4 rating on BoardGameGeek with over 1,000 ratings! Have you had a chance to play it? Do you agree with the BGG rating? ✅❌ We'd love to hear your thoughts! Share your

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5 years

Wow! Thank you Tom for giving Paladins the top spot for Euro games this year.

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1 year

Drawing on the rich history of our world, the Ancient Anthology sets out to celebrate some of the stories and cultures that are often overlooked in board games. All 4 games are available on Kickstarter right now, including the latest released, Ezra and Nehemiah.

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4 years

For those with any degree of colour deficiency, how do these read for you? I am looking at making primary-coloured dice opaque, and secondary-coloured dice translucent. I've added a slight highlight and smoke effect behind those icons to help emphasize this as well. Thanks!

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6 years

Reviewer copies have started arriving!

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@manvsmeeple

6 years

I know what I will be playing this weekend and I couldn’t be more excited - Paladins of the West Kingdom from @garphillgames . What a surprise, I knew we were doing content on it but I had no idea it was already on the way! Yes!!! #boardgames #Kickstarter

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6 years

Architects just picked up a Mensa Select Award!

2019 Mensa Select® Winners Announced

After nearly two days of nonstop gameplay, our Mensa Mind Games judges have selected the following titles to receive the official Mensa Select seal.

www.us.mensa.org

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1 year

Ezra and Nehemiah will be launching on Kickstarter Oct 18th! Follow the campaign page here to be notified on launch -

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1 year

Check out my upcoming design for Storm Raiders, published by Arkus Games!

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2 years

Change of date for the Scholars Kickstarter - we will now go live 6 days earlier. Sign up here -

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4 years

I’ve barely got any work done over the past few weeks. The 150hrs I put into AC Odyssey might know something about that. But since finishing it earlier this week, I’ve managed to write a rulebook and start work on two new games. Breaks are good, but happy to be back into it.

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4 years

More progress on this one after a weekend of testing. Looks like I’ll be adding a campaign/legacy element to it as well!

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4 years

So I started designing my first solo-only game this week. It’s coming together rather nicely too. Deck building, worker placement, resource management and plenty of tension.

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4 years

This weekend I'll be gathering with 15 other designers from across New Zealand to playtest games and discuss our past experiences with design and publishing. Can't wait!

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5 years

Thank you UKGE! What an honour.

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5 years

Did you hear that Architects of the West Kingdom won Best New Euro style game at the U.K. Games Expo Awards?

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