The upcoming board game is set to be released on April 10th.ĭicebreaker has reached out to Plaid Hat for further comment. Plaid Hat’s next release will be Forgotten Waters, an adventure board game that sees players become pirates seeking treasure and infamy on the high seas, with a compatible mobile app and a heavy emphasis on storytelling and player choice. I wish them the best in their future! Long announcement below! /LRU4SoQznH- Isaac FebruTo see this content please enable targeting cookies. The people at Plaid Hat are still my good friends and still a part of my life. Short Announcement: I am leaving Plaid Hat Games, on good terms, and going off on my own. However, it would no longer own many of its most successful board game properties, such as Mice and Mystics, Stuffed Fables and Dead of Winter (plus its card game spin-off Raxxon), which will now be controlled by Asmodee studios Fantasy Flight Games - home of Keyforge and Arkham Horror - and Z-Man.įollowing the announcement, Dead of Winter and Forgotten Waters co-creator Isaac Vega revealed that he would be leaving Plaid Hat to pursue his own creative projects, after a decade working at the publisher.
In its announcement of the reacquisition, Plaid Hat said that it would retain the rights to titles including Emerson Matsuuchi’s stealth action board game series Specter Ops and last year’s Quirky Circuits, by Mansions of Madness co-designer Nikki Valens. It was also the publisher of SeaFall, the legacy board game by Pandemic Legacy co-designer Rob Daviau. The studio also produced family board game Mice and Mystics, which was followed by spiritual successor Stuffed Fables and other titles in the Adventure Book Game series, which see a book used as the games’ board, including last year’s post-apocalyptic survival game Aftermath It’s Rob’s third published Legacy game (Risk Legacy, Pandemic Legacy: Season 1), and the first that was created from scratch, without incorporating an existing game. Follow joepinion: Explore the shelves of our. Last summer I had the opportunity to work as the developer for SeaFall, a Legacy game from Rob Daviau and Plaid Hat Games that’s set in a fictional world in the dawn of the Age of Sail. Posted by Joe Ellis Joe Ellis develops Plaid Hat Games online initiatives. Its time to learn to play SeaFall: A Legacy Game The pre-orders are getting closer But in the meantime, enjoy this rules explanation.
Dead of Winter was the first release in the Crossroads series, which has since been expanded by sci-fi game Gen7 and this year’s upcoming pirate adventure Forgotten Waters. How to Play SeaFall Video With Rodney Smith of Watch It Played. Plaid Hat is best known for Dead of Winter, the co-op horror board game set in a zombie apocalypse published in 2014.
Asmodee took control of Plaid Hat, along with Pandemic publisher Z-Man, as part of a buyout of the firms’ previous parent company F2Z Entertainment. The independence comes as the result of Plaid Hat Games founder and studio head Colby Dauch reacquiring the company from board game giant Asmodee, which has owned the firm since 2015. Plaid Hat, publisher of co-op board games Dead of Winter and Mice and Mystics, is an independent studio once again.