Game Invention and Self-Publishing Resources: Components

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Links last verified January 12, 2011

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Arts Cow (personalized decks of 54 cards)
Corner Rounder by Pioneer (makes shuffling easier)
The Game Crafter (now including 1.75" x 2.25" mini cards)
Herz Ober (D, personalized decks)
IPUR (GbR, Kötnerholzweg 5, 30451 Hanover, Germany; Tel: 0511/211243 Fax: 211253; E-mail. Catalog has c. 450 items, e.g. tokens, hex tiles, counters, boxes, for game inventors. Order the catalog, study it for 2 weeks and send it back, pay 10 Euro for it or order at least 50 Euro worth.)
KardKutter (feed in a sheet and 9 cut cards come out, for under $200)
meinKartenspiel.de (D, personalized decks)
Paper Direct (heavier stock cards, 800-272-7377)
Piatnik (D, personalized decks)
Pearl (only ship to Europe: cards, lamination material and software to do-it-yourself; type "spielkarten" next to Volltext-SUCHE)
Perforated Paper (custom size printable card blanks)
Plain Cards (printable card blanks)
PrinterStudio (personalized decks of 54+ cards)
Quill (source for blank cardstock)
www.spielmaterial.de (D, card sleeves)

Wooden Pieces and Dice:

Benny's Woodworks & Tools
(wide variety of items including 1/4" and 3/8" cubes)
Berger Holz GmbH, Lange Reihe 101, 20099 Hamburg, Germany, Phone +49-40-249860, Fax +49-40-2803840 (wooden pieces, such as the fish used in the game Kanaloa)
BJ's Craft
(painted wooden beads)
Board Game Bits (all kinds of different game bits)
Craft America
(painted wooden beads)
HABA-Habermaaß GmbH (D)
(game publisher, figures)
Heros Toys (D)
(blocks)
Instructional Fair
(cubes, click on Math, then Counting)
IPUR (D)
(GbR, Kötnerholzweg 5, 30451 Hanover, Germany; Tel: 0511/211243 Fax: 211253; Email. Catalog has c. 450 items, e.g. tokens, hex tiles, counters, boxes, for game inventors. Order the catalog, study it for 2 weeks and send it back, pay 10 Euro for it or order at least 50 Euro worth.)
Koplow Games
(just about everything)
Lara's Crafts
(pawns, beads, cutouts, pegs)
Ludofact (D)
(pawns, fish, cars, trucks, ducks, etc.)
Materialquellen (D)
(list of sources)

pawns by spielmaterial.de
MeeplePeople
(wood meeples and cubes, Poker chips, etc.)
Miller Woodcraft
(wood cutouts)
Minion Development
(cubes, meeples)
Norbert Dinter Holzbrettspiele (D)
(aka Vertieb BEDI-Holzspiele – cubes, pawns, disks, cylinders, roads, houses, churches, dice – E-mail)
Print n Play Productions (cubes, disks, beads, pawns, squares, blank dice, ships)
Hermann Rossberg GmbH, Michael Fürst, Lohberger Str. 2, 93462 Lam, Germany, Tel: +49 (0) 9943-94050, FAX: +49 (0) 9943-3348 fuerst@heros-toys.de (pawns, chips, etc.)
Axel Seidenstuecker, Schulstr. 10, 57520 Steinebach / Sieg, Germany
Supply Jewelry
(painted wooden beads)
www.spielmaterial.de (D)
(tiles and figures of various shapes and sizes incl. circles; also, handpainted pawns)
spiel-viel (D)
(dice, various figures)
Woodworks
(game pawns)
Woodworks Ltd.
(blocks, beads, etc.)

Plastic Pieces and Dice:

Amazon: 1-centimeter cubes
Board Game Bits (pawns)
Chessex (dice, hex mats)
Crisloid Plastics Inc. (massive directory of various manufacturers)
Dice & Games Ltd. (UK)
Eraser Dust (teacher supplies)
Game Parts, Inc. Pawns, chips, cars, dice, custom designs, pre-bagged components.
Gamescience (dice)
Hasbro Replacement parts
Hopstech Industries Ltd. (Hong Kong manufacturer of games, used Hasbro, University Games, etc.)
Indented Blank Dice (dice you can customize with stickers)
Kardwell (chips and dice)
Koplow Games (just about everything)
Litko (unusual and custom plastic bits)
MacGregor Games (specialty dice)
Minion Development
(blank dice)
Mr. Chips Game Parts (pawns, chips, dice, timers, spinners, injection molds, etc.)
Oriental Trading Company (weird components)
Pegasus Games (Wisconsin, pawns, one-minute sandglasses, etc.)
PixelBlocks
Plastics for Games (UK)
Print n Play Productions (cubes, checkers, acrylic pieces, dice, chips, stands, pawns, etc.)
Rolco (plastic molds, USA)
www.spielmaterial.de (D, plastic doubloons)
teachers' supply stores
Science & Surplus (plastic chips, USA)

Boards

www.spielmaterial.de (foldable boards, Foam rubber boards)
Spieltz (custom boards)
see also Printers/Manufacturers

Glass Pieces

Chessex

Tiles/Counters:

Creative Memories (tools to easily cut out hexagons, circles, 1" squares and other shapes)
IPUR (GbR, Kötnerholzweg 5, 30451 Hanover, Tel: 0511/211243 Fax: 211253; tokens, hex tiles, counters, boxes)
Fine Games (blank counter sheets)
John's DIY Corner (make your own counters)
Hole punch (to make round corners):
Hougen 0.5 inch - Uchida 1 inch - Fiskar 1 inch - Fiskar 1.5 inch - Fiskar 2 inch
www.spielmaterial.de (tiles and figures of various sizes)

Containers:

Multi-compartment plastic box (make your own game design kit to hold all the bits)
ATO (plastic boxes)
IPUR (GbR, Kötnerholzweg 5, 30451 Hanover, Tel: 0511/211243 Fax: 211253; tokens, hex tiles, counters, boxes)
Licefa (D, plastic boxes)
Ludofact
(Hauptstrasse 105, D-89343 Jettingen-Scheppach, Tel.: 0049-8225-9699-0, Fax: 0049-8225-9699-80; contact elisabeth.miller@ludofact.de)
Paper Mart (boxes including mailing boxes, Southern California)
Print n Play Productions (cardboard boxes)
Ratioform (boxes, Germany)
Ready-Made Plastic Trays
www.spielmaterial.de (cardboard game boxes, also playing card sized in clear plastic)
TAP Plastics, Inc. (California, Oregon, Washington)
Printed Tin Cans: Team Elegant (HK) Ltd., Suite 3711, 37/F., Hong Kong Plaza, 188 Connaught Road W., HONG KONG Tel : 852-9310 5952 Fax : 852-8344 5819,
ULine (boxes including mailing boxes)
Yun Games (D, three sizes of boxes)

Plastic Bags:

100 2x3" Ziplocks (under $1)
Bags Unlimited
Future Packaging and Preservation (best price on 9x12" bags in small quantity)
Game Parts, Inc.
Oak Creek Printworks (letter-sized resealable)
Print n Play Productions
Quill
TAP Plastics, Inc. (California, Oregon, Washington)

Paper and Printing Supplies

Restickable Glue Stick (similar to post-it note glue)
Kelly Paper
One Monk (paper miniatures)

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