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Links last verified September 17, 2003.
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Cards:
- Adam Spielt
(source for blank cards: Blanko Karten-Spielkarten)
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Avery Inkjet Clean Edge
(200 2"x3.5" for $12.99)
- IPUR
(GbR, Kötnerholzweg 5, 30451 Hanover, Germany; Tel: 0511/211243 Fax: 211253;
marzahn@ipur.de.
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.)
- Lassco
(desktop corner rounder)
- Mabel's Card Shack
(blank cards)
- Paper Direct (heavier stock cards, 800-272-7377)
- Pearl
(only ship to Europe: cards, lamination material
and software to do-it-yourself; type "spielkarten" next to Volltext-SUCHE)
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Perforated Paper (custom size printable card blanks)
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Plain Cards (printable card blanks)
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Protoparts (printable card blanks)
- Quill
(source for blank cardstock)
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Lamination:
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Wooden Pieces and Dice:
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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)
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Brown Wood Products
(pawns, pegs, drums, etc.)
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Woodworks Ltd.
(blocks, beads, etc.)
- Norbert Dinter Holzbrettspiele (D)
(aka Vertieb BEDI-Holzspiele – cubes, pawns, disks, cylinders, roads, houses, churches, dice – E-mail)
- BJ's Craft
(painted wooden beads)
- Craft America
(painted wooden beads)
- HABA-Habermaaί 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;
marzahn@ipur.de.
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.)
- Mayfair
(parts for Settlers of Catan)
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Materialquellen (D)
(list of sources)
- Miller Woodcraft
(wood cutouts)
- 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
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Stockade Supply
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game pieces
- Supply Jewelry
(painted wooden beads)
- Woodworks
(game pawns)
- www.spielmaterial.de (D)
(tiles and figures of various sizes)
- spiel-viel (D)
(dice, various figures)
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Plastic Pieces and Dice:
- Cheapass Games (pawns)
- Chessex
(dice, hex mats)
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Crisloid Plastics Inc.
(massive directory of various manufacturers)
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Dice & Games Ltd. (UK)
- EAI Education
(round, square translucent counters in 6 colors)
- Eraser Dust
(teacher supplies)
- Game Parts, Inc.
Pawns, chips, cars, dice, custom designs, pre-bagged components.
- Gamescience (1512 30th Ave., Gulfport, MS, 39501)
- Hopstech Industries Ltd.
(Hong Kong manufacturer of games, used Hasbro, University Games, etc.)
- Kardwell
(chips and dice)
- Koplow Games
(just about everything)
- MacGregor Games
(specialty dice)
- Mr. Chips Game Parts
(pawns, chips, dice, timers, spinners, injection molds, etc.)
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Oriental Trading Company (weird components)
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Pegasus Games (Wisconsin, pawns, one-minute sandglasses, etc.)
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PixelBlocks
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Plastics for Games (UK)
- Rolco
(plastic molds, USA)
- teachers' supply stores
- Science & Surplus
(plastic chips, USA)
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Glass Pieces
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Tiles/Counters:
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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)
- Mayfair (blank hex tiles)
- www.spielmaterial.de
(tiles and figures of various sizes)
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Containers:
- 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)
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Plastic Trays
- Ratioform
(boxes, Germany)
- Ready-Made Plastic Trays
- 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)
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Plastic Bags:
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Paper and Printing Supplies
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Binding
- Fellowes Binding Machines:
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Software/Fonts:
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Printers/Manufacturers:
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Altenburg Spielkartenfabrik (ASS) (card printing, D)
- Card Press
- Carta Mundi
(printer of cards, ideally in a deck of 112?)
- Carta Mundi USA
- Competitive Edge
(custom card decks in small print runs)
- Customized Playing Cards
- Dr. Finn's Card Company (cards)
- Good Prints (cards)
- Kardwell
(custom card decks)
- Delano Service (printing cards, etc.)
- FRV Group (printing cards, etc.)
- Hertel & Co GmbH, Carl-Benz-Strasse 7, 95448 Bayreuth, Germany
(maker of game boards)
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K.T.M. Toys and Graphics
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Manufacturers and Distributors (The Game Cabinet)
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Manufacturers and Wholesalers of Games-Card (Toy Directory site)
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Manufacturers and Wholesalers of Games-Other (Toy Directory site)
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Manufacturers and Wholesalers of Materials (Toy Directory site)
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Playing Cards India
- Quebecor
(used by the self-publisher of Who Stole Ed's Pants?)
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Tom Jolly's links on manufacturing/marketing a game
- Topway Industrial Co. Ltd.
Block F 19/F Kingsway Ind. Bldg.,
173-175 Wo Yi Hop Road,,
Kwai Chung, N.T., Hong Kong,
Tel: (852) 24271887, Fax: (852) 24803138
Offers: custom made cards, 16mm Double
Color Dice, 40mm Double Color Chips, 1.5" Chips, 0.875", 0.75" and
0.625" Chips, 0.875" Poker Chips, Playing Pawns of different sizes and
styles, Universal Card Holders, Sand Timers, Bells, Plastic Scissors,
Car Playing Pieces, Train Playing Pieces, Play Dough, Blank Dice,
Paint Squeezers with Paint and Brush, Glitter Glue, Poker Cards, Chess
(plastic or wooden), Checkers (plastic or wooden), Electronic Timers,
Drawstring Bags, Pickup Sticks, etc...
- US Playing Card
- Yaquinto (cards)
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Artists:
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Publishers:
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Trade Shows:
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Contests:
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Publicity
The following directory sites like to link to game publisher sites:
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Agents:
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Wholesalers/Distributors:
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Art Advice:
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Design Advice:
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Groups:
- BoardGameDesign
- mailing list
- Board Game Designers Forum
- boardgamemakers
-mailing list
- Nuts & Bolts: Physical Side of Game Design
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rec.games.design newsgroup (but often is mostly computer game oriented)
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Spielbox-online: Spieleautoren
(German, open forum about projects, test groups, design questions, etc.)
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Spieleautoren-Seite
(German, includes mailing list, list of what publishers are seeking, news,
inventor conventions, addresses of inventors, etc.)
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Spiele Autoren Zunft
(German, alliance of game inventors to further their common interests)
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Wargame Creators list
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Wargame Development Group
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Miscellaneous:
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