Z-Man Games
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History
Z-Man Games was primarily formed to bring the collectible card game Shadowfist back into publication.[1][2]
In 2011, Sophie Gravel, owner of Quebec-based publisher/distributor Filosofia, bought Z-Man Games,[3] creating F2Z Entertainment. Shlasinger left Z-Man Games in January 2016. In 2016, F2Z Entertainment was acquired by Asmodee.[4]
Published games
- A B-movie card game series consisting of games such as Grave Robbers From Outer Space[1][5] and Cannibal Pygmies in the Jungle of Doom[6]
- 1960: The Making of the President,[7][8] an original creation by Z-Man Games
- Agricola
- Archaeology: The Card Game, a market-style card game[9]
- Arimaa, an abstract strategy game
- Ascending Empires, a space based empire expansion game[10]
- Carcassonne, Z-Man Games has published the English version of this game in the US and Canada since 2012
- Endeavor, a complex strategy game edited by Z-Man Games in 2009[11]
- Gheos, a game where players take on the role of deities[12]
- Neuroshima Hex!
- Omlevex, a role-playing supplement for Mutants & Masterminds, Champions, and Silver Age Sentinels[13][14]
- Onirim, and the Oniverse series of short single-player games: Sylvion, Castellion, Nautilion, and Aerion
- Pandemic, a cooperative board game[15]
- Saboteur, a mining path card game
- Shadow Hunters
- Shadowfist
- Start Player by Ted Alspach, a card game to determine who goes first in the following game
- Terra Mystica, by Jens Drögemüller and Helge Ostertag, winner of the 2013 International Gamers Award - General Strategy: Multi-player Winner[16]
- Ursuppe
- The Walking Dead, a 2009 board games based on the comic of the same name
- The Walking Dead: The Prison, "both a stand-alone game and an expansion module to the first game", funded through Kickstarter[17]
See also
- Going Cardboard – a documentary about board games in which Shlasinger is interviewed
References
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