TMG: Golden Geeks, Testing, and Successes

In Tasty Minstrel Games' latest newsletter, founder Michael Mindes discusses three areas that are hot topics for TMG at present.  But before that, TMG encourages everyone to try AquaSphere, the latest game from Stefan Feld, and Village Port, expansion to Village, by Markus & Inka Brand.  Both of these games have limited availability. Golden Geek Awards TMG has 6 different titles that have been nominated for various categories of the Golden Geek Awards on boardgamegeek.com.  These titles are:

• AquaSphere - Game of The Year  /  Strategy
• Orleans - Game of The Year  /  Strategy  /  Innovative
• Scoville - Artwork & Presentation
• Eminent Domain: Escalation - Expansion
• Burgoo - Abstract
• This Town Ain't Big Enough For The 2-4 Of Us - Abstract

Testing In the past year, TMG has been able to expand services to their customers through expanding their staff, resulting in 4 full-time staff and several key contract-based workers.  Mindes states that he is in the midst of testing many things within the company structure, and states the following things explicitly:

• Everything we decide to do is for the benefit of our Customers. This is our guiding principle.

• We strive to more directly interact with our Customers while being able to continually create fantastic games that they want.

• We have a gigantic pipeline of games that is around 40 titles right now, and want to bring these to life quickly, steadily, and carefully.

• We want to have deep and valuable relationships with our closest stakeholders, this includes game designers, artists, key retailers, reviewers, email subscribers, and so forth.

Successes TMG lists its top 3 successful sellers:

• Dungeon Roll - 40,000+
• Village - About 16,000
• Eminent Domain - About 15,000

For more information on Tasty Minstrel Games and this latest company news announcement, visit the newsletter here.