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We design, develop, and publish tabletop games. Our first game City of the Big Shoulders launched in
At Parallel Games, we believe that making memorable and compelling experiences begin with a perfect marriage between innovative mechanics and theme from day one. Our pledge to our growing family of gamers is this: We will only produce the highest quality, most innovative games possible which will leave you with memories you shall always treasure. We want you to love our games and our company, and we will do everything we can to earn that.
02/25/2021
Shut Up & Sit Down reviews our game.
City of the Big Shoulders: Be a Stock Market Magnate (SU&SD Review) Support the Show: https://bit.ly/SupportSUSDBuy This Game: http://bit.ly/SUSDCotBS In UK: http://bit.ly/CotBSUK In AU: http://bit.ly/CotBSAUVisit SU&SD for m...
01/26/2021
Check out Shut Up and Sit Down on Twitch. They're livestreaming a play through of City!
ShutUpandSitDown - Twitch The World's Best Website about Board Games!
01/23/2021
01/07/2021
A while back there was a survey done by Paul Booth about Board Games, demographics, and the Game Industry. The survey results were compiled, released, and posted in an article on Meeple Mountain (Link in comments), but now Paul has written a book about his findings. The book is being released in one week. You can buy Board Games as Media from Bloombury Press and Amazon. Check it out!
Board Games as Media Leading expert Paul Booth explores the growth in popularity of board games today, and unpacks what it means to read a board game. What does a game communicate? How do games play us? And how do we decide which games to play and which are just wastes of cardboard? With little scholarly research in thi...
Happy New Year! May you have a happy and healthy holiday.
Happy Thanksgiving to our American friends. Stay safe and game on!
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10/16/2020
The Heavy Cardboard Golden Elephant award announcement is tonight. Wish us luck!
2019 Golden Elephant Award Winner announcement & Round table discussion w/the judges!! The 2019 Golden Elephant Award Finalists were previously announced and now, finally, we have a winner! Edward hosts a round table discussion with this year's...
08/06/2020
Thank you so much to Heavy Cardboard and Edward Uhler for playing (and enjoying) City of the Big Shoulders and allowing us to go toe to toe with so many other awesome games for Heavy Cardboard's coveted Golden Elephant award. We're so excited to be included and have so much love for everyone who also enjoys these games as much as we do.
Visit the Heavy Cardboard youtube channel to see the finalist announcement and then check out the announcement of the winner in two weeks!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnuxFrI7_2mBmeay2R5FhXg
08/05/2020
Thank you so much for your kind words Jamey! We appreciate the awesome feedback!
City of the Big Shoulders: My Favorite Game Mechanism Jamey discusses his favorite mechanisms in the stock-buying worker-placement game, The City of Big Shoulders. Become a champion of this channel: https://ston...
07/23/2020
A fantastic article by the wonderful and talented Elizabeth Hargrave - the designer of Wingspan and Mariposas.
https://stonemaiergames.com/inclusion-diversity-and-representation-in-board-games-and-beyond-guest-post-by-elizabeth-hargrave
Inclusion, Diversity, and Representation in Board Games and Beyond (guest post by Elizabeth Hargrave) Wingspan designer Elizabeth Hargrave, with whom I’ve had the pleasure of working and learning from over the last 4 years, recently posted an incredibly insightful series of connected thoughts…
07/17/2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QErygzM4W_Y
The Wonderful and Brutal World of 18xx Games Joshua Starr of Grand Trunk Games on meeting Yasutaka Ikeda, the designer of 1889: https://medium.com/grandtrunkgames/grand-trunk-g...
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