Office Dog is a very new tabletop board game label intended to showcase and nurture indie game designers. The label, owned by the board games giant Asmodee, has announced its Freshman Class of games which should be available via your friendly local games store in 2024.
Office Dog is still actively looking for games from freelance designers to add to their roster and is after “mechanically authentic” and original games that are suitable for everyone and aren’t tied to existing properties or licenses, which are well play-tested and aren’t region specific.
Their Freshman Class includes three games. They are:
Thomas Dagenais-Lespérance’s Word Traveler. Players journey through the world’s greatest cities using a limited number of words to get to sites they want to see. Let’s hope the rest of the table can decode their directions as they visit Paris, New York, London, and Tokyo!
Keith Piggot’s River of Gold is a trading game that focuses on the River of Gold, a fantasy trade route full of hazards and opportunities. Players build locations along this important river, deliver goods, and compete for influence in this classic mid-weight Euro game.
The third game of this first set of releases will be called Crafting the Cosmos, from co-designers David Gordon and TAM and asks; why build a city when you can build an entire universe? In this game, players use the forces of the universe; Time, Ionization, Light, and Gravity, to build Nebulae and foster life across their ever-expanding Universe.
Head of the Office Dog Studio, Luke Peterschmidt, said, “We’re setting the bar pretty high with these titles, and I can’t wait to get them into the hands of players!”
