Our friends at The Malted Meeple like to give some extra attention to their favorite board game publishers and designers. In their Publisher’s Spotlight they provide a bit of a background on the publisher, discuss a few of their games, and may even announce a visit to The Meeple by some of the publisher’s representatives!
Publisher: Cryptozoic Entertainment
This month we are proud to shine our Publisher’s Spotlight on our friends from Cryptozoic Entertainment! The company, founded in 2010 by Cory Jones, Scott Gaeta, John Nee, and John Sepenuk, specializes in producing original and licensed board and card games. Many of these games feature fan-favorite franchises, including: the DC Comics Deck-Building Game, The Walking Dead Board Game, and Ghostbusters: The Board Game.Cryptozoic Entertainment focuses on producing fun and amazing products along with epic events that bring their gaming fans together.
The Cryptozoic business philosophy and core principle are described in their mission statement, “Fans First”. This simple promise guides each endeavor undertaken by Cryptozoic Entertainment and shapes the final products that their fans will truly love and appreciate. In fact, they truly went the extra mile when designing and testing their new line of Rick and Morty Games. They took the time to make sure that the creator of Rick and Morty, Justin Roiland, had a chance to play them just to make sure to get his input.
The name “Cryptozoic” came from co-founder Corey Jones. He had spent a few weeks looking at names for the company and nothing was working out. It seemed like everything was either in use by some other company or not cool enough. He stumbled upon “Cryptozoic” as he was making a seemingly endless list of possible names. When the word processing program he was using recognized the word, he knew he had found a name. In his own words, “I thought, ‘hot damn if spell check knows this word, it’s good enough for me!’” The name “Cryptozoic” also has connections to monsters and the unknown, which suits the company perfectly as they spend a fair amount of time inventing and making up monsters.