Alderac Entertainment Group
Game publisher
- Board games
U.S.
Key people
- John Zinser
- Ryan Dancey
- Cascadia
- Cat Lady
- Mystic Vale
- Space Base
- Smash Up!
- Tiny Towns
- Thunderstone Quest
- John Zinser
Number of employees
Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG) is a publisher of family board game products. AEG was formed by Jolly Blackburn[1] in 1993. Blackburn left the company in 1995 and the majority of the company is now owned by President & CEO John Zinser. The company is virtual and does not have a physical headquarters but it is legally domiciled in the city of Henderson, Nevada.
AEG's first product was Shadis Magazine (winner of the 1994, 1995, and 1996 Origins Awards for Best Professional Gaming Magazine[2][3][4]). In 1994 the company began working on the development of the Legend of the Five Rings Collectible Card Game; that game was published in 1995. Throughout the 1990s AEG expanded its CCG offerings and began designing and publishing Role-Playing Game and Miniatures Wargame Game products as well. The company has exited the CCG, RPG and Miniatures Wargame categories and now exclusively publishes family board games.
Including the three for Shadis mentioned above, AEG products have garnered twenty Origins Awards (see the individual articles noted below for more details).
In 2014, Love Letter was on the recommended list published by the Spiel des Jahres judges committee.
In 2022, Cascadia, which AEG co-publishes with Flatout Games won the Spiel des Jahres Game of the Year award. AEG & Flatout licensed the game to Kosmos for the award-winning German language edition.
Current products
Best-selling and award-winning board games
- Cat Lady
- Cascadia - co-published with Flatout Games
- Mystic Vale
- Smash Up
- Space Base
- Tiny Towns
- Thunderstone Quest
- War Chest
Discontinued products
Games sold to other publishers
- 7th Sea Collectible Card Game (Multiple Origins Award winner)
- Doomtown Collectible Card Game (Multiple Origins Award winner)
- Legend of the Burning Sands
- Legend of the Five Rings
- Love Letter
- Spycraft
Collectible card games
- City of Heroes Collectible Card Game
- HumAliens
- Initial D
- Romance of the Nine Empires
- Warlord: Saga of the Storm
Role-playing games
- many d20 System Sourcebooks such as
- Brave New World
- Farscape Roleplaying Game
- Legend of the Five Rings Role-Playing Game (Origins Award winner)
- Shadowforce Archer
- Stargate SG-1[8]
- Swashbuckling Adventures[9][10] (previously 7th Sea[11] which won an Origins Award)
- Ultimate Toolbox
- Warlords of the Accordlands
- World's Largest Dungeon
- World's Largest City
Miniatures
References
- ^ Varney, Allen (November 1998). "ProFiles: Jolly Blackburn". Dragon (#253). Renton, Washington: Wizards of the Coast: 120.
- ^ "Origins Award Winners (1994)". Archived from the original on 2008-03-17.
- ^ "Origins Award Winners (1995)". Archived from the original on 2008-01-02.
- ^ "Origins Award Winners (1996)". Archived from the original on 2007-12-21.
- ^ "Evil (Review)". RPG Resource. Retrieved 2007-09-26.
- ^ "Dungeons (Review)". RPG Resource. Retrieved 2007-09-26.
- ^ "Sundered Faith (Review)". RPG Resource. Retrieved 2007-09-26.
- ^ Newquist, Ken. "Stargate SG-1 Roleplaying Game (Review)". SciFi.com. Archived from the original on 2007-08-27. Retrieved 2007-09-26.
- ^ Kohler, Alan. "Review of Swashbuckling Adventures". Psion. Archived from the original on 2007-05-17. Retrieved 2007-09-26.
- ^ Mix, Brad (2002). "Review of Swashbuckling Adventures". D20 Magazine Rack. Archived from the original on 2011-05-16. Retrieved 2007-09-26.
- ^ Bassingthwaite, Don. "The SF Site Featured Review: 7th Sea". Archived from the original on 25 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-26.
- ^ "Listing for Alderac Entertainment Group". The Miniatures Page. Retrieved 2007-09-27.
External links
- AEG's official site
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