The Game Cellar
You are a hobby game publisher.
Game inventors around the globe spend countless hours laboring in their dark basements, crafting beautiful things that they hope you might like.
You are opinionated. Flighty. Capricious. You never know what to ask for, but you say you will know it when you see it.
This page is for you.
About Us
Crab Fragment Labs is an independent design studio with a repository of more than 200 original games, spanning a history of more than 30 years.
Our lead designer James Ernest has created games with Wizards of the Coast, Wizkids, Mayfair Games, Steve Jackson Games, Paizo Publishing, Rio Grande Games, Microsoft, and many others. His crowdfunded games have raised more than $2M on Kickstarter, and he is a member of the Origins Awards Hall of Fame.
This page is a list of our unpublished games, aimed directly at publishers. If you’re looking for something new, good, and available, this is the place to start.
Bread Basket
Format: Family Card Game, 2-6 players, 30 Min.
Components: 55 Cards and a way to keep score
Summary: Players take turns playing cards into a central tableau, trying to complete “sandwiches,” which are strings like X-Y-Z-X where X is higher than the cards in between. Score points for the cards you collect, lose points for the cards you don’t play.
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Status: Available for sale (DriveThru); available for licensing
Cold Comfort
Format: Cityt-Building Tile Game, 2-6 players, 60-90 Min.
Components: 28 map tiles, 18 cards, 42 dice, 13 tokens, 72 hotel tiles, scoring track, money.
Summary: Players are hotel owners in the Yukon Gold Rush. Dice represent customers of different size and taste. Players build hotels, invite customers, manage property, and build the city, scoring points each time another map tile is added. Money is the final score.
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Status: Still in public beta; available for licensing
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