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SMASH UP

AEG’s Best-selling Game!

SPACE BASE

Build the best Space Base

TINY TOWNS

Make the best Tiny Town

ISTANBUL

Winner of the 2014 Kennerspiel!

MYSTIC VALE

Winner of the ORIGINS Award

DICE CITY

Rolldovia needs a new capital. Roll, Build, Win!

CAT LADY

Collect Cats, Food & Toys

WAR CHEST

A beautiful chess-like abstract strategy game

THE CAPTAIN IS DEAD

Episodes 1, 2 & 3 Now Available!

THUNDERSTONE QUEST

The Deck Building Game of Heroic Adventure

EDGE OF DARKNESS

Exciting News about Edge Coming in September 2019!

BIG GAME NIGHT

4 Hours of Fun at your Favorite Con

Recent & New Releases

Atelier the Painter’s Studio is open! You and your crew of assistants work to assemble the materials you need to paint a masterpiece before the other workshops achieve the glory that should be yours!

Commodores! The Command Station storage solution you’ve been waiting for for Space Base has docked! Including components for a 5th and 6th player!

The Captain is Dead – AGAIN! Episode 3 finds the crew stranded on a weird alien world facing an onrushing horde of killer bugs! Help them defend against the waves of attackers and figure out how to get off this Dangerous Planet before they’re overwhelmed!

The second half of the Smash Up World Tour: Culture Shock arrives in September (with August pre-release). Showcasing stories, legends and fairy tales of the Russians, West Africans, Germans, Incan Empire, and Polynesians!

Big Game Night was a huge success at Gen Con 2019! Now these games are coming to your friendly local retail store as well!

Current AEG News:

PUBLISH FEWER GAMES- AUTOPSY #1 DO YOU BELIEVE IN THIS THING?

Yes, I do wake up every day with doubts about our plan to do fewer games. It has been over a year since we started down this path and it has been exactly as hard as we expected, but it has also been very rewarding. It is time for us Read More →

Sunday history of AEG- Five Rings Publishing Group

For nine months we scraped, demoed, and clawed to keep the L5R CCG alive. Making the L5R CCG profitable was Mount Everest, we were on the hardest part of the ascent, and we were looking for an Angel Investor to help us reach the summit (and not die trying). Read More →

Edge of Darkness Returns to Kickstarter on September 23rd at 9am (Pacific)

Denizens of Aegis! Having successfully delivered the Rewards for the first Edge of Darkness Kickstarter in July and August, we are pleased to announce the 2nd Kickstarter which will return us to the battle against the Blight at the end of September! This new Kickstarter which goes live on September Read More →

RIP RICK LOOMIS

I just heard today about the passing of my friend, Rick Loomis. His battle with cancer has ended and another hero has been taken from us by that boss monster we have yet figured out a way to slay on a regular basis. F$%& Cancer I did not spend a Read More →

Mariposas Blog Start Post

The lost art of swagging and bartering

My career, before starting with AEG as a partner, was advertising sales in the golf industry. It was great; I would travel from city to city with my partner Eric Tivoli selling ads, golfing, and looking for fun. Selling advertising to golf courses and golf shops was interesting. A lot Read More →

The Edge of Darkness Journey

The Journey from There to the Edge of Darkness I don’t know if we have ever had a development and production challenge quite like the one we conquered with Edge of Darkness. Maybe the first time we published Legend of the Five Rings with all the sheets and packaging, but Read More →

Gen Con: The Most Important 4 Days in Gaming

I did just say that we were ready for Gen Con right? We are, but the chaos that comes the week before the show is here nonetheless. Gen Con and maybe Essen are shows that I think everyone should give publishers a pass on. There are just certain things that Read More →

Gen Con 2019 Two Minute Rundown

Wow Gen Con is in 10 days. Crazy how quickly the time between the GAMA trade show and Gen Con flies but we are ready and excited about the show. A small piece of useless marketing knowledge. When Peter Adkison bought Gen Con he called to tell me and I Read More →

Bard Wanted

I am in a tavern….. The GM who runs the reality game about my business looks over his screen at me: “You have gathered an excellent party, but for this great quest you will need one more. Someone like minded and with synergistic skills and who speaks your language. John,Read More →