Dance of the Fireflies released! One of the prettiest, fun strategy games you can buy this Christmas! We have just released our new Dance of the Fireflies card game. It is a perfect 2 – 6 player #familygame for game nights, or a filler-game with coffee. Designer Oliver Brooks was delighted with the polished product. […]
UK Games Expo 2017 Exclusives
UK GAMES EXPO 2017 This weekend 2-4 June is the fantastic UK Games Expo in Birmingham. The biggest boardgame event in the UK. Each year for the last six years Backspindle Games have brought lots of fun and games to the Expo. It has got bigger and better, and so have we! This weekend we […]
German language Luchador add-on pack now on Spieleschmiede
German Language add-on pack for Luchador! on Spieleschmiede It’s been coming….and now, it’s really happening! We have teamed up with Happy Shops in Germany so they can produce a German language translation add-on pack for Luchador! totally compatibly with our game. It’s on a German crowd-funding website called Spieleschmiede from NOW until 20 September 2016. Here is the link to […]
Team Backspindle and Gen Con 2016
Team Backspindle and Gen Con As of today we launch Team Backspindle, it’s your chance to be part of our story, bag a few free games, mix with the Backspindle gang at events, be part of our play-test team and more. Interested in joining Team Backspindle? All of the information is available here. Applicants will be […]
10 anniversary of UK Games Expo
10 Anniversary UK Games Expo The big 10th anniversary UK Games Expo has just finished, and boy was it something! This year they moved into the Birmingham NEC, probably with a little nervousness However by the end of Sunday they had nothing to worry about. The event was simply fantastic! In fact, from our perspective, […]
Codinca now on pre-order!
The pre-order is live! Codinca can be yours first! Why are we so excited about this? Well, back in 2012 when we published the original limited edition version for Spiel, Essen the game had already been shortlisted for the Award of Best New Abstract Game by the judges at the UK Games Expo. Although it […]
Clacks Transmission
Clacks has finally arrived! Phew, we know it took a while, but we finally got there…. You can read our ‘designers diary’ here. The game Pat ‘The Duck Man’ Harkin told us in 2012 he could imagine kids in the streets of Ankh-Morpork playing it with bottle tops, had its official release at the Irish […]
Clacks – The Fastest (non-magical) Messaging System on the Discworld
Clacks is coming Just like in the novel ‘Going Postal’ where the Post Office competed hard against the Clacks, we at Backspindle Games have been working hard for the last year to bring fans another board game given life from the books of Sir Terry Pratchett. To all of you who play-tested Clacks over the […]
Best Family Game selling out fast in UK
This week has been amazing! This week has been amazing! An unbelievable amount of Twitter action at @backspindlegame with loads and loads of happy Kickstarter backers sharing pictures of their copy of Luchador! Our distributor in the UK, Esdevium Games had 600 copies, and had allocated all of them within the week….. We were delighted […]
We deliver! – the Best Family Game and more
What a fantastic 2014 for our wee company. Best Family Game of the Year award for Luchador! at the UK Games Expo, a very successful Kickstarter project for the second edition complete with 3D wrestling ring, Championship Belts, New Wrestlers, Advance Fighting rules and more.. We sold out of all games at Spiel, Essen, are […]