Cubicle 7
Private | |
Industry | Game publisher |
Founded | 2006 |
Founder | Angus Abranson and Dominic McDowall-Thomas |
Headquarters | Oxford, United Kingdom |
Key people | Dominic McDowall-Thomas, Jon Hodgson, Andrew Kenrick |
Products | The One Ring Roleplaying Game, Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space, Doctor Who: The Card Game, Hobbit Tales |
Website | http://www.cubicle7.co.uk |
Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd is a British games company that creates and publishes tabletop games. Best known for its Doctor Who and Lord of the Rings games, Cubicle 7 offers titles covering a range of licensed and self-developed properties.
Games
Role-playing games
Cubicle 7 designs, develops and publishes the following role-playing games:
- Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space (role-playing game based on the TV series)
- The One Ring: Adventures over the Edge of the Wild (the current Middle-earth licensed official role-playing game)
- Primeval (role-playing game based on the TV series)
- The Laundry (role-playing game based on the Laundry Files series of novels)
- Cthulhu Britannica (a series of supplements and adventures set in historical England, for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game)
- Victoriana (roleplay in an fantasy alternative Victorian era)
- Lone Wolf (based on Joe Dever's Lone Wolf gamebook series, estimated release in 2015)
- World War Cthulhu (a fantasy World War Two setting for the Call of Cthulhu RPG - it requires the Call of Cthulhu rulebook to play)
- Rocket Age (a retro-pulp space opera role-playing game, set in an alternative 20th century where Einstein, Tesla and Ray Armstrong rode the first rocket ship to Mars, entering in a new space opera era)
Card, dice and board Games
Cubicle 7 designs, develops and publishes the following card, dice and board games:
- Doctor Who: The Card Game (based on the TV series)
- Hobbit Tales (story telling card game set in Middle-earth)
Translations from French into English
Cubicle 7 translates and publishes the following role-playing games from the French publisher "Le Septième Cercle":
- Qin (a wuxia role-playing game, set in China during the Warring States period)
- Yggdrasill (roleplay in the Viking Age)
- Kuro (a horror-cyberpunk role-playing game, set in Japan in the year 2046)
- Keltia (roleplay in the post-Roman Britain, during the 5th century, estimated release in 2015)
Publishing partners
Cubicle 7 also works with a select group of publishing partners to bring their games to a wider market:
- Advanced Fighting Fantasy (Arion Games)
- HeroQuest (Glorantha - Moon Design)
- Hot War (Contested Ground)
- Cold City (Contested Ground)
- 3:16 - Carnage Amongst the Stars (Box Ninja Games)
Awards
Cubicle 7 has won 12 ENnie Awards,[1] 2 Origins Awards,[2] Best in Show, Lucca 2012[3] and a Golden Geek.[4]
Notable events
In June 2009, Cubicle 7 announced[5] that it had joined the Rebellion group of companies.
In November 2011, Angus Abranson left Cubicle 7 to form Chronicle City.[6]
In December 2014, Cubicle 7 announced that it had left the Rebellion group of companies, following a successful management buy out led by CEO Dominic McDowall.[7]
References
- ↑ http://www.ennie-awards.com/blog/
- ↑ http://www.gama.org/OriginsAwards/39thOriginsAwards/tabid/3265/Default.aspx
- ↑ http://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/Lucca_Games_Best_of_Show#toc3
- ↑ http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/886607/2012-golden-geek-awards-winners
- ↑ "Cubicle 7 Joins Rebellion Group", June 2, 2009
- ↑ http://www.geeknative.com/25598/the-angus-abranson-interview-a-look-inside-chronicle-city/
- ↑ http://www.cubicle7.co.uk/cubicle-7-leaves-rebellion-group/