North Star Games

North Star Games
Private
Industry Games (Board Games)
Founded 2003, College Park, Maryland
Headquarters Bethesda, Maryland
Key people
Dominic Crapuchettes, Founder & Co-President;
Satish Pillalamarri, Co-President
Website North Star Games Home

North Star Games is a board game company based in Bethesda, Maryland.

History

Dominic Crapuchettes grew up designing and inventing board games since he was 9 years old. He fulfilled his lifelong goal of starting a board game company in 2003 while attending Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park. MBA classmate Satish Pillalamarri joined the company full-time after graduation in 2004. Crapuchettes and Pillalamarri raised money from friends, family and even faculty to fund the first run of Cluzzle board games. In time more games followed and North Star board games began to appear on the shelves of specialty gaming stores and even Target Corporation.[1] When it came time to name the venture, founder Dominic Crapuchettes chose the name 'North Star' in reference to a stormy night off the coast of Alaska when the salmon fishing boat he was piloting lost electrical power and Crapuchettes was forced to use the North Star to guide the boat safely home. On that night, Dominic vowed to quit fishing and start the board game company that he had dreamed about since childhood. Wits & Wagers was included on many ‘Best Games of Year’ lists in 2007.[2] The game was also awarded the ‘Best New Party Game’ by Games Magazine.[3] Time Magazine highlighted Wits & Wagers as a “Lively trivia game” in a profile of games they determined as board game entertainment “beyond Monopoly”.[4] North Star Games’ newest game, Say Anything, has been called, “A party game that appeals even to those who claim to hate party games.”[5]

Games

Notes and references

  1. McLoone, Sharon (2007-10-30). "North Star Aims to Shoot the Moon". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2009-03-06.
  2. Tianen, Dave (2004-11-20). "Not playin' with game choices". The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved 2009-03-06.
  3. "2007 Games of the Year and Other Awards". Games Magazine. 2007. Retrieved 2009-03-06.
  4. Caplan, Jeremy (2006-04-02). "Beyond Monopoly". Time Magazine. Retrieved 2009-03-06.
  5. Baldwin, Matthew (2008-11-25). "The 2008 Good Gift Games". The Morning News. Retrieved 2009-03-06.
  6. "Evolution by North Star Games - Kickstarter". Kickstarter. Retrieved 21 February 2015.

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