Snow Tails Coming from Asmodee
The Lamont brothers released their fifth game, Snow Tails, at Spiel 08, and while that edition was limited to a thousand copies, Asmodee has now picked up the game and will publish and distribute it in Q2 2009. If you’re not familiar with the game, perhaps this description by Age of Gods designer Croc will help: “...a sort of Car Wars but with more dogs and less flamethrowers!” No? Then turn to my Snow Tails preview, published in September 2008.
This game has been added to Gone Cardboard.
Posted by W. Eric Martin on Nov 19, 2008 at 03:30 PM in Game News, Gone Cardboard News / 669
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Excellent. I’m not sure how big Asmodee is, though. Do you think they’re sizable enough for Snow Tails to get serious consideration for next year’s SdJ, Eric? I think the game hits the award’s sweet spot nicely. Posted by Larry Levy on Nov 19, 2008 at 03:54 PM | #
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Asmodee distributes in France and North America, but not in Germany, as far as I know. For example, Pro Ludo, not Asmodee, distributes Senji and Formula D in Germany, along with games from many other publishers. No word yet on whether Pro Ludo or another German company has picked up Snow Tails. Eric Posted by W. Eric Martin on Nov 19, 2008 at 04:52 PM | #
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Pro Ludo was bought by Asmodee recently and about a month ago the name was formally changed to Asmodee from Pro Ludo. At the same time they dropped the accent, as Asmodee is now a trans-national company… pk Posted by Patrick Korner on Nov 19, 2008 at 05:56 PM | #
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Thanks for the clarification, Patrick. I must have missed that memo, although the name change was from Asmodée to Asmodee, not from Pro Ludo to Asmodee. The Pro Ludo name is still in use as the company distributes games by a number of publishers, and – why lookie there – it announced a German version of Snow Tails yesterday. I guess Larry’s dream of the Lamonts nabbing a poppel lives on… Eric Posted by W. Eric Martin on Nov 20, 2008 at 09:53 AM | #
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I’d have to disagree a little, Eric, as per this news item from Spielbox on 17 Oct (translation is mine):
“In Sept 2006 Asmodee bought into Pro Ludo with the goal of expanding its European distribution network. At the start of 2008 Asmodee expanded its efforts in that realm, by purchasing the companies Hodin in Belgium as well as Cromola in Spain. Investments were made in Pro Ludo as well and numerous changes made: A new Country manager, larger office space, additional sales personnel and a wide selection of top quality exclusively distributed games.
I’m guessing they just haven’t updated the web layout yet… pk Posted by Patrick Korner on Nov 20, 2008 at 11:37 PM | #
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Thanks for the clarification, Patrick! I must have missed that news item in the run-up to Spiel. Eric Posted by W. Eric Martin on Nov 21, 2008 at 01:24 AM | #
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