Tabletop Game Manufacturing Companies

I’ve personally used half a dozen card and board game Manufacturers over the last few years making our dozen or so games. I will share my personal thoughts / opinions below on these companies. But I have also contacted other publishers to get their first-hand feedback on other board game Manufacturers.

These Manufacturers are primarily for cards and board games but most can do dice and miniatures too. Usually, they can get other things done as well (like our Foam Dice or Metal Coins). But that’s the niche I know and so that’s what I write about.

Also See: The Art of the RFQ

Your mileage may vary… I welcome comments and input from others to help fill in the blanks (only if you have direct personal experience)… If you’re asking for my personal recommendations they would be: Panda GM, Long Pack Games, Wingo Industry, Bang Wee, and GPI.

(NOTE: This list is regularly maintained and should be current. Please send us any updates.)

The charts below have multiple pages, so click NEXT to get more. Also, some may side-scroll.

MOQ = Minimum Order Quantity

COMM = Communication level (to an English speaker)

TIME = Timeliness of production

FIX = Problem Fixing and customer service

COO = Country of Origin (where it’s actually made)

RATING SCALE: Poor/Fair/Good/Excellent

Game Manufacturers

MANUFACTURER QUALITY PRICE MOQ COMM TIME FIX PROS CONS COO 360 Manufacturing

website Fair Low Poor USA Front Office Had many delays and failed to deliver anywhere near time promised. High error rates. USA & China Ace Card Company

Website Fair Fair 'Low' Good Fair Fair Mostly Cards India AdMagic

Website Good Med-High Fair/Good Good Good Free Setup Uses MeiJia so you might just want to get a quote direct. USA & China Allied Fortune Industrial

Website China Altenburger Spielladen

Website Excellent EU location Germany Annboli

Agnes Lau

Website High 2000 Excellent China BangWee Games

Website Good/Excellent Low 500 Good Good Good Low MOQ Wood & Dice sub-par. China Board Game Manufacturing

Website Good Medium 500 Excellent US Office China BoDa Board Game Co.

Website Good Low 1000 Good Good Fair Slow China Cangnan Longda

Website Metal Coins & Tokens Low Any More finishing options Coins only China Cangnan Longda Plastic Products Factory

Email

Website Metal Coins China Cartamundi

Website Cards=

Excellent Med-High 3000 Good Good Good Minimum Order Quantity (MOQ) is 3000. USA CartamundiUK

Website Cards=

Excellent High 500 Fair Fair Fair Smaller MOQ then the USA affiliate UK Cheering Production

Website Good Low 1000 Good China Chicago Game & CardWebsite USA & China Delano / EPI Marketing

Website Good High 1000 games

500 for cards Good Fair Good US Company. Domestic printer, great customer service and communications. Cost effective and timely shipping. Print time 4-7 weeks depending on game and time of season. price point. Need slightly larger to mid size runs to be cost effective. They cannot do custom plastics, dice, etc... USA DoFine Games

Website Fair Low-Med Good Good China Gameland

Website Email Good Low 500 China Grand Prix International (GPI)

Website Excellent Med-High 2500 Excellent Good Excellent Great quality products used by some big names in our industry. Above avg MOQ USA & China GRANNA

Website Good Medium 1000 Average Good English, great for EU game developers Sometimes replies take a long time Poland HCH Games

Website China Holinail

Website

Good Good Good Makes miniatures France & China Ink Play Games

Website Taiwan LCM Group

Website 1500 Excellent China Liso Toys

Website 1000 China Liya International

Email

Website Makes toys & can do fulfillment. US Sales office. China LongPack Games

Cy

Website Excellent Medium 1500 Good Good Good Can get odd items made that are not board/card games China Ludo Fact - Asia

Stephen

Website Excellent Low-Med 1500 Good Owned by the Germany company so quality is important to them. China Ludo Fact - Germany

Frank Jaeger

Website Excellent High 1500 Good Good Fair Work for many game publishers so knows what you want and understands the board game business in the USA Didn't make good on failures that were their fault. Ludo Pact their partner company has slaps you with extra charges. Accounting is messy at best Germany Magicraft

Website Excellent Good 1500 Good China Meijia

Website Good Low 1000 Good Poor Poor Several large companies use them and they make CAH China Ningbo Eastar GM

Website Excellent Medium Good China Ningbo Lijia Industry Co

Website Fair Low 5000 Poor quality control and customer service. China Ninox Games

Website Excellent Medium 1000 Very Good Excellent China NSF

Arjan Bink

Website Excellent Medium 1500 Chipboard was excellent. Doesn't do mini-Americian card sizes Netherlands Panda GM

Michael Lee

Website Excellent Med-High 1500 Fair Poor Good Canadian company overseeing China factory. Does work for many game publishers. Provides EXTRA bits. Slow to quote China Prime Line Products

Website Good Many product types China PrintNinja

Website Cards=Excellent Cards=Low,

Wood=High 1000 Excellent Excellent Good If you're doing anything but just cards in a tuck box they are very expensive. China Product Greenhouse

Website Ecellent Medium Good Fair Good (Brokers) Product Vision Int.

Teri Jaymes

Website China QPC Games

website Excellent Medium 500 Good Fair Fair US Company & overseeing China factory USA & China Ricowell

Website China Shanghai Hopes

Website Made Gloomhaven China Shanghai Magicraft

email

Website Good Good Good Goes out of his way to make sure quality is as expected. Had some card quality issues. Ex: Top card in a deck was bent while packing, etc. China Shenzhen Senfutong Paper Co.

Website Fair Medium 1000 China Strom Mfg

Website Good Medium 1500 Good Good Good English contact 815-498-9555 Trefl

Website Good Medium 1000 Fair Fair Fair/Poor Know what they are doing Slow to quote Poland Whatz Games

Website

Good Low 1500 Fair/Good Fair Good 12/2017 - they are currently overbooked and not responding. Avoid using for now. China WinGo Industry

Leon

Website



Video Excellent Med-High 1000 Good Makes a decent produce when you're very specific. Cheap shipping. Card quality isn't great. Boxes wrinkle with sharp edges. China Yangjiang Kamings Trade Co.

Website Fair Med-High Any Good Good Good Makes X-Wing? China

Miniature Manufacturers

MANUFACTURER QUALITY PRICE COMM PROS CONS Defiance Games

Facebook Page

Good Fair Good Sculpted custom miniatures Miniatures production company that has failed to produce on several projects. Drawlab

Website Good-High Excellent Fast delivery to EU Ninja Division

Home Page Excellent Excellent Soda Pop Miniatures

Home Page Troll Forge

Home Page Excellent Excellent Sculpted custom miniatures. Has a forum with many artist to hire.

Print on Demand Printers

MANUFACTURER QUALITY PRICE COMM PROS CONS ArtsCow

artscow.com Good-Excellent Good-High Poor Allows onsite cropping, Only does cards. Takes a month to ship from China. Must be 54 card deck. BoardGamesMaker

DriveThruCards.com Excellent High China Create Space

createspace.com Good-Excellent Good-High Good Part of Amazon. Provides a store-front. Only does books DriveThruCards

DriveThruCards.com Excellent Good-High Excellent Can make excellent expansions to existing games. Cards can be bought with a plastic box. Several sizes. Provides a store-front. Only does cards. DriveThruRPG

DriveThruRPG.com Excellent Good-High Excellent Can do several sizes and hard cover Only does books. Ivory Graphics

GameMaker.Ivory.co.uk/ Cards=

Good

Box,etc=

Fair Good-High Good A print on demand company that can make just a few copies of your game. Boxes are flimsy. You must use only their bits selection. LuLu

lulu.com Good-Excellent Good-High Good Provides a store-front. Only does books MPC

makeplayingcards.com Good-Excellent High Good Can provide box. Only does cards. In multiples of 18 cards. Print & Play Games

printplaygames.com High Quality Prototypes High Excellent Hand crafted custom jobs even with chipboard Small quantities only. Printer Studio

printerstudio.com Excellent Good-High Good Allows onsite cropping, Does Linen finish. Ships in 10 days. Only does cards. Superior POD

website Good-Excellent Good-High The Game Crafter

TheGameCrafter.com Cards=

Excellent

Box,etc=

Fair Good-High Excellent A print on demand company that can make just a few copies of your game. Several size cards. Provides a store-front. Boxes are flimsy. You must use only their bits selection.

Cost of cards comparison of POD companies:

http://oneblogshelf.blogspot.com/2018/06/print-on-demand-playing-cards-cost.html

Factory Tours

Our friends at Thornhenge Games visited several factories in China recently and did a great write up about them. You can find that here – http://thornhenge.com/factory-tours/

Jolly Games has some links to Manufacturers and DYI tips.

http://www.silcom.com/~tomjolly/design2.htm

KS Homework – Getting Quotes From Printers

http://www.leagueofgamemakers.com/kickstarter-homework-lesson-1-quotes-and-setting-prices/

Wikipedia has a list too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_game_manufacturers

A BGG user posted this about several companies they tried to work with:

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/952551/manufacturer-run-down-influence

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Written by: James Mathe