Anonymous
7/18/2025, 5:03:04 PM No.96120689
What kind of games do you think they play at the African Boardgames Convention (ABCon)?
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Anonymous
7/18/2025, 5:21:50 PM No.96120817
>>96120689 (OP)
The only African board games publishers I'm aware of are Centroid Games (were at UKGE last year but seem to have a defunct website now) and Nibcard games, who are a Nigerian board game cafe that branched into publishing a bunch of different board games. Both companies are Nigerian actually I think.
I don't know of any African TTRPGs and I haven't got a chance to play any of Nibcard's stuff, but they seem to have an interesting variety in what they publish from like big battle board games to highly thematic stuff to party games. I guess they might be kind of a one-stop shop as far as modern board games in Nigeria go? The game Centroid were demoing last year was Money Hustle, kind of just a card-based game themed around the Nigerian rise and grind.
I suspect ABCon would probably be dominated by board games and feature a good amount of 'timeless' games like chess and ayo, just from the very limited amount I know of African tabletop gaming. It'd be interesting to know how much the huge Euro/US board game market penetrates there desu.
The only African board games publishers I'm aware of are Centroid Games (were at UKGE last year but seem to have a defunct website now) and Nibcard games, who are a Nigerian board game cafe that branched into publishing a bunch of different board games. Both companies are Nigerian actually I think.
I don't know of any African TTRPGs and I haven't got a chance to play any of Nibcard's stuff, but they seem to have an interesting variety in what they publish from like big battle board games to highly thematic stuff to party games. I guess they might be kind of a one-stop shop as far as modern board games in Nigeria go? The game Centroid were demoing last year was Money Hustle, kind of just a card-based game themed around the Nigerian rise and grind.
I suspect ABCon would probably be dominated by board games and feature a good amount of 'timeless' games like chess and ayo, just from the very limited amount I know of African tabletop gaming. It'd be interesting to know how much the huge Euro/US board game market penetrates there desu.