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Review about Neanderthal in Swedish Radio
If you know Swedish then do not miss “Vetenskapsradion Historias” review about the game Neanderthal by Phil Eklind, Sierra Madre Games. This game is available to buy in our webstore... Read more...
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One year anniversary
Ion Game Design’s collaboration with Sierra Madre Games is now soon reaching the one year mark and it as been an interesting year :) During this year we have had two... Read more...
Heavy Cardboard and Ion Game Design logo
Heavy Cardboard & Ion Game Design
Ion Game Design is happy to announce that we have now started a partnership with Heavy Carboard, which will include play-throughs of our games like Bios: Origins, High Frontier, Expedition... Read more...
About the Bios:Origins and Pax Transhumanity
Our new Kickstarter for Bios:Origins (second edition), Pax Transhumanity and Pax Porfiriana is now live. Click here if you want to back it  Bios:Origins 2 This is the 3rd and final game of the Bios trilogy. We have reworked the game Origins from ground up, keeping its bottom-up feel, but with new features to integrate it with the predecessor game Bios:Megafauna. Also the dice are gone. The classic map is retained, as well as a variable hexsheet for cratons imported from Bios:Megafauna.  The technology tracks are retained, and one new... Read more...
New KS campaign with Sierra Madre Games
Ion/SMG’s new Kickstarter campaign starts when Essen fair “Spiel 2018” ends. This campaign will feature the third part of the Bios-trilogy – Bios:Origins 2 – as well as the next Pax-game – Pax Transhumanity – and a highly requested reprint of Pax Porfiriana, which will be a collector’s 2nd edition. The campaign will be launched on October 28th, 2018 at 2.15 PM CET (note that this is the day we move from CEST to CET). Stop by booth 4D124 to help us celebrate!   Read more...
SPIEL 2018, Essen
Sierra Madre Games and Ion Game Design will as usual attend SPIEL 2018 in Essen, Germany. The fair runs between October 24th and October 28th. If you are at the fair, please stop by our booth 4D124 (same place as last year). You can help us a lot by clicking the “thumbs up”-icon and “Interested” or “Must Have”-button on the BGG Essen 2018 list. See the links below. If you follow them, do the clicking and also share them in your network it would mean a lot.  If you are... Read more...
Shipping of Pre-Orders
Expedition Zetta has had some delays at manufacturing but the production is now running smoothly and the games should soon be ready to send to the warehouses. We are hoping to be able to start shipping Expedition Zetta to backers/pre-oreder buyers outside Europe in late October. Read more...
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Pax Transhumanity
The new upcoming game Pax Transhumanity by Sierra Madre Games (expected release next year) and the game designers, Matt Eklund has made it to Board Game Geek’s Hottness list :) Get... Read more...
Neanderthal and Greenland Kickstarter campaign
Neanderthal and Greenland by Sierra Madre Games
n beginning of January Sierra Madre Games long awaited new redesigned editions of Neanderthal and Greenland by Phil Eklund was launched on Kickstarter and was funded within 27 minutes. Ion... Read more...
The Ion team at Essen SPIEL 2017
Ion Game Design was at SPIEL 2017 in Essen and had the fun task to arrange play test sessions :)  We had a steady stream of people interested in playing Expedition Zetta. Some of them were backers. It was really nice to meet some of our backers who came to our booth, to try out Expedition Zetta or just to say hello. Read more...
Expedition Zetta funded
Expedition Zetta funded
Expedition Zetta’s kickstarter campagin got 132% funding thanks to our wonderful backers, much more than we could have hoped for when launching the kickstarter. Unlocked content Through the campaign there... Read more...
Review for HIRÞ
We would like to share a review we got for our Vikiing game – HIRÞ “”The depth of strategy available to you in such a straight forward design is incredibly well done…they got it right so well that I can’t think about anything I want to change about the game. There is always something you want to change when you play games, but not with HIRÞ”. “”The presentation of this game is outstanding! I have no problem believing this is a real Viking game, hats off to them!”” See the... Read more...