The Hurrican Edition publishing house was founded in 2006 to separate the publishing and distribution business areas from Swissgames. Swissgames has been active since 1997 and is one of the largest distributors of parlor games in Switzerland (Asmodee, Nathan, Megableu, Educa, Sentosphère, France Cartes, Buki, etc.). The first title published by Hurrican was “Mr. Jack ”, which immediately enjoyed great success with over 150,000 copies sold.

The publishing house Huch & friends was founded in 2004 as a publishing house for educational and innovative games. Today the publishing program is based on the pillars Children, Wooden Line, Learning & Logic, Family & Communication, Strategy and Lifestyle.

Horrible Guild is an Italian board game publisher. The company, known as Horrible Games until the end of 2019, was founded in 2014 by Lorenzo Silva. Their goal is to design, develop and produce cool and innovative games that are fun for everyone: they try to make their games stand out from the crowd, both in terms of visual style and game mechanics.

Homunculus Verlag was founded in 2015 by the four shareholders and still exists in this form. Homunculus – named after the artificially created living being, from Goethe’s Faust II. In 2016 homunculus Verlag was awarded by the IHK cultural foundation. The publisher has been a member of the Kurt Wolff Foundation’s Circle of Friends since 2017.

Behind Hidden Games are Felix, Daniel, Rieke, Stephan, Ricardo, Fridolin and Hauke. Together with 3 employees and 2 freelancers, they are responsible for the conception, production and marketing of the crime and puzzle games. They also manage the three Escape Room locations in Hamburg, Braunschweig and Hanover and are supported by an energetic team of location managers, office workers, game masters and carpenters.

In addition to calendars, Heye offers an extraordinary puzzle program for adults that is internationally recognized. With exceptional artists such as Dean Russo with the bestselling series Jolly Pets and Mordillo, Heye Puzzle stands for its uniqueness and has a large fan base worldwide.

In 1989, Harald Bilz and Peter Gutbrod founded the Heidelberger Spieleverlag to publish their own game ideas. The young publisher was able to celebrate its first major success with Neolithibum 1992 (Top 10 of the German Games Prize). As a development studio, they want to focus on games that bridge the gap between family games and geek games. For them, these are games with intuitive rules that offer long-term fun, are a bit weird and have that special something.

In addition to board games, HCM offers a wide range of exciting learning and creative toys, decorations, experiment boxes and much more under the motto “Play – Knowledge – Giving”. HCM Kinzel GmbH emerged from a sole proprietorship founded by Helmuth Kinzel in 1964, which specialized in the import and distribution of wooden toys and handicraft gift items. In 1993 Helmuth founded Kinzel
HCM Kinzel GmbH together with his sons Markus and Christian.

In the beginning there is no gold nugget, but a rather modest hand-glued game. And quite unlike in the famous fairy tale, the success curve of Hans im Glück Verlag is steadily increasing. Since the first Essener Spielertage in 1983 with the game DODGE CITY, the titles of the Munich publishing house have firmly established themselves in the gaming scene. The idea of making great games has grown into a small team with great enthusiasm for games.

Gmeiner-Verlag, based in Meßkirch (Baden-Württemberg), was founded in 1986 and has been the specialist for suspense novels – and games in German-speaking countries since 1998.