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Garphill Games was established in 2009 by New Zealand designer, Shem Phillips. For their first five years, they designed a number of family-style games with very low print runs, which were primarily sold across New Zealand. In 2014, the company launched their first ever Kickstarter campaign. This was for their biggest game yet: Shipwrights of the North Sea. The game gained a lot of interest and helped push Garphill out into the global scene.
A year later they followed up with Raiders of the North Sea, which was nominated for the Kennerspiel des Jahres. This line of viking themed games turned into a trilogy with the final game Explorers of the North Sea.
Garphill Games is based out of Kapiti, New Zealand.
Making of the Medieval Trilogies
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