Format Games
During lockdown, rather than learning Ancient Greek or hoarding loo roll, Radio 1 DJ and TV presenter Matt Edmondson used his creative energy and previous experience of designing games to come up with new ideas... Along the way, he also taught himself graphic and packaging design and copywriting and learnt about the games' manufacturing process — everything needed to bring the games to market independently.…
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Partnering with his brother-in-law, businessman Laurence Emmett, the pair founded Format Games and launched two brand new games in 2021: the color-mixing card game Egg Slam and the immensely replayable trivia game So Wrong It's Right. Format Games' credibility as an indie games label has been given the ultimate seal of approval by Asmodee, who first signed them up for UK distribution in February 2021. Seeing the potential of Matt's designs and recognizing the worldwide appeal of the game formats, August 2021 saw Asmodee swiftly follow up with an exclusive global distribution deal covering the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa. —description from the publisher
Biography and credits from BoardGameGeek.
Published 13 games
| Egg Slam! | 2021 | 0 | |
| Big Fish Little Fish | 2024 | 0 | |
| Quick Draw | 2024 | 0 | |
| Sausage Roll | 2024 | 0 | |
| A Christmas Karen | 2023 | 0 | |
| Toodles: It Takes Two to Doodle | 2023 | 0 | |
| Game Backwards The | 2022 | 0 | |
| Ansagrams | 2022 | 0 | |
| So Wrong It's Right | 2021 | 0 |