“Rightgames LLC” has been developing and publishing board games in Russia since 2002.
Till 2010 the company was known as «Stolitsa Design Group».
In summer 2011 the company released 4 of its starter sets in English:
«Potion-making. Practice» - «Zelyevarenye»
«Evolution. The Origin of species» - «Evolution»
«The Enigma of Leonardo» - «Загадка Леонардо»
«The Kingdoms of Crusaders» - «Ордонанс»
The first project of the company – “The War” was released in 2002. Since that time there have been four big sets on the Great Patriotic War: “Blitzkrieg”, “Barbarossa”, “Defense of Moscow”, “Stalingrad”, “War in Africa”, “War with Japan”.
The gaming system has regular tournaments held in various clubs throughout Russia and CIS. Tournament winners are awarded with special prizes, with tournament results count towards the player rating on the games website.
A separate board game based on “The War” – “Day of Victory” was specially released for 2 players.
In 2005 the company released it’s first family boardgame – “Potion-making. Practice”.
It is currently the most popular Russian board game.
It has several awards from themed portals as “best Russian game”.
In 2010, “Potion making” made it in to the top 10 board games rated by “Forbes Russia” magazine.
The game has two expansions: “University Years” and “Guild of Alchemists”. A gift package containing all 3 parts was released in 2010.
In 2007 three more games saw light: “The Kingdoms of Crusaders”, “The Enigma of Leonardo” and “The Great Hoodoo”. A new CCG “The Commander’s Way” was also released at that time.
“The Kingdoms of Crusaders” is considered the best game of 2007 by www.boardgamer.ru. a blog for board gamers.
In 2011 the company released a game for both parents and children – “The Jam”.
All these games are created and developed by Sergey Machin – one of the leading game designers in Russia.
He designed them himself or with the help of other designers, like it happened with “The Kingdoms of Crusaders”.
In 2010 the company started publishing games from invited authors.
The first game to be published was the popular scientific game – “Evolution”, which came out in spring 2010. The author of the game – Dmitry Knorre is a graduate of Moscow State University, candidate of biological science.
The game became quickly popular and received five awards on it’s first year as best Russian “game of the year”.
In 2011 a new game saw light – “Gobba. Reelection in Big Gobba”, its author is a young game designer Anton Lozovski .
The company’s earliest plans are in bringing its games to the international market and releasing new board games.