But in 2017, that company went out of business.

A core feature was a removable top, with a playing surface sunk down below, so that owners could cover an ongoing game for a meal and then go back to playing. Gaming tables rose to popularity in the last 15 years, thanks in part to the pioneering company known as Geek Chic. And it’s all thanks to a massive new crowdfunding campaign, and thousands of orders for its new, more affordable line of tables. It has also signed a deal to merge with another woodworking company in Pennsylvania, and is in the process of hiring on even more skilled workers at both of its facilities. The woodworking company - which specializes in dice vaults, dice towers, and high-end gaming tables - recently succeeded in bringing back virtually all of its 70 employees. “We talked about it we are going to do everything we can do to get all of our people back. “We didn’t wait for the governor to tell us to close down,” Costello told Polygon in an interview on Wednesday.

In late March, with a lockdown looming in the state of Massachusetts, co-founder Ed Maranville and CEO Douglas Costello made the difficult decision to lay off almost all of its employees. It’s the second most-funded tabletop gaming project of the year, and on track to become the fifth most-funded overall - and it’s close to overtaking highly successful Kickstarter projects like the Ouya game console and Exploding Kittens.īehind the scenes, the project has also helped the company recover from layoffs brought on by the ongoing global pandemic. One of 2020’s most successful Kickstarter projects is for Wyrmwood Gaming’s Modular Gaming Table. High-end gaming tables, once a luxury that few could afford, are suddenly coming down in price.

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