The team behind some of your favorite pop culture board games is getting back together. A group of alumni from Prospero Hall, Forrest-Pruzan Creative, and Funko Games have joined forces to launch a new full-service board game design and development studio called Tempest Workshop.
“We have a chance to build a brand new studio from the ground up that shares DNA with where we came from, but that also looks ahead with newfound vision and three core values: being human, creating together, and having moxie,” Chris Rowlands, Co-Founder and Studio Director for Tempest Workshop, said in a press release. “It’s a dream come true.”
The goal of Tempest Workshop is to continue the team’s legacy of innovative, accessible gameplay combined with detailed art and graphic design. Goliath acquired Funko Games from Funko earlier this year, including all existing games from Funko Games, Prospero Hall, and Forrest-Pruzan Creative alongside new games created using Funko branding.
“The beauty of the Prospero Hall team was our people,” Korby Sears, Tempest Workshop co-founder and executive producer, said in a press release. “While our previous collective experience in tabletop, mobile, and AAA games were rock-solid, the Prospero Hall team was also a group of musicians, theater folks, visual artists, novelists, and material scientists from the Maker movement…all of which informed our drive with deep narrative-rich game design. The chemistry was so once-in-a-lifetime, it had to continue!”
This team has contributed to more than 250 games, including Jurassic World: The Legacy of Isla Nublar, Jaws, Back to the Future: Back in Time, Goonies Never Say Die, Cranium Hullabaloo, and more. While no new games have been announced yet, more details are on the way.
