Dice Men: Games Workshop 1975 – 1985 Seeks Funding On Unbound
December 6, 2017 by dracs
Something to pique the interest of you gamer historians, as a new book telling the story of Games Workshop's early years is looking for funding on Unbound.
The book is called Dice Men: Games Workshop 1975 - 1985, and looks at how Games Workshop started as three friends in their flat, through the trials and tribulations of the company's origins, on to the status it would one day enjoy.
The book itself, which is being written by Jamie Thomson, Steve Jackson, and Ian Livingstone, will be a full colour, illustrated hardback of A4 size, and comes in at over 300 pages long.
The formative years of Games Workshop is a very interesting period of game history and deserves delving into. In this time where GW has become one of the largest names in the industry and new games appear regularly on Kickstarter, it is hard to imagine how it started off in a small office in Shepherd's Bush and two guys living out of a van.
"That's what this book is about. A history of Games Workshop, not just the business narrative but the story of its founders and their journey, along with all the people they picked up along the way.
How did Ian and Steve do it? How did they get to that first Workshop store? What's the story behind Dungeons & Dragons coming to the UK, starting a whole new hobby? How did Games Workshop grow after that? It's now so big that it spans the globe. And along the way they invented an entirely new book publishing genre, too!"
This book sounds like a fascinating look at, not just Games Workshop, but also the earlier days of the hobby as we know it now. Given the now legendary status of the guys behind it, it's good to get a look at the story of how it all started.
Do you think you will back this on Unbound?
"It is hard to imagine how it started off in a small office in Shepherd's Bush and two guys living out of a van."
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Ooh time warp time 75 Wow.
75, vintage year. the birth of GW and yours truly.
GW does have interesting history so it’s good topic for book.
Showing my age but I was very young at the start of this era – and playing D&D every school lunchtime by the end of it. Yes I’m interested.
I was a twinkle in my dad’s scrote at the start and had no idea who games workshop were by the end. Still about 6 years before I started wasting time and money on Miniatures
1975 – the year of my first existence on this planet and the start of an incredible games company. I might not play many Games Workshop games these days but they were the gateway to wargaming with friends who I still game with today. A wonderful idea this book and I feel I will likely get a copy. I would love to see more audio visual media interviewing the pioneers of gaming, always fantastic to hear from people who were the revolutionaries of their time and the forefathers of today’s Golden Age of gaming.
1975… the year I discovered comic books. 4 years before I discovered D&D, and White Dwarf Magazine. 6 years before I saw my first fantasy miniature, tried to buy it and was told to come back when I was 18 as it had lead in it…. (f**k). 10 years before I bought my first copy of Warhammer (2nd Edition in a box as I recall) and my fiirst mini (a dwarf .. of course). 12 years before I discovered Warhammer Fantasy RPG rolled up a Rat-catcher and read about the chaos gods (Including Malal ) and the Order Gods (Where… Read more »
The store picture brings back happy memories of shopping there in the 70’s. They did a lovely range of SF and Fantasy jigsaws back then along with the games and minis.
I did not know this – very cool
This looks really cool.
Fun days
I don’t know much about that era, looking forward to it!