James M. Hewitt Announced As Lead Designer For Mantic’s Hellboy: Board Game
January 26, 2018 by brennon
Today it was announced that James M. Hewitt, a lovely chap indeed, of Needy Cat Games, is going to be heading up the Hellboy: Board Game from Mantic as its Lead Designer!
Here is what Mantic had to say...
"Mantic Games is pleased to announce that its upcoming Hellboy board game – based on the visionary comic book series by Mike Mignola - will be designed by well-known tabletop games designer James M. Hewitt. With a wealth of high profile titles already under his belt, James will ensure the Hellboy board game lives up to the world-famous source material."
James now heads up the games design studio Needy Cat Games. In the past, he has developed hugely popular titles, such as DreadBall, Necromunda 2017, Blood Bowl 2016, Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower and Horus Heresy: Betrayal at Calth.
“We wanted a talented games designer who could create a fun, cooperative board game that incorporates the atmosphere and drama of the comics,” said Ronnie Renton, Mantic Games CEO. “James has a wealth of experience making a diverse range of titles and he’s most certainly the man for the job.”
“This is – forgive the pun - one hell of a license to work with,” added James. “The thought of sinking my teeth into the BPRD’s adventures and reimagining them for the tabletop… well, that sounds more fun than a monkey with a gun. This is a great chance to make a narrative-led game that mixes big, loud action with a wry sense of humour. I can’t wait!”"
This also meant that we got to learn a bit more about what the game will all be about as well.
"The Hellboy board game will be a co-operative experience in which players face off against some of the comic’s most famous foes. Up to four people take control of iconic BPRD members, such as Hellboy, Abe Sapien and Liz Sherman, before exploring gothic locations and uncovering ancient artefacts."
The Kickstarter for the project will be coming April 2018 so you've got some time to prepare for this one.
Are you enticed by the idea of the Hellboy: Board Game?
""This is – forgive the pun - one hell of a license to work with,” added James..."
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Pfft, he’d better do a good job of it.
@lagoon83 I heard he’s a no talent hack…
Hellboy is a cool IP and I’m sure you’ll do it justice.
so how soon are we going to see you and Warren doing some game play videos?
It’s gotta happen, right?
Whaddaya say, @warzan? Are we getting the band back together or what?
I’ll bring cake ^^
bring pamcakes
I’m sure the internet will help with lots of thoughtful constructive criticism. He won’t be allowed to go astray.
Welcome back among those allowed to post
Hellboy is one of my all time favourite comics, can’t wait to see what you make of it for this!
Can you verify the rumor that this will be a 1:1 scale game?
god I hope not, I don’t even have room to store Abe nevermind Hellboy
2:1, actually. I think it’ll have more impact if each mini is twice the size of a human being.
Mantic haven’t agreed to this yet, but fingers crossed.
tell Ronnie he has to or I’ll tell everyone what he said in the Courthouse bar at the walking dead bootcamp…
PS I have no idea what any of us said, but he doesn’t need to know that 😀
Glad to see you back in the game bud 🙂 get your ass over to Ireland soon 🙂
Cheers chief! Gonna have to make the trip, aren’t I 🙂
yes, yes you do.
Seeing as the Walking Dead All Out War has been my favorite game for the past year I’m really looking forward to this one.
Yes this is one of my favourite ip’s so I am all over it Hewitt involved is just a plus
Good stuff. I am liking the look of this.
What what WHAT? Nice!
Should be well worth waiting for.
Keen to see the details on this, Look after the big red ape for us James
Bloody good choice. i have had a lot of respect for James since his time at Mantic (and quite frankly loved his silly videos there). His GW work was very impressive. As regulars will know I am not big into 40K (I will not return until Squats do GW .. >:-( ) but Betrayal at Calth was such a fun game with elegant rules that “I roled the spots off the dice” playing that …. and some people only bought it for the the models ….. THE FOOLS. When Necromunda launched I watched all of Warhammer TV’s Twitch shows on… Read more »
If i wasnt stoked enough begin with at this IP 😀
Oh, what a pefect time to be in gaming right now.
I’m sure that it was a deliberate mistake to spell his name wrong at the top of the page and the H is for Hellboy 🙂
finally! so glad someone finally makes a Hellboy game and I’m so excited that it will be mantic + Mr. Hewitt! Also that the game will be a Co-Op game is just brillant. I will start saving funds for this KS already!
Congratulation mate and good luck, my eyes on you . saving money from no one.
so does Abe come with his (fish)tank for storage purposes?
Getting excited about this one. If Golden Army clockwork soldiers appear in the game, I’ll definitely be pledging.