Board&Dice designs, develops, and publishes family and strategy board games.
We aim to make interesting, deep and diverse games, each being a unique experience, and each sporting its own flavor and an engaging theme.
History
In November, 2018, NSKN Games (founded in April, 2011) and Board&Dice (founded in December, 2013) joined forces by merging the two publishing houses under the Board&Dice brand. Inspired by historical characters, events, or locations, or reaching far into the world of the fantastical, games published by Board&Dice cater to all different types of gamers: from the more casual family gamer to the hardcore hobby gamer on the hunt for the ultimate gaming experience!
Meet the Team
Our team consists of creative individuals who enjoy the process of inventing and innovating when developing board games.
Ola Menio
Project ManagerSeals. The greatest animals known to mankind. At least Ola thinks so. Perhaps due to their common interests: food and resting. However, as we all know, there are no rest for the wicked ... or Operational Managers. At Board&Dice, Ola is trying her best to make each project successful ... on time, that is, with the whole crew (ideally) still alive and breathing. She is managing weekly planning, keeps the tasks ... on task, and distributes hugs among the team members. RPG player, videogame lover, and cheesecake enthusiast.
Irek Huszcza
Head of Sales / FounderIrek and Filip started the "first" Board&Dice in 2013. Since the very beginning, Irek has been focused on building effective and loyal long-term partnerships with distributors, retailers, and localization partners all over the world. Irek wears many hats, as he is in charge of sales and administration while actively supporting logistics and fulfillment. His passions are games (both digital and tabletop), bicycles, and the Witcher universe.
Filip Głowacz
Head of Marketing / FounderTogether with Irek, he founded "old" Board&Dice, in 2013, where he was responsible for art, development, marketing, and production. Now, he is the Head of Marketing but has also been able to explore his passion for game design. Filip is a huge Nintendo and retro game fan. He collects anything and everything related to Zelda and Mario, the best video games ever!
Ola Skłodowska
Marketing ManagerBefore Ola joined our team, she worked as the marketing specialist at another Polish board game publishing house. She is responsible for all marketing activities at Board&Dice, especially Social Media, mystery boxes, and all sorts of crazy ideas (in close cooperation with Filip). Outside of work she is a geek, dog mom, and U2 lover.
Zuza Kołakowska
Graphic DesignerIn her previous life, Zuza was an architect and freelance illustrator working on a wide range of projects related to architecture, illustration, and design. Since joining the Board&Dice team, she began a new chapter as a graphic designer. After hours she likes to experiment with graphic techniques and various handicrafts, wander around art museums, and watch weird movies.
Agnieszka Kopera
Founder/Board PresidentIf a company can have a soul, then Agnieszka is the soul of Board&Dice. She has been around since the very beginning, founding NSKN Games with Andrei, and managed arts and marketing for the first six years. With more people joining the team, she has taught and cared for the whole team. She is the Board Chairwoman and makes sure we all sail in the right direction.
Kuba Polkowski
Head of ArtKuba is a board game, RPG, and Alien movie aficionado. He was part of NSKN Games long before the merger with Board&Dice in 2018. Kuba is the creative force in the company, juggling artistic coherence and historic accuracy of our products. He is involved in localizing our games in various languages. Currently (as if this was not enough), Kuba also unleashes his knowledge in production and logistics. Above all, he is our go-to person in times of crisis.
Maciej Górkowski
Production and LogisticsMaciej joined Board and Dice in 2022 to take over production and logistics. He is responsible for making sure that B&D's games look like Art and Development Teams imagined, producing them in quantities that Sales team requires and then delivering them to our warehouses. Also he is part of the Development Team. Apart from playing board games he also loves watching football and ski jumping, playing video games and listening to metal music.
Sonia Ociepka
Administration SpecialistSonia has joined Board and Dice as an Administrative Specialist. Her responsibilities include ensuring efficient document circulation, timely payments, document archiving and collaboration with other company departments. Outside of Board and Dice, she also works as a cello teacher and cellist. She is a plant freak, nature lover and loves to read books.
Karolina Baran
Community managerKarolina joined Board and Dice team as a community manager in 2022. She is responsible for all B&D Social Media accounts - she creates content, replies the messages, and keeps an eye on various Internet places where people play or talk about board games. She deals with diagrams, tables, and analysis. After hours she is a tutor, mum, and geek. She loves craftwork, LEGO, scrapbooking, metal music, Pokemon, geeky things, and TV series. She’s a crazy cat lady, with colourful clothes, hair, and shoes.
Zbigniew Umgelter
Graphic DesignerAfter a few freelance projects connected to game design, Zbyszek decided to leave the world of advertising agencies behind him and embark on a board game adventure. Since 2019, he is in charge of the graphic design of all Board&Dice products. Long-time gamer, fan of cinema, comics, storytelling and traveling.
Michał Cieślikowski
Game DeveloperMichał is a gamer through and through. He ran a board game club for 5 years and board game tests group for 3 years. With a library of over 3000 video games and 500 board games, he joined B&D’s Game Development Team. His main responsibility is managing over testing process – with a group of over 100 awesome, experienced testers! He is also responsible for game assessments, discord communication and more. A part from games he also loves good manga, fantasy books, playing guitar and doggos.
Kacper Frydrykiewicz
Community managerKacper joined the B&D Development Team in 2022. A true solo gamer at heart, but also a family guy and enthusiast of print&play games. He is mainly responsible for testing and perfecting the solo modes for new games, crafting the physical prototypes and communication with B&D fans on BoardGameGeek.com. When he is not playing board games, he delves into everything sci-fi (especially Star Trek), and headbanging to the rock and metal music. Favorite game: Gaia Project.
Arleta Staniszewska
Key Account ManagerBoardgames have been her hobby for many years, that is why she oppened her own boardgame shop in 2016 (now it has a new owner). She worked for another publisher for more than 5 years. She prefer eurogames but loves areacontroll as well. She loves to travel, trek in the mountains and cover miles on my bike (maybe not as much as Irek, but any activity is important, right?). Lately she has also been exploring the topics of meditation and mindfulness. Her life motto is "Let's celebrate little things". In private, she is a mom of three kids and one cat.
Core Values
At Board&Dice, we condemn all expressions of discrimination and bigotry, whether related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, culture, age, or religion. We are proud to continue on our path of actively working toward positive change, both in terms of continued internal education and changes, but also with regards to those with whom we choose to work.
We advocate for diversity and inclusion, without hesitation or reservation.
We advocate for respectful treatment of all cultures, particularly those which are not one’s own, especially if such cultures have a history of being oppressed or marginalized.
We consider it essential to hire cultural, diversity, and inclusion consultants.
We invite more voices to be heard. We invite those who may otherwise find themselves excluded, ignored, or silenced to speak to us so that we may listen and learn. We invite all privileged individuals to join with us in listening and learning.
We implore all board game publishers to adopt the same policy as we have just described above.
