”If you’re going to go, go big,” Bucephalus Games President Dan Tibbles told ICv2 explaining his strategy for launching a new company with 37 games in 2008 instead of just one. Bucephalus releases run the gamut from party games to board games to card games and strategic games.  Launching in July, Bucephalus’ first 12 games have been in development and testing for two years and come from game industry veterans, such as Mike Selinker, James Ernest, Dan Tibbles, & Jeremy Holcomb, with artwork from John Kovalic, Jason Engle, Mike Vaillancourt, & Paul 'Prof' Herbert.  The privately-funded Bucephalus Games plans to distribute its wares in the hobby, bookstore, gift shop and international channels, but not in the mass market.

The initial wave of Bucephalus releases includes: Playbook Football (MSRP $50), Mad Scientist (MSRP $30), Roman Taxi (MSRP $30), Tobbogans of Doom ($20), Dogfight ($40), Rorschach ($20), Top Ten: The Bill of Rights ($25), Michelangelo ($30), The Duke($40), Living Labyrinth ($20), Suicide Bomber ($10), Time Streams ($10) and The Pickle Game ($20). 

Some of these games are franchises—there will be three Mad Scientist games, Mad Scientist: Frankenbuilder (MSRP $30), Mad Scientist: Lab Rats ($30) and  Mad Scientist: Final Exam ($30), as well as a Top Ten: The Ten Commandments (MSRP $25.00) in addition to Top Ten: The Bill of Rights.

Among the most interesting games in Bucephalus’ first wave are Mad Scientist: Frankenbuilder with art by John Kovalic, the party game Rorschach, in which players try and match their reactions to inkblots in a game with mechanics reminiscent of Apples to Apples, Michelangelo, a board game set in Renaissance Italy designed by James Ernest and Mike Selinker, and Suicide Bomber, a new edition of the humorous card game designed by Stephen McLaughlin and originally released in 2003 by Clear Conscience Gaming.