Gamelyn Games, the publisher behind the Tiny Epic series, has been sold to Tycoon Games.
Michael Coe, co-founder of Gamelyn, posted yesterday on social media announcing the purchase.
"I'm sharing a monumental milestone: Gamelyn Games, Tiny Epic, and Heroes of Land, Air & Sea are now part of the incredible team at Tycoon Games".
Gamelyn Games was founded in 2011 by Brittany and Michael Coe with the aim of publishing Michael's first game, Lords, Ladies & Lizards. Their first success, however, came from the self-published and crowd funded, Dungeon Heroes in 2013. Also that year, Gamelyn successfully crowdfunded Fantasy Frontier.
The start of the Tiny Epic series came about the next year in 2014 with the publishing of Tiny Epic Kingdoms, designed by Scott Almes. This became their highest funded project to date and was quickly followed by Tiny Epic Defenders.
Since Tiny Epic Kingdoms, the Tiny Epic series has expanded to include exploring galaxies, surviving zombie outbreaks, raising baby dinosaurs, sailing as swashbuckling pirates, and so much more.
In 2020 Tiny Epic Pirates became Gamelyn's highest funded game at over $1.1 million, which was quickly followed by their first straight to retail game, a streamlined version of Tiny Epic Galaxies; Tiny Epic Galaxies BLAST OFF!
Coe wrote on the announcement of Gamelyn's sale that the Tiny Epic series has "become something far beyond what I ever imagined."
Gamelyn Games' mission was to create profound and unprecedented gaming experiences, and their vision was to develop Tiny Epic into the most well-known and respected series in all of board gaming. While that is certainly an ambitious vision, there is no doubt that the Tiny Epic series has had unparalleled success in condensing game genres famed for their complexity and size into surprisingly small and uniform boxes.
Tycoon Games, publisher of Everdell, was founded by Dan Yarrington with the core values to "Be Excellent", "Innovate Always", and "Care Deeply". They also donate extensively to good causes such as Toys for Tots, with over 450,000 games donated to kids and families.
We will wait to see in what new directions Tycoon Games plans to take the Gamelyn collection.
"Dan Yarrington... has been a trusted partner of Gamelyn's for over a decade, helping us fulfill campaigns and representing our games in distribution in the early years. He understands Tiny Epic deeply, and I know the series is in wonderful hands."
Coe confirmed in his statement that Scott Almes will be staying on as designer of the Tiny Epic series.
"The best is yet to come."
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