Mindforge Media is an independent board game designer and publisher based in the UK.Currently developing RoAR: Rise of Ancient Reptiles, a strategic engine-builder featuring dinosaurs and artwork by Nate Taylor.

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RoAR is nearly ready to ship!5/8/2026: Our first print run of RoAR: Rise of Ancient Reptiles has now arrived in the UK, and we’re working through the final fulfilment steps for our Kickstarter backers.A limited number of copies will also be available for UK orders soon. RoAR is a strategic engine-building board game for 1–4 players, featuring 182 unique prehistoric animals, you have three in game years to build and manage your own dinosaur park.For availability, updates, and retailer enquiries, please check back here or contact us directly.

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Mindforge Media is an independent board game designer and publisher based in the UK. We are a husband-and-wife team from Cornwall with a love of gaming, dinosaurs, and history, and a desire to create immersive in-house games and share our passions with like-minded people.Currently developing RoAR: Rise of Ancient Reptiles, a strategic engine-builder featuring dinosaurs and artwork by Nate Taylor.

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RoAR: Rise of Ancient Reptiles is a strategic engine-builder board game where you create and manage your own dinosaur park, featuring art by Nate Taylor.Players have three in-game years to dig for fossils, incubate and hatch ancient species, and build a successful attraction. Blending co-operative tasks, hidden personal objectives, and shared competitive goals, the game keeps tension high until the final round.Designed for 1–4 players, it plays in 40–80 minutes, offering layered strategy, dynamic replayability, and lots of ancient reptile facts!

Educational
182 Unique animal cardsEach card has the estimated weight, length, and age it lived in. It also features where it was first discovered, the period it was from, and the phonetic pronunciation. The DNA cost is linked to the age, food cost is linked to the size and the habitats are based on where they would have lived. Cards are colour coded to the period and show a time-period worldmap behind the fact.Scientific Context & Creative Licence
All the animal images were reviewed by Dr Matt Dempsey, who is a musculoskeletal biologist, vertebrate palaeontologist, and scientific illustrator/3D modeller.Palaeontology is an ever-evolving field, and new discoveries continually update our understanding of prehistoric life. The information in RoAR reflects widely accepted research at the time of development.Some creative licence has been used for artistic presentation and gameplay clarity. For example, the depiction of marine reptiles and the range of motion in their necks.