State of the Company 2022
Sterritt Original - Evergreen Winter
It is with mixed pleasure to announce a new chapter in the history of Sterritt Strategy Publishing, Ltd (SSP). 2020 and 2021 were tough years for Sterritt Strategy as all sales of our products essentially stopped as Meetups canceled dates, Convention closed and word of mouth became shipment only. However, we here at SSP are still in it for the long haul and we have shifted our strategy as a company to become more hobbyist and far broader in our scope. Both founding brothers James and John have now found full time employment outside of our company and John Sterritt has moved to become exclusively part of our board of directors. Now Sterritt Strategy is looking to open up our doors to additional authors, game designers, and building a sales team.
The 2022 Plan
Evergreen Production
SSP has a new model for board game production, instead of the crowd sourced or the large batch builds that take forever to ship. We now are looking to make small batches, ready to order, essentially, custom made board games. This ready to order small inventory methodology is to focus on remaining ever present with as many titles as we can in a hobby scale personalized touch. How many board games can you be in direct contact with the designers, meet at conventions or events in your area, or discuss and expand the game to meet your table's need for a board game? The focus of this is to remain here for many years to come in all seasons and all hardships. To be much like an “Evergreen” tree, this evergreen idea isn’t new to the world, just to the world of small board manufacturing, at least to our knowledge.
Product Lines
We now are in the hunt to start our evergreen product journey, 2022 and Beyond. Providing small scale, custom ordered board products and fresh designs that are living products continuing to print and sell at small volumes. This will be for ‘HexUR’ and ‘Battle for the Moon’, along with other projects potentially returning such as ‘Condottieri Conflicts’. ‘Merchants of Freeburg’ will have a broad distribution in 2022.
Merchants of Freeburg
Our main creative endeavor, we are looking not only to sell our final 80 boxes of our initial inventory from first edition, tinker with a possible redesign (operationally referred to as second edition), but also write and expand a fantasy creative universe surrounding explaining strategy and its impact on the world.
HexUr
The light and simple abstract strategy game currently as a ‘bag game’ release, will work towards a DropShip evergreen release by October 2022, and redesigning the components to make that expedient.
Battle for the Moon
This is a product reliant on custom made board game design. A large box Grand Strategy for 4 to more players. Currently in Beta with Customer encouraged to provide everneeded feedback for updated rules and components. Full release tentative for this Summer 2022
Condottieri Conflicts
Our Original Game is coming back this year, several copies have been found in inventory and will be up for sale soon!
Events
What are events that you would like to see us at this year and years to come? Are these meetup groups at your local game store, parties with friends, local conventions, or the major conventions? Prior to covid we had visited several Boston and New England local conventions such as Carnage, OSG, FallCon, ConnectiCon, and others, Groups on MeetUp that have come and gone, as well as Gencon and PaxEast. We are happy to announce that we are looking to start and sponsor Meetups in North Shore (Beverly at the Castle Board Game Cafe), Manchester NH (At Boards and Brews) and are looking to get close to Boston as well. We are also looking to host events at our Hollis, NH location once weather and covid improves; invite only, small table events. More like a friendly game night than anything major.
With all this in mind. We are always looking to provide a space for like-minded people to inform, create, and inspire. Whether discussing Strategy (a frequent conversation of ours); looking at gaming and its impact, on peoples, structures, markets, etc; or being a place for creatives to showcase their work. Sterritt Strategy is still committed as ever to fostering these ideas, and seeing as we are looking at more of the same in the year to come, we would like to make everyone reading this aware that we are looking for content submissions to be shared on this blog. Tell us what you’re working on, what you’d like people to learn about or show us how to improve in our hobby or in our daily lives. Contact us if interested in sharing here and welcome to the community. Sterritt Strategy is a publishing company that assists entrepreneurs, startups, and innovators through media initiatives. We here at Sterritt Strategy are looking to expand our content base to include a wide range of non-gaming life and business strategy content, if you think you have a great article like this one contact James R Sterritt at james@sterrittstrategy.com.
Thanks for taking the time to read this, expect more on the horizon.
SSP