The Story of Through The Ages - Making Board Games Ep.1

Our documentary series premiere, "Making Board Games", is here!
The first episode's story is none other than that of Through The Ages - the first deep dive of CGE into publishing board games.

Through untold stories and a behind-the-scenes view of the board game scene in the last 2 decades, from developers, artists and designers who bring life to the games to board game reviewers and community members who have played and loved these games, this documentary series is a celebration of the board game hobby!

00:00 intro
02:16 Influence of Settlers of Catan
03:15 the board game scene in the 90s
06:00 Vlaada
09:35 Vlaada's older games
13:06 First versions of Through The Ages
15:00 founding CBG
15:37 Essen Spiel 2006
25:51 the start of CGE
30:35 newer version of Through The Ages
31:38 the first CGE office
32:41 looking back

Don't miss our second Episode, premiering on the 8th of August with the stories of the beloved Galaxy Trucker and Space Alert!

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[glazba]

Board games bring together so many people around the globe. Thank you so much for making a docu series around CGE’s story ❤🎲

[vivianrobert]

Profound respect for this company and these people after watching the whole series...

[HealingAuraKiperman]

This game is a masterpiece. I'm looking forward to the next episodes!

[dishwasherlove]

Love how Vlaada said that he wouldn't like to play Mage Knight lol

[mitroczech]

Je zážitek, sledovat jak vzniklo CGE a vidět lidi, s čím do toho šli a kam je to celé zavedlo. ❤ Respekt a obdiv. 😎

[bjorn]

Fantastic story, well told. Nice to see the Rare eyes on the lead eng’s copy.

TtA remains my favourite board game and still play the digital implementation almost every single day. And I still suck at it.

[hakimomatata]

This is a perfect example of some creative friends coming together putting their enthusiasm into a project that continues to delight me. Thank you so much for putting this documentary online, I highly appreciate having the opportunity to watch and listen and notice the nerdy smirky glow in your eyes when you talk about how it all started out. Lovely. Just lovely!

[shortydancer]

Premieres in 20 hours? But i want it now!

[kasaklubdemola]

Well done!
Looking forward to see Mage Knight episode. :D

[radekbx]

Wow! Just wow Eleni! You did a great job! And others from CGE too of course. Very nice video 👏 Really looking forward to the next episode.

[tendson]

Amazing history!! Congratulation CGE, Vlaada and the all the partners!! Thanks for yours wonderful board games!! I`m Brazilian board gamer colector and entusiast difusor. Since 80 decade I love board games and play with my friends and family!!

[MariachiMeeple]

a labor of love! all czech games I bought feels different, now i undestand a little more why i got that feeling!

[Smejkovo]

Wow, even if I have copy of first edition of Through the Ages and I am playing games in Czech Rep. more then 20 years, I never heard history of CBG. What i shame on me. Thanks for this nostalgic memories and mood.

[zoltronr]

Excellent story. Excellent production. Thank you.

[phantomwhale]

Really enjoyed seeing the faces and the history around this one! Great production too :)

Look forward to the Tash-Kalar episode, so everyone can marvel at the story of that one, and then hopefully build up enough enthusiasm to another expansion deck or four! I know Vlaada's got some amazing ideas tucked away there, bring them to us!!

[dgudkov]

So nice to know a little bit more now about history of one of the favourite board game publisher. Would love to see next episodes!

[anorthodocs]

Ι watched this with smiling throughout! What a story and absolutely lovely narration❤ thank you Vlaada and all the amazing people at CGE for the countless hours of fun you provide with your work!

[leonardopandolfo]

I love the story on how such a great publisher started!!! My respect and admiration to all the people involved in this project until now! Cheers from a board game enthusiast from Costa Rica that is now actually living in Prague!!

[JiriRydl]

Dobře si pamatuju Vlaaduv prototyp Proroctví v klubu deskových her v Brně, pěkná hra, na mě trochu dlouhá, ale fajn. Nevěděl jsem, že vlastně jdu kolem historie :) Každopádně Proroctví hrajeme do dneška, samozřejmě proložené Krycími jmény :)

[juanpablozabala]

So happy to watch this. All this history for our great hobby. Thanks for taking the effort in making this happen.