First came the tables. Now … the games.

By Brendan Howard

Few companies produce and sell the board games that people play and the furniture they play it on.

Local company and 2026 KantCon sponsor Allplay does just that in their company and at their booth at the KantCon Tabletop Gaming Convention July 6-19 at the Overland Park Convention Center.

In an interview conducted from the company’s underground headquarters in a retired limestone mine (how cool is that?), Allplay’s Director of Operations and Logistics, Chris Garbett, says their local warehouse inventory has expanded from roughly 26,000 square feet back in 2024 to more than 70,000 square feet. (Note: We wrote in 2024 about Allplay as a sponsor, what they sell, and how the company got started.)

The company continues to sell the custom board-and-tabletop-RPG-gaming tables and playmats as well as Jasper game shelves, but a lot of that underground warehouse space is now full of games they distribute for others—or have published themselves.

“Furniture is still a big portion of our revenue,” Garbett said. “But there’s a huge uptick in board games—our own published games and our distribution and fulfillment for our publisher partners.”

Those publishers now number more than 30, Garbett said: “And we average 20 to 30 [new game] titles a year.”

A few of the notable new and upcoming titles include:

• Mountain Goats: Legacy, a new campaign version of a game in preorder whose first version helped launch Allplay’s game success

• Container, which Allplay reprinted with a crowd-funded Kickstarter campaign that grossed roughly $1 million

• and Things in Rings, a “thinky” game built on Venn Diagrams.

“We’ve done at least five print runs of Things in Rings, and I’ve got an order going out to Walmart for it,” Garbett said. Evergreen titles like the “cozy collecting” game River Valley Glassworks keep going strong as well.

Other new board game titles to watch for at the Allplay booth include French Toast, a party game that can be played in five-minute rounds; and High Society, a bidding game from creator legend Reiner Knizia.

Grab a game, or a conversation about your ideal game table, with Allplay at their booth at KantCon July 16-19.

Brendan Howard is a freelance podcaster, writer, and editor based in Olathe, Kansas. He was recently ordained as a rabbi by the Jewish Spiritual Leaders Institute in New York City. His podcast is brendanhoward.podbean.com.