The Game Makers
Sara Barnaby
CEO, Owner - Operator, Game Designer, Marketing Director
ABOUT ME: I have had an accounting business for over 25 years. My husband and I had invented games for fun. We were the people that brought an original game to the New Years Eve party every year. Some of those games, remain in the development stage. With my husband’s retirement in 2010, we launched Anrias Games as a DBA of Anrias Inc. I am the President, aka the person that makes sure that tasks are done, that no one else is able or willing to do. I love developing new games. I started to create 7bloxup as I was sorting Pampered Chef items after a “party”. I was thinking “How did kids learn to sort?”
FAVORITE NON-ANRIAS GAME: My favorite non-Anrias game is Flux. I like how it is full of surprises, but is easy to learn and based on matching pictures.
Dave Burgwald (Retired sorta)
Game Design and Development, Executive Director.
ABOUT ME: Before it became part of Anrias, Inc, and before I retired, I developed a game inspired by the Renaissance Festival. It was a trail game where you had to get your family of 4 through the festival. I named it ye Olde Tyme Faire.
But the actual game production started after I retired, and the games became part of Anrias. Our first game came out as the Wyne Tasting Game. You drank and you ate while trying to be the first to get 5 tokens in a row. The directions/rules of the game were developed by rewording a wine tasting list from wineries’ tasting rooms. After getting these, I had to develop a game board display of wine squares and various food squares to play on.
I was involved with many of our other games grooming ideas for games from others in and formatting and initially doing the original art designs that was tuned over to our artists and with their artwork 7bloxup, WITCH DOOR? and Nogg On The Door was developed.
FAVORITE NON-ANRIAS GAME: Games like Scrabble, Upwords, etc Games where you develop words on gameboards.
Mathew Burgwald
Game Designer, Art Director, Manufacturing.
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FAVORITE NON-ANRIAS GAME
Lacey JOhnson
Game Designer, Game Production.
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About
Sara and Dave have been inventing and producing games for over 20 years!
Creating Star-Map Puzzle Games, a car game with spare hot wheels, and even a Renaissance Fair game with four “family member” pawns to keep track of in your travels. Making our own games to play alongside the classics on our shelf was always a fun time for our family.
It wasn’t until 2010 that we made it official with our first game for sale: the Wyne Tasting Game. The ability to bring friends together to drink, try new wines and have fun inspired us as a company to go public and bring that same feeling to others.
After the invention of WTG tons of responses started to come for a beer game, and thus - Brew Buddies was born. In 2015 came the first commercial game for children and their families: 7bloxup!
In the following years we have released Witch Door? and Nogg on the Door, created by Lacey. A “Color your own Game Board” version on Ye Olde Faire was also made available (including crayons!). Simply Wyne, Wyne Tasting Game Romance, and Wyne Tasting Trivia were also some fun additions to our Adult Party Game Family.