Leder had been involved in board game design in his free time since 2001, obtained degrees in English and psychology at Hamline University, and quit his database programming job at Macalester College in 2016 to work on the company.

Distinct from many board game companies, the business does not use a contract worker model, instead building a team of more permanent and higher paid employees.

[7] Patrick Leder's Path, an open world board game that takes place in the same universe as Root, was in development in December 2022.

"[10] A pirate themed board game designed by Greg Loring-Albright, Ahoy involves four separate factions, two of whom fight over control of the expanding ocean map, while the others gain points by picking up and delivering cargo.

[14] Arcs is a space opera themed quasi-4X campaign game designed by Wehrle in which players compete to rebuild a dying empire.

[15][16] During design, a focus was placed upon quick games that each procedurally generate the next, creating an arc of three acts in which player powers begin symmetrically but diverge over time.