Chris Birch Email & Phone Number

I have worked in the entertainment industry since 1990, starting off as an booking agent for some of the top dance music acts in the world inc The Prodigy, Jamiroquai, The Lords of Acid, before going on to handle the marketing and sponsorship for the Tribal Gathering music festivals (50,000 people in a field with 200 DJ's and acts). Left to form a youth marketing and PR agency called Cruise Control (the first online PR agency in the UK) working mainly in video games before realising there was a gap for a lifestyle fashion brand within video games and Joystick Junkies was launched in Feb 2000.Built Joystick Junkies brand up with business partners from t-shirt label to fashion brand and then oversaw the move into running fan merchandise webstores for major video games like Battlefield 3, for EA Games.In 2012 founded MODIPHIUS Entertainment, a tabletop games publisher developing and marketing entertainment properties in the tabletop gaming market. Our first release via Kickstarter was a terrifying take on WW2 inspired by H P Lovecraft, Achtung! Cthulhu (now a video game, novel and boardgame). In 2013, we signed the rights to re-boot the major 1990's sci-fi property Mutant Chronicles, CONAN, from Conan Properties LLC. 2015 saw the launch of the Thunderbirds boardgame with ITV Ventures with designer Matt Leacock. We have since licensed Kung Fu Panda, John Carter of Mars, STAR TREK, Fallout, Elder Scrolls, DUNE, Discworld and Mass Effect for roleplaying, boardgames and miniatures games. In 2023, we launched two new in-house IPs, Dreams and Machines, a hope punk post-apocalyptic world and Cohors Cthulhu, a terrifying action adventure set in ancient Rome. We're now a major producer (1 million parts per year) of miniatures games with Fallout and Elder Scrolls as our leading lines alongside Cohors Cthulhu and Mass Effect.

Listed skills include Creative Direction, Public Relations, Art Direction, Video Games, and 27 others.

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  Publisher

  Modiphius

  Apr 2012 - Present - London

  MODIPHIUS is a global publisher of roleplaying, boardgames and miniatures games headquartered in London, UK. We produce authentic, high quality licensed games which are true to the original subject matter as well as develop our own IP's including Achtung! Cthulhu, and others launching in 2020. Our current projects include:- Kung Fu Panda (2-4, ages 10+) Co-operative boardgame based on the movies- Star Trek Adventures roleplaying game and miniatures line- John Carter of Mars… Show more MODIPHIUS is a global publisher of roleplaying, boardgames and miniatures games headquartered in London, UK. We produce authentic, high quality licensed games which are true to the original subject matter as well as develop our own IP's including Achtung! Cthulhu, and others launching in 2020. Our current projects include:- Kung Fu Panda (2-4, ages 10+) Co-operative boardgame based on the movies- Star Trek Adventures roleplaying game and miniatures line- John Carter of Mars roleplaying game and boardgame based on the classic books by Edgar Rice Burroughs- Thunderbirds Co-operative Boardgame (1-4 players, ages 10+) based on the classic series.- Achtung! Cthulhu, the terrifying secret history of WW2- Mutant Chronicles 3rd Edition, a re-boot of the massive 90's sci-fi property - CONAN Roleplaying Game - INFINITY Roleplaying Game, the official RPG of Corvus Belli's best selling tabletop game- Fallout: Wasteland Warfare miniatures game- Elder Scrolls: Call to Arms miniatures game Show less