EX1ST GAMES

About

EX FIRST (trading as EX1ST GAMES) is a one-person publishing and design company in Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan, founded and operated by Charles Ward in 2015. Ward designs and produces small-box board and card games plus the CoinSides line of luxury metal dice spinners, releasing about one or two small games a year as free print-and-play downloads under a 'Forever Free' policy and sometimes as professionally printed retail copies. Notable titles include the pirate card game Haze Islands, the Sanada-clan history game Rokumon, Sky Towers, ENI (a rules-lite TTRPG zine) and the CoinSides dice accessor…