Elephant Laboratories

About

Elephant Laboratories is a tiny Portland, Oregon studio founded in 2008 by Ryan Spangler, self-described as an incubator for art, invention and wonder whose interests span music, cellular biology, board games, electronics and books. It is effectively a two-person board game operation (Ryan and Sean Spangler with Jodi Sweetman on Sol), self-designing and self-publishing its titles rather than taking outside designs. Its catalogue is two games: Sol: Last Days of a Star, a strategic race against a dying Sun for 1-5 players with a mutually beneficial engine-building core, currently in retail via i…