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Cú Roí Games

Cú Roí Games is game design studio and publisher, located in Cork, Ireland. Cú Roí Games designs and publishes innovative and engaging tabletop and digital games. 

The studio, founded by J.D. Riordan, works with local and international Designers, Artists and Supporters to develop rich gaming experiences. Game Design projects are diverse but adhere to core principles focused on shared, entertaining, immersive experiences.

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Core Values Include:

  • Positive experience for customers or consumers of our products;
  • Product innovation and/or streamlining mechanisms focused on an enhanced gaming experience;
  • High quality, structured, clear graphical design supportive of fluid game play;
  • Engaging, tactile game components that enrich game play experiences;
  • Extensive development and playtesting across the projected age groups, experience levels and player-counts for each title; 
  • Support of each title’s community with life-extending content and forums for community discussion and development;
  • Clear, concise and well structure supporting documentation catering for first and subsequent plays. 

We value story development through gameplay. We view this as a mixture of player decision, actions and reaction to unpredicted events. Randomness is embraced to provide variety; it is even central to our shorter, social titles. Our Longer titles however, focus on strategy, player interaction and player decisions in determination of game outcomes. 

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Cú Roí

Cú Roí was a King of Munster (the southern province of Ireland) in Irish Mythology. 

Cú, a native Irish word, translates to hound and similarly Roí to plain or field. Together Cú Roí refers to ‘Hound of the Battlefield’. 

Cú Roí was known for super-human strength and mastery of disguise. Cú Roí was a contemporary of Cú Chulainn, the legendary warrior from Ulster (Irelands’ northern province) in the traditional Irish mythos. Cú Roí and Cú Chulainn have a fraught relationship, sometimes allies, sometimes enemy’s in great quests across Ireland and the Irish Sea. 

Cú Roí is mentioned in Welsh literature recounting tales of King Arthur and his Irish allies. Genealogically, Cú Roí belongs to the Clanna Dedad, a leading dynasty of the Érainn, and was cousin to the famous monarch Conaire Mór, a High King of Ireland.
 

More information on Cú Roí and related characters may be found here 

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The Cú Roí Games Logo brings a selection of elements of the Cú Roí myth together. 

The figure presents an outline of the head an Irish wolfhound, a large Irish dog breed often depicted in tales from the same period as the legendary warrior king. Cú Roí as mentioned above can be translated as ‘Hound of the Battlefield’ and he was a king of Munster the Southernmost Province in Ireland. 

The three crowns are the emblem of Munster, they are noticeable in a quadrant of the Irish Coat of Arms and with provincial Teams such as The Munster Rugby Team – the greatest rugby team of all!