About Sea Dog Game Studios and Valkyrie Pewter
Sea Dog Game Studios (SDGS for short or just “Sea Dog Studios”) designs and manufactures/publishes tabletop games, renaissance pewter, as well as an expanding line of gaming terrain and accessories. While we have our roots in hand sculpted designs produced in our shop, we now increasingly use digitally sculpted and 3D printed designs. We also specialize in open world games that allow the gamer the freedom to explore and play the game in several different styles. We are based out of Dublin Ohio, USA.
Founded in 2005 by Brian Carnes also known as SeaDogBrian. Sea Dog Game Studios first released Sailpower: Fun Scale Combat in the Age of Sail, a open world style sailing ship tabletop miniatures game with a dash of ad-hoc roleplay.
A few years later Brian released his sci-fi mecha action game TechCommander: Mechanized Strike Vehicles.
Both games originally released with completely hand sculpted cast urethene models in large scale (15MM for Sailpower, and 28MM for TechCommander. As Brian grew the game he wanted to make the game more accessible to gamers with smaller game spaces thus he pivoted to 3D printing, and Sailpower moved to 6MM scale and TechCommander to 10MM scale.
Sea Dog Game Studios is also Valkyrie Pewter. SeadogBrian’s family has designed and made pewter since the 80’s. Brian has been working and learning the pewter and silver trade since he was 14 years old!
in 2007 Brian and Elizabeth acquired the pewter side of the family business “Lizards Wizards and Ringz.” and a few years later, the “Lion and Lamb” pewter line that was being made by another part of Brian’s extended family. These storied lines are still being made today alongside with SeaDogBrian’s new designs under Sea Dog Studio’s pewter brand, Valkyrie Pewter.
Valkyrie Pewter can be found at our ren fair shops at The Ohio Renaissance Festival and Great Lakes Medieval Faire as well as smaller shows like Ashville Viking Festival, and as part of the Sea Dog Game Studios booth at most conventions the studio attends.
Creative Tech Education, Outreach, Consulting, and Advocacy:
In 2016 Brian started Sea Dog Studio’s STEM / STEAM outreach with a partnership with Codemash, a professional tech conference held at the Kalahari resort near Sandusky Ohio each year in January.
Brian and his volunteer crew runs a full service maker lab on site as Brian teaches grade school age children in the morning and adults in the afternoon how to take their idea and make it real in CAD then print it!
Brian loves to empower students at any level to learn to create models in CAD they can 3D print. He is also passionate about maker issues and advocates for maker and consumer causes such as right to repair and consumer accessible open source printing. Brian believes we all have a creative side in us, and it’s important to teach people to make things in our increasingly consumer society.
Brian is open to working with show and conference organizers about how to offer programming tracks on digital sculpting and 3d printing as his schedule allows!
Brian also is passionate about using 3D printing, Industry 4 and additive manufacturing to produce agile and on demand product lines and consults with small and indie studios on how to either update a legacy hobby games product line or build a new one using 3D printing.
Freelance Digital Sculpting, Custom 3D-Printing:
Brian loves to create cool designs, and freelances to the hobby games and board game industry, as well as to hobbyists. If want to see a special idea brought to life, or you just have a special thing you need 3D printed feel free to reach out!
Brian Carnes
Brian is a long time fan of all things geeky, historical, or high technology. As a child his two main passions were drawing old sailing ships, and drawing cutaway rockets and airplanes. With a passion for technology, Brian had a day job as an IT professional for over 20 years, these days he is a full time professional creative. In his somewhat limited free time Brian likes to travel with his wife, and play video games. Brian also loves photography and videography. He is a hybrid shooter currently shooting on a Canon EOS-R5 Mk2.
Elizabeth Carnes
Elizabeth is the studio CFO and Brian wife -or perhaps more accurately Brian is Elisabeth's husband :)
Elizabeth is a life long trekker, sci-fi geek, nostalgia TV fan, and bookworm. In addition to keeping the lights on and handling day to day chats with all of you out there on the internet, Elizabeth loves to travel! She is a travel professional with specialization in cruising, all inclusive resorts, and Disney vacations under her family travel agency We Take Great Trips. If you every want to plan a trip She’d love to talk to you about it!
Ed “Captain Ed” Wedig
Ed is our Graphics Designer, Volunteer and Event Coordinator, Senior Sailpower GM, Webmaster, Kickstarter coordinator, and all around awesome gamer geek extraordinaire. After seeing Ed’s passion for other games, we asked him to give Sailpower a try and we have enjoyed his hard work and professionalism ever since! Check out Ed’s awesome Portfolio. Ed also launched a board game under the Sea Dog banner, the always fun family game “Twenty Yard Shamble.”