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Founder's story
Since childhood, Tony Kvale has created many styles of games and puzzles for entertaining family and friends. An enjoyable hobby to him, game design allows the blending of creativity and logistics. Witnessing the development of game dynamics and player reactions are just as stimulating to Tony as the playing of games.
Including organic foods, herbal supplements, alternative healing medicines, and natural body care, Tony's career involved promoting natural product choices.
He realized that he could blend his deep passion for board games with the distinct attraction he had for natural, principled products. With a mission to produce high-quality games appealing to wide audiences, and blended with a strong adherence to environmentally-responsible processes and materials, Tony formed a unique eco-friendlier brand in Kvale Good Natured Games.
Our mission
Our original productions create an atmosphere bubbling with enthusiasm and laughter. Exclusively designed with a passion for modern merry-making and creative play, our novel games are a perfect addition for your next get-together.
Kvale Good Natured Games' products are produced with the highest intentions in sustainability to be as earth-friendly as possible. Please explore our website for details on our company's choices in recycling, reuse, and non-toxic printing -- unconventional for a U.S. board game manufacturer. Head1Liners games are made through US sources in materials (i.e. paper stocks, tokens, pencils, etc.), printers, and assembly labor teams.
We are glad to offer one-of-a-kind games to people who appreciate natural, organic and green business categories, as well as individuals who simply love ingenious playful concepts.
Joyfully shared at any party or occasion, these games make for superb gift options all year round.
Our philosophy
The types of products we sell
Kvale Good Natured Games publishes and distributes authentic earth-friendly board games from around the world. Play themes include nature, animals and planets, and the concepts include award-winning trivia, global adventures and educational facts.
Kvale Good Natured Games are designed for social play at game parties for the young or old, and the company is consistently approached by teachers proclaiming the educational values we also offer today's youth. We are pleased to know we can also make learning a creative and fun experience.
Where the producers live and work
Kvale Good Natured Games is a family-owned business with its home office in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Projects we support
Naming any one takes away from the long list of beloved non-profit organizations, small and large. We tend to favor those protecting the environment as well as programs that ensure basic human rights are met, including education.
How we select what we sell
Materials and production methods are selected for least impact on the environment to create our finished product. While we could choose to affordably take small steps in many eco manufacturing aspects, we instead make the sometimes difficult route that ensures we have taken it to the limit. If we can use 100% recycled materials with little or no sacrifice to the end product, we will find a way to make it happen.
What makes us unique
We offer authentic sustainable production and operations, offering games of high interest to green and mainstream folks alike.
More information about us
"I am grateful that I can choose to pursue my dreams. So many moments of my life -- personal and professional, as a child and an adult -- have prepared me to fulfill the vision of this organization and its products. I believe most any of us have access to our own unique aspects in creativity and can benefit from tools that allow us to reconnect with this rewarding side of ourselves."
// Tony Kvale, eco game founder and inventor at Good Natured Games //
There are traditional enthusiasts who will be first drawn to the popular play concepts of the company's board game creations and brands. I think they will then come to find an appreciation for the impact of responsible environmental choices. The mission of Kvale Good Natured Games includes awakening consumers to production measures in reducing, reusing and recycling (The 3 Rs) that can be adopted by more manufacturers, including those well outside of the game publishing and toy business.
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