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Compose Dream Games

Canadian-owned · mostly made in Canada · based in Ontario

Ottawa marketplace and publisher of independent tabletop roleplaying games, run by designer Joshua Kitz, who hand-assembles his own titles and distributes consigned print runs from dozens of mostly Canadian and British indie publishers, sold direct and through itch.io.

Ottawa, ON CA · composedreamgames.com

82.9

Compose Dream Games is an Ottawa marketplace and publisher of independent tabletop roleplaying games, run by designer Joshua Kitz. Kitz hand-assembles his own titles, such as Simple Superheroes and God-Killer Prophecy, while the marketplace carries print books from dozens of mostly Canadian and British indie publishers on consignment, sold direct and through itch.io.

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Ownership

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The vendor's own itch.io profile and its About Us page on composedreamgames.com name Joshua Kitz, an Ottawa based designer, as the person who runs Compose Dream Games, with no mention of investors, a parent company, or a separate corporate entity. Corporations Canada's federal registry and the Ontario Business Registry both require an interactive form search that could not be completed here, so this rests on the vendor's own statements rather than a registry filing.

Manufacturing

65.5 inferred

CA 45% · EU 40% · other 10% · US 5%

Compose Dream Games' own titles, including God-Killer Prophecy and Fabrication, are hand-assembled by Joshua Kitz with hand-written covers rather than run through a large printer, which points to Ottawa. The rest of the catalogue is print stock that other publishers ship to Compose Dream Games on consignment; the vendor and Made in CA both describe the marketplace as majority Canadian designers with a notable UK contingent and more from elsewhere, but neither states where each publisher's books are actually printed, so this mix is an estimate built on publisher origin rather than confirmed print locations.

  • God-Killer Prophecy vendor_statement “Get it in PDF or as a hand-assembled copy with hand-written covers!”
  • Publisher Info vendor_statement “Print material is placed on consignment, and you are responsible for getting your books to us.”
  • Retailers vendor_statement “We carry a wide array of publishers from the United Kingdom as well.”
  • Tabletop Roleplaying Games: Compose Dream Games 🍁 | Made in CA directory “While the products we carry are not exclusively Canadian, the majority are. (We have a notable contingent of publishers from Great Britain.)”

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

Compose Dream Games lists an Ottawa (613) phone number, and the vendor's own itch.io profile places designer Joshua Kitz in Ottawa, Ontario. The UK marketplace shares the same branding, logo, and OpenCart storefront as the Canadian site with no separate UK address, staff, or entity found, so the business reads as a single Ottawa-based person serving both markets. Made in CA's directory entry corroborates Ottawa as the location of the business.

Inputs

55.0 inferred

CA 40% · EU 35% · other 10% · US 15%

No page describes where the paper or other physical materials for Compose Dream Games' own hand-assembled titles come from, and the same gap applies to the print stock other publishers consign to it. The storefront itself runs on self-hosted OpenCart rather than a single foreign platform such as Shopify or Amazon, so there is no dominant platform dependency; the country split otherwise follows the same Canada-and-UK-leaning publisher mix used for manufacturing, as an estimate.

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