CMON Limited

CMON Limited, formerly known as CoolMiniOrNot is a publicly listed miniatures and board game publisher, trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. It also operates a miniatures related site coolminiornot.com ^[2] that features user submitted images of their painted models for voting.

CMON Limited

Company type	Public Corporation
Traded as	SEHK: 1792
ISIN	KYG223911093
Industry	Miniature wargaming and Board game publisher
Founded	2001; 24 years ago (2001)
Headquarters	Singapore
Key people	Chern Ann Ng (CEO), David Doust (co-founder)
Revenue	US$17 million [1] (2015)
Subsidiaries	CMON Inc
Website	www.cmon.com

History

CoolMiniOrNot was founded as a community site for posting images of painted miniatures, inspired by Hot or Not style dating sites.^[3][4]

It later began publishing board games and miniature games, notable titles include Super Dungeon Explore^[5] in 2011 and Zombicide^[6] in 2012.

Some of its games are critically acclaimed, with three games (Xenoshyft, Rum and Bones and Blood Rage) making The Dice Tower's top 10 games of 2015.^[7]

On December 2, 2016, CMON Limited began publicly trading on the GEM board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.^[8]

Crowdsourcing activity

CoolMiniOrNot had used Kickstarter with relative success occupying several places in the Most Funded Tabletop Games category.^[9] The total amount raised through Kickstarter was $108,628,027. In 2024, the company moved its crowdsourcing platform exclusively to the Gamefound platform.^[10]

Kickstarter Campaigns

Total USD	Project name	% funded	Backers	Closing date
781,597	Zombicide	3,907	5,258	2012-05-06
951,254	Sedition Wars: Battle for Alabaster [11]	4,756	4,278	2012-06-30
909,537	Relic Knights [12]	4,547	3,459	2012-09-09
116,938	Guilds of Cadwallon[13]	2,338	2,955	2012-12-22
582,316	Rivet Wars[14]	2,329	2,464	2013-02-04
2,225,018	Zombicide: Season 2	9,020	8,844	2013-03-31
356,752	Kaosball	1,896	1,427	2013-06-30
718,152	Wrath of Kings	1,435	3,756	2013-09-15
774,222	Arcadia Quest	1,548	4,885	2014-03-16
66,703	Dogs of War	266	1,139	2014-05-10
242,832	XenoShyft Onslaught	971	3,367	2014-06-19
2,849,064	Zombicide: Season 3	2,849	12,011	2014-07-28
101,351	The World of Smog	405	1,770	2014-11-09
739,513	Rum & Bones	1,479	4,417	2014-12-29
905,682	Blood Rage	1811	9,825	2015-03-18
567,350	B-Sieged: Sons of the Abyss	1,134	4,744	2015-05-25
4,078,954	Zombicide: Black Plague	3,263	20,913	2015-07-06
1,464,489	The Others: 7 sins	1,464	10,136	2015-10-06
1,710,714	Arcadia Quest:Inferno	1,710	9,991	2015-12-08
383,407	XenoShyft: Dreadmire	1,278	4,398	2016-01-31
1,010,959	Masmorra: Dungeons of Arcadia	1,684	10,862	2016-03-08
917,864	Rum & Bones: Second Tide	1,147	5,794	2016-04-28
3,560,643	Massive Darkness	1,780	22,361	2016-07-07
1,174,130	The World of SMOG: Rise of Moloch	1,677	7,892	2017-02-03
4,228,060	Rising Sun	1,409	31,262	2017-04-04
5,004,614	Zombicide: Green Horde	1,668	27,236	2017-06-27
1,690,466	A Song of Ice and Fire: Tabletop Miniatures Game	563	9,040	2017-08-15
1,469,489	HATE	734	10,227	2018-02-07
3,352,208	Zombicide: Invader	1,340	18,486	2018-05-03
316,018	Arcadia Quest: Riders	1,053	5,272	2018-05-25
2,412,286	Cthulhu: Death May Die	1,206	15,831	2018-07-24
935,956	Starcadia Quest	468	6,503	2018-09-11
634,782	Project: Elite	635	5,367	2018-11-12
4,013,731	Bloodborne: The Board Game	2,007	23,986	2019-05-14
1,492,714	Trudvang: Legends	746	11,808	2019-07-15
3,410,084	Zombicide: 2nd Edition	1,363	21,735	2019-11-06
430,154	Night of the Living Dead: A Zombicide Game	2,150	6,318	2019-12-18
2,866,358	Marvel United	1,910	21,291	2020-03-05
3,320,196	Ankh	1,107	23,386	2020-05-05
3,813,274	Massive Darkness 2: Hellscape	1,270	21,763	2020-08-26
3,310,872	Zombicide: Undead or Alive	2,207	21,160	2021-03-11
5,988,089	Marvel United: X-Men	1,995	25,404	2021-05-05
2,046,517	Masters of the Universe: The Board Game - Clash For Eternia	1,023	8,166	2021-10-01
9,032,583	Marvel Zombies - A Zombicide Game	1,807	28,974	2022-02-03
886,783	Cyberpunk 2077: Gangs of Night City - The Board Game	887	6,345	2022-07-06
1,334,501	Dune: War for Arrakis	1,335	11,449	2022-09-22
3,426,673	Cthulhu: Death May Die - Fear of the Unknown	1,713	21,337	2022-11-09
4,787,626	Marvel United: Multiverse	2,394	20,886	2023-02-08
3,839,614	Zombicide: White Death	1,920	19,303	2023-04-26
669,976	Mordred	670	5,687	2023-07-27
2,564,789	DCeased	855	12,787	2023-12-01

Gamefound Campaigns

Total USD	Project name	% funded	Backers	Closing date
1,886,510	A Song of Ice & Fire: Tactics - A Tabletop Miniatures Skirmish Game	629	6,406	2024-02-22
832,945	God of War: The Board Game	555	4,388	2024-05-02
339,743	Degenesis: Clan Wars	340	1,232	2024-06-07
4,478,990	DC Super Heroes United	2,239	14,040	2024-07-31
3,756,395	Massive Darkness: Dungeons of Shadowreach	1,142	10,598	2025-02-22
3,912,410	Cthulhu: Death May Die - Forbidden Reaches	1,304	13,152	2025-04-14

Other activity

Tabletopgamingnews.com

CoolMiniOrNot acquired Tabletopgamingnews.com in 2011^[15] and currently operates it.

Ravage USA

CoolMiniOrNot publishes the English language edition of Ravage magazine.

Crystal Brush painting competition

The company also organizes an annual miniature figure painting competition with a cash purse of $10,000, $2,000 and $1,000 for the overall winners. The competition has guest judges which account for 50% of the total score, with a 12-hour Internet vote making up the remaining 50%.