Board Game Binge

Michael is the co-owner of the largest Greek Kickstarter retail spot. He studied in Game Design and Software Engineering. 20 months ago, he opened MOB Vanguard ( Meeple on Board Vanguard ), a board game licensing agency, with considerable success. He loves anime (Pokemon included) and has been a Dungeons & Dragons and Legend of the Five Rings player since the 90s. FOLLOW US ON:  Facebook:...

Before entering the toy industry, David had the hardest job in the world. He was selling Exxon oil to Alaskan fishermen after the Valdez spill and he wasn't very successful. He escaped that and broke into the toy industry with University Games eventually rising to become their Vice President of Sales. After 12 years, he left University Games to co-found Goliath's North American office in 2008 with...

Trey Baughn is a relatively new board game enthusiast on a mission to protect hobby games from game night spills and accidents.  In early 2022 he’ll be launching BGSHIELD, which is a universal tabletop game upgrade that will “party proof” the primary components of cardboard board games. BGSHIELD creates an invisible, moisture repellent “shield” on your game surface that prevents accidents fro...

Daryl Andrews is a professional freelance game designer, who began full-time in 2015. With 30+. board games already released through 20+ different publishers, Daryl’s output has been unrivalled over the last few years. Beyond design, Mr. Andrews has also worked as a consultant for a variety of gaming companies with a special focus on popular licenses, including Back To The Future, Teenage Mutant N...

Josh Starr runs Grand Trunk Games which is a publishing company dedicated to making 18xx games available, affordable, and approachable. His current game on Kickstarter, Shikoku 1889, is a reprint of a classic 18xx game famous for being great for teaching. It is currently on track to be the most successful 18xx Kickstarter for both pledges, units sold, and amount raised. You can find it on Kickstar...

Kenneth Oum is the owner/artist/designer/developer of Previously Pluto. He has a masters degree in Digital Media from Drexel University, and has studied  and worked in many different disciplines from film, VFX, animation, design/illustration, web/game development, and VR. Using these skills, he gathered a rag tag group of other creatives in the acting/writing space to form Previously Pluto. T...

Hunter Angell, or Zaba, is has been a producer of custom cards for over 5 years and worked with 50+ artists around the world in the process. Nostalgix is the continuation of his card endeavors. Nostalgix features a 185 card base set, exciting new rarity options and the ability for you personally to be a hero in the game. Nostalgix is currently on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/n...

Postmark Games is a game design studio founded by Rory Muldoon and Matthew Dunstan in 2021. It aims to publish new independent print at home games with minimal cost and environmental impact. Matthew Dunstan is a game designer based in Prague, Czech Republic, with over 30 games released over the past 10 years. Some of his best-known designs include Elysium (co-designed with Brett J. Gilbert), nomin...

Todd Patriquin (aka Imagine All The Meeple) is a professional board game photographer and content creator out of Vancouver, Washington. His goal is to push board games further into the art world. He is the co-host of Victory Point Labs, a youtube program featuring various board game photographers squaring off with their own photo of the same game.  To learn more about Todd, visit his website:...

Already a fan of science fiction and fantasy, Scott was introduced to the larger world of gaming when he first played Dungeons and Dragons at age 9. In high school he discovered Warhammer 40,000, and eventually found employment with Games Workshop in Canada where he met Bill and began a partnership in creativity. There he combined his interests in games and words by editing promotional materials a...

OMG! Nexus started out as Lasting First Impressions, back in 2010 when Sean started reviewing video games. After launching The OMG! Hour podcast in 2012, the change to OMG! Nexus came with it, and Tycko joined as a permanent co-host in 2016. It wasn't until 2019 that boardgames were added to their  mix of coverage, resulting in the creation of the popular Kicking Tables and Flipping Tables sh...

Paul Salomon is a math teacher, hobbyist, and family man from St. Louis. He is the designer of several tabletop games including Honey Buzz (Elf Creek Games) as well as Periodic and Genotype (both from Genius Games). His newest expansion of Honey Buzz: Fall Flavors is currently on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/brentdickman/honey-buzz-fall-flavors FOLLOW US ON:  Facebook: ht...

Varnavas Timotheou is the founder of Hegemonic Project Games and the co-designer of Hegemony: Lead Your Class to Victory. After completing his MA in International Political Economy at King´s College London,  he wanted to inspire people to learn more about politics. This vision led to the creation of Hegemony, an asymmetric board game in which 2-4 players simulate the economy and politics of a...

Joe Slack, James & Adam Staley chat about this year's Protospiel North event that occurred this past weekend (Nov 12-14). What were some of the highlights and what do they look forward to seeing next. Check out some of the designers' work from this year's Protospiel North: https://tabletop.events/conventions/protospiel-north-2020/prototypes Check out the upcoming Board Game Design Virtual Summ...

McKay Anderson is a Board Game Designer from Provo Utah. He graduated with a degree in Product Design and was quickly hired by Hasbro to design games for the entertainment and licensing team. While there he worked closely with major companies like Lucas Films, Disney, Netflix, and Nickelodeon. After 3 years at Hasbro he decided it was time to move back to be closer to family. McKay volunteers his...

Stone Sword Games is a Nottingham UK-based Games Publisher founded in 2019 by James Faulkner and Paul Allen.  After adapting the PS1 Cult Classic Game Hogs Of War into a light, accessible Card Game, James, and Paul have gone on to publish Full Moon Jacket, Hogs Of War The Miniatures Game and Senjutsu: Battle For Japan.  Stone Sword Games aims to craft fun and thematic games that are deli...

Nate Chatellier is the lead game designer and co-founder of Dice Throne Inc. He is also the sole-founder of Nerd Ninjas (a video game company). Although he has been in the gaming business as a software engineer and video game designer for over 20 years, he is still fairly new to the beautiful world of board games. His newest title, Marvel Dice Throne, is currently on Kickstarter: https://www.kicks...

Nicolas is a professional game designer from Canada, and the author and graphic designer behind Megapulse. Nicolas began working on Megapulse in 2019, while trying to combine his passion for board games with his love of titles like Wipeout, F-Zero and Mario kart, which he enjoyed so much as a kid. I wanted to create a racing game for those who hate racing games, one that will shine light on this u...

After inventing, self-producing and licensing her own toys and games, Mary turned her passion for invention to help other inventors through DiscoverToysandGames.com, the world's largest co-op of toy and game inventors.  In 2003, Mary launched the Chicago Toy & Game Fair (CHITAG) with a plan to create the largest American celebration of play. In 2006 she introduced the Toy & Game Inven...

James Freeman has been playing games of some sort most of his life but started officially working in the board game industry in 2017 with Wise Wizard Games. Currently he works with Team Doomlings and Tin Robot Games as part of their social media teams. His first game, published by Tin Robot Games, is Hamsters vs. Hippos, which is currently on Kickstarter. Check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/...

Arwen Kathke has been playing hobby board games since 2011 and started the Cardboard Time podcast in November of 2020.  Arwen feels that gaming should bring people together at the table and seeks to provide a welcoming environment for newcomers and veteran gamers alike to come together and learn about the board gaming hobby through discussing games new and old.  She also feels the storie...

Lucas Sosnick is a 17-year-old from New York City who founded Greene Street Games LLC to self-publish his titles, beginning with Crisis on Cardea. He has a keen interest in science and sees gaming as a tool to get to know people, bond with families, and bring people together outside of the digital platforms. For his first campaign, he will be donating a copy of his game to a school for each one so...

Brendan lives in British Columbia Canada, is married to an incredible woman, has a german shepherd named Kona, and loves games. He is privileged to be able to work full-time as a game designer for OOMM games and has released several titles, notably Stars of Akarios and Mythwind.  Check out Mythwind on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mccaskellgames/mythwind FOLLOW US ON:&nbsp...

Eric and Shannon Geller are the husband and wife team behind the creation of Quests & Cannons through their company Short Hop Games. Eric is a lifelong gamer and Shannon is new to the hobby, so they found it difficult to find games they could both enjoy together, especially strategy games. Many games were either inaccessible for Shannon, or lacked depth for Eric, so they set out to create a ga...

Jonny Cantin is a freelance board game designer and developer with a background in visual arts, music, and education.  In his work as a designer, he focuses on creating euro-style games that feature novel systems, streamlined mechanics, and inextricable themes.  He has had his hand in creating many titles including Coloma, A Fistful of Meeples, Sierra West, Lions of Lydia, Merchants Cove...