Board Game Binge

Travis and his wife Holly are the founders of Facade Games. They started in 2015 and have published 6 games. Hollywood 1947 is their latest games and takes people into the golden age of cinema during the red scare. Travis and Holly live near Dayton, Ohio with their 3 kids and love making games together! For a direct link to Hollywood 1947 on Kickstarter, click here: https://www.kickstarter.com/pro...

Episode 220: Stefan Godot, Godot Games Stefan Godot is a nerdy father and the guru of social deduction. He is the the designer of Human Punishment - Social Deduction 2.0, the expansion Project: Hell Gate, Human Punishment: The Beginning, and most recently, Among Cultists. For a direct link to the Among Cultists campaign, which is already crushing it on Kickstarter, click here: https://www.kickstar...

In this episode Podcast creator and host, James Staley, discusses plans for the upcoming year and provides some sneak peaks of his upcoming Board Game developments. You can check out Cities of Venus at: citiesofvenus.com Or sign-up to follow the campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tinrobot/cities-of-venus FOLLOW US ON:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/boardgamebinge...

Conor McGoey is back!  is a lover of family, friends, fun and games. While running Inside Up Games he spends his free time playing with his kids and creating new designs. Inside Up Games is the publisher of Earth, Block and Key, City Builder, Gorus Maximus, the Summit Series and many more. Their games are now being played in over 60 countries around the world, and have been translated into Fr...

Hafiz Printer is an educator and hobbyist game designer. He began designing games as a way to engage his students in history and continued down the rabbit hole from there. He formed Printer Ink Games with his twin brother and are aiming to launch their second Kickstarter in 2023. You can check out his website at: https://www.baghdad1055thegame.com/ FOLLOW US ON:  Facebook: https://www.faceboo...

Sean “Fletch” Fletcher is a Senior Game Designer for The Op. He is the designer of Disney Sorcerer’s Arena: Epic Alliances and its expansions, and was a co-designer of Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle and the Shadowmoor expansion for Magic: The Gathering . Outside of his love of board games, he’s an a avid Disney fan whose favorite parks ride is Expedition Everest. Fletch resides in southern Californ...

Jan Roth is a passionate gamer since his youth, playing board games as well as pen&paper RPGs and video games. When he is not playing with his friends he works as a VFX artist and teaches Shaolin Kung Fu.  Baroque Games was founded by 3 Friends, Konny, Pit and Jan in 2020 to develop and sell their own games. Axon Protocol is their first game on kickstarter. Check out the Axon Protocol Kic...

In 2016, Noel travelled by train from Europe to South-East Asia. He didn't bring back a souvenir but a project of love, DOUC IN DANGER, a game about a beautiful monkey species that is on the edge of extinction and needs our help. Douc in Danger is currently on Kickstarter. Check it out:  Check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doucindanger/douc-in-danger-the-card-game FOLLOW US ON:...

Milan is a designer and the the founder of Archona Games, which has launched 10 Kickstarer campaigns since 2015. His newest project, Pest, is a strategic euro style board game where players fight against the cataclysmic plague and rebuild the once fallen empire.  Check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/archonagames/pest FOLLOW US ON:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/...

Sean was one of the original staff of Snakes & Lattes board game cafe in Toronto. He went on to found The Daily Worker Placement blog. Over the years, Sean has worked for many different companies in the industry, including Asmodee, CMON, Synapses Games, Space Cowboys, and Grand Gamers Guild. He is the Marketing Director for Kids Table Board Gaming and Burnt Island Games. He is curren...

Alex Young and Morgan Parker are both co-creators of Pretty Princess Pomelo: A Magical Girl Combat Card Game. They are both Graphic Designers but also have additional complementary skill sets. Morgan creates character and layout designs for the game along with authoring the Pretty Princess Pomelo Manga series. He also has featured artwork in Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed the video game. Alex...

Tristam Rossin is an artist, illustrator, board game designer and the founder and owner of Bright Light Games. He has two titles signed with Skybound board games and has worked on over a dozen successfully funded kickstarter projects and published games. Tristan's next self-published title is a Wayfarer's Tale. Check out a Wayfarer's Tale on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wayfar...

Henry Audubon is a full-time game designer with published titles to his credit such as PARKS, Trails, Space Park, and Kingswood. Chris Kingsnorth is the Developer of Cosmoctopus, the premier title of UK-based Paper Fort Games. Paper Fort Games’ mission is to create accessible games that promote storytelling, co-operative play and friendly competition. Cosmoctopus is in its final week on Kickstarte...

TJ SWING is the Lead-Designer for Zykotic Games. His love for hiking the Appalachian Mountain region and heavily-themed board games spawned the idea for Hike It! which has been in development for over four years. RON HALLIDAY is the Co-Designer of Hike it! He is a professional cartographer with nearly twenty-five years of experience making maps for clients all over the world. He began designing bo...

Heather Newton is the Lead Organizer for Protospiel Online. Since April of 2020, she’s been using her background as a web developer and UI/UX designer to create online experiences that foster safe, inclusive, and supportive community for tabletop designers around the world. She lives in Colorado with her husband + their 2 cats and will almost certainly accept any invite to a 2 player turn-based ga...

John de Campos is the founder/owner of Terrible Games LLC, A scrappy and visionary publishing house based out of Baltimore Maryland. In addition to being the lead developer, designer, and artist on all of Terrible Games releases thus far, John is also a working freelance artist, musician, and stay-at-home dad. His newest campaign, Black Mold, an immersive, co-op till it's not, survival h...

Sean Guinan & Matt Marsters are the team behind 3301 Games, an indie company on a mission to craft games they can be proud of. Together, they have over 35 years of combined experience making successful games online and in print that have won some serious awards and nominations. Their debut title, Salvage: Deep Space is in its final days on Kickstarter. Check out their campaign here: https://ww...

Joe Slack from Crazy like a box and Sylvain Plante from Crooked Thumb Games have teamed up to bring you a nail-biting, time pressured, coop puzzle game called 14 Frantic Minutes. Joe Slack is a board game designer, instructor, and author with many titles that he has published. Sylvain is a cardiologist who designs board games in his spare time in partnership with various publishers. Check out thei...

Tanner Yarro is CEO of Yarro Studios, a toy and games maker that has raised over 2 million dollars on kickstarter, has multiple utility patents in the gaming world, and has sold and licensed toys & games all over the world. Currently Tanner has a Kickstarter campaign running for Flip Die, and ground breaking innovation in dice, immersive dice coins. Check out his campaign here: https://www.kic...

Meeple Pug is a small indie board game company based out of Greece. The company is led by Vasilis Tsirkinidis, a software Engineer from Thessaloniki and Vasilis Antoniadis, a geophysicist and game designer. Their current title, Age of Inventors, is currently on Kickstarter. Check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/meeplepug/age-of-inventors FOLLOW US ON:  Facebook: https://www.faceb...

Lucas Vagner is the creator of Lying Pirates, and the Creative Director of Nordic Pirate Games. Nordic Pirate games was founded in 2018 by four board game enthusiasts with many years of experience playing board games. They have spent years perfecting Lying Pirates, gathering feedback from playtesters around the globe to provide backers with a fun, competitive, and beautiful game that combines easy...

We are celebrating our 200th episode!!! What a ride. Of course, the natural guest for such a huge milestones is none other than Jamey Stegmaier. Jamey Stegmaier is the founder of Stonemaier Games and the designer of Viticulture, Euphoria, Scythe, Charterstone, and Tapestry. His lifelong passion for playing and designing board games has culminated into one of the industry's leading indie board game...

Noah Adelman is the founder of GameTrayz, the industry leader in custom board game inserts. Their inserts are featured in popular games such as The Grimm Forest, Parks, Wingspan, Vindication, My Little Scythe - to name a few. They have recently launched an open sandbox game on Kickstarter called Forsaken. Check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gametrayz/forsaken-5 FOLLOW US ON:  F...

Marie Eckl and Cathy Tenaglia are sisters and creators of Race To Stupid, a super fun party trivia game where you don’t have to know the answers to win. After playing a bad trivia game, being full of holiday cheer and having no knowledge of the gaming industry, the sisters decided they could create a trivia game that is fun for everyone. Now 2 1/2 years later they are launching their latest game P...

Gabe Barrett is the founder of the Board Game Design Lab podcast, a show that has aired more than 300 episodes about game design and been downloaded over two million times. The Lab is also home to the largest community of game designers on the internet.  Gabe is constantly creating things and will have seven books and seven games on the market by the end of this year. He loves bringing new id...