Board Game Binge

Conor 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 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 French, German, Spanish, Italia...

Stella Jahja (Co-Founder & Director, Guf Studios) "Stella Jahja is the co-founder of Meeple University and video contributor for the Dice Tower. Focusing on high quality and entertaining content, Stella has collaborated with a variety of publishers to create timely, engaging live steam and video contents, as well as managing her own social media platforms. Stella is the Social media expert, In...

Kristen is a homeschool mom of 3 who discovered a love of boardgames when her oldest was 6. They played Dicey Peaks together and were instantly hooked. Her love of playing board games turned into a love of designing board games with a goal of creating engaging family games that can be enjoyed by all ages. Kristen's first game, Dinosaur Exhibit is currently on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.c...

SnowBoardGames is a new independent board game publishing studio from Slovenia, Europe. Our mission is to create quality board games that bring people together and whisk them into an adventure. Our first game, Hike!, a card-drafting racing game with huskies, is currently on Kickstarter. The designers, Nika Mlinarič and Blaž Hribar are an active couple who enjoy climbing and board games, and we are...

Michael Gnade is an entrepreneur and Final End Game Boss of indie tabletop publisher, Rock Manor Games. Rock Manor Games is a small independent game publisher founded and run by Mike as a creative outlet for all his game projects, prototypes, and ideas. Rock Manor Games’ brands include Maximum Apocalypse, Set a Watch, and Brass Empire. Their newest title, Seas of Havoc, is currently on Kickstarter...

Scott Courlander is a Co-Founder of Scorelander Games and the designer of Bat Flip, the company's debut game. After spending his youth pursuing a career in theatre, Scott now works as a 6th grade English Teacher in Woodbridge, VA. A long time board game-lover and wannabe competitive Magic the Gathering player, Scott is also a huge baseball fan and fantasy baseball junkie.  Scott has long soug...

Join host James Staley & producer Mike Bruner for their 150th episode! James & Mike describe how gaming for them is a family affair and are joined by brothers Adam Staley and Randall Bruner. Thanks to all of our fans for keeping us going with this podcast. 150 episodes went quick! FOLLOW US ON: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/boardgamebinge Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bo...

Tim Devine is a tabletop game designer, writer, developer and publisher. As one half of Dice Up Games and the father of two young children, he is primarily focused on creating roleplaying and family friendly storytelling games to help introduce younger players to the hobby. Some of the titles he's worked on are North Sea Epilogues RPG, Questlings RPG, Orun, Truth & Daring, Agents of Dice-cepti...

Shem Phillips has been designing and publishing games under the Garphill Games' brand since 2009. He is most commonly recognized for his work on the North Sea and West Kingdom series. Shem takes pride in producing beautiful games with interesting mechanics. In 2017, Shem’s design “Raiders of the North Sea” was nominated for the prestigious Kennerspiel des Jahres award. Since then, Shem has receive...

Mathis is Digital Marketing and Communication officer for Matagot. He also works with associated brands of Matagot & Friends like Grail Games, Maple Games, Devil Pig Games or Kolossal. He studied English Language and British contemporary Civilization which makes him a rather atypical profile for Marketing but everything he learned, he learned on the field (and books)! Massive geek with a big i...

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...