Board Game Binge

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...

Cody Miller is owner of Far Off Games, has a  Bachelors in Information Technology, and was the creator behind the successful Xia: Legends of a Drift System  in 2013! He has turned his Kickstarter success into a full time career in the gaming industry! His newest tile, Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread is currently on Kickstarter an has already crossed a million $ in funding. You can find t...

Earl Silva is a graphic artist, game designer, and father of two girls. He started Terrier Games during the lockdown days of the 2020 pandemic as a continuation of his design passion that has been going for 8 years. Terrier Games' focus is to create uniquely satisfying and easy to approach games using the smallest footprint possible in order to bring people together and grow the board gaming commu...

Dad, gamer, pubslisher. Mark's career in gaming began with AD&D, and he's been playing designer games since 2005, when he first attended Origins. With the help of an amazing team, Mark has published multiple successful projects via Kickstarter and traditionally. Check out their Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grandgamersguild/the-artemis-odyssey FOLLOW US ON:  Faceb...

Chris Cieslik runs Asmadi Games, and is involved in the development and design of everything they put out. One Deck Galaxy is his own personal design, which has been in testing and development for several years. Check out their Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/asmadigames/one-deck-galaxy FOLLOW US ON:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/boardgamebinge Instagram: h...

Andy has been gaming since 2005 and started designing board games in 2016.  The Spill, a game focused on preventing an ecological disaster is his first design being published by Smirk & Dagger Games.   Andy is also a husband to a loving wife and father to 2 little up and coming gamers. Check out the Kickstarter for The Spill here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smirkanddagger/t...

Joe is a board game designer and instructor. He's been designing games since 2014, including Relics of Rajavihara, Zoo Year's Eve, King of Indecision, Four Word Thinking, and Kingdom's Candy: Monsters. Joe is also the author of the #1 best-selling book "The Board Game Designer's Guide" and 3 other game design books, and has taught game design and development at Laurier University, as well as his o...

Dan created BoxThrone in 2017, the world's first made-for-board-games modular shelving system. The campaign in 2017 raised over $900,000, and since then his company, Cloud Puncher Games, has gone on to ship over 10,000 BoxThrones worldwide. His newest creation, LAX RAX, turns any KALLAX shelves into BOARD GAME shelves! Store games horizontally with millimeter spacing precision - games slide on and...

Ed co-founded Eden Studios (Conspiracy X RPG, et al) and The Forge, a website for creator-owned game publishers. He also founded Gamerati, and has spent the last 15 years solving problems for game publishers. His focus is marketing, crowdfunding and logistics services. Learn more about Gamerati at: https://gamerati.biz FOLLOW US ON:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/boardgamebinge In...

Raina is the creator of 1 Minute Board Games, a TikTok channel that focuses on concise tabletop content. It was created in July 2020 because she felt there was a lack of representation in the younger and diverse tabletop community. She has since grown a community of over 280,000 people and has been privileged to work with many talented designers and publishers. She is a full-time nursing student a...

Pull the Pin Games (formerly Overworld Games) makes light, approachable strategy games for large groups that bring emotion and big moments to your table. They are best known for games such as The Zorro™ Dice Game , Good Cop Bad Cop® , New Salem , Barker's Row , and Leaders of Euphoria™: Choose a Better Oppressor . Brian also co-hosts the Board Game Business Podcast ( https://boardgame.busines...

Nick is dentist, and co-founder of Co-Founder of Bitewing Games, a tabletop game publishing company run by two dentists! In dentistry a bitewing is an x-ray that allows a dentist to analyze and view a tooth in a different way than is seen with the naked eye. Bitewing Games' goal is to create games that, much like the x-ray, will provide players with a unique perspective and new experience. He is a...

Brandt Brinkerhoff is the game designer, developer, illustrator, graphic designer, copywriter, prototype maker, animator, video producer, personality, and publisher of Oros! He's a native of Utah and when not holed away working on a project, he's usually outside with his wife and four kids having a good time. Right now Brandt is merging his 16 years of graphic design and UX experience with his lon...

Eli, Zac and Willem Delvenhal make up the company known as Delve Bros. Their pursuits cross video and board game design, as well as fun content creation. Recently they hosted the Bit Boards Digital Board Game Convention.  Their current title, Taelmoor: The Scan-and-Play Dungeon Crawler is currently on Kickstarter. Check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/delvebros/taelmoor-the-scan-...

Kimberly Tolson lives at the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater Rivers where she teaches English and Humanities courses at Lewis-Clark State College. She spends her time divided among her creative nonfiction writing, academic service, movie watching, and board game channel on YouTube called Tabletop Tolson. She's been a gamer her whole life but discovered the board game hobby around 15 years a...

Dave Beck is a practicing game designer, living in Wisconsin. He is the creator of Tombeaux, an interactive historical video game, and Distilled, a thematic board game about crafting alcoholic spirits. He is the recipient of the 2010 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge Award, given by the National Science Foundation. Beck's artwork has been featured in publica...