James Staley
Board Game Binge
Do you love board games? I do! But do you ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes? How do meet-up groups get organized? What is the difference between a successful and an unsuccessful Kickstarter campaign? How do publishers get their games to market? How are people reaching their market in an ever more competitive market? What type of social media personalities are springing up in support of this industry? James interviews experts from across the industry and takes a peak under the hood in his quest to understand this far reaching community. Each episode is bite-sized, clocking in around 30...
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Episodes
Ep 121: Cody Miller, Far Off Games 30.09.2021 31:26
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...
Ep 120: Earl Silva, Terrier Games 27.09.2021 31:44
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...
Ep 119: Mark Specter, Grand Gamers Guild 23.09.2021 32:46
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...
Ep 118: Chris Cieslik, Asmadi Games 20.09.2021 32:28
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...
Ep 117: Andy Kim, The Spill 16.09.2021 30:34
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...
Ep 116: Joe Slack, Crazy Like a Box 07.09.2021 37:24
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...
Ep 115: Dan Blacklock, Cloud Puncher Games 31.08.2021 37:24
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...
Ep 114: Ed Healy, Gamerati 27.08.2021 35:18
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...
Ep 113: Rainalyn Medina, 1 Minute Board Games 23.08.2021 31:24
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...
Ep 112: Brian Henk, Pull the Pin Games 19.08.2021 34:47
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...
Ep 111: Nick Murray, Bitewing Games 12.08.2021 38:25
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...
Ep 110: Brandt Brinkerhoff, Aesc Games 09.08.2021 41:40
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...
Ep 109: Delve Bros 03.08.2021 36:57
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-...
Ep 108: Kimberly Tolson, Tabletop Tolson 23.07.2021 38:56
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...
Ep 107: Dave Beck, Paverson Games 19.07.2021 42:31
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...
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