James Staley

Board Game Binge

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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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James Staley

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Latest episode

Oct 14, 2026

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Episodes

Episode 370: Zach Sullivan, Grazing Bear 28.10.2025

Zach Sullivan is a co-founder and operator of Grazing Bear Games and the designer of games including 14ers, Chateau Gardens, and Noble Escape. A fervent game player and designer since childhood, he also organizes the Huntsville Board Game Playtesting & Design Group. He enjoys hiking and spending time outdoors with his wife, daughter, and two dogs both around their home in North Alabama and out...

Episode 369: Fei Feng, Orbio 21.10.2025

Fei Feng is a young designer and creator passionate about turning playful ideas into meaningful experiences. She is the Designer of Orbio , a tactile strategy board game that blends fidget-like mechanics with creative strategy, which she successfully launched on Kickstarter. With a background rooted in design and innovation, she thrives on collaboration and hands-on creativity. Fei is always explo...

Episode 368: Marc Dür, Treeceratops 14.10.2025

Marc Dür is the founder and CEO of Swiss board game publisher Treeceratops, known for games such as Darwin's Choice, P'achakuna, and Zoo Tycoon: The Board Game. Treeceratops stands for creative, sustainable products with a connection to nature and is the most successful Swiss company on Kickstarter, having raised $2.5 million in funds (in 11 campaigns). You can check out Dawn of Pangaea on Kicksta...

Episode 367: Gilles Turbide, Kalypso Designer 06.10.2025

Gilles Turbide is a board game author and designer from Quebec city. A great enthusiast of tile-laying games, he enjoys creating strategic mechanics that are both accessible and engaging. He is notably the author of Kalypso and Tolleno, two tile-laying games with distinct themes. In his professional life, he works as a UX designer for a major insurance company. His newest title, Kalypso, can be se...

Episode 366: Chris Backe, Tabletop Publishers 30.09.2025

Chris Backe (rhymes with hockey) is a board game designer, entrepreneur, and athlete. He started making games in 2016, and today has over a dozen games signed or published. He co-founded Virtual Playtesting (a Discord server for online playtesting) in 2020 https://discord.gg/QhtHwvKB9G, and in 2021, he launched the first version of Tabletop Publishers. He started self-publishing games in 2022...

Episode 365: Brian & Michael Toth, Toth Games 23.09.2025

Toth Games is a joint project by Brian and Michael Toth to build fun games with minimal downtime, exciting mechanics, and rock-solid balance. We are two brothers who have played thousands of games together, and in 2017 we set out to capture the excitement of multiplayer fighting games on the tabletop. Legends of the Arena is the product of eight years of prototyping & playtesting to...

Episode 364: Sam DeLiberato, Lightning Lake Games 16.09.2025

Sam DeLiberato is a Co-Founder of Lightening Lake Games, a publishing company formed by three friends with a deep love for board games. Combining artistic vision, game mechanics expertise, and a knack for design, these friends embarked on a mission to create unique and engaging games. Driven by creativity and a desire to bring people together, they are excited to share their innovative board game...

Episode 363: Josh Roberts, Very Special Games 09.09.2025

Josh Roberts is the Co-Founder of Very Special Games, a two-person creative studio he launched with Evan in Memphis, TN in 2019. The duo started out scribbling their first prototype on sticky notes during lunch breaks at their old consulting jobs, which eventually grew into their first hit game, Charty Party, on Kickstarter. Since then, Josh has been helping create quirky, laughter-filled party ga...

Episode 362: Hanshi Li, Whales Entertainment 02.09.2025

Whales Entertainment is a passionate game publisher co-founded by game enthusiasts Hanshi 'Hans' Li and Yue 'Luna' Ming, based in Los Angeles. We’re committed to providing a platform for Chinese designers to refine their creations and introduce them to a worldwide audience, building the bridge between Chinese and international board game communities. They we always welcome outstanding games from a...

Episode 361: Mathias Wigge, Ark Nova 26.08.2025

Mathias Wigge is a German game designer and graduate in business informatics. He became well-known through the game Ark Nova, published in 2021 by Feuerland Spiele. His debut work has won multiple awards, including the Deutscher Spielepreis 2022. During his studies in business informatics in Paderborn, Mathias Wigge developed an interest in competitive card games. He devoted much of his free time...

Episode 360: Jordan Plosky, Zoop Games 19.08.2025

ordan Plosky is the Co-Founder & CEO of Zoop Collective, Inc.  Started in 2020 as a full service crowdfunding platform, Zoop has expanded into the world of game development.  Care Bears is an officially licensed game from CloudCo Entertainment by the licensee of record, Naftos.  Zoop is providing design and development on the game, as well as handling the crowdfunding. You can c...

Episode 359: Steven Aramini, Write Stuff Games 12.08.2025

Steven Aramini is an avid player, designer and publisher of board games. His first published game, Yardmaster, helped get his foot in the door in the industry in 2014 and he has continued designing ever since, creating such games as Animal Kingdoms, Sprawlopolis, Circle the Wagons, Ancient Realm, Station to Station and many others. In 2023, he ventured into the self-publishing realm, creating Writ...

Episode 358: Simon Filice, One Card Maze 05.08.2025

Simon is an Italian-Canadian, raised in Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Canada, and has worked as a music teacher in New Zealand, the UAE, and now Ethiopia. He has designed One Card Maze, Hand of Cthulhu, Fave Game, Beginner Briscola, and Starter Scopa. When Simon isn't teaching music or game designing he is making digital art or playing music at school or venues around Addis Ababa. His passio...

Episode 357: Bernie & Brendan, Dead Alive Games 29.07.2025

Since 2018, Dead Alive Games has aimed to design and publish high quality games that are inclusive and representative of the diverse gaming community they belong to.  They are the designers, developers, and publisher who have successfully funded and fulfilled critically acclaimed games such as Omicron Protocol, Lunar Rush, Cyber Pet Quest. Their newest entry into the board game world is Kitte...

Episode 356: Ammon Anderson, Levity Games 22.07.2025

Ammon Anderson  is a lifelong creative. His background is in Fortune 500 corporate design and brand management. He is a game designer, graphic designer, Art director, illustrator, and public speaker. He is the owner of  Levity Games , a game design studio and Etsy shop that makes sticker upgrades for board games.  Ammon is the designer of  Gnome Hollow  (also Illustrator),...

Episode 355: Gavan Brown, Roxley Games 15.07.2025

With over 15 years experience as a branding and product design expert, Gavan has been creative director and overseen production for many board games. Gavan’s true passion lies in game design and development. Roxley’s most recent campaign was for Excalibur a 2-8 player lighthearted game of tomfoolery, scumbagger, and hilarious backstabbery. Check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/roxley/...

Episode 354: Josh Bowman, CakePie Games 08.07.2025

Josh Bowman is the COO of CakePie Games and Cohost of Tabletop Submarine. He is also a co designer of the game Guns or Treasure and contributor on the Level Up Board Game Podcast. He also has a passion for food as his day jobs is a Pitmaster at his families bbq join. His current title, Beach Day, is currently on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/beachday/beach-day-a-relaxing-strate...

Episode 353: Simon Ennis, Film Director 01.07.2025

Simon Ennis is the award-winning director of the feature films Lunarcy! and You Might As Well Live . His work has screened at TIFF, SXSW, IDFA, CPH:DOX, Slamdance, True/False, & Fantasia, and been praised by the NY Times, Variety, IndieWire and the Toronto Star. The Hobby: Tales From The Tabletop , his latest feature documentary, had its world premiere at SXSW, is currently playing theatricall...

Episode 352: Sean Wittmeyer, Waterworks Games 23.06.2025

Waterworks Games is a Portland-based design studio crafting original board games that make game night memorable. From Alpenglow and PDX to Red Dog Junction (now live on Kickstarter), they design and publish games that blend strategy, theme, and fun.  Sean Wittmeyer is a designer, architect, and systems thinker passionate about creating meaningful experiences—digital, physical, and social. Wit...

Episode 351: Kristian Mitchell-Dolby, Minor Disaster Games 17.06.2025

Minor Disaster Games is a family business created by brothers Kristian and Liam as the design team, and Kristian’s wife Caley taking on the business and operation of the company.  Their first game, Trouble On The Tempus is a co-op time travelling disaster management game. Kristian is a writer, filmmaker, gamer, and all round creative scatterbrain who is always working on some project or other...

Episode 350: Dario & Tamas, Everland Studio 10.06.2025

Everland Studio is an enthusiastic new indie publisher and a sister brand to the established Lemery Games. Lemery Games, another independent board game publisher with a proven history of crafting and releasing games, has successfully managed and fulfilled five Kickstarter campaigns, showcasing their expertise in crowdfunding and delivering high-quality board games to backers worldwide.  Dario...

Episode 349: Sean & Mike, Glasshouse Games 03.06.2025

Mike, Sean, & Logan are three friends with a shared dream to make games that bring people together. Glasshouse Games was born from their love of storytelling, strategy, and immersive worlds. They strive to make games, created by gamers, for gamers, while being wrapped in a beautifully curated world and design. Whisker Wars is their first (BIG) step toward that vision, and they’re thr...

Episode 348: Jill Belli, Misfit Mixers 27.05.2025

Jill Belli is the creator of Murder on the Rocks , a murder mystery game. When not designing games, she works in cyber forensics, holds a PhD in cybersecurity, and teaches in the field. Jill is also a proud volunteer firefighter, always looking for new ways to combine storytelling, strategy, and community.   You can check out Murder on the Rocks here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...

Episode 347: Amir Kamal, Game Tribe 20.05.2025

Amir Kamal is an Italian board game designer living in Melbourne, Australia. He founded Game Tribe in 2022, and has been working on Nataterra for the past five years. Originally, Nataterra began as a story he was writing, and it felt natural to bring that world into the game as it developed. Alongside the game, he’s also releasing a short story set in the same universe. Nataterra is a bold attempt...

Episode 346: Nick Murray, Bitewing Games 13.05.2025

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

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