Board Game Binge

Roberto Panetta is a board game designer and the founder of Rock, Stone & Dice Games, an independent board game publishing company. He is currently working on his first game called Gems of Iridescia coming to Kickstarter soon. Roberto studied design for 7 years before accepting a job in commercial refrigeration which led to a 15-year career in that industry. In 2023, Roberto decided to leave t...

BSGames is a collaboration of 2 longtime friends who share a similar passion for gaming but different outlets for their creativity. Scott asked Bill for his graphics expertise to make an educational tool look better, and they realized together that they had the potential to make some really cool stuff. Thus, the idea of BSGames was born.  About Bill: Bill’s love of art and design drew him to...

Keith Matejka is a game designer, game publisher, and avid gamer out of Madison, Wisconsin. He loves heavy music and anything darkly geeky. He is married to is unreasonably supportive wife, Claire, and is father to his amazing son who loves anything mechanical, Isaac. Keith founded Thunderworks Games, small board and card game publishing company in 2013. Notable titles include Roll Player, Cartogr...

Tettix Games was founded in 2020 by Judson Cowan and has previously released two editions of Hideous Abomination via successful Kickstarters to over 4000 backers. Judson Cowan studied graphic design and photography and comes from a prior career in the advertising world. Check out Deep Regrets Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tettix/deep-regrets-an-unfortunate-fishing-game Che...

Ori Kagan leads Kagan Productions, a renowned agency that specializes in producing high-quality animated trailers for board games. With a career marked by aiding campaigns that have collectively raised over $19 million in crowdfunding, Ori is dedicated to collaborating with both established publishers and ambitious first-time creators. As a former daydreaming kid who once directed Star Wars fan fi...

Elias Giannopoulos, is co-founder and co-owner of meeplekeepers and lead product designer.  After spending many years in the 3D printing industry as an engineer and 3D designer, Elias started designing inserts and board game accessories.  Meeple Keepers first crowdfunding campaign was for Gameframe , a collection of 3d files you can use to transform your standard table to an epic gaming...

Tom Vasel is a podcaster, designer and reviewer of board games, and President of The Dice Tower. The Dice Tower, started in 2005, is a network of diverse individuals creating video and audio podcasts that promote board and card games.   Using video reviews, podcasts, and more, Tom Vasel is joined by a host of gaming enthusiasts whose goal is not just to promote the hobby, but the people who a...

Alejandro is an aspiring board game designer, with a background in illustration, graphic design, and video editing.  He was born and grew up in Venezuela, but moved to the US after high school, and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.  His first game is Fluffy Dragons, but he has many other games in the works. You can check out Fluffy Dragons on Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.co...

Andrew Stiles is based in Chicago, and grew up in a board game family. He started designing his own board & card games in 2021, jumping in with both feet. He now wakes up in the middle of the night to write down game ideas. His very first published game is on Kickstarter right now: Wine Cellar by 25th Century Games and Art by Vincent Dutrait. He also is the CoHost of the Tabletop Submarine Pod...

Seb is an outdoor educator and wilderness guide from Vancouver Island with a goal of fostering an appreciation of our wild world through play. He believes the best way to learn is through fun and has been developing packable games to do just that. His latest games, Reforest, Downstream and Masters of Maple Syrup each draw from his passions and aim to share their wonders through play! His games are...

Ross Bruggink is an award-winning illustrator and designer who recently designed the State Seal of Minnesota. He is the creative director of design studio Buddy-Buddy and is an avid gardener, husband, and bona fide dad. His years of practicing visual design and problem solving have helped pave the way into tabletop game design. To check out his Kickstarter for Vicious Gardens: https://www.kickstar...

Dr. Helen Mackay an Assistant Professor of physical geography who researches long term climate change. She’s recently discovered wild swimming and enjoys long dog walks on the Northumberland coast." Alex Nicholson is a versatile professional in digital creative industries. He is a passionate trail runner and loves working on innovative projects. Sondog Studios is a small indie studio dedicated to...

Alexander Marc Yanis is the owner of MoMoDi and the creator of  Existential Essential  ( XS ); a dark and comedic cyberpunk / cosmic horror tabletop role-playing game. At MoMoDi, his mission is to create things of quality that give you the same fun and exciting feeling you get when rolling Mo re and Mo re Di ce (hence, the company name, MoMoDi )!  Check it out on Kickstarter: h...

Drake Villareal is an American designer living in Macedonia, working as lead developer for Final Frontier Games. His first published title was Merchants Cove in 2019, and since then he's gotten designer, developer, or solo mode designer credits on a dozen games. His most recent release, Tallywood Rally is now delivering to backers, and his newest game, The Sixth Realm is now on Kickstarter. Check...

As a passionate game designer and podcaster, Marvin began his journey in 2019. In 2021, he launched his first Kickstarter campaign for Mindbug, which was a resounding success and allowed him to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a game designer and publisher. Since then, he has been hard at work developing new Mindbug expansions and card games. Check it out on Gamefound: https://gamefound.com/e...

Cameron wears many hats at Saving Throw Studios, chief among them, REDLINE: Tactical Card Combat game designer. An ex history teacher for 14 years, Cameron is happiest when he is able to be creative. REDLINE is the culmination of many of his nerdier hobbies and pursuits from over the years. Check it out on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/camx/redline-payday FOLLOW US ON:  Fa...

Malachi is a board game designer, illustrator and publisher with a background in filmmaking and cartooning originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico now living in Ravensburg, Germany. He started his weekly web comic Itchy Feet as a side project and it blew up into a viral success. From there, he made a card game based on the comic, then a board game (Roll Camera!) about filmmaking. Now his...

Hagen Behr. lives in Halle, a medium-sized town in the middle of Germany. By day he works as a general practitioner, by night he is a board game designer. His fascination of area control and war games led to the development of Nerthania, a unique area control game. Nerthania is currently on Kickstarter.  Check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tectonia/nerthania FOLLOW US ON: ...

Mark Pecota -  the CEO and Co-founder of LaunchBoom ⁠– a global team of experts who help creators turn their product ideas into real businesses. His deep knowledge of crowdfunding, digital marketing, and scaling companies has been critical to the success of not only his clients, but also his company LaunchBoom, helping creators raise over $125M through crowdfunding since 2013. He is the autho...

Luke and Kyle are the son and dad team behind Savage Gamez. Inspired by their love for games like Civilization, Catan and other strategy games, they have designed their own strategy board game, Craft & Conquer: Medieval. It's their step up from being big-time game fans to actually making their own game, aiming to get everyone around the table for some fun. It started from a simple thought one...

Sam Gullman is the designer of The Presence and CEO of Purple Lantern Games. He is running the small publisher with Leonie Magnusson, a studio based in Sweden that focuses on dark and thematic hobby board games. He has a lifelong experience as a hobby board gamer, but also plays tabletop RPG's. In his dayjob he works as an automotive engineer creating next generation electric vehicles, focused on...

Kinson Key Games is an independent board game publisher based out of Tennessee, where founders (and lifelong friends) T.K. King and Koltin Thompson were born and raised, and where they both live with their families. The company was created during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, when the two of them decided to make a board game to pass the time. One game became a dozen games, and out of that cr...

David is the lead game designer and directs the visual direction for the Binxadinx Games. Originally he got into the board game industry as a reviewer after a career as a professional photographer and graphic designer. This led to his first job as a marketing manager and eventually led to him working as a freelance creative to the tabletop industry as The Game Bocks. His clients include Cephalofai...

A long time board game nerd, Leonie spent a few years working at tech start-ups across Berlin (Airbnb) and San Francisco (Shef) before starting to design her first game, Biome.  A few weeks later in January 2023, Leonie decided to take the leap and founded Lioness Games. Protecting biodiversity has been an issue close to her heart since she was eight years old, when she learned about humans'...

Artem comes from over a decade working with video game and board game publishers. In 2019, he started Shivili Games to bring games to the market that  bring family and friends together and provide an unforgettable experience. Shvili Games has published over 20 titles with over 180,000+ units sold. Meenakshi Temple is their first Kickstarter project and they plan to launch 2 more games on...