Board Game Binge

Wes is a game designer, illustrator, graphic designer, and independant publisher. He favors fantasy themed games featuring monsters and magic, an escape from the everyday world. Forge is his first Euro style boardgame, and the first outside of a fantasy setting. His campaign is currently on Kickstarter, check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fundamentalgames/forge-0 FOLLOW US ON: Faceb...

Jeff Irving is the owner of Weathervane Games and creator of the Vrahode Game System and its first game, Vrahode: The Calteeryn Ascension. He first imagined the world of Vrahode in 1990 during college at Ball State University where he studied graphic design and journalism.  Jeff is a lifelong gamer, artist, and dreamer as well an entrepreneur, graphic designer, and writer. He is also a fan of...

Rob van Zyl is the owner and creative director of Pleasant Company Games, a South African tabletop game developer and publisher, best known for the pulp horror game, Ancient Terrible Things, Besides wearing the publisher hat, he is the lead artist and writer. His newest game, Terrible Things Reawakened  is wrapping up its final day on Kickstarter, check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/pro...

Growing up, Mike has always had an affinity towards tabletop games. Playing and tinkering with customizing rules of existing games, and eventually creating games of his own. In 2008 he made his way into the game industry by making a card game for Privateer Press, who hired him on as a designer. There, he learned much about the many facets of producing games, from concept to final product. While li...

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 newest game Sharks!, a follow-up to 2022’s Dinosaur Exhibit, is currently on curren...

Zlatko Savic is a Game Designer, Developer and Project Lead for Infinite Galaxy, a game company out of Serbia. Infinite Galaxy has built an immersive monster world setting for their board game Eye of Zamrock, which will be relaunching on Kickstarter soon.  You can learn more and follow at: https://eyeofzamrock.com/ FOLLOW US ON:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/boardgamebinge I...

Xplody Games is an indie board game publisher run by Andrew and Travis that has just launched its first Kickstarter, Alynthia. As their day jobs, Andrew leads a team of designers/developers working with the top 1000 retailers in the world and Travis leads an engineering team developing aerospace software. Check out Alynthia on Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/xplodygames/alyn...

Martin is a board game and escape room designer from the Netherlands. Creating a bigger game out of a few components is a challenge that intrigues him. He is fascinated by minimalistic and elegant game design. His company Rolling Rhino Games focuses on print and play games allowing him to go deeper into game design. His newest game, Chateau, is currently on Kickstarter. Check it out: https://www.k...

Kenny Michael-Otton is a game designer born and bred in the land down under. With 19 years of board and card gaming experience, Kenny turned his gaze towards design when the first lockdowns hit in 2020. Three years later, Kenny has just launched his first design, SCRAP, under his indie design company, Jolly Swagman Games. For a link to the Gamefound campaign for Scrap, click here: https://gamefoun...

Brandon Rollins is a Marketing Consultant at Fulfillrite. His main areas of expertise are online marketing and supply chain management. For a link to get a quote from Fulfillrite, click here: https://www.fulfillrite.com/joe FOLLOW US ON:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/boardgamebinge Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boardgamebingepodcast/  Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/...

Travis and his wife Holly are the founders of Facade Games. They started in 2015 and have published 6 games. Hollywood 1947 is their latest games and takes people into the golden age of cinema during the red scare. Travis and Holly live near Dayton, Ohio with their 3 kids and love making games together! For a direct link to Hollywood 1947 on Kickstarter, click here: https://www.kickstarter.com/pro...

Episode 220: Stefan Godot, Godot Games Stefan Godot is a nerdy father and the guru of social deduction. He is the the designer of Human Punishment - Social Deduction 2.0, the expansion Project: Hell Gate, Human Punishment: The Beginning, and most recently, Among Cultists. For a direct link to the Among Cultists campaign, which is already crushing it on Kickstarter, click here: https://www.kickstar...

In this episode Podcast creator and host, James Staley, discusses plans for the upcoming year and provides some sneak peaks of his upcoming Board Game developments. You can check out Cities of Venus at: citiesofvenus.com Or sign-up to follow the campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tinrobot/cities-of-venus FOLLOW US ON:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/boardgamebinge...

Conor McGoey is back!  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 Earth, 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 Fr...

Hafiz Printer is an educator and hobbyist game designer. He began designing games as a way to engage his students in history and continued down the rabbit hole from there. He formed Printer Ink Games with his twin brother and are aiming to launch their second Kickstarter in 2023. You can check out his website at: https://www.baghdad1055thegame.com/ FOLLOW US ON:  Facebook: https://www.faceboo...

Sean “Fletch” Fletcher is a Senior Game Designer for The Op. He is the designer of Disney Sorcerer’s Arena: Epic Alliances and its expansions, and was a co-designer of Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle and the Shadowmoor expansion for Magic: The Gathering . Outside of his love of board games, he’s an a avid Disney fan whose favorite parks ride is Expedition Everest. Fletch resides in southern Californ...

Jan Roth is a passionate gamer since his youth, playing board games as well as pen&paper RPGs and video games. When he is not playing with his friends he works as a VFX artist and teaches Shaolin Kung Fu.  Baroque Games was founded by 3 Friends, Konny, Pit and Jan in 2020 to develop and sell their own games. Axon Protocol is their first game on kickstarter. Check out the Axon Protocol Kic...

In 2016, Noel travelled by train from Europe to South-East Asia. He didn't bring back a souvenir but a project of love, DOUC IN DANGER, a game about a beautiful monkey species that is on the edge of extinction and needs our help. Douc in Danger is currently on Kickstarter. Check it out:  Check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doucindanger/douc-in-danger-the-card-game FOLLOW US ON:...

Milan is a designer and the the founder of Archona Games, which has launched 10 Kickstarer campaigns since 2015. His newest project, Pest, is a strategic euro style board game where players fight against the cataclysmic plague and rebuild the once fallen empire.  Check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/archonagames/pest FOLLOW US ON:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/...

Sean was one of the original staff of Snakes & Lattes board game cafe in Toronto. He went on to found The Daily Worker Placement blog. Over the years, Sean has worked for many different companies in the industry, including Asmodee, CMON, Synapses Games, Space Cowboys, and Grand Gamers Guild. He is the Marketing Director for Kids Table Board Gaming and Burnt Island Games. He is curren...

Alex Young and Morgan Parker are both co-creators of Pretty Princess Pomelo: A Magical Girl Combat Card Game. They are both Graphic Designers but also have additional complementary skill sets. Morgan creates character and layout designs for the game along with authoring the Pretty Princess Pomelo Manga series. He also has featured artwork in Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed the video game. Alex...

Tristam Rossin is an artist, illustrator, board game designer and the founder and owner of Bright Light Games. He has two titles signed with Skybound board games and has worked on over a dozen successfully funded kickstarter projects and published games. Tristan's next self-published title is a Wayfarer's Tale. Check out a Wayfarer's Tale on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wayfar...

Henry Audubon is a full-time game designer with published titles to his credit such as PARKS, Trails, Space Park, and Kingswood. Chris Kingsnorth is the Developer of Cosmoctopus, the premier title of UK-based Paper Fort Games. Paper Fort Games’ mission is to create accessible games that promote storytelling, co-operative play and friendly competition. Cosmoctopus is in its final week on Kickstarte...

TJ SWING is the Lead-Designer for Zykotic Games. His love for hiking the Appalachian Mountain region and heavily-themed board games spawned the idea for Hike It! which has been in development for over four years. RON HALLIDAY is the Co-Designer of Hike it! He is a professional cartographer with nearly twenty-five years of experience making maps for clients all over the world. He began designing bo...

Heather Newton is the Lead Organizer for Protospiel Online. Since April of 2020, she’s been using her background as a web developer and UI/UX designer to create online experiences that foster safe, inclusive, and supportive community for tabletop designers around the world. She lives in Colorado with her husband + their 2 cats and will almost certainly accept any invite to a 2 player turn-based ga...