Board Game Binge

Andrew is a developer for Daily Magic Games who resides within Buffalo, NY. He's a former video games freelance journalist who appreciates media in all forms. With what spare time he has, Andrew is a craft beer and hockey enthusiast who relishes the chance to introduce new people to the wonderful world of board games. Check out the Kickstarter page for their newest Kickstarter, Castellans of...

Juma is a game designer, founder and CEO of Karma Games. Karma Games produced the critically acclaimed Clans of Caledonia, and now their latest title, Thiefdom, is currently on Kickstarter. Check it out here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/karma-games/thiefdom FOLLOW US ON: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/boardgamebinge Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boardgamebingepodcast/ Tw...

Seppy has been running the show at Fight in a Box for the past ten years. He's the designer for Squirrel or Die, End of the Line, Processing, Hedgehog Hop, and was lead designer for Mouse Cheese Cat Cucumber and his upcoming title, Conquest Princess. Conquest Princess: Fashion is Power is a cooperative, 1-4 player, crisis management, board game. A single bag of destiny determines your fate. Manipu...

In this episode, host James Staley reflects on his recent Kickstarter campaign for Cities of Venus. Cities of Venus is the biggest campaign success that his company, Tin Robot Games, has achieved. In his words, "it was a culmination of learning that drove success. James covers specific strategies that he employed and what he believes were the keys to his success. You can still late pledge Cities o...

A 25-year industry veteran, Rob has worked on over 100 published games. For 14 years, Rob was at Hasbro Games, where he worked on Risk 2210 AD, Axis & Allies Pacific, Betrayal at House on the Hill, Star Wars Epic Duels, Heroscape, Clue DVD, Clue Harry Potter, Risk Star Wars, Risk Lord of the Rings, and many more. He was editor of Trivial Pursuit for 8 years and ran the editorial department for...

Guillaume is an art director, multi-media designer, and illustrator from Montreal, Quebec. He, along with his partner have been running Remarke, a small marketing firm, for 10 years. They provide services in communications, content creation, design, branding, and packaging. Guillaume started designing games 5 years ago, and his first project was to remake the classic Snakes and Ladders game with a...

Scott is not one that has a flair for winning games, but he does have it when it comes to enjoying them.  Working on the Level Up Board Game Podcast has allowed him to enjoy this aspect of gaming to nearly no end.  Always ready with a snarky comment or a good hardy laugh, King Scott (played King Henry at Pittsburgh Renaissance Festival and the name stuck) is always game to learn a new ga...

Chris is ridiculously passionate about board games! Having played over 1,200 different games, Chris enjoys all types of games but gets most excited by lighter, medium-weight games, family games and has a special love for every kind of dexterity game. He prefers shorter games, enjoys games with a great table presence or a gimmick and doesn’t mind some luck in his games. Chris is a graphic designer...

Konstantinos Manos is the CEO, Lead Developer and Co-Founder of Vesuvius Media. With over 20 years experience in the industry, Konstantinos brings a unique perspective to the company as his expertise includes both the design and technical skills of game development. As CEO of Vesuvius Media, he has been focusing his talents on business development, but continues to develop and design games for bot...

Mike Cassie has been a designer for over 30 years. Originally working as an architect, he went on to careers as a visual artist and then a digital product designer. After years of designing games for friends and family, Mike entered the world of game design full-time when he and Paul Pattison (co-creator of the Weirdwood universe), started Greyridge Games in 2020. Greyridge was founded in order to...

Earl Aspiras & Thomas Volpe are board game designers based in Toronto, Canada and co-designers of InsideUp Games’ latest title, Terminus. Earl has had an extensive career in graphic design, media production and animation. His interest in public transit and maps helped inspire Terminus. Tom’s foray into game design came from exposure to a number of creative outlets growing up, such as film, wri...

Shuffleupigus Games is the crazed pandemic lockdown brainchild of George Chenery and Claire Shenstone-Harris. Challenging with a hint of ridiculousness, their first game Monster Voices (in collaboration with artist and friend Sean Ward) has players answer questions like: "How would a burping three-eyed potato sound reading Shakespeare?". As avid explorers and creators, George and Claire love to fi...

Ning Pan is a highly accomplished CEO with extensive experience in the board game, toys, printing, packaging, and manufacturing industries. With a strong commitment to quality and service, he has built LongPack into an internationally renowned provider of manufacturing solutions. Ning's professional journey began with a masters degree in International Relations from Aalborg University, Denmark. He...

Isabella has had a love for board games since she was 6 and played D&D board games with her parents. A student of game development, she found her love for general game design and world-building. Upon graduation she joined Unidice GmbH to help her parents bring the Unidice to life! The Unidice is the smallest fully digitalized dice, that combines advanced technology with traditional and familia...

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...