Board Game Binge

John de Campos is the founder/owner of Terrible Games LLC, A scrappy and visionary publishing house based out of Baltimore Maryland. In addition to being the lead developer, designer, and artist on all of Terrible Games releases thus far, John is also a working freelance artist, musician, and stay-at-home dad. His newest campaign, Black Mold, an immersive, co-op till it's not, survival h...

Sean Guinan & Matt Marsters are the team behind 3301 Games, an indie company on a mission to craft games they can be proud of. Together, they have over 35 years of combined experience making successful games online and in print that have won some serious awards and nominations. Their debut title, Salvage: Deep Space is in its final days on Kickstarter. Check out their campaign here: https://ww...

Joe Slack from Crazy like a box and Sylvain Plante from Crooked Thumb Games have teamed up to bring you a nail-biting, time pressured, coop puzzle game called 14 Frantic Minutes. Joe Slack is a board game designer, instructor, and author with many titles that he has published. Sylvain is a cardiologist who designs board games in his spare time in partnership with various publishers. Check out thei...

Tanner Yarro is CEO of Yarro Studios, a toy and games maker that has raised over 2 million dollars on kickstarter, has multiple utility patents in the gaming world, and has sold and licensed toys & games all over the world. Currently Tanner has a Kickstarter campaign running for Flip Die, and ground breaking innovation in dice, immersive dice coins. Check out his campaign here: https://www.kic...

Meeple Pug is a small indie board game company based out of Greece. The company is led by Vasilis Tsirkinidis, a software Engineer from Thessaloniki and Vasilis Antoniadis, a geophysicist and game designer. Their current title, Age of Inventors, is currently on Kickstarter. Check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/meeplepug/age-of-inventors FOLLOW US ON:  Facebook: https://www.faceb...

Lucas Vagner is the creator of Lying Pirates, and the Creative Director of Nordic Pirate Games. Nordic Pirate games was founded in 2018 by four board game enthusiasts with many years of experience playing board games. They have spent years perfecting Lying Pirates, gathering feedback from playtesters around the globe to provide backers with a fun, competitive, and beautiful game that combines easy...

We are celebrating our 200th episode!!! What a ride. Of course, the natural guest for such a huge milestones is none other than Jamey Stegmaier. Jamey Stegmaier is the founder of Stonemaier Games and the designer of Viticulture, Euphoria, Scythe, Charterstone, and Tapestry. His lifelong passion for playing and designing board games has culminated into one of the industry's leading indie board game...

Noah Adelman is the founder of GameTrayz, the industry leader in custom board game inserts. Their inserts are featured in popular games such as The Grimm Forest, Parks, Wingspan, Vindication, My Little Scythe - to name a few. They have recently launched an open sandbox game on Kickstarter called Forsaken. Check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gametrayz/forsaken-5 FOLLOW US ON:  F...

Marie Eckl and Cathy Tenaglia are sisters and creators of Race To Stupid, a super fun party trivia game where you don’t have to know the answers to win. After playing a bad trivia game, being full of holiday cheer and having no knowledge of the gaming industry, the sisters decided they could create a trivia game that is fun for everyone. Now 2 1/2 years later they are launching their latest game P...

Gabe Barrett is the founder of the Board Game Design Lab podcast, a show that has aired more than 300 episodes about game design and been downloaded over two million times. The Lab is also home to the largest community of game designers on the internet.  Gabe is constantly creating things and will have seven books and seven games on the market by the end of this year. He loves bringing new id...

Cloud Puncher Games is an over-the-top board game accessory company, founded by Dan Blacklock. In 2017, he created the BoxThrone, the world's first modular board game storage solution, andsince shipped more than 10,000 BoxThrones to gamers across the world. Since then, he has followed up with Token Sesame, a modular Board Game Bit holder, and LAX RAX, a shelf insert for Kalix shelfs. His most rece...

Derek Jouppi is the creator of Blackoot. Prior to creating board games, he was the COO & co-founder of Suncayr, a CPG company who created the now viral product SPOTMYUV. Some major accomplishments include a granted US patent, selling into 10k+ retail stores including Walmart, CVS, Boots, and 40+ major retail chains, as well as winning over 50+ pitch and technology awards. Check out Blackoot on...

Andrew Lowen is the CEO of Lowen Games and founder and CEO of Next Level Web (Crowd Funding Nerds), a digital marketing agency established in 2009 that spends a lot of time marketing awesome board games on Kickstarter and beyond! They have worked with board game brands such as Elder Scrolls, Star Trek, Fallout, Conan, Dune, Star Realms, Ascension, and more, and have helped creators raise nearly $1...

Ryan Courtney is game designer based out of NYC. He enjoys creating thinky games that provide opportunities for folks to challenge themselves. He is the designer of Pipeline, Curious Cargo, and Bear Raid. His most recent game, Trailblazers, is currently live on Kickstarter. Check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bitewinggamesnick/trailblazers FOLLOW US ON:  Facebook: https://www.f...

Jay Banna is a board game enthusiast and entrepreneur with a passion for game design. His interest towards game design started as early as 2003. One of his most notable achievements can be found within published articles at a university level where he was involved in projects that involve sustainability, ethics and self discovery. Jay now owns and operates a board game company called Grinly Games...

Marc Schwämmlein is an opera singers, writer and game designer. Maxvill Witt is a game designer with a background in terrain design for wargames like Warhammer and Star Wars Legion, the missions Cotrolle Board for Star wars Legion and the Heroes Board for the Lord of the Rings. Together, the make up the design team for their first title under Wood Pecker Games, Nanolith. Nanolith is coming soon to...

David Thomas is an instructional and game designer who has designed and published multiple educational video games. As a co-founder of Absurdist Productions, he has also written and published multiple RPG products and card games. Including his first game Churrascaria, a game of fighting over food at a Brazilian steakhouse. Will Thompson is a professional game designer, writer, and instructional de...

Josh Derksen is a game developer and graphic designer from Toronto, Canada and co-owner of Lynnvander Studios. Known for Heroes of the Aturi Cluster, his free, unofficial co-operative campaign expansion for X-wing Miniatures. Josh has worked on everything from initial concepts to design to layout and manufacturing files for a wide range of games, both original and licensed. Games he's worked on in...

Lan Krajnčič is a game designer, project manager, owner of Bona Fide Games. Bona Fide Games is a team of passionate board based out of Slovenia. 5 years in the making, Silver Coin; Age of Monsters is an action-selection adventure game set in a huge open world where you take control of unique asymmetrical characters, solve puzzles and confront challenges. It is currently on Kickstarter: https://www...

Tamas and Krisztina love gaming and travel! They founded Lemery Games in 2019 to create games inspired their adventures. From the theme, to art, to game mechanics, they strive to incorporate bits and pieces of their travels into every single game they publish. Currently, they are running a project that’s really close to their hearts, trying to save the ancient game of Nepal from being forgotten. C...

Jason Anarchy is an absolute mad man who started an indie publishing company to put out his own silly games. Starting with the Drinking Quest series and moving onto a series of comedy games with different webcomic artists, Jason has published nearly 20 different games. He believes you should be able to open a game, learn it and play it within a group of friends who have no attention spans. His cur...

Scott Pease is the co-inventor of Snap Ships and the tabletop game version now funding on Kickstarter, Snap Ships Tactics. The Snap Ships toy line has 22 individual kits, with 48 core builds, hundreds of unique components, and thousands of mind blowing user creations. The tabletop game system uses Snap Ships technology to let players create unique miniature ships and then battle across the tableto...

Described by San Francisco Weekly as “a hilariously sharp observer, not one of those tired white-guy bellyachers,” Grant was once a collegiate soccer player. He decided to pursue a career on stage instead of on the field, and that decision’s been rewarded by being chosen as a New Face in comedy at the Just For Laughs Festival, winning the Laughing Skull Comedy Festival, and being a finalist in the...

David is a first time designer but long-time player of games. He has a particular love for deck-building and strategy types. Drags 2 Riches is the first project under his company Bored Wreckers Inc. It has been developed alongside members of the drag community to try and address the under-representation of LGBTQ+ characters and themes in the tabletop gaming sector You can check out Drags...

Ray Wehrs has been deeply involved in the development and support of the hobby game industry for over twenty years. Along with being an integral part of the founding team behind WizKids in 1999, he has lent his talents to Mayfair Games, EDOC, and Smith and Tinker. In 2009, he teamed up with fellow industry leaders Dawne Weisman and Jordan Weisman to create Calliope Games. Best known for their ever...