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 theatrically in Canada, and will be released on VOD in Canada and the US in July. Simon loves baseball, crime f...
Jul 01, 2025•40 min•Season 5Ep. 353
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. With a background in architecture and software design, he brings a playful and thoughtful approach to everyth...
Jun 23, 2025•33 min•Season 5Ep. 352
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. He began working on "Trouble on the Tempus" over ten years ago just for fun and the project has slowly e...
Jun 17, 2025•32 min•Season 5Ep. 351
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: Dario is a passionate board game designer and marketing expert from Colombia. Dario has assisted numerou...
Jun 10, 2025•29 min•Season 5Ep. 350
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 thrilled to share it with you! You can check out Whisker Wars here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glasshou...
Jun 03, 2025•38 min•Season 5Ep. 349
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/misfitmixers/murder-on-the-rocks-a-mystery-shaken-not-stirred WHERE TO BUY OUR BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/dp/...
May 27, 2025•31 min•Season 5Ep. 348
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 to bring the spirit of classic RTS video games into a strategic, turn-based board game experience. ...
May 20, 2025•30 min•Season 5Ep. 347
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 make classy board games that bite. To check out the campaign for Gazebo and Gingham, click here: https://www.kic...
May 13, 2025•35 min•Season 5Ep. 346
Artem Stepanov is an indie board game publisher from Tbilisi, Georgia and has been launching games on Kickstarter for the past 2 year. His first Kickstarter game, Meenakshi Temple, recently fulfilled and now he is back with his next title Diceverse, a deep & addictive space-themed dice strategy gamein April. To check out the campaign for DICEVERSE, click here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shviligames/fly-further WHERE TO BUY OUR BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSJ1LMQ1 FOLLOW US ON...
May 06, 2025•32 min•Season 5Ep. 345
Konstantinos Manos is the CEO, of HIVE Interactive, a platform committed to developing potent tools tailored to empower Kickstarter creators. With a singular platform that tracks every facet of their journey —from pre-campaign preparations to the final delivery— HIVE ensures an easy, efficient, and comprehensive experience for creators. Konstantinos is also the CEO of the board game publisher Vesuvius Media. To check out HIVE Interactive, click here: https://www.hiveinteractive.net To get the PR...
Apr 29, 2025•33 min•Season 5Ep. 344
Dominik is the CEO of Hopeful Games and one of the designers of NEON HPE. He is a passionate storyteller with experience in the video game industry (Niantic) and as a journalist (WIRED). His creative mind brings the world of NEON HOPE and its colorful characters to life. To check out NEON HOPE, click here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hopefulgames/neon-hope-cyberpunk-meets-solarpunk WHERE TO BUY OUR BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSJ1LMQ1 FOLLOW US ON: Facebook: https://www.facebook.c...
Apr 22, 2025•33 min•Season 5Ep. 343
Matt and Cole have been best friends since Kindergarten. Fast forward a couple decades, and they have launched Moon Crossing Games, an indie publishing studio on a mission to bring their debut title, Get Stacked , to life. While they are newcomers to the board game industry, they are diving in headfirst — learning fast, dreaming big, and hoping to build some staple games for your collection. To check out the Get Stacked campaign, click here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mooncrossinggames...
Apr 14, 2025•31 min•Season 5Ep. 342
Allan holds his BS in Electrical Engineering and Masters in Engineering Management. He has been a computer enthusiast and tinkerer since he was a teen. Allan has spent his 35-year-long career working at small and large technology companies alike, including three fortune 100 corporations. As an entrepreneur, he has run his own businesses, authored several patents, and he shares his knowledge through coaching and mentoring of others. Bringing Computer Junkyard to the world alongside his son and da...
Apr 08, 2025•36 min•Season 5Ep. 341
Max Palmer is an entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder of Bantam Planet, publishers of the Bantam West board game, a competitive sandbox style game with thousands of customers in over 60 countries. Bantam West 1st Edition arrives to North American retail fall 2025. You can learn more about Bantam West here: https://www.visitbantam.com/ WHERE TO BUY OUR BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSJ1LMQ1 FOLLOW US ON: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/boardgamebinge Instagram: https://ww...
Apr 01, 2025•35 min•Season 5Ep. 340
Grayden Baker is co-owner and lead designer for Warped Reality Games. Before starting Warped Reality Games Gray was a salesman working for various SaaS companies in the US. He began Warped Reality Games with his friend and Business partner Tyler Hansen about 3 years ago with the goal to make insightful and fun games that any "gamer" would enjoy while keeping the games accessible to families and new people joining the hobby. Gray spends most of his free time playing games and hanging out with his...
Mar 25, 2025•33 min•Season 5Ep. 339
Chris Matthew is the founder of Bellows Intent, an indie tabletop game studio. Before launching the studio in 2023, Chris served as the first employee at Panda Game Manufacturing, where he worked to help tabletop publishers navigate manufacturing and logistics to build successful brands. He now uses his expertise to develop games that can help serve gamers in new and interesting ways. His latest game, an expansion to An Age Contrived, recently funded on Kickstarter. Check it out: https://www.kic...
Mar 18, 2025•31 min•Season 5Ep. 338
Gaming with the Powers is a board game-focused YouTube channel where Jake and Cierra explore the latest games, unbox exciting Kickstarter editions, and share in-depth reviews. We aim to provide honest insights, engaging gameplay content, and fun reactions to the hottest board game releases. Whether you're a seasoned gamer or new to the hobby, our goal is to help you discover games you'll love! Check out their youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@gamingwiththepowers WHERE TO BUY OUR BOO...
Mar 11, 2025•32 min•Season 5Ep. 337
Noah Kinsey is the Customer Outreach Manager for Jellop, Kickstarter's official digital ad partner that's helped over 4,000 campaigns raise over $1.1B. Before joining Jellop three years ago, Noah has spent the majority of his professional career in the business development space working with various start up companies as well as in the entertainment industry on both the creative and business side of television and film. Nowadays, Noah uses his expertise and Jellop's performance-based business mo...
Mar 05, 2025•35 min•Season 5Ep. 336
Thom Mathews is a game designer and owner of Pet Roc Games. He lives forever entranced by the power of games to entertain and exercise the mind as well as connect people and foster community. He strives to design whimsical, resonant games that are simple but engaging. His first foray into publishing, the 10-minute hidden roles game "Pizza Roles," was just funded on Kickstarter! To check out Pizza Roles on Kickstarter, click here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thomthegamedesigner/pizza-rol...
Feb 25, 2025•29 min•Season 5Ep. 335
Richard MacRae is the Publisher at Analog Game Studios and Co-Designer of Centrix with Corey Myckan and #demidancer with Elisa Prashad. Life can always use a whole lot more fun; an attitude that’s been with him a long time, ever since he was a little kid playing board games. He spent over 10 years in the Canadian Army and the past 20+ years as a business professional and entrepreneur, after which he combined his skills with his love of games. Analog Game Studios was started so he could make a di...
Feb 18, 2025•35 min•Season 5Ep. 334
Fight in a Box believes in the power of laughter & storytelling to bring people together. They make games with ridiculous themes, but serious difficulty. 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 Conquest Princess. His newest Campaign, Kaiser Cucumber’s 3-night Heist Card Game and RPGs is currently on Kickstarter: https://w...
Feb 11, 2025•38 min•Season 5Ep. 333
Timon is the author and designer of Syncanite Foundation, The Ultimate Strategy & Conspiracy Game. Timon’s dream about Syncanite Foundation began back in 2010, when he decided to write a novel out of the childish dream to make a video game. He completed his novel in 2015, which became the foundation for a prototype of a visual novel in 2017 that he expanded in 2018 by adding 3D content, animations and interaction points through the use of Augmented Reality. For that, Arkanite Productions (ho...
Feb 04, 2025•32 min•Season 5Ep. 332
Dr. Brian is a psychologist with a practice focused on supporting students with learning or mental health issues. He’s also nerd, about comics, Monty Python, and board games! He reviews games on his channel, Brains On Games, where he also talks about the skills practiced by playing modern board games. His favourite games are medium-weight Euros, clever trick-takers, and Crokinole, the best dexterity game of all time. Check out Brains on Games here: https://www.youtube.com/@brainsongames WHERE TO...
Jan 28, 2025•37 min•Season 5Ep. 331
Stefan van der Heijden is a passionate gamer from the Netherlands. A lifetime gamer, Stefan dove deep into the hobby when first exposed to Settlers of Catan. He was a translator of Catan tutorials on a Dutch fansite. Recently Stefan has found a new passion in the online game world of Board Game Arena, where he has been a game programmer. WHERE TO BUY OUR BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSJ1LMQ1 FOLLOW US ON: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/boardgamebinge Instagram: https://www.instag...
Jan 21, 2025•37 min•Season 5Ep. 330
Adam Butner is the host and content creator behind Tabletop Vibes an Instagram and Youtube channel dedicated to bringing Good Times, Great Vibes, and Play, with vibrant stylized photography and engaging video content. Adam takes his passion for all types of tabletop hobbies and shares them through his channels. His favorite part of this hobby is that it brings all kinds of people from different backgrounds and mixes into a shared tabletop community! You can check out Tabletop Vibes on Instagram ...
Jan 14, 2025•31 min•Season 5Ep. 329
Aaron Smith, founder of Littlest Lantern and creator of Sea Beasts, transitioned from a career as a mechanical engineer and project manager, with nearly a decade of experience in tech and custom manufacturing, to pursue his passion for game design and publishing. Driven by his love for fantastical worlds, stories, and games, Aaron embarked on this new path to bring his creative visions to life and share them with players worldwide His latest kickstarter late pledges for Sea Beasts can be seen he...
Jan 07, 2025•32 min•Season 5Ep. 328
Board games have always been a big part of Juma's life. Juma has been a competitive chess player all his youth. After studying philosophy, economics and Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship, Juma made his long passion his job by founding Karma Games. Karma Games is a board game publishing company known for its innovative designs and tech-driven culture. The company’s flagship game, Clans of Caledonia, has been released in 13 languages and is widely recognized as a modern classic. In 2024...
Dec 31, 2024•33 min•Season 5Ep. 327
Tim Aberli is the founder and Host of Board Game Rundown, a board game channel where friends review and chat about their passion for the board game industry. He is also a Pop Culture Jeopardy contestant, and a life long gamer. Check out the Board Game Rundown youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@BoardGameRundown FOLLOW US ON: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/boardgamebinge Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boardgamebingepodcast/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/boardgamebin...
Dec 24, 2024•43 min•Season 5Ep. 326
With over 13 years of experience as a UI/UX designer and a passion for board games, Drew's designs combine simplicity and beauty. Inspired by pop art and guided by user experience principles, he has done the graphic design for titles like Robomon, Hissy Fit!, the HUNTED series, and all of the Solo Game of the Month games. Drew is also a game designer! Small-Time Heroes has been a passion project of his for many years. He started designing games after he gave up playing Hearthstone semi competiti...
Dec 17, 2024•33 min•Season 5Ep. 325
Episode 324: Allan Kirkeby, Revenant Allan Kirkeby worked in the computer games industry for 2 decades, as a designer, producer and later CEO. Designing board games as a hobby since 2016, his first published game “Itchy Monkey” was in 2018. He is the organizer at the Danish roleplaying and boardgames conference “Fastaval” since 2020. Today he works as an advisor/ mentor for game startups. Allan is the Designer of Revenant, published by Mind Clash Games, which is in its final days on Kickstarter....
Dec 08, 2024•31 min•Season 5Ep. 324
