Reed is the founder of Paranoia Rising Games Inc., a Toronto-based publisher who's mission is to publish games that have quality components, evolving storylines, replayability, and deep social interaction. Their first game, Vigilante, is launched this week on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paranoiarising/vigilante-1 To join the Vigilante Facebook group and arrange playtesting, join: https://www.facebook.com/groups/204683201265466 To play Vigilante on Steam: https://steamcommun...
Apr 01, 2021•32 min•Ep. 83
Eduardo is the founder of Pencil First Games, a boutique publisher of delightful, high-quality board and card games. PFG is best known their nature themed games such as Herbaceous, Sunset Over Water, The Whatnot Cabinet, Skulk Hollow, Lift Off! Get me off this Planet and other titles. Currently, they have a Kickstarter running for their new game, Floriferous: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ebaraf/floriferous Check out Eduardo’s youtube channel, Gaming with Edo here:https://www.youtube.com/...
Mar 29, 2021•36 min•Ep. 82
Wes Woodbury is the manager of FunDaMental Games, an indie game company where he designs and publishes games about his favourite theme, epic fantasy! The company now has 5 successfully funded and delivered products, with a new game called Questeros which hit Kickstarter this week: https://www.kickstarter.com/.../fundamentalgames/questeros For Wes’ Kickstarter Journeys podcast, visit: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/kickstarter-journeys/id1493917160...
Mar 25, 2021•31 min•Ep. 81
Liberty Kifer is the owner of Light Heart Games and the game designer of Crystallo - an award winning solo game that successfully funded on Kickstarter in 2019. Her game recently made its way into Barnes and Noble stores. Learn more at: lightheartgames.com
Mar 22, 2021•33 min•Ep. 80
In this episode, Mike Bruner, producer of the Board Game Binge Podcast, Interviews James Staley, the regular host of the show and owner of Tin Robot Games. James is a board game designer who launched Tin Robot Games in 2018 with his first game Tanks, but no thanks!. He followed last year with Queen of Scots: The Card Game. His newest title, Nutty Squirrels of the Oakwood Forest, is live on Kickstarter and hit its funding goal on Day 1. You can check out the kickstarter here: https://bit.ly/nutty...
Mar 18, 2021•36 min•Ep. 79
Chris Goodlet is the Charity Board Gamer. With his family friendly format, whether it be through his facebook page, youtube channel or Twitch channel, he and his family share their thoughts on games, enjoy time with the community and encourage good will towards one another. His belief is that if we can gather at the table, we can do the same for a good cause. You can follow one of Chris’s many channels here: https://linktr.ee/goodletchris
Mar 15, 2021•35 min•Ep. 78
Kimbolt is a multi-disciplined UI/UX Designer and 3D modeler, with over 22 years of professional experience designing everything from games to websites. While working for EA Games, she was responsible for the UI Design for many products including; Minions Paradise, The Sims, and TetrisBlitz. Since then, she has provided services for many titles including Fortnite, Magic the Gathering, Adventure Capitalist, Puzzle Quest, Lord of the Rings: Living Card Game, and many more. Her current kickstarter ...
Mar 11, 2021•33 min•Ep. 77
Oliver Josiah set up the Ministry of Meeples together with his partner Charlotte as a side-project while they were finishing their postgraduate studies. What started out as a causal part-time hobby soon snowballed into a full-on occupation. Their first game, Theurgy: The Area Control Game of Monsters and Miracles, is currently live on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ministryofmeeples/theurgy-the-area-control-game-of-monsters-and-miracles?ref=discovery&term=theurgy...
Mar 08, 2021•35 min•Ep. 76
Eric McCoy and Justus Meyer are film makers with over 150 commercials, music videos, and short films to their credit. During the slow down of the pandemic, with now plenty of time on their hands, they shifted their focus to developing Doomlings, a side project that Justus had been designing as a side-hobby. Now on Kickstarter, Doomlings funded on day 1, and they still have 28 days left of their campaign. Learn more about Doomlings on their Kickstarter page here: http://bit.ly/DoomlingsGame...
Mar 04, 2021•36 min•Ep. 75
Inside Up Games is a Canadian board game design and publication company with a solid track record of successful Kickstarter campaigns such as Summit: The Board Game, The Yeti and Teams expansions of Summit, Vault Assault, Gorus Maximus, 7 Souls, The Quick and The Undead, City Builder, and Sea Change – a family friendly version of Gorus Maximus. Currently on Kickstarter is their newest title, Block and Key, which has already crushed its funding goal with half their campaign still remaining. To le...
Mar 01, 2021•33 min•Ep. 74
Jason Hawronsky is founder and CEO of Jasco Games. Renowned for the ownership and development of popular tabletop games such as The My Hero Academia Collectible Card Game (Universus CCG), Street Fighter: The Miniatures Game (UTS), Cowboy Bebop Boardgame Boogie, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Board Game, Top Gun: Plot Twist party game to name a few, Jasco Games has been a strong player in the tabletop industry. Moreover, Jasco has done an awesome job at saving games that were going to be canceled ...
Feb 25, 2021•35 min•Ep. 73
James Hudson is a tabletop designer, developer and the creator of Druid City Games, which launched the popular titles Grimm Forest, Sorcerer City, and Tidal Blades. James is currently the Senior Director of Tabletop for Skybound Tabletop, a division of Skybound Entertainment. In this interview, we will talk about his newest title, Bloodstone, an epic arena combat board game for 1 – 8 players. To learn more about Bloodstone and back the Kickstarter, visit: https://www.kickstarter.com/pro.../druid...
Feb 22, 2021•39 min•Ep. 72
Nigel Matthews is CEO of ShipQuest, the market leader in Kickstarter Fulfillment for Board Games in the EU. With a huge wealth of knowledge and experience, Nigel digs into the new VAT tax rules and what it means for publishers as well as how his company has adapted to navigate games fulfillment in a post-Brexit world. Learn more about ShipQuest at shipquest.co.uk
Feb 18, 2021•34 min•Ep. 71
Tom Hughes is co-founder of Space Duck Games. He is based in Dublin, Ireland and is also a project manager at an e-commerce company. He established Space Duck Games in 2015 as a place to turn his passion into a business. His first Kickstarter Campaign El Presidente in 2015 earned a Kickstarter ‘Projects we Love’ distinction and while it came close to funding, he acknowledged the first-time learning curve for a Kickstarter. Tom with his talented partner and animator – Patrick O’Callaghan are back...
Feb 11, 2021•34 min•Ep. 70
Frank West is a game designer based in Bristol, England, and self publishes through his company, The City of Games. As a lifelong gamer, Frank has always enjoyed developing games both in the physical and digital form. Early in his life he focussed on video games, studying computer science at Bristol university, and worked as a developer, UX designer, and technical consultant on multiple projects in his early career. In 2015 Frank started working on The City of Kings which turned into his first p...
Feb 08, 2021•32 min•Ep. 69
Todd Patriquin (aka Imagine All The Meeple) is a professional board game photographer and content creator out of Vancouver, Washington. His goal is to push board games further into the art world. He is the co-host of Victory Point Labs, a youtube program featuring various board game photographers squaring off with their own photo of the same game. To learn more about Todd, visit his website: https://www.imagineallthemeeple.com/ or watch his youtube show at: https://www.youtube.com/victorypointla...
Feb 04, 2021•31 min•Ep. 68
Joe is a professional board game designer and author of the #1 international best-selling book, The Board Game Designer’s Guide, along with 2 other books on game design. He has taught Game Design and Development at Wilfred Laurier University and runs the Board Game Design Course, an online course for new game designers. He has published multiple games, and now focuses his efforts on helping budding new designers understand the various facets of getting a game to market. For a link to Joe’s cours...
Feb 01, 2021•34 min•Ep. 67
Stefan Godot is a nerdy father and the designer of Human Punishment - Social Deduction 2.0, the expansion Project: Hell Gate, and Godet Game's newest title - Human Punishment: The Beginning, which hit Kickstarter this month. Also featured in this episode is Layout Designer Karsten Schulmann. For a direct link to the campaign, click here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/13233511/human-punishment-the-beginning?ref=profile_created
Jan 28, 2021•33 min•Ep. 66
Jeff & Andrew are high school friends from Chicago living their dreams as game designers, publishers, and co-owners of Road To Infamy Games (R2i Games). Together they design streamlined, easy-to-learn games centered around a unique game mechanism or component. Their recent title, Canvas, funded on Kickstarter last year with over 16K backers. You can learn more about this game and others at roadtoinfamy.com...
Jan 25, 2021•35 min•Ep. 65
Benji Corless is the community manager for BlackLetter games, an indie developer and publisher based in South Wales UK. Their current project Damnation: The Gothic Game launches in 2021, a dark gothic adaptation of the cult classic Gothic Game. Learn more at blacklettergames.com
Jan 21, 2021•32 min•Ep. 64
Michael Pittre is a game designer, developer and cofounder of PenTree Games with his wife Christina Pittre in 2017. Their first game, On The Rocks, was successful funded through Kickstarter and is now in manufacturing and will be fulfilling in the coming months. In development PenTree Games is working on On The Rocks expansion, 3-6 player card game called Pirates Bluff and an untitled Kaiju game designed by Ben Moy. Learn more at pentreegames.com
Jan 18, 2021•29 min•Ep. 63
Sean Epperson is the game developer and publisher and co-founder Thing 12 Games, which formed in 2016. Since then, they have published and manufactured 5 games: Dice of Crowns, Dice of Pirates, Click Click Boom, The Seals of Cthulhu, and their newest title Dinos Not Assembled. Learn more at thing12games.com
Jan 14, 2021•32 min•Ep. 62
In this interview, Eran will discuss Green Inbox's new comprehensive Kickstarter Pre-launch guide. Eran Back is founder & CEO of Green Inbox, the tech marketing company behind many successful kickstarter campaigns. Green Inbox helps maximize Return on Advertising Spend. Their track record is robust, with recent titles such as Nemesis Lockdown (helped raise $5.9m), Bristol 1350 (helped raise $0.9m), Level-up (helped raise $1.1m), and Suburbia board game (helped raise $1.8m). Learn more at gre...
Jan 11, 2021•38 min•Ep. 61
Jessica Cassady is the international director of marketing at Ion Game Design in Sweden and Mighty Boards in Malta as well as APE Games in the US. Jess has run multiple crowdfunding campaigns generating millions of dollars in funding. She was also lead developer of the award winning, historically themed board game, Lovelace and Babbage, published by Artana / Genius Games. She has consulted as lead editor on multiple board game rulebooks and is the host of Girl's Stampede on the Heavy Cardboard Y...
Jan 07, 2021•31 min•Ep. 60
Greg Breault is owner of RocketSlug Games, publisher of the successfully funded Dwarves of Iron Peak, a 2-4 player tactical skirmish game. Greg started his career as an illustrator, then transitioned into the the video gaming industry. His acquired skill sets positioned him well to create a fun game full of minis and beautiful fantasy artwork. To learn more about Dwarves of Iron Peak, visit rocketsluggames.com
Jan 04, 2021•31 min•Ep. 59
Ulysses Duckler is a new Tabletop Roll Playing Game developer who is is working with a team of amazing artists and entomologists to create Cuticorium, a new RPG game on Kickstarter about insects navigating a massive world and what it means to know yourself. His campaign has already funded at 175% of its goal with an end date of January 10th, 2020. More about this kickstarter can be found here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/40215414/cuticorium...
Dec 30, 2020•31 min•Ep. 58
Dan has been gaming since his mid-teens, although he became really immersed in the hobby about seven years ago. He has been making videos together with his daughter Cora for the Dice Tower for about four years, reviewing children's and family board games. And during lockdown they both decided that they would have a go at designing a board game themselves. Dan also co-hosts the Golden Geek nominated podcast Sporadically Board with Mike and Dan. He also created and is the former host of the Golden...
Dec 28, 2020•32 min•Ep. 57
Jackbro is a Canadian games publisher out of Quebec City. It's owners, Jean-Thomas & Etiene Rioux, are two brothers who create fun games and artistic masterpieces. Jackbro is a fusion of creative ideas, beautiful themes, cohesive mechanisms, and quality materials and components. Jackbro has had three successfully funded Kickstarter campaigns; Vikingar, Nouvelle-France, and 40 Thieves
Dec 21, 2020•34 min•Ep. 56
Will Sorrell is the founder of Clarendon Games, a London based game publisher. To date, Clarendon has launched 12 board and card game titles and sold over 150,000 copies worldwide. Clarendon Games has won numerous awards for game design and has been featured in media around the world including the BBC, MSNBC, the Telegraph and the Economist.
Dec 17, 2020•32 min•Ep. 55
Peter Ferry and Jason Crayton are the Designer and Art Director of Factions: Battlegrounds. Friends since they were kids, they have always had passion for fantasy games. Several years ago, they were inspired to design Factions: Battlegrounds after finding sketches of monsters from when they were in grade school. This is the duo's first board game and kickstarter campaign, which has successfully funded over 300% of its goal. More on their campaign can be viewed here: https://www.kickstarter.com/....
Dec 14, 2020•31 min•Ep. 54
