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 then worked for a few manufacturers in Denmark before deciding to pursue his passion for entreprene...
Apr 04, 2023•34 min•Ep. 233
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 familiar haptics. With 6 touch displays and highly sophisticated technology, the unidice can replace every ...
Mar 28, 2023•32 min•Ep. 232
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: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/boardgamebinge Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boardgamebi...
Mar 24, 2023•31 min•Ep. 231
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 fantasy novels, board and video games, rock music, and karate. Check out Vrahode here: vrahode.com FOLLOW...
Mar 21, 2023•33 min•Ep. 230
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/projects/pleasantcompanygames/ancient-terrible-things-reawakened FOLLOW US ON: Facebook: https://www.facebook...
Mar 15, 2023•34 min•Ep. 229
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 life has taken Mike on a path away from the industry, he remained a gamer and continued to design. Now...
Mar 08, 2023•43 min•Ep. 228
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 currently on Kickstarter. Check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1964freeatlast/sharks FOLLOW ...
Mar 01, 2023•31 min•Ep. 227
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 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boardgamebingepodcast/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/boardgamebinge WHERE...
Feb 22, 2023•30 min•Ep. 226
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/alynthia FOLLOW US ON: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/boardgamebinge Instagram: https://www.i...
Feb 14, 2023•32 min•Ep. 225
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.kickstarter.com/projects/rollingrhinogames/chateaupnp/ FOLLOW US ON: Facebook: https://www.facebook.c...
Feb 08, 2023•32 min•Ep. 224
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://gamefound.com/projects/jolly-swagman-games/scrap?ref=homepage-featured_5 FOLLOW US ON: Facebook: https://www...
Feb 01, 2023•35 min•Ep. 223
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/boardgamebinge WHERE TO FIND OUR PODCAST: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5RJbdkguebb3MSLAatZr7r iHeart R...
Jan 25, 2023•37 min•Ep. 222
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/projects/travishancock/hollywood-1947-a-movie-making-game-of-strategy-and-deception FOLLOW US ON: Faceb...
Jan 19, 2023•33 min•Ep. 221
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.kickstarter.com/projects/13233511/among-cultists?fbclid=IwAR0pmThFeN-48kRhV47YlNWyA-NWrC68LG-8WEeydgwNMtoRdn...
Jan 10, 2023•32 min•Ep. 220
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 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boardgamebingepodcast/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/boardgamebing...
Jan 05, 2023•31 min•Ep. 219
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 French, German, Spanish, Italian and Russian. In this episode, Conor and James talk about the industry post-...
Dec 30, 2022•48 min•Ep. 218
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.facebook.com/groups/boardgamebinge Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boardgamebingepodcast/ Twitter: https://w...
Dec 20, 2022•32 min•Ep. 217
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 California with his wife and their son Smalls. Check out Disney Sorcerer’s Arena: Epic Alliances and its exp...
Dec 16, 2022•25 min•Ep. 216
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 Kickstarter page here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1328326899/axon-protocol FOLLOW US ON: Facebook: ...
Dec 12, 2022•31 min•Ep. 215
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: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/boardgamebinge Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boardgamebi...
Dec 06, 2022•33 min•Ep. 214
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/boardgamebinge Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boardgamebingepodcast/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/boar...
Dec 01, 2022•31 min•Ep. 213
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 currently the Communication Director for KTBG. Maple Valley, the follow up to Creature Comforts, is currently on Kic...
Nov 23, 2022•28 min•Ep. 212
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 is focuses on game design along with leading the business side of the team. Last year they successfu...
Nov 16, 2022•33 min•Ep. 211
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/wayfarerstale/a-wayfarers-tale-0 FOLLOW US ON: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/boardgamebinge In...
Nov 14, 2022•31 min•Ep. 210
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 Kickstarter. Check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paperfortgames/cosmoctopus-the-board-game FOLL...
Nov 09, 2022•33 min•Ep. 209
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 board games in 2015, and Hike It! is the second game for which he has created a map (the first being S...
Nov 03, 2022•31 min•Ep. 208
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 game of Targi, Castles of Burgundy, or Wingspan on BGA. (username ohmysteries) Check out Protospiel on...
Nov 01, 2022•34 min•Ep. 207
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 horror escape game is currently on Kickstarter. Check out his campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projec...
Oct 26, 2022•30 min•Ep. 206
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://www.kickstarter.com/projects/3301games/salvage-deep-space FOLLOW US ON: Facebook: https://www.facebook...
Oct 20, 2022•32 min•Ep. 205
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 their campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/crazylikeabox/14-frantic-minutes Check out Pro...
Oct 12, 2022•33 min•Ep. 204
