Drake Villareal is an American designer living in Macedonia, working as lead developer for Final Frontier Games. His first published title was Merchants Cove in 2019, and since then he's gotten designer, developer, or solo mode designer credits on a dozen games. His most recent release, Tallywood Rally is now delivering to backers, and his newest game, The Sixth Realm is now on Kickstarter. Check it out on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/512772051/the-sixth-realm FOLLOW US ON: ...
May 07, 2024•35 min•Season 5Ep. 293
As a passionate game designer and podcaster, Marvin began his journey in 2019. In 2021, he launched his first Kickstarter campaign for Mindbug, which was a resounding success and allowed him to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a game designer and publisher. Since then, he has been hard at work developing new Mindbug expansions and card games. Check it out on Gamefound: https://gamefound.com/en/projects/marvin-hegen/mindbug-battlefruits FOLLOW US ON: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups...
Apr 30, 2024•34 min•Season 5Ep. 292
Cameron wears many hats at Saving Throw Studios, chief among them, REDLINE: Tactical Card Combat game designer. An ex history teacher for 14 years, Cameron is happiest when he is able to be creative. REDLINE is the culmination of many of his nerdier hobbies and pursuits from over the years. Check it out on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/camx/redline-payday FOLLOW US ON: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/boardgamebinge Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boardgamebinge...
Apr 22, 2024•32 min•Season 5Ep. 291
Malachi is a board game designer, illustrator and publisher with a background in filmmaking and cartooning originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico now living in Ravensburg, Germany. He started his weekly web comic Itchy Feet as a side project and it blew up into a viral success. From there, he made a card game based on the comic, then a board game (Roll Camera!) about filmmaking. Now his full time gig is board game publishing and illustration with Keen Bean Studio. Check out Power Vacuum on Kick...
Apr 16, 2024•35 min•Season 5Ep. 290
Hagen Behr. lives in Halle, a medium-sized town in the middle of Germany. By day he works as a general practitioner, by night he is a board game designer. His fascination of area control and war games led to the development of Nerthania, a unique area control game. Nerthania is currently on Kickstarter. Check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tectonia/nerthania FOLLOW US ON: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/boardgamebinge Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boardgamebingepod...
Apr 09, 2024•31 min•Season 5Ep. 289
Mark Pecota - the CEO and Co-founder of LaunchBoom – a global team of experts who help creators turn their product ideas into real businesses. His deep knowledge of crowdfunding, digital marketing, and scaling companies has been critical to the success of not only his clients, but also his company LaunchBoom, helping creators raise over $125M through crowdfunding since 2013. He is the author of Crowdfunded – the #1 best selling book on crowdfunding, where he breaks down the step-by-step system ...
Apr 02, 2024•46 min•Season 5Ep. 288
Luke and Kyle are the son and dad team behind Savage Gamez. Inspired by their love for games like Civilization, Catan and other strategy games, they have designed their own strategy board game, Craft & Conquer: Medieval. It's their step up from being big-time game fans to actually making their own game, aiming to get everyone around the table for some fun. It started from a simple thought one Thanksgiving night, after playing an old game with their cousins. Now, it's turned into an epic adve...
Mar 26, 2024•32 min•Season 5Ep. 287
Sam Gullman is the designer of The Presence and CEO of Purple Lantern Games. He is running the small publisher with Leonie Magnusson, a studio based in Sweden that focuses on dark and thematic hobby board games. He has a lifelong experience as a hobby board gamer, but also plays tabletop RPG's. In his dayjob he works as an automotive engineer creating next generation electric vehicles, focused on heatpumps and thermal system design. The Presence is a Victorian ghost horror board game currently i...
Mar 19, 2024•33 min•Season 5Ep. 286
Kinson Key Games is an independent board game publisher based out of Tennessee, where founders (and lifelong friends) T.K. King and Koltin Thompson were born and raised, and where they both live with their families. The company was created during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, when the two of them decided to make a board game to pass the time. One game became a dozen games, and out of that creativity, their first major game, Galactic Cruise, was born. Manitoba-based designer Dennis Northcott joi...
Mar 12, 2024•32 min•Season 5Ep. 285
David is the lead game designer and directs the visual direction for the Binxadinx Games. Originally he got into the board game industry as a reviewer after a career as a professional photographer and graphic designer. This led to his first job as a marketing manager and eventually led to him working as a freelance creative to the tabletop industry as The Game Bocks. His clients include Cephalofair, Red Raven Games, Incredible Dream Studios, Ravensburger, and Grandpa Beck’s Games. In his free mo...
Mar 05, 2024•32 min•Season 5Ep. 284
A long time board game nerd, Leonie spent a few years working at tech start-ups across Berlin (Airbnb) and San Francisco (Shef) before starting to design her first game, Biome. A few weeks later in January 2023, Leonie decided to take the leap and founded Lioness Games. Protecting biodiversity has been an issue close to her heart since she was eight years old, when she learned about humans' impact on wildlife, which causes 10,000 species to go extinct every year. Lioness Games is an independent ...
Feb 26, 2024•28 min•Season 5Ep. 283
Artem comes from over a decade working with video game and board game publishers. In 2019, he started Shivili Games to bring games to the market that bring family and friends together and provide an unforgettable experience. Shvili Games has published over 20 titles with over 180,000+ units sold. Meenakshi Temple is their first Kickstarter project and they plan to launch 2 more games on Kickstarter in the next 12 months. Shvili Games is located in Tbilisi, Georgia. Their current Kickstarter for ...
Feb 20, 2024•33 min•Season 5Ep. 282
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 Floriferous, 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 bundle Nature Games Trio: Sunrise, Snowfall, & Floriferous. Check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ebaraf/sunrise-at-the-st...
Feb 14, 2024•31 min•Season 5Ep. 281
Jesse Stacy is one of 3 partners that have formed Triceratops Games, which launched their debut Kickstarter last year for Journey Adventure Quest (JAQ). Triceratops Games is focused on creating great games that they would play. They are lifelong gamers who have designed games for years and have deep experience in bringing products to market in many fields. Jesse loves playing games, from the board game table to the basketball court, he has a passion for game design and mechanics. You can check ...
Feb 06, 2024•33 min•Season 5Ep. 280
tefan Godot is a nerdy father and the guru of social deduction. He is the designer of Human Punishment - Social Deduction 2.0, the expansion Project: Hell Gate, Human Punishment: The Beginning, and the wildly successfull 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/amongcultists/among-cultists-new-stuff FOLLOW US ON: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/boardgamebinge Instagram...
Jan 30, 2024•33 min•Season 5Ep. 279
Andrew Bosley is a freelance illustrator and owner of Wits End Studios. He has illustrated many tabletop hits including Everdell, Tapestry, and Merchants of the Dark Road. Andrew lives in northern Arizona with his wife and five kids. He has a ukulele hanging on his wall, so he thinks he can play it. But he really can't. Check out Andrew's work here: https://www.bosleyart.com FOLLOW US ON: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/boardgamebinge Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boardgamebinge...
Jan 23, 2024•34 min•Season 5Ep. 278
Gabe Barrett is the founder of the Board Game Design Lab which is the largest community of game designers on the internet and home to a podcast that has aired more than 300 episodes about game design and been downloaded over 2.5 million times. Gabe is also the founder of Best With 1 games, an indie publishing company that focuses on solo experiences and brings a new game to life each and every month. Check out Hunted: Kobayashi Tower on Gamefound here: https://gamefound.com/en/projects/gabe-barr...
Jan 16, 2024•38 min•Ep. 277
Jason Tagmire is a game designer from South Jersey. He has been designing and self-publishing board and card games since 2007 under the name Button Shy, and won The Game Crafter's Resource Game Design Contest with his family-friendly resource management game, Sandwich City. He is best known for reducing our 16th president to 16-bits in his card game / video game, Pixel Lincoln. He's the designer of the AEG card-throwing game, Maximum Throwdown. He was also co-set designer on Quarriors: Quest of ...
Jan 09, 2024•34 min•Ep. 276
Ayden Lowther is the co-founder of the indie publishing company, Dranda Games. He started designing games in 2017 and self-published his first design in 2019. Since then, Ayden and Dranda Games have published four games from a range of designers that have won them five awards to date. Their newest Kickstarter, Explorers of Navoria, launches on Kickstarter in the coming month. Sign-up here to be notified: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/drandagames/explorers-of-navoria?ref=boxozg FOLLOW US O...
Jan 02, 2024•34 min•Ep. 275
Caezar Al-Jassar is the director at Alley Cat Games and heads of product development and business strategy. He originally started out as a postdoctoral academic working at British universities and institutions such as Birmingham University, UCL and the LMB with multiple first author papers in the field known as “Structural Biology”. He started Alley Cat Games, which he co-founded with his wife, back in 2016 with the successful Kickstarter campaign for their inaugural game: Lab Wars. With over 80...
Dec 26, 2023•30 min•Ep. 274
In 2020, Drew wanted to start a new hobby to occupy him outside of work, thus started his tabletop gaming collection. After collecting his first 100 board games and playing multiple popular games with his loved ones, he started to create short form content in 2021 - starting with TikTok and eventually expanding to other popular social media sites. Drew would continue to create content and overviews of great games that he enjoys, along with sharing his creative expression through his comedy skits...
Dec 19, 2023•34 min•Ep. 273
Daryl is a game designer and a member of the Game Artisans of Canada (GAC) Daryl Andrews is an award winning freelance game designer and developer, who began designing in 2013, moving to full-time in 2015. With 30+ board games already released through 20+ different publishers, Daryl’s output has been unrivalled over the last several years. Sagrada (published by Floodgate Games) is Daryl's best selling game (so far), selling around the world in 25+ languages. Beyond design, Mr. Andrews is a consu...
Dec 12, 2023•34 min•Ep. 272
Danielle Stranding, Purveyor of Satire and lover of Board Games. Danielle is a prolific content creator who has amasses a huge following on Instagram and Tiktok with her humorous take on the industry. You can follow Danielle on her channels here: https://beacons.ai/dani_standring/ 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: htt...
Dec 05, 2023•30 min•Ep. 271
Laia is a maker and a connector. She is driven by turning visions into reality. After slaying Zombies in Co-Op, laying some chunky tiles and trying time travel for the first time she got very much into the hobby in the last few years. She is an editor and the engine of Wonderbow. Currently Wonderbow is running a campaign for Kelp, a runaway success. In this episode, Laia discusses the marketing approach that drove their success. You can also check out Kelp’s Kickstarter page here: https://www.ki...
Nov 28, 2023•27 min•Ep. 270
Dane Chapin, a graduate from UCLA with a degree in Economics, has forged an illustrious career marked by an unwavering passion for entrepreneurship. Over the years, he has been the driving force behind the creation and ownership of numerous successful businesses spanning various industries. Currently at the helm of USAopoly (The Op), a company he founded in 1994, Dane returned as CEO in January 2022. Throughout his tenure, The Op has forged partnerships with global intellectual properties, inclu...
Nov 21, 2023•38 min•Ep. 269
Richard Jenders, from Jenders Gaming, guest hosts the podcast with Ordinary Board Gamer, Dennis Dickner. Dennis is a Swedish Board Game influencer and content creator. Richard and Dennis go behind the scenes of content creation. The ups, the downs, the fun! Check out Dennis' Social Channels here: https://linktr.ee/Ordinary_board_gamer/ FOLLOW US ON: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/boardgamebinge Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boardgamebingepodcast/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.co...
Nov 17, 2023•27 min•Ep. 268
Carl Robinson is a game designer and drama teacher from Brussels, Belgium. Originally from the north of England, Carl moved to Belgium over 10 years ago and has since made it his home. Around the time he moved to Brussels, Carl discovered hobby board gaming and quickly became passionate about it, starting to tinker with design ideas of his own almost immediately. He's enthusiastic about games with high player-interaction, unique settings and rich emotional experiences for players to discover. To...
Nov 14, 2023•31 min•Ep. 267
Peter C. Hayward is an award-winning board game designer, author, and YouTuber based in Los Angeles. The designer of Village Pillage, Critter Kitchen, Fiction, and That Time You Killed Me, his goal is to fill the world with cool things. Originally from Australia, he ended up in the US after “a spectacularly wrong turn down a dark alley”, and has been trying to find his way home ever since. To check out Critter Kitchen on Kickstarter, click here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cardboardalch...
Nov 10, 2023•34 min•Ep. 266
Paul has spent the last 10 years working in cardboard and software development. Working with independent board game companies on project fulfilment and more recently as a Producer in the video games industry. As part of Play For Keeps he's the one that's brave enough to have conversations with the accountant and uses spreadsheets to solve every problem. Play for Keeps’ newest campaign for My Favourite Things & The String Railway is currently on Kickstarter. Check it out: https://www.kickstar...
Nov 07, 2023•33 min•Ep. 265
Joe is a board game designer and instructor. He's been designing games since 2014, including Relics of Rajavihara, Montalo's Revenge, 14 Frantic Minutes, Zoo Year's Eve, King of Indecision, Four Word Thinking, and Kingdom's Candy: Monsters. Joe is also the author of the #1 best-selling book "The Board Game Designer's Guide" and 3 other game design books, and has taught game design and development at Laurier University, as well as his own online courses. Joe is a member of the Game Artisans of Ca...
Oct 31, 2023•35 min•Ep. 264
