This Episode is magically powered by AireCon, the Analog Gaming Festival Harrogate Convention Centre - Running from the 13 - 15 March 2020 - Tickets on Sale Now Web - https://airecon.uk / Facebook - facebook.com/aireconukTwitter - twitter.com/aireconuk or @aireconuk / Instagram - instagram.com/aireconuk ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Just what happens when you return to Kickstarter after a few swift drinks? What happens when that button is just far too shiny? Join myself, Michael and Christina P...
Oct 02, 2019•51 min
This Episode is magically powered by AireCon, the Analog Gaming Festival Harrogate Convention Centre - Running from the 13 - 15 March 2020 - Tickets on Sale Now Web - https://airecon.uk / Facebook - facebook.com/aireconukTwitter - twitter.com/aireconuk or @aireconuk / Instagram - instagram.com/aireconuk ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Grant Howitt is like opening the door to your home and letting in a force of nature with words and chat and insects and bees and honey and laughing and darkness and...
Sep 27, 2019•1 hr 10 min
This Episode is magically powered by AireCon, the Analog Gaming Festival Harrogate Convention Centre - Running from the 13 - 15 March 2020 - Tickets on Sale Now Web - https://airecon.uk / Facebook - facebook.com/aireconukTwitter - twitter.com/aireconuk or @aireconuk / Instagram - instagram.com/aireconuk ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Richard is joined by Ed Jowett, and we talk about yet another of his Kickstarters and to be honest ED MUST BE STOPPED. Everything in his world is currently quite fo...
Sep 26, 2019•1 hr
This Episode is magically powered by AireCon, the Analog Gaming Festival Harrogate Convention Centre - Running from the 13 - 15 March 2020 - Tickets on Sale Now Web - https://airecon.uk / Facebook - facebook.com/aireconukTwitter - twitter.com/aireconuk or @aireconuk / Instagram - instagram.com/aireconuk ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Check out that graphic. I mean it looks awesome. I'm joined by Aaron A Wilson (The A is Silent but deadly) to chat about being creative and running an agency and th...
Sep 24, 2019•57 min
This Episode is magically powered by AireCon, the Analog Gaming Festival Harrogate Convention Centre - Running from the 13 - 15 March 2020 - Tickets on Sale Now Web - https://airecon.uk / Facebook - facebook.com/aireconukTwitter - twitter.com/aireconuk or @aireconuk / Instagram - instagram.com/aireconuk ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Richard is joined by Jonathan H Liu, Senior Editor of Geek Dad, Stay at home dad, and member of the committee for The American Tabletop Awards. We talk about him ge...
Sep 22, 2019•1 hr 11 min
This Episode is magically powered by AireCon, the Analog Gaming Festival Harrogate Convention Centre - Running from the 13 - 15 March 2020 - Tickets on Sale Now Web - https://airecon.uk / Facebook - facebook.com/aireconukTwitter - twitter.com/aireconuk or @aireconuk / Instagram - instagram.com/aireconuk ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Richard is joined by all round nice guy Oliver Kinne, who took the most obvious name for a tabletop games blog, found that no one had bought the domain name, and de...
Sep 18, 2019•1 hr 17 min
Richard is joined by Austin and Zach from IV Studio to talk about their astronomical Kickstarter success, Moonrakers. We talk about balancing running a successful creative agency alongside running their first kickstarter, marketing their vision and how they mix success with managing achievable stretch goals. It's a fun chat with bad impressions. If you haven't checked out Moonrakers for the art alone then please check out the links below. Links of Notes KS page: https://www.kickstarter.com/proje...
Sep 15, 2019•50 min
Richard is joined by the clever, witty, smart and sharp talking Matt Rowe and he brought along Stephen Lockyer to talk about their Escapages series of books, a series of highly interesting puzzle books which are available online. Their next book flatpak is a puzzle book based around a catalogue and it looks stunning. We had a lot of fun chatting, though warning that some of the audio is a little bit ropey in places. Please check out the links below. Links of Notes https://escapages.co.uk/ https:...
Sep 15, 2019•1 hr 3 min
Richard is joined by Debra Hoenig Parizek, who's late husband Dennis designed the Everyverse RPG ruleset. Debra has been playing RPGs for years and after her husband passed, she decided to release Everyverse to the masses for them to enjoy. It's a fascinating story, as Debra recently successfully funded the RPG on Kickstarter for its printing and now they are looking at making more people aware of it. Please check out the links below. Links of Notes https://www.pardenusgaming.com/ https://www.in...
Sep 13, 2019•56 min
Richard is joined by Dr. Michael Heron and we miss out his start in the hobby because apparently it's boring. Then we talk about his work in accessibility and his interest in Ethics in relation to where Board Game Media is. If you want to find out more about Michael's work then please check out the links below. Links of Notes https://meeplelikeus.co.uk/about-us/ https://meeplelikeus.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/meeplelikeus https://boardgamegeek.com/blog/6140/meeple-us https://www.patreon.com/meep...
Sep 11, 2019•1 hr 16 min
Jon is sad. Jon is not going to Essen. Brian is happy. Brian is going to Essen. Brian and Jon need to work together on their New Game from five24 Labs, Mint Cooperative. Jon is happy about this. Brian reminds Jon he is going to Essen Jon is now sad again ============================================= Thank you for listening to our 100k download special, please check out the show notes below to find out more about Jon and Brian's new game, coming to kickstarter Links of Notes http://mintcooperativ...
Sep 04, 2019•58 min
Richard is joined by Dan Alexander, head of Intrepid Games and designer of Lander, a games coming to Kickstarter next year, but approaching their campaign remarkably differently from the norm. We chat about his approach, and how to play his game as well and I hope you enjoy the episode. Please check out the links below. Links Of Notes. https://www.facebook.com/Landerthegame/ https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/264948/lander https://twitter.com/Landerthegame https://www.landerthegame.com/ https:/...
Aug 30, 2019•58 min
Oh Dear. That header is really small isn't it? Neilan Naicker from my 15th favourite tabletop podcast Boardgame Barrage joins me to not talk about tabletop. We talk about my favourite videogame, The Last of Us, which Neilan was involved in. Then we mention tabletop for a little bit, in the form of being jealous of Paula Deming and Matthew Jude because they are awesome, and then we chat about one question. That's about it. But we had fun. Links of Notes https://boardgamebarrage.com/ https://www.i...
Aug 28, 2019•1 hr 18 min
Richard is joined by Stevie Allan and Ross Glover, the designers of 1 Survives. A tale of escaping from a Horror Movie Fiend through quick and inventive card play. We talk about the inception of 1 Survives, why the team chose a simple card game, and why Ross is now a self proclaimed expert in card stock. Hope you enjoy the episode and please don't have nightmares. Links of Notes http://www.1survives.com/ https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/267218/1-survives https://www.instagram.com/1survives/ h...
Aug 24, 2019•1 hr 2 min
Richard is joined by Author, Teacher and Life Coach Glen Binger to chat about his inspirations, his creative journey, and teaching in the modern age. We really enjoyed our chat and we hope you do to. Please make sure you check out the links to Glen's work below and support and share his creativity. Betterism: https://medium.com/betterism Medium profile: https://medium.com/@glenbinger Twitter profile: https://twitter.com/glenbinger Instagram profile: https://www.instagram.com/bingbangbooks/ Blog:...
Aug 22, 2019•1 hr 2 min
My boy Aron West is in the house to talk about Catacombs Cubes, which is live on Kickstarter and moves from dexterity to building, so I don't need to worry about flicking anymore. Its great to have him back on the show, and I hope you all give it a listen and check out the campaign in the links below. Link of Notes https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elzra/catacombs-cubes https://elzra.com/ https://www.facebook.com/elzragames/ https://twitter.com/ElzraGames https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2...
Aug 22, 2019•1 hr 7 min
Richard is joined by Jeremy Falger to talk about the success of Untamed, what you do after a kickstarter, and their plan going forward in bringing tabletop into business. Links of Notes https://www.grumpyowlgames.com/ https://www.facebook.com/grumpyowlgames/ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grumpyowlgames/untamed-feral-factions/posts https://twitter.com/grumpyowlgames ================================================================== If you like what you have heard, please take some time to ...
Aug 20, 2019•44 min
In my continuing quest to make myself sound as stupid as possible, I am joined by the highly intelligent, articulate and dapper gentleman, Dr Sam Illingworth. We discuss the use of tabletop games in order to spark scientific discussion. Environmental policies in relation to the continuing changing political climate and the responsibility of boardgame designers in relation to sustainability. We chat a little about Carbon City Zero, coming to Kickstarter on the 9th September. Which is all about ru...
Aug 13, 2019•1 hr 2 min
Richard is joined by Michael and Andrew (but no James) from Stone Bones Games to talk about their first Kickstarter, TALK, YOU FIEND! which is a game about using ridiculous things to make people talk. Special Shout Out to James Stone, who couldn't be on the show, and another shout out to the gardener who decided by MOWING REALLY LOUDLY, they had to be on the show. Check out the link to the kickstarter in the show notes below. Links of Notes https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stonebonesgames/ta...
Aug 12, 2019•39 min
This was edited really quickly so apologies for any potential roughness. Delighted to be joined by Gavan Brown of Roxley Game Laboratory, and my new personal Hero, Manny Trembley, as we talk about their hit it out of the park Kickstarter, "Dice Throne Adventures & Season 1 Re-Rolled" There is still time to check out the campaign which you can find by clicking the links below. Links of Notes https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dicethrone/dice-throne-adventures-and-season-one-rerolled https:/...
Aug 08, 2019•1 hr 9 min
Richard is joined by Dan Ackerman, Senior Managing Editor of the technology website CNET.com, to chat about his upcoming Kickstarter, Techlandia, a tale of PR, technology and the greater mythic gods. We chat about his past, how he came up with the idea for the game and why you should consider backing the game. Links of Notes https://danackerman.com/techlandia https://danackerman.com/ https://www.cnet.com/profiles/dan_ackerman/ https://twitter.com/danackerman =====================================...
Aug 06, 2019•42 min
Richard is joined by Chris Whitpan, host of the YouTube talk show Game All Nite, which is his fun video chat show, where he chats with some of the biggest names in tabletop. We chat about his professional life involved in restaurants and his love of being the host, and how that fermented into an idea of Game All Nite. It's a fun chat, and Chris is a great guest and I hope you enjoy our chat.. Links of Notes https://www.gameallniteshow.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMnS4X53t-3tUe0rFDDgfKg...
Aug 04, 2019•1 hr 9 min
Richard and Owen chat about the weather, and progress on The Board Game Book (which is a really good read) and where you go from there really. We find out what the plans are for the future and we never really mentioned Boris Johnson once. Links of Notes https://twitter.com/owen_duffy https://twitter.com/boardgamebook https://www.facebook.com/TheBoardGameBook https://www.instagram.com/boardgamebook/ https://www.boardgame-book.com/ ==================================================================...
Jul 31, 2019•55 min
Richard is joineed by Dan Letzring and Nicholas Yu, the partners in crime behind Adventure Tactics, a stunning looking tactical games inspired by Final Fantasy and looking sweet. And I like the look of it a LOT.. Links of Notes http://www.tinyurl.com/adventuretactics https://twitter.com/yutingxiang http://zucchinipeoplegames.com/ https://www.letimangames.com/ https://www.letimangames.com/adventure-tactics.html https://www.facebook.com/LetimanGames/ https://twitter.com/letimangames https://www.in...
Jul 29, 2019•39 min
Richard is joined by Chris and Lindsey from Behind the Box, who run a wonderful, charming and entertaining YouTube channel all about games and cooking and its all just glorious and so check out their content. And I did cut out a game title in the editing process. I think. But please. Check out their show and look out for the blooper!! Links of Notes https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC37TG_LOCXyCLr0kxzLrpuA https://www.behindthebox.co.uk https://twitter.com/BehindTheBoxYT =========================...
Jul 26, 2019•1 hr 8 min
Richard is joined by Mike Bruner from Elixir Board Games to chat about his BBG Award winning game, Queen Bee, which is coming to Kickstarter next month. We chat about his wrestling, creative accounting, putting people in arm locks so they playtest your game. Stinging people. Buzzing about flowers. And possible made up fibs. Please check out the show notes to find out more about the game as it looks pure honey. Links of Notes https://tabletopia.com/games/queen-bee https://boardgamegeek.com/boardg...
Jul 25, 2019•41 min
Richard Keene infiltrates our compound with his rampaging dinosaurs and comes in to tell us all about the Dinogenics expansion as well as what happened with the first campaign and why he is releasing a correction pack for the first edition. He also promised to dance to walk the dinosaur in his T-Rex costume if the campaign hits one million dollars. I NEED TO SEE THIS HAPPEN. Links Of Notes https://twitter.com/ninthhavengames https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1541227444/dinogenics-controlled-c...
Jul 21, 2019•46 min
Richard is joined by Pete Waite, long time listener and friend of the show and we have the best chat about games and home made monopoly, playing trumpets, making centrepieces and working in telecoms. You can follow Pete on twitter. www.twitter.com/pedro_xxl AND HE DID THE INTRO WHICH IS AWESOME ================================================================== If you like what you have heard, please take some time to Rate, Subscribe and Review us on APPLE PODCASTS. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/po...
Jul 18, 2019•1 hr
Richard is joined by Darren Terpstra, the angry stunning flame-haired auburn warrior, here to take ass and kick names and tell us all about his success with Ignite. And the campaign has finished, so it's a chance to just kick back and chew the fat and talk about stuff. You can however still get a copy of the game if you want and you can do that by checking out the show notes below... Links Of NOteS https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/darrenterpstra/ignite-tabletop-miniatures-boardgame https://t...
Jul 17, 2019•1 hr 6 min
Brandon Rollins returns to chat about Tasty Humans, his currently Kickstarter campaign which is a mixture of puzzle and scoring with a neat theme and interesting mechanics. We talk about scrapping Highways and Byways, what they learned from the previous campaign and their delight about the success of Tasty Humans Make sure you check out the links to the campaign below. Links of Notes https://twitter.com/brandongamedev https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tastyhumans/tasty-humans-board-game https...
Jul 12, 2019•43 min
