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.

Joe's newest book, The Board Game Designer's Guide: Careers in the Industry, launched this week.

To check out Joe's newest book, follow this link:

https://board-game-design-course.myshopify.com/products/the-board-game-designers-guide-to-careers-in-the-industry?fbclid=IwAR0rVIfSmX5SrO9Y0Ygz8PMebrVWOns9dkFDimWYmWOoA2KaPO7wc4zzh94

Rafa Dahvid was born in Poland, where he grew up playing classic board games such as chess and Monopoly. He moved to Scotland to study Aero-Mechanical Engineering, due to his lifelong interest in the aviation industry. During his university years, Rafa was exposed to modern board games, which inspired him to create Connecting Flights. In his day job, Rafa is working on solving logistical problems at offshore wind farms; in the evenings he enjoys playing and designing games.

You can check out his Kickstarter Page here: connecting-flights-an-airline-management-board-game

Our Family Plays Games was created by Mik & Starla Fitch and their son Grant. They have been involved in the modern board hobby for more than 9 years. In an effort to bring more families and people of color into the hobby, in 2018 they launched Our Family Plays Games on Facebook and Instagram, so they would have a voice and presence in the hobby that would encourage other families and people of color to get involved in modern board games. After getting a positive response from their social media pages, they decided to take things further, so in January 2020 they launched Our Family Plays Games on YouTube and a few months later, added Twitter to the mix. For many, their perspective and lighthearted approach to sharing, reviewing, and discussing board games was a breath of fresh air, so much so that on June 26, 2020 they were featured on Good Morning America. This family of board game players is continuing their mission to bring more families and people of color into this hobby that they love.

Check out their channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ourfamilyplaysgames

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The world's most aviary focused board game podcast. Indigenous to the eastern shore of the United States, the horned Quackalope can be spotted where board games are played. The ill-suited ornithologists, Jesse Anderson and Jan Bigas, discuss board games on a weekly basis in an effort to catch the elusive bird. Through long winded conversations on mechanics, context, theme and game design, the hosts strive to discover the reason for Quackalope's fascination with the hobby. Join us at the table and don't forget your binoculars. 

Check out their channels here:

https://quackalope.com/podcast/twq

https://www.youtube.com/c/Quackalope

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxvIiIuDC_BZl5mfd9Ay-rQ

Seth Hiatt started Mayday Games in 2011 and they have produced over 30 games and done over 40 successful Kickstarter projects in the last 10 years. He spent most of the last ten years living in China where he met his wife, Kate, learned Mandarin and significantly reduced his manufacturing costs. Seth graduated in Accounting and has his MBA as well as his CPA license. Seth also started Imperial Publishing in 2018 which is known for its Sleeve Kings’ brand of card sleeves as well as its first game, Red Outpost. Mayday continues to develop and sell its card sleeves, wooden token accessories and game such as Dead Man’s Draw and Viceroy.

Currently, Mayday has a game called Poetry Slam on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/maydaygames/poetry-slam-a-3-8-player-party-game-for-beatniks?ref=project_build

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://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2317036882

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/user/EdoBarafu

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

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

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-squirrels