Board Game Binge

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

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

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 Geek nominated podcast This Game is Broken.

You can be notified of when this project goes live by clicking here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cabbagedan/coraquest

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

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.

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/.../factions-battlegrounds 

Daryl Andrews is a professional freelance game designer, who began full-time in 2015. With 30+. board games already released through 20+ different publishers, Daryl’s output has been unrivalled over the last few years. Beyond design, Mr. Andrews has also worked as a consultant for a variety of gaming companies with a special focus on popular licenses, including Back To The Future, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Ghostbusters, the NHL, Oregon Trail and more.

Notable games:

7 Summits (Deep Water Games)

Titanic (Spinmaster Games)

Gangster Dilemma (Eagle-Gryphon Games)

The Quick & the Undead (Inside Up Games)

Kodama 3D (Indie Boards & Cards)

Sagrada + Bosk (Floodgate Games)

City of Gears (Grey Fox)

Creatures & Cupcakes (Social Sloth Games)

Speakeasy Blues (Artana)

The Oregon Trail Game (Pressman)

James has over 25 years experience in the collectible and tabletop games industry. He started selling at collectibles shows in 1990 and then was a co-owner of the Comix and Cardz Etc. hobby store. In 2001 he co-founded Hero Factory Inc. to produce licensed trading cards and served as a consultant for Bandai America Inc. in the collectible card game market. From 2007-2012 James served as Bandai’s Games Division Sales & Marketing Manager, working with hobby game distributors, overseeing their Organized Play Network and co-creating the Star Trek DBG.

James joined Hit Point Sales in March 2012.

Learn more at hitpointsales.com

Tanner Yarro is CEO of Yarro Studios, a toy and games maker that has raised over 2 million dollars on kickstarter, has 2 utility patents in the gaming world, and has sold and licensed toys & games all over the world. Currently Tanner has a Kickstarter campaign running for Immersive Battle Atlas, an RPG map book, that has already raised hundreds of thousands of dollars. 

Board Game Binge Host James Staley and Producer Mike Bruner reflect on the interviews that we have had on the Binge so far. They will take questions live, highlight some of the learning they have acquired through this journey.