Board Game Binge

Paul Salomon is a math teacher, hobbyist, and family man from St. Louis. He is the designer of several tabletop games including Honey Buzz (Elf Creek Games) as well as Periodic and Genotype (both from Genius Games). His favourite games to design are medium weight euro games, but Star Realms is his favourite to play.

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Jon is a board game YouTuber residing in the California Bay Area. After playing his first game of Settlers of Catan in early 2008, Jon quickly fell down the rabbit hole of modern board games. 5 years ago he began making video reviews so that he had a new outlet for talking about board games and this has expanded into what is now a full time job creating board game tutorials.

Dave Snyder, is the USA Director of Sales for Gameland Manufacturing, a full service board game manufacturer with over 15 year experience in game production. Gameland excels at high-quality production, from box to bits, with competitive pricing and low MOQs of 500 units on all print runs.

In addition to leading the USA team for Gameland, Dave also owns and runs Javelin Dice Works, a custom metal dice supplier in the USA.

Lucy Schultz formally worked at both Fisher-Price and Mattel as a toy and game designer. She is an author and inventor of children’s board books such as Peek-a-Boo Mask, e-z page turners and Poke-a-Dot, published by Melissa & Doug. She also has designed a full line of educational and family games found on her website: LucysDesign.us

This week it was announced that CrowdOx will be merging with BackerKit. In this special episode, we discuss this merger with Chandler Copenhaver from CrowdOx and what it means for creators, backers and the industry as a whole.

Joe Wiggins is Sr. Project manager of Panda Games' Indie Games Division. His manufacturing experience and love of tabletop gaming has driven his first independently developed passion project, The Wanderer's Guide - A Fantasy Atlas For Your RPG Campaign game, which is beautifully illustrated by Andrew Bosley. The Wanderer's Guide launched on kickstarter on Nov 10th and has already hit its goal.

See more about the Kickstarter campaign, here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thewanderersguide/the-wanderers-guide-a-fantasy-atlas-for-your-rpg-campaign?ref=discovery&term=the%20wanderer%27s%20guide

Coozies Games LLC started with a group of tight-knit cousins coming together to play board games during family gatherings and vacations. The familial fun and laughter inspired two of the cousins (Justin and David) to spread and share their enjoyment of board games with others. Their first game, Buy The Vote!, successfully funded on Kickstarter in September.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/buythevotegame/buy-the-vote-election-board-game?ref=discovery&term=buy%20the%20vote

Although Eric Fersten grew up playing board games like Rummikub and Risk, he didn't become a board game enthusiast until he was in his mid-40s. These days he plays over 400 games a year, mostly tabletop strategy games. A few years ago, Eric began playtesting games, primarily for Stonemaier Games. When he's not indulged in the board game hobby, Eric works as a Senior Financial Manager and helps his wife raise their two children. 

You can follow Eric's board game obsession at www.instagram.com/latetotheboardgame

Reach out to Eric to get him to playtest your game by contacting him at: [email protected] 

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 first self-published title, "The Mariana Trench" which has been designed by Tom Layton is currently on Kickstarter and funded in 25 hours. It has also been chosen by Kickstarter as a "Project we Love".

For information on his kickstarter, go here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tristam-rossin/the-mariana-trench

Matt Goldrick is the Sales Manager for Quartermaster Logistics. He has been a board game fan ever since he received his first box of Heroquest in 1990 and has worked in the industry for the past 5 years, covering all aspects of the business from design/development to fulfillment.