Board Game Binge

In this episode, we interview Board Game Designer Brendan McCaskell. After successfully funding his first game on Kickstarter, Last One Standing, Brendan turned to space to build Stars of Akarios - a narrative-driven cooperative tabletop game that successfully funded on Kickstarter in April 2020 with over 7,500 backers.

Nigel Matthews is CEO of ShipQuest, the fulfilment division of GameQuest, the market leader in Kickstarter Fulfilment for Board Games in the EU. With a huge wealth of knowledge and experience, Nigel explains what is happening in the EU and how Covid 19 has affected Kickstarter logistics.

In this episode we are chatting Chat with Sarah Shah from Board Games in a Minute. Sarah’s unique approach to game reviews using the Tik Tok platform is quickly gaining attention across the industry. She is a lawyer by day and a board gamer by night.

Travis Hancock of Facade Games talks about their new Kickstarter campaign, Bristol 1350, which already has over 11,000 backers and hasn't even reached its end date of June 25th! Facade Games is owned and operated by Travis and Holly Hancock from Columbus, Ohio. They have sold over 100,000 games and raised over $1 million on Kickstarter with popular titles such as Salem 1692, Tortuga 1667, Deadwood 1876, and Trophies.

Creators of last year's successful Kickstarter game Chai, and the current Kickstarter Chai: High Tea expansion, Dan and Connie provide insights on their success and how their love of board games turned into a family business.

Brendan Kendrick and Bernie Lin, from Dead Alive Games, talk about how they developed their cooperative skirmish game, Omicron Protocol, and what they did to get it to successfully fund on Kickstarter.

Board Game designer Corey Keller, and his publisher Richard MacRae, from Analog Studios, discuss their newest collaboration on Kickstarter, Latte Throwdown.

Mike Barnett is the creator of one of the largest, most successful board game meet-up groups in Southern Ontario. He is a Kickstarter Superbacker, who has amassed a huge personal library of board games.

In this episode, Mike discusses how he created the meet-up group, how he built his collection, and what advice he would give to developers on Kickstarter.

In the premiere episode, host James Staley talks about how he got into the industry and why he created this podcast. It's a short episode, but a great primer!