What's your board game story? In today's episode Bruce interviews Erin Dean, the author of "For the Love of Board Games - a Book for Board Gamers and the Producer/Director/Editor of the YouTube documentary "The Board Game Boom." Erin talks with Bruce about her experience interviewing more than 50 board game designers about the stories behind their designs, their introduction to gaming, and so much more. This unique perspective reveals impactful and lasting stories for the betterment of the board game community.

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Order a copy of Erin's book on Kickstarter: "For the Love of Board Games - a Book for Board Gamers

Watch the documentary: "The Board Game Boom"

Transcription:

00:00:03 - 00:05:00

Welcome to board game impact podcast where we look into board card dice and other game related topics of interest. So that way, you can know their potential impact for when they hit the table for your gaming group today, I'm joined by special guest who has interviewed more than fifty board game designers for her book further. Love of games a book for board gamers. Welcome back to another episode of board game impact. My name is Bruce Brown and he can find me on board game geek as Bruce Brown, and you can also find me on all the social media sites is board game impact today. We have a very special guest joining us for the show, can you? Please introduce yourself and tell the listeners had to connect with your work. Yes. My name is Aaron dean on the author of four. The love of board games a book for board gamers, which is now on Kickstarter to connect with me, you can reach out to me on Facebook by just searching my name, Aaron dean and the best way to kind of stay updated with my work is the joy in our Facebook groups for the love of board game stash book, and for the love of board games dash podcast. And then we also have a website under that same name for the love of board games dot com. Awesome. So Erin, you've got this amazing book coming out. You've also made a video documentary on YouTube, that is called the board game, boom that came out in two thousand seventeen so can you please tell our listeners more about your content, and inspired? You create these awesome things. So, basically, the main thing that has been inspired me with these projects is basically. I am just a huge board gamer these both the documentary, I created and the book, I've written are huge passion. Projects for me. I find it fun to talk about board games because I'm a gamer myself, I play board games all the time. I run a weekly board game night with some Saint Louis natives and yeah, it's just been great. And it's been really awesome to connect with some really cool people in the industry, fantastic. So in your book, can you tell the listeners about the content of the book because I think it's pretty unique. Yeah. So this book interviews over. Fifty board.