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Board Game Binge

Do you love board games? I do! But do you ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes? How do meet-up groups get organized? What is the difference between a successful and an unsuccessful Kickstarter campaign? How do publishers get their games to market? How are people reaching their market in an ever more competitive market? What type of social media personalities are springing up in support of this industry? James interviews experts from across the industry and takes a peak under the hood in his

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Episode 293: Drake Villareal, The Sixth Realm

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2024/05/07

Drake Villareal is an American designer living in Macedonia, working as lead developer for Final Frontier Games. His first published title was Merchants Cove in 2019, and since then he's gotten designer, developer, or solo mode designer credits on a dozen games. His most recent release, Tallywood Rally is now delivering to backers, and his newest game, The Sixth Realm is now on Kickstarter.Check it out on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/512772051/the-sixth-realmFOLLOW US

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Episode 292: Marvin Hegen, MindBug (Nerdlab Games)

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2024/04/30

As a passionate game designer and podcaster, Marvin began his journey in 2019. In 2021, he launched his first Kickstarter campaign for Mindbug, which was a resounding success and allowed him to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a game designer and publisher. Since then, he has been hard at work developing new Mindbug expansions and card games.Check it out on Gamefound: https://gamefound.com/en/projects/marvin-hegen/mindbug-battlefruitsFOLLOW US ON:Facebook:

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Episode 291: Cameron Dueker, REDLINE: Tactical Card...

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2024/04/22

Cameron wears many hats at Saving Throw Studios, chief among them, REDLINE: Tactical Card Combat game designer. An ex history teacher for 14 years, Cameron is happiest when he is able to be creative. REDLINE is the culmination of many of his nerdier hobbies and pursuits from over the years.Check it out on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/camx/redline-paydayFOLLOW US ON:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/boardgamebingeInstagram:

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Episode 290: Malachi Ray Rempen, Keen Bean Studio

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2024/04/16

Malachi is a boardgame designer, illustrator and publisher with a background in filmmaking and cartooning originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico now living in Ravensburg, Germany. He started his weekly web comicItchy Feet as a side project and it blew up into a viral success. From there, he made a card game based on the comic, then a board game (Roll Camera!) about filmmaking. Now his full time gig is board game publishing and illustration withKeen Bean Studio.Check out Power Vacuum on Kickstarter:

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Episode 289: Hagen Behr, Board Game Bear

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2024/04/09

Hagen Behr. lives in Halle, a medium-sized town in the middle of Germany. By day he works as a general practitioner, by night he is a board game designer. His fascination of area control and war games led to the development of Nerthania, a unique area control game. Nerthania is currently on Kickstarter.Check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tectonia/nerthaniaFOLLOW US ON:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/boardgamebingeInstagram:

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Episode 288: Mark & Maria, Launchboom

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2024/04/02

Mark Pecota -the CEO and Co-founder of LaunchBoom ⁠– a global team of experts who help creators turn their product ideas into real businesses.His deep knowledge of crowdfunding, digital marketing, and scaling companies has been critical to the success of not only his clients, but also his company LaunchBoom, helping creators raise over $125M through crowdfunding since 2013. He is the author of Crowdfunded – the #1 best selling book on crowdfunding, where he breaks down the step-by-step system he and

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Episode 287: Luke & Kyle, Savage Gamez

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2024/03/26

Luke and Kyle are the son and dad team behind Savage Gamez. Inspired by their love for games like Civilization, Catan and other strategy games, they have designed their own strategy board game, Craft & Conquer: Medieval. It's their step up from being big-time game fans to actually making their own game, aiming to get everyone around the table for some fun. It started from a simple thought one Thanksgiving night, after playing an old game with their cousins. Now, it's turned into an epic

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Episode 286: Sam Gullman, Purple Lantern Games

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2024/03/19

Sam Gullman is the designer of The Presence and CEO of Purple Lantern Games. He is running the small publisher with Leonie Magnusson, a studio based in Sweden that focuses on dark and thematic hobby board games. He has a lifelong experience as a hobby board gamer, but also plays tabletop RPG's. In his dayjob he works as an automotive engineer creating next generation electric vehicles, focused on heatpumps and thermal system design.The Presence is a Victorian ghost horror board game currently in its

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Episode 285: T.K., Koltin, Dennis, Kinson Key Games...

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2024/03/12

Kinson Key Games is an independentboard game publisher based out of Tennessee, where founders (and lifelong friends) T.K. King and Koltin Thompson were born and raised, and where they both live with their families. The company was created during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, when the two of them decided to make a board game to pass the time. One game became a dozen games, and out of that creativity, their first major game, Galactic Cruise, was born. Manitoba-based designer Dennis Northcott joined

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Episode 284: David Bock, Binxadinx Games

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2024/03/05

David is the lead game designer and directs the visual direction for the Binxadinx Games. Originally he got into the board game industry as a reviewer after a career as a professional photographer and graphic designer. This led to his first job as a marketing manager and eventually led to him working as a freelance creative to the tabletop industry as The Game Bocks. His clients include Cephalofair, Red Raven Games, Incredible Dream Studios, Ravensburger, and Grandpa Beck’s Games. In his free

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Episode 283: Leonie Grundler, Lioness Games (Biome)

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2024/02/26

A long time board game nerd, Leonie spent a few years working at tech start-ups across Berlin (Airbnb) and San Francisco (Shef) before starting to design her first game, Biome. A few weeks later in January 2023, Leonie decided to take the leap and founded Lioness Games.Protecting biodiversity has been an issue close to her heart since she was eight years old, when she learned about humans' impact on wildlife, which causes 10,000 species to go extinct every year.Lioness Games is an independent board

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Episode 282: Artem Stepanov, Shvili Games

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2024/02/20

Artem comes from over a decade working with videogame and board game publishers. In 2019, he started Shivili Games to bring games to the market that bring family and friends together and provide an unforgettable experience. Shvili Games has published over 20 titles with over 180,000+ units sold. Meenakshi Temple is their first Kickstarter project and they plan to launch 2 more games on Kickstarter in thenext 12 months.Shvili Games is located in Tbilisi, Georgia.Their current Kickstarter for

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Episode 281: Eduardo Baraf, Pencil First Games

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2024/02/14

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 Floriferous, 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 bundle Nature Games Trio: Sunrise, Snowfall, & Floriferous. Check it out:

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Episode 280: Jesse Stacy, Triceratops Games

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2024/02/06

Jesse Stacy is one of 3 partners that have formed Triceratops Games, which launched their debut Kickstarter last year for Journey Adventure Quest (JAQ). Triceratops Games is focused on creating great games that they would play. They are lifelong gamers who have designed games for years and have deep experience in bringing products to market in many fields. Jesse loves playing games, from the board game table to the basketball court, he has a passion for game design and mechanics.You can check out

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Episode 279: Stefan Godot, Godot Games

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2024/01/30

tefan Godot is a nerdy father and the guru of social deduction. He is the designer of Human Punishment - Social Deduction 2.0, the expansion Project: Hell Gate, Human Punishment: The Beginning, and the wildly successfull Among Cultists.For a direct link to the Among Cultists campaign, which is already crushing it on Kickstarter, click here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/amongcultists/among-cultists-new-stuffFOLLOW US ON:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/boardgamebingeInstagram:

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RE-BINGE: Ep 23: Andrew Bosley, Wits End Studios

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2024/01/23

Andrew Bosley is a freelance illustrator and owner of Wits End Studios. He has illustrated many tabletop hits including Everdell, Tapestry, and Merchants of the Dark Road.Andrew lives in northern Arizona with his wife and five kids.He has a ukulele hanging on his wall, so he thinks he can play it.But he really can't.Check out Andrew's work here: https://www.bosleyart.comFOLLOW US ON:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/boardgamebingeInstagram:

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Episode 277: Gabe Barrett, Best With 1 Games (& Board...

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2024/01/16

Gabe Barrett is the founder of the Board Game Design Lab which is the largest community of game designers on the internet and home to a podcast that has aired more than 300 episodes about game design and been downloaded over 2.5 million times.Gabe is also the founder of Best With 1 games, an indie publishing company that focuses on solo experiences and brings a new game to life each and every month.Check out Hunted: Kobayashi Tower on Gamefound here:

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Episode 276: Jason Tagmire, Button Shy Games

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2024/01/09

Jason Tagmire is a game designer from South Jersey. He has been designing and self-publishing board and card games since 2007 under the name Button Shy, and won The Game Crafter's Resource Game Design Contest with his family-friendly resource management game, Sandwich City.He is best known for reducing our 16th president to 16-bits in his card game / video game, Pixel Lincoln. He's the designer of the AEG card-throwing game, Maximum Throwdown. He was also co-set designer on Quarriors: Quest of the

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Episode 275: Ayden Lowther, Draden Games

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2024/01/02

Ayden Lowther is the co-founder of the indie publishing company, Dranda Games. He started designing games in 2017 and self-published his first design in 2019. Since then, Ayden and Dranda Games have published four games from a range of designers that have won them five awards to date.Their newest Kickstarter, Explorers of Navoria, launches on Kickstarter in the coming month. Sign-up here to be notified: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/drandagames/explorers-of-navoria?ref=boxozgFOLLOW US

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Episode 274: Caezar Al-Jassar, Alley Cat Games

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2023/12/26

Caezar Al-Jassar is the director at Alley Cat Games and heads of product development and business strategy.He originally started out as a postdoctoral academic working at British universities and institutions such as Birmingham University, UCL and the LMB with multiple first author papers in the field known as “Structural Biology”. He started Alley Cat Games, which he co-founded with his wife, back in 2016 with the successful Kickstarter campaign for their inaugural game: Lab Wars.With over 80 skus

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