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Finlay Robertson

He/him

Product painter at TTcombat

I am a professional miniature painter who works at a company full time painting their products and developing their hobby paint range

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Diana Crow

she/her

I’m a Boston-based freelance science writer who designs games as a hobby.

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Isaac

he/him

Scholar

Lover of board games, and developer of my own.

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Angus

I’m a game designer from Canada originally, but I have been living in the states for the past few years. I believe in elegant designs that naturally inform players of their crafted and emergent strategies.

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Ryan Iyengar

He/him

Game Designer

Game and puzzle enthusiast, avid Twilight Imperium fan, DnD stan

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Burnest Griffin, III

He/him

Do you remember Titan and Feudal? Where did they go? I like all sorts of games and some of the best game ideas you may never see in the store.

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Benjamin Ng

they/them

Motion Graphics Designer

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Josh Bowman

He/him

Co-Host of Tabletop Submarine

I am a board game designer, Podcaster, and developer. I co-host the Tabletop Submarine with Andrew Stiles and Head Developer at Bifrost Games Development. I spend my days playing, dissecting, and pitching board games to all sorts of people. I love finding the right games for a person and enjoy helping make other people’s games better!

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Jeff Johnston

he/him

Pair of Jacks Games LLC

A part-time game designer focusing on family-friendly games.

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Emily V

She/her

Tabletop game enthusiast and UI/UX designer

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Stas Roud

He/him

A board game enthusiast. I’m the person with a bookshelf full of board games hosting game nights at my house.

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Andrew Thomas

He/Him

Board Game Enthusiast and aspiring Game Designer, currently based in Melbourne, Australia. As a Graphic Designer and Illustrator, I find inspiration from the experiences created by interacting with the world through play.

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Timothy Bumpus

Digital Translation Developer, Enthusiast

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Hamed Pezhman

He/him

PHD student in Organic Chemistry and Board game designer

My name is Hamed Pezhman. I am a board game designer and PHD student in Organic Chemistry. I’m interested board game since 2018.

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Michel Tremblay

He

Creator

Amateur creator. I love to design and do illustrations. Love history and challenging games and puzzles.

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Gregg Drake

DrakeHaven LLC

Designing Games privately since 1997, I recently (2022) began sharing my designs with the BGG community and beyond. Designing theme rich games with unique mechanics that range from light to heavy weight in environments from mundane to fantasy, I like to think my games are “Stories that you Play, Designed for Display”.

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Christine

She/her

As a Girl Scout troop leader I’m alway looking for fun and creative games my girls (6-18 years)can play in groups. I also host family game nights with my niece and nephews ages 23, 21 and 15. We enjoy a wide range of games.

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Brian Compter

Friendly gamer and aspiring designer.

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Jay Bendixen

He/Him

Video Director

Jay is a commercial advertising Video Director & Writer, dipping his toes into the board game design world.

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Nathan Reid

he/him

Indie Board Game Designer and Publisher

As a designer, I concentrate on medium weight co-op games that play within about an hour, which is the requirement of games published under Red Cedar Games (red cedar is a wood that burns fast but hot). I love euro games and games that imitate real-world systems in a straightforward way.

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Amelie

She/her

artist/designer

Amelie is a veteran animator of the video game industry, now designing, illustrating, and publishing family friendly board games in her “free” time as Zerua Games. Over the last 4 years, she has run two successful Kickstarters for Dino Dig: Risky Sites and Synchronized, and released several other games through The Game Crafter. She enjoys collaborating on projects and helping others be creative and manifest their vision.

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Tom F

He/Him

Mr

UK based school teacher, author and games designer

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Carlos Flores

He/Him

Game designer/Sustainability professional

A climate change and sustainability professional by day, and a game designer by night.

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Zach G

He/him

Educator/Board Game Designer

Teacher and Board Game enthusiast. I have played many different kinds of games from the light family friendly games to the heaviest of games and love them all. I am currently designing a few games of my own and plan on publishing them in the near future.

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Josh Costello

he/him

Josh is an aspiring game designer and an accomplished theatre director. He sees both games and theatre as a means of allowing people to share in the creation of stories. His designs include Free Luna (entered in the Heavy category), Single Combat, and Gaffle Dice, with Goblintown in the works. He lives and works in Berkeley, California.

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Amirhossein Aein

he/him

Board Game Designer

I’m an independent Iranian board game designer and developer. Since 2016, I’ve been working as a game designer, developer, and graphic designer with publishers, such as Houpaa games and Roomiz games.

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Amir Salamati

he/him

Game Designer

Board game designer and owner of Roomiz Games. I have developed dozens of games and designed 3 published games. I’m also a community leader in my country since I’ve spent the past seven years building a board game community from scratch to something big.

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Emesh De Zoysa

Howdy, Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Emesh De Zoysa (pseudonym Overlord Drakow). Sensei, mathematician, pianist, athlete, gamer, cookie monster and avocado enthusiast. All describe aspects of who I am. I have been playing games since I was but a child, but board games have taken a more prominent role in my gaming ventures for the past decade or so. In recent years I have taken on the monumental task of developing my own game and I hope by judging other game designs, it will broaden my horizons. Thanks, -Emesh

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Scott

He/him

I’ve loved playing games all my life and some of my best memories are of times around a gaming table. I enjoy a wide variety of games and am generally ready to learn a new one.

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Tony L. Thomas

He

I am a male board gamer with 40 years of experience playing games… 15 years experience play testing games for multiple companies… 6 years experience developing expansions for various games produced by Amarillo Design Bureau. I have over 1,200 games in my personal collection, run a weekly board game meet-up group with over 40 active members, and have done so for 12= years.

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Eric Streed

He/Him

Creative Lead at Witchway Games

I’m the lead artist and designer behind Witchway Games! I love lore based mechanics, and unique themes!

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William Augustus Griffin Sr.

he/him

Game Designer – Kingdom Come

William is from Baltimore, MD and currently lives Kansas City, MO. He is the designer of the Kingdom Come series and many other games. William is a lover of all games including board games, dice games, card games, video games, and game shows. The only thing William enjoys more than playing or designing games is learning to play a new game.

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Shanti Pothapragada

he

I’m a game designer. My game Witches’ Quarrel is in the Medium category. Discord Shanti (he utc-5)#7889 with any questions.

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Gara Khachadour

Producer at Mad Mushroom Games

Experienced Game Artist and Designer with a demonstrated history of working in the entertainment industry. Skilled in different aspects of the 3D production pipeline. I have a design degree focused in Graphic Design and Visual Communication from Lebanese University – Faculty of Fine Arts.

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Xoe

it/its

Game Artisan

An aromantic neurodivergent trans mom game designer. It likes to design low violence games about real conflict, centering how the players reconcile.

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Graham

he/him

Hi, my name is Graham. I love board games, birds and cake!

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Piotrek Chojnowski

he/him

Designer of all things

I like to think of myself as a thinker with skills on a mission. I love a good challenge and coming up with ways to overcome it, especially if it involves creating something that would never exist otherwise. I find the most joy in bringing people together, whether through designing games, coaching sports teams or building a startup across the world. I believe that there is way more that we all have in common than what might seem at first glance, and that we all long for a genuine human connection. Playing in-person games across a physical table is one of the best ways I’ve found to make it possible in today’s world. I’m grateful and proud to be a part of this incredible community!

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Kari Jackson

He/Him

I am amateur game designer who likes to dabble in all game genres. I am intrigued with how imagination can be realized into tangible gaming.

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Jules Ford

she/her

College Student / Game Designer

I’m currently a college student and I’ll be a senior in the fall. At my university I study the Philosophy of Games and in my free time I like to design games!

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Kellen Freeman

he/him

Librarian and Game Designer

Kellen works at a public library in Ohio overseeing their maker space and running the lending board game collection. Outside of work he’s actively involved in the tabletop community as a game designer and volunteer with the Unpub Network.

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Noah Link

he/him

I’m a one-time board game designer and artist, environmental economist, forest technician and farmer. I’ve never been a serious gamer but love various games of all types from Catan and Codenames to euchre and chess, as well as logic puzzles, crosswords and other conundrums. Look forward to trying out some new games!

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Chrissy Schumann

She/her

Board game enthusiast and new designer.

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Patrick Wheltle

he/him

Hello! My name is Pat Wheltle, I make games, I write jokes, and I’m a Guinness World Record holding party wizard!

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Ben Dyson

he / him

Ben Dyson is currently an Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Alberta, Canada

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Raven McKenzie

She/her

Raven McKenzie is a game designer based in Nevada. She draws on her love of food and passion for travel in most realms of her life, from her game designs to her career in international education and her ever-growing reading list.

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Kyle J

Kyle Jarratt is a professional designer/developer from Melbourne, Australia with over 10 years’ experience. A self-proclaimed ‘man of all interests’, Kyle likes to occupy his spare time with everything from surfing to board-gaming, and according to him “The most fun you can have is to play a game, and the most worthwhile thing to do is to make something.” KYNG is my brand/company/group/alias, and I have over 10 or so board games currently in development, as well as various gaming accessory products.

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John Glynn

Board Game Designer Hobbyist

Professional French horn player, turned stay-home-dad, turned recording studio owner, turned I.T. business owner, turned board game designer. Happily married for 30 years.

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Tayzyboy

he/him

Hi, I’m James, I have been designing board games for over 20 years, have worked on several published games with Dice Sports, and am currently collaborating with 3Dartlab. I love RPG games, light party games and solo heavier ones. I’m also an English teacher in South Korea on the beautiful Jeju island.

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Tracy

I design games with Little j Games.

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Jeff Black

he/him

Little j Games

Hi, I’m Jeff Black. I’m a game designer from Massachusetts, and I’m part of the team at Little j Games. We make all kinds of games. Our specialty is light to middle weight games that kids and grown-ups can both enjoy.

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Kevin

He/Him

Dad, engineer, gaming enthusiast

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Loren S. Miller

He/him

NeoTron Design, Founder

Started game design as a kid but didn’t develop anything seriously until I became a filmmaker, documenting inventors and process. I invented a game to understand the process, and came up with RingStone, which then developed into a much shinier object when I joined the Game Makers Guild in 2015. Today it’s in curation and gradually acquiring a polish. In addition to my work as a film editor, I also document some the GMG workshops I’ve experienced which helped me understand the many facets of the game developers world.

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Harold Huslage

he/him

BrainWave Games LLC

Owner of BrainWave Games. Enjoy bringing ideas to fruition through the development and production of games.

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Lucas Gentry

He/Him

Game Designer

Board Game Designer with a passion for helping people build community, develop empathy and understanding, and be stretched out of their comfort zones.

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Demi Ernst

she/her

DemiNationGames

Hi, I am Demi. The DemiNationGames Mastermind!

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August Luhrs

they/he

Professor of Game Design

I’m a game designer, XR technologist, artist, and educator. I’m all about creating “Coliberation through Physidigital Play” – using networked devices in playful meatspace experiences to foster empowerment and connection in groups.

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Mitch Walls

He/him

M is for Meeple

I have been playing board games on and off my entire life. With the last few years diving deeper into the hobby and playing anything and everything I can get my hands on. My girlfriend, Morgan, and I have a YouTube channel called M is for Meeple where we review games, make list videos, joke around, and more. I love the creative process and the hard work and dedication it takes for someone to produce a board game. I’ve recently had the chance to work with a few self publishers and take a peak behind the curtain of game design, so I have a new found appreciation for any one committed to board game design. I look forward to seeing all the games submitted and hope I can offer constructive criticism to help improve some games.

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Clarence Simpson

he/him

Game Designer

Clarence Simpson is probably trying to do too many things at once right now. He is a veteran of the video game industry, a member of the Game Designers of North Carolina, and has been designing tabletop games seriously since early 2019. His design, Shaking the Tree, won the 2019 HABA USA Design Contest and was a runner-up for the 2020 Cardboard Edison award. He currently has one published game, Merchants of Magick (Rock Manor Games). He also has 4 more signed and upcoming games: a Merchants of Magick expansion (Rock Manor Games), Dino Dinner Time (BoardGameTables), Letters from the Otherside (BoardGameTables), and one unannounced title. His games are mostly harmless.

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Glenn Cotter

he/him

Full-time VFX artist, part-time game designer.

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Jeff Warrender

Designer / Publisher / Blogger / Author

Game designer and publisher. Credits include The Sands of Time (Spielworxx 2018) and The Acts of the Evangelists (Belltower Games 2022). Author of “You Said This Would Be Fun”, a book about game design.

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Lex

he/they

Graphic design student and a TikTok cosplayer!

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Robin

He/Him

Hobbyist gamer/designer with a degree in game design and experience running a hobby gaming store. I have a soft spot for complex and epic games, but definitely appreciate simplicity. I especially appreciate games that feature complex interactions of simple mechanics and objects.

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Eric Ledger

He/him

I’m a board game designer in California.

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Jeff Grisenthwaite

he/him

Game designer, dad, product manager, runner

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Olivia Gabbay

she/her

The End Games

Olivia is a manager at her friendly local game store, an avid board gamer, and an amateur astronomer.

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Shelly Sinha

She / Her

Bluencore

Founder of Bluencore Studio, an Indie Game Studio that offers a range of products & services in the space of DIY, hobby, toys and games. Our journey started from a beautiful bungalow in Mumbai, doing experiential workshops around art & culture for children & family. That is where we stumbled upon the ultimate joy of creating magic by combining fun & learning & stimulating creative imagination with a hands on experience. In my corporate career, I have received leadership awards as Best Indigenous Innovator award for creative thinking. I have enjoyed the rare privilege of being nominated as a business delegate for Cannes. I am extremely passionate about certain causes, one of them being combining learning with game play. I have found my ultimate mojo in the creation of Bluencore Studio and nurturing many artistic ideas into meaningful experiences. Bluencore Studio revels in design thinking, artistic expression & experiential gameplay & believes in transforming Ideas into Experiences !

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Brian Chandler

he/him

Colorblind Games

Brian documents his efforts to make games accessible to colorblind games through game reviews, game modifications, interviews, and essays at Colorblind Games. He supports video game accessibility as part of PlayAbility Consulting, and he streams as a member of The Tabletop Express team. Brian is also a freelance editor and proofreader; recent credits include Cascadia and Viticulture World.

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Riley Stock

he/they

The Board Game Community Show Podcast

I dabble in game design and I’m the host of The Board Game Community Show podcast where I casually interview folks in the community.

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Julianne

They/Them

College student, Fan of boardgames and amateur designer

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Craig This

he/him

Game playtester and game rules editor/proofreader

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Conan Daly

(he/him)

Conan Daly is an independent game & LARP designer based in Caerphilly in South Wales in the UK, and part of the team behind the successful sci-fi live-roleplaying system Orion Sphere LRP. An avid boardgamer for over 20 years, he enjoys playing and designing deep, strategic games with a focus on player interaction and negotiation.

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Shari

she

CEO

CEO of Ad Magic, Breaking Games, Print and Play and Blackbox Systems I am a game manufacturer, publisher and distributor. We also run a 100 thousand square foot distribution warehouse in NJ and distribute games worldwide for our clients.

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Jeremiah

he/him

Judger of games. Best at giving feedback on typos and rule clarity

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Aaron Beedle

he/him

Freelance Game Analyst

I’m a human creativity multi-tool with an aptitude for working with others. I have experience in a variety of creative fields and have worked with hundreds of game developers on their projects. I’m also deeply invested in philosophy and music, and I also take a strong interest in psychology. Games formed the bulk of my social conditioning as a child and a young adult, so whilst I certainly turned out a little unusual, I’m at home looking after the things that once helped me through life, tuning and amplifying games, diagnosing their health problems and highlighting their potential.

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Brad Bachelor

he/him

Game Designer. Librarian. Hiker.

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Jon Gill

he/him

Game Designer

Jon is a game designer, developer, and occasional podcaster. He’s worked on board games, digital games, role-playing games, and live gaming events. He enjoys fancy whiskies and long conversations about game design and the human experience.

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Pearl H

she

A game lover like everyone else, I enjoy euros, social deductions, and RPGs. Some of my favourites are Power Grid, Brass Birmingham, Resistance and Bites. In 2019, I dipped my toe into game design mostly focused on co-creating Cake of Doom, a light take-that card game with a wacky theme.

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Joe Slack

he/him

Board Game Design Course

Joe Slack is a board game designer, publisher, instructor, and the author of the #1 international best-selling book, The Board Game Designer’s Guide, along with 3 other books on game design. He has taught Game Design and Development at Wilfrid Laurier University and runs the Board Game Design Course, an online course for new game designers. Joe has 4 games published with other publishers (Zoo Year’s Eve, Kingdom’s Candy: Monsters, Four Word Thinking, and King of Indecision) and one self-published game (Relics of Rajavihara) and expansion (Montalo’s Revenge).

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Velgus

he/him

Board game and puzzle designer, developer, and editor

Howdy, I’m Velgus! I am constantly playing and creating games of all kinds, with a special focus on tabletop and physical games. I am based in the East Bay Area near San Francisco, USA.

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Marieke de Wijse

she/her

isaga sc member, chair sig sustainability

I am a researcher, designer and facilitator of simulation games for 20 years now and still learning and developing, I conduct intervention and effectivity research in game simulation and sustainability games have my focus in the broad sense of the word

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Steven Shields

He/Him

Co-owner of Crystal Dagger Games Ltd

Game designer and publisher living in London, UK. Created the game Crypt of Chaos, and self-published it without crowd funding to fantastic critical acclaim – the game is about to be re-printed for the third time, and Steve has two new game designs in progress, the first of which is due to be published in December 2022.

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Kat

she/her

I Play Red

I’m Kat aka I Play Red. I have worked within the Board Game community since 2014, as a Blogger, Reviewer, Playtester and Demonstrator and well as event staff at various shows and conventions all over the world. I have also been described as a Con Junkie.

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Stuart

Pitch Black Studio Copywriting

A games-obsessed writer. Even made games my major at Uni – that’s how gamey I am. Currently working more gamification into my copywriting, coming up with game design elements for businesses.

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Mark McGee

I am a game designer in North Carolina. I spend most of my days doing technical number crunching work, but I’m artsy at heart. I play games that take place above the table, in between players.

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Michael Lewis

he/him

Game designer working to get first game on Kickstarter

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Chris Turner

Any Pronouns

I enjoy games that have the potential for crazy situations that no one has ever seen before, which is basically every single game of Cosmic Encounter.

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Tah C.

He/him

Operations Manager at Boda Borg Boston

I’m just a guy who loves to try new board games. Ready to give constructive criticism!

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Louissia

She/her

Play designer

Play designer and passionate about board games, I love to discover new games and I’m especially interested in the storytelling and symbolic of the game, and how the mechanic serves it

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Nathan Thornton

He/him

Co-designed a party game called Medium that came out in 2019, as well as That Old Wallpaper (coming this year from AEG), Green Team Wins (coming this year from 25th Century Games), and Everything Ever (coming in 2023 from Floodgate Games).

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Garth Avery

he/him

Lead Gameplay Designer

Board Game fan, sci-fi/fantasy enthusiast, and designer of the upcoming interactive eldritch deck building game, Primordial Secrets

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Miguel Conceição

he/him

Wandering unplugged in the land of games. Freelancing. Playing. Reading. Proof reading. Writing. Photographing. Translating. Testing. Designing. Sharing stories.

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Rick Fuqua

He

A long time amateur board game designer and connoisseur based in Tokyo, Japan

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Phil Amylon

he/him

Board Game Designer – Dire Wolf Digital

Phil is a board game designer with Dire Wolf Digital in Denver, CO. He has been active in the design community as a member of the Boston Game Makers Guild and was one of the founders of Heavyweight Championship Playtesting. During the summer of 2021 he rode a bicycle across the United States, travelling over 4200 miles in order to visit and playtest games with various design communities from Hartford, CT to San Francisco, CA. Outside of board games he enjoys playing music, writing, biking, running, and tennis.

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Andrew Stiles

He/Him

Board Game Designer

I love to create games, and talk design

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Justin Antezana

he/him

I love to play, design & teach games! I am a returning judge for the last few years and love the chance to help others make their games the best versions they can. I enjoy the outdoors and can’t wait to start hiking and camping again this year out in central virginia. Please feel free to add me on any of your social media platforms, including BGG, so I can help you with your design from this contest & beyond. I’m excited for another year of giving feedback to all of you, good luck, have fun & stay sweet!

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John D. Wood

He/him

Game Designer

An up and coming motivated designer, designing for over 3 years. With plenty of games down the pipline from various publishers, I excel in designing the little/small games section, my first published game being Making Manhattan (2021, Button Shy Games), but my taste for games is all over the map.

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Matt Shoemaker

he/him

Owner of Hit ’em With a Shoe

Librarian and head of Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio at Temple University. Board game publisher. Designer of “Bee Lives: We Will Only Know Summer” and several unpublished educational game/play works. Contributing author to “Feminist War Games? mechanisms of war, feminist values, and interventional games”

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Andy D

Andy started designing board games since 2020 and has won prizes in 3 game design contests. He has hosted 2 game design contests on IndiaBoardGames.net. He is a regular playtesting Event Host on the Break My Games discord server.

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Chris Anderson

He/Him

Host of The Board Game Workshop

Host of The Board Game Workshop. Founder of Venntik Games Designer of In Vino Morte and Tempus Quest, both published by Button Shy Games. Member of the Boston Game Makers Guild and Southern Mass Game Designers. I live in Massachusetts with my wife, Mary, and our three cats, Koshka, Krypton, and Argon.