Thanks to all the amazing guests who agreed to join my for my final episode, as well as the guests and chatters and supporters who made the previous 999 episodes such a joy.
Today, we're chatting about all sorts of topics that will hopefully entertain, inspire, and inform you.
Links:
Twitch is best for live conversation
http://twitch.tv/stuffByBez
YT is best for watching after:
10: just Bez
10:20 am - Rita Modl - New beginnings!
10:40 am - Kirsten Lunde - being part of the community!
11:00 - Ryan Estrada - censorship and being banned!
11:20 - Glenn Ford - non-discrete games; near-infinite granularity!
11:40 - Jess Metheringham - greeting card games & constraints!
12:00 - Alan Paull - how game design has changed!
12:20 - Jo Kelly - wordgames!
12:40 - Kenechukwu Ogbuagu KC- everyone's a winner in BG Cafes!
1:00 - Chris, Suzanne Zinsli- contests!
1:20 - Tory Brown - games can have difficult topics!
1:40 - Kathleen Mercury- what can games teach us?
2pm - Natalia Pazar - the personalities of gaming stores!
2:20 - Kristin/Andy Looney - being brilliant people
2:40 - Ellie Dix - Generating ideas for new games!
3pm - Anya Combs - What is a community?
3:20 - Eric Lang - motivation!
3:40 - Eric Reuss - changing expectations and being different!
4pm - Amabel Holland - to heck with naysayers!
4:30pm - Elizabeth Hargrave - selling a million!
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Rita Modl was born in 1983 near Munich, Germany. She worked in a boring bank job before studying Fotodesign and has been working as a Fotodesigner since 2010.
Rita has also been working as a boardgame designer since 2016. Games include Men at work, Hoppytop, and King of 12.
https://www.instagram.com/ritaonfire
https://spielenaufsohr.podigee.io/
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Kirsten Lunde is a designer/publisher working on a classical music themed engine builder called Ovation, coming to KS soon. Ovation was sparked by her kids, family gaming, and learning through play.
Kirsten is also the winner of the 2022 ELL deck game design contest with Questabell.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lookinglassworkshop/ova...
https://lookingglassworkshop.com/index.html
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Ryan Estrada is an artist, author and adventurer who has made comics for Popeye, Garfield, Star Trek and more. His latest graphic novels are Student Ambassador: The Missing Dragon and Banned Book Club. Occulted will be released very soon.
ryanestrada.com
instagram.com/ryanestradadotcom/
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Glenn Ford was the Lead Developer for Osprey Game’s Gaslands and Gaslands: Refuelled, as well as A Billion Suns with Mike Hutchinson. He also successfully Kickstarted three titles: SSO, Moonflight, and Turing.
Glenn's background involves degrees in Psychology and Philosophy and careers with the London Fire Brigade, Events Management and Construction.
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Jessica Metheringham first worked in parliament, then monitoring elections, and then doing parliamentary work on social justice campaigns.
Jess has published Disarm the Base and Library Labyrinth, as well as several simple roll-and-colour games. She remains politically active, and is involved in the Quaker community.
https://librarylabyrinth.com/
https://dissentgames.com/
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For 40 years, Alan Paull has been designing, publishing, exhibiting, and living life to the fullest. Notable games include Ming Voyages, Airfix Battles, Confucius, March of Progress, and Kingmaker.
Able to draw on from a wealth of experience and happy to continue learning whilst having a laugh.
http://surprisedstaregames.co.uk/
alan@alanpaull.co.uk
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Jo Kelly is a Zenobia finalist with MOLLY HOUSE, ELL deck design winner with DWINDELL, and an excellent wordsmith when it comes to wordgames.
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Kenechukwu Ogbuagu KC is a Nigerian boardgame designer. They published their first game 10 years ago, and continued releasing games under the label NIBCARD Games. KC also set up a boardgame cafe and the African Boardgame Convention (AB Con).
https://nibcardgames.com/
twitter.com/nibcardgames/
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Cardboard Edison is a board game design studio and website run by Chris & Suzanne Zinsli. Published games include Ceylon, Cobras, Tessen, and Retail Rejects.
Since 2012, their curated board game design tips blog has expanded into an annual award for unpublished designs, a directory of publishers, industry infographics and interviews, and a podcast.
https://cardboardedison.com/
https://cardboardedison.com/award/
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Tory Brown is the designer of Votes for Women, & proud member of Team Get sh*t Done. Tory is a longtime activist and works as a political communications strategist for progressive causes. Inspired to create Votes for Women by games like 1960: The Making of The President, she also enjoys playing the simpler "modern classics".
https://votesforwomen.com
https://twitter.com/torylynn
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Kathleen Mercury, M.A.T., M.E.T., was teaching gifted middle school students for 15 years, before moving to Transylvania.
Kathleen cohosts the Games in Schools and Libraries and On Board Games podcasts. Her game Greece Lightning was published, with more on the way. Kathleen thinks happiness comes from being able to create the life you want, and she feels very fortunate that she's been able to do that.
https://www.kathleenmercury.com/
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Natalia Pazar is a Brand Ambassador for Lucky Duck Games (demoing games in stores and at events), and a board game collector and enthusiast. Natalia is absolutely in love with the UK's board gaming community.
Natalia also runs a strength training studio and makes people lift heavy things.
https://www.instagram.com/cardboard_and_iron
http://strengthlabbristol.co.uk/
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Kristin Looney is the CEO of Looney Labs and co-designer of several games, including Fluxx. Andrew J. Looney is the chief game designer for Looney Labs, with hundreds of games designed. His most notable works include Fluxx, Chrononauts, and the Icehouse pyramid game system.
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Ellie Dix is a board game designer specialising in games for families with children aged 8+. Ellie is on a mission to get more families playing games. Her book, The Board Game Family: Reclaim your children from the screen provides a roadmap for integrating board gaming into family life. Ellie is a maths fan and a drama queen.
https://www.thedarkimp.com/
ellie@thedarkimp.com
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Anya Combs has been in the games industry for over a decade wearing many hats. She started as the Developer Relations person at AddictingGames.com, had a semi-brief stint at Nickelodeon, then became the Director of Games at Kickstarter.
She now works at BackerKit, consulting with game creators looking to run crowdfunding projects, build their communities, and market their games.
Anya is also a freelance musician in NYC, playing saxophone all over the tri-state area."
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Eric M. Lang is a freelance game designer based in Toronto, Canada. He began his career as a playtester for FASA before self-publishing his first game, Mystick, in 2000. He has since worked on 500+ things including Blood Rage, Marvel United, and Quarriors! For 3 years, he was CMON's director of game design. Now he works at Exploding Kittens.
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Eric Reuss is a board game designer responsible for Spirit Island, and the event ParanoiaFest (a semi-live-action full-weekend multi-GM Paranoia RPG that ran once a year during the 90s). He hopes to top these in the future, but is no rush, as parenting has taught him some lessons in patience, and in interleaving smaller projects among the huge ones.
Eric previously worked as a programmer.
https://rericreuss.com/
https://ohai.social/@REricReuss
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Amabel Holland is the in-house designer for, and co-owner of, Hollandspiele. She is probably best known for Table Battles, This Guilty Land, Irish Gauge, and Agricola, Master of Britain. She is proud to make weird board games and enjoys life as a poly trans gal.
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Elizabeth Hargrave flew onto the boardgame scene with Wingspan in 2019, which went on to win tens of awards, including the Kennerspiel des Jahres. Elizabeth is also responsible for Tussie Mussie, Mariposas, The Fox Experiment, and Undergrove. She is a former civil servant and an ongoing advocate for nature and feminism.
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