Bitewing Games Podcast
At Bitewing Games, our mission is to create and share classy board games that bite. For hobbyist gamers, this podcast will help you to explore your own tastes in the hobby and perhaps discover your next favorite game that fits those tastes. For game designers, this podcast will offer you more tools to add to your utility belt and metrics to measure your projects by. Subscribe to our newsletter at BitewingGames.com, follow us on social media, and stay tuned for exciting things to come!
Episodes
Joe (Allplay) and Nick (Bitewing Games) discuss all things marketing board games:
- Revealing a new game
- Kickstarter marketing
- Paid marketing
- Marketing after release
Check out Azure and Moytura on Kickstarter here.
Check out Container on Kickstarter here.
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Nick shares his 1st impressions of hot new board games including:
- 0:38 - Leviathan Wilds
- 6:24 - Positano
- 9:20 - Critter Kitchen
- 12:40 - Amazonia Park
- 16:51 - Shell We?
- 19:30 - Hot Streak
SILOS, EGO, and ORBIT are now available to order. Order here!
Nick shares 15 more of his most anticipated board games of 2025 including a tiny rippable game, a big swampy game, and everything in-between.
Follow the Moytura and Azure Kickstarter here.
Preorder Gingham, Gazebo, and Bombastic (in late August) here.
Note: This episode also exists in video form on YouTube.
Joe (Allplay) and Nick (Bitewing Games) discuss the thing that holds the bits — board game boxes and packaging:
- How much does the box matter?
- Box sizes — big vs small, airy vs tight
- Alternatives to standard boxes
- Box backs — thinking outside the box
Check out the current Kickstarter for Bitewing's Travel Line: Gazebo and Gingham.
Nick and Chris Yi (The Dice Tower) discuss travel size board games and share their favorites!
Check out the upcoming Kickstarter project for Bitewing's Travel Line: Gazebo and Gingham, launching on April 22!
Note: This episode also exists in video form on YouTube.
Joe (Allplay) and Nick (Bitewing Games) discuss components in board games:
- The value of component hooks/gimmicks.
- Can games be too overproduced or too underproduced?
- The impact of components in the board game experience.
Check out the upcoming Kickstarter for Bitewing's Travel Line: Gazebo and Gingham.
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Nick shares his 1st impressions of 5 new board games:
0:42 - Agent Avenue
5:13 - Altay: Dawn of Civilization
8:50 - The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game
12:34 - Nova Era
18:20 - SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
After two plays, Nick shares his experience and impressions in this full preview of Merchants of Andromeda by Reiner Knizia and Robert Hovakimyan.
Nick shares his Top 20 Board Games of 2024 as well as many other awards for what was a killer year for board gaming.
Note: This episode also exists in video form on YouTube.
Joe (Allplay) and Nick (Bitewing Games) discuss board game development. What is development? How do publishers take a design from signed prototype to published game? Best practices for board game development?
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Note: This episode also exists in video form on YouTube.
Joe (from Allplay) and Nick (from Bitewing Games) share insights and experiences of board game publishing! Get a peek behind the curtains of the board game industry. This series is meant to be both interesting to hobbyist gamers and helpful to other publishers, designers, and professionals in board games.
In this episode, Joe and Nick discuss board game conv...
Nick shares 18 of his most anticipated Board Games of 2025!
Preorder Iliad, Ichor, SILOS, EGO, and/or ORBIT here.
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Nick revisits over 50 of the best board games of 2023 by categorizing them into lovers, keepers, dumpers, flingers, and seekers.
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Nick finishes his Top 100 Board Games of All Time list by sharing games 25-1 (plus how he would rank Bitewing's publications among his Top 100).
Check out SILOS, EGO, and ORBIT on Kickstarter!
Nick continues his Top 100 Board Games of All Time list by sharing games 50-26.
Check out Reiner Knizia's SHOCKING Confession Video.
Check out the Epic Knizia Project, now live on Kickstarter.
Nick continues his Top 100 Board Games of All Time list by sharing games 75-51.
Check out Reiner Knizia's SHOCKING Confession Video.
Check out the Epic Knizia Project, now live on Kickstarter.
Nick shares his Top 100 Board Games of All Time, starting with games 100-76!
Follow the Secret Epic Big Box Knizia Kickstarter Project, launching this month!
Nick shares his 1st impressions of board games he's been playing lately:
0:41 - Courtisans
3:43 - Ark Nova: Marine Worlds
7:42 - Klink
11:22 - Heat: Heavy Rain Expansion
13:55 - Expressions
17:46 - Things in Rings
21:48 - Arcs
Don't miss our Secret Epic Big Box Knizia Project launching in October! Subscribe to the Bitewing Games Newsletter to follow along.
Nick shares his 1st impressions of new-ish games he has been playing recently:
0:49 - Iki
3:27 - Palmyra (Buy Low Sell High)
6:12 - Harmonies
9:33 - A Message from the Stars
12:40 - Pax Penning
17:45 - Knarr
Check out our new releases (now shipping worldwide) including Cascadero, Cascadito, Spectral, and Trailblazers: Sasquatch Expansion.
Nick shares his first impressions of new-to-him board games he's been playing lately:
- Through the Desert: Bazaar Expansion - 0:45
- Innovation - 6:26
- Apiary - 11:13
- Wonder Bowling - 14:46
- Skyrise - 17:23
- London (Second Edition) - 25:22
- Great Plains - 27:50
Follow the Kickstarter page for Iliad and Ichor. Thanks for your support!
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