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Gilles Turbide is a board game author and designer from Quebec city.

A great enthusiast of tile-laying games, he enjoys creating strategic mechanics that are both accessible and engaging. He is notably the author of Kalypso and Tolleno, two tile-laying games with distinct themes. In his professional life, he works as a UX designer for a major insurance company.

His newest title, Kalypso, can be seen on Kickstarter here: https://www.k...

Chris Backe (rhymes with hockey) is a board game designer, entrepreneur, and athlete. He started making games in 2016, and today has over a dozen games signed or published. He co-founded Virtual Playtesting (a Discord server for online playtesting) in 2020 https://discord.gg/QhtHwvKB9G, and in 2021, he launched the first version of Tabletop Publishers. He started self-publishing games in 2022 with No Box Games (now Shiny Pigeo...

Toth Games is a joint project by Brian and Michael Toth to build fun games with minimal downtime, exciting mechanics, and rock-solid balance. We are two brothers who have played thousands of games together, and in 2017 we set out to capture the excitement of multiplayer fighting games on the tabletop. Legends of the Arena is the product of eight years of prototyping & playtesting to dial in the feeling of landing a pe...

Sam DeLiberato is a Co-Founder of Lightening Lake Games, a publishing company formed by three friends with a deep love for board games. Combining artistic vision, game mechanics expertise, and a knack for design, these friends embarked on a mission to create unique and engaging games. Driven by creativity and a desire to bring people together, they are excited to share their innovative board game designs with the world starting wit...

Josh Roberts is the Co-Founder of Very Special Games, a two-person creative studio he launched with Evan in Memphis, TN in 2019. The duo started out scribbling their first prototype on sticky notes during lunch breaks at their old consulting jobs, which eventually grew into their first hit game, Charty Party, on Kickstarter. Since then, Josh has been helping create quirky, laughter-filled party games that bring people together—even...

Whales Entertainment is a passionate game publisher co-founded by game enthusiasts Hanshi 'Hans' Li and Yue 'Luna' Ming, based in Los Angeles. We’re committed to providing a platform for Chinese designers to refine their creations and introduce them to a worldwide audience, building the bridge between Chinese and international board game communities. They we always welcome outstanding games from all over the world.

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Mathias Wigge is a German game designer and graduate in business informatics. He became well-known through the game Ark Nova, published in 2021 by Feuerland Spiele. His debut work has won multiple awards, including the Deutscher Spielepreis 2022.

During his studies in business informatics in Paderborn, Mathias Wigge developed an interest in competitive card games. He devoted much of his free time to the tournament scene of Magic: Th...

ordan Plosky is the Co-Founder & CEO of Zoop Collective, Inc.  Started in 2020 as a full service crowdfunding platform, Zoop has expanded into the world of game development.  Care Bears is an officially licensed game from CloudCo Entertainment by the licensee of record, Naftos.  Zoop is providing design and development on the game, as well as handling the crowdfunding.

You can check out the campaign for Care Bears...

Steven Aramini is an avid player, designer and publisher of board games. His first published game, Yardmaster, helped get his foot in the door in the industry in 2014 and he has continued designing ever since, creating such games as Animal Kingdoms, Sprawlopolis, Circle the Wagons, Ancient Realm, Station to Station and many others. In 2023, he ventured into the self-publishing realm, creating Write Stuff Games and publishing Flipto...

Simon is an Italian-Canadian, raised in Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Canada, and has worked as a music teacher in New Zealand, the UAE, and now Ethiopia. He has designed One Card Maze, Hand of Cthulhu, Fave Game, Beginner Briscola, and Starter Scopa. When Simon isn't teaching music or game designing he is making digital art or playing music at school or venues around Addis Ababa. His passion lies in logo and poster design an...

Since 2018, Dead Alive Games has aimed to design and publish high quality games that are inclusive and representative of the diverse gaming community they belong to. 

They are the designers, developers, and publisher who have successfully funded and fulfilled critically acclaimed games such as Omicron Protocol, Lunar Rush, Cyber Pet Quest.

Their newest entry into the board game world is Kittens in Space, which is now on Kickstar...

Ammon Anderson is a lifelong creative. His background is in Fortune 500 corporate design and brand management. He is a game designer, graphic designer, Art director, illustrator, and public speaker.

He is the owner of Levity Games, a game design studio and Etsy shop that makes sticker upgrades for board games. 

Ammon is the designer of Gnome Hollow (also Illustrator), Twinkle Twinkle, Cats vs Cucumbers and T....

With over 15 years experience as a branding and product design expert, Gavan has been creative director and overseen production for many board games. Gavan’s true passion lies in game design and development. Roxley’s most recent campaign was for Excalibur a 2-8 player lighthearted game of tomfoolery, scumbagger, and hilarious backstabbery.

Check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/roxley/excalibur

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Josh Bowman is the COO of CakePie Games and Cohost of Tabletop Submarine. He is also a co designer of the game Guns or Treasure and contributor on the Level Up Board Game Podcast. He also has a passion for food as his day jobs is a Pitmaster at his families bbq join.

His current title, Beach Day, is currently on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/beachday/beach-day-a-relaxing-strategy-card-game

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Simon Ennis is the award-winning director of the feature films Lunarcy! and You Might As Well Live. His work has screened at TIFF, SXSW, IDFA, CPH:DOX, Slamdance, True/False, & Fantasia, and been praised by the NY Times, Variety, IndieWire and the Toronto Star. The Hobby: Tales From The Tabletop, his latest feature documentary, had its world premiere at SXSW, is currently playing theatrically in Canada, and will be released on ...

Waterworks Games is a Portland-based design studio crafting original board games that make game night memorable. From Alpenglow and PDX to Red Dog Junction (now live on Kickstarter), they design and publish games that blend strategy, theme, and fun. 

Sean Wittmeyer is a designer, architect, and systems thinker passionate about creating meaningful experiences—digital, physical, and social. With a background in architecture and s...

Minor Disaster Games is a family business created by brothers Kristian and Liam as the design team, and Kristian’s wife Caley taking on the business and operation of the company. 

Their first game, Trouble On The Tempus is a co-op time travelling disaster management game.

Kristian is a writer, filmmaker, gamer, and all round creative scatterbrain who is always working on some project or other. He began working on "Trouble on the...

Everland Studio is an enthusiastic new indie publisher and a sister brand to the established Lemery Games. Lemery Games, another independent board game publisher with a proven history of crafting and releasing games, has successfully managed and fulfilled five Kickstarter campaigns, showcasing their expertise in crowdfunding and delivering high-quality board games to backers worldwide. 

Dario:

Dario is a passionate board game de...

Mike, Sean, & Logan are three friends with a shared dream to make games that bring people together. Glasshouse Games was born from their love of storytelling, strategy, and immersive worlds. They strive to make games, created by gamers, for gamers, while being wrapped in a beautifully curated world and design. Whisker Wars is their first (BIG) step toward that vision, and they’re thrilled to share it with you!

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