Board Game Binge – Details, episodes & analysis

Recognizing the absence of authentic Asian-themed games created by Asian designers, Pauline & Marie founded Hot Banana Games to bridge cultural gaps and foster understanding through board games. Their mission is to craft culturally rich games that evoke nostalgia or ignite curiosity about Asian culture, delivering more meaningful and engaging experiences to every table.

Their first board game, Steam Up: A Feast of Dim Sum, raise over half a million dollars on Kickstarter and was a fusion between their passion for cherished family traditional meal and the board gaming hobby.

Pauline Kong is a Canadian-born Hong Kong girl. She grew up playing Atari and Nintendo games such as Super Mario and Zelda on gameboy to playing Mahjong, Gomoku, and Novuss. Her day job is an ICU and ADC nurse. She is also a retired magician/producer as her focus has been shifted over to board gaming with her interest towards worker placement games like Lords of Waterdeep & polygamino games like Planet Unknown.

Marie Wong was born in Hong Kong and raised in Canada. Her day job is a UI/UX designer with skills that can easily transition to use in board game design. She grew up playing Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, and many other JRPGs on PlayStation. Her addictions to board games started after Pauline introduced Carcassonne to her. Her favourite type of games are tile placement and occasionally Euro games such as the classic Castles of Burgundy!

You can check out their newest Kickstarter for Moon Bunny here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hotbananagames/moon-bunny

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Absurdist Productions is an indie board game studio in Oklahoma City, owned by Will Thompson and David Thomas. They pride themselves in creating games with unique themes that are well-researched, beautifully produced, widely accessible, and above all, fun to play.

Will Thompson (Cherokee Nation) is a professional game designer, writer, instructional designer, and co-founder of Absurdist Productions. Will’s designs include several published games including PaleoVet, several RPGs, educational video games, and other applications.

Winter Rabbit is Will’s second published board game for general release, and he couldn’t be more excited to share his culture. 

For Will, this game represents years of hard work developing the craft of game design to create something he can be truly proud of.

In his spare time (which is far too infrequent), Will researches obscure lore, pines to get lost in the forest, and paints tiny spacemen.

David Thomas is attracted to old and strange things. Antique tools, pulp magazines, pictures of dogs in military regalia. Similarly, he leans towards games with more esoteric themes like filling curio cabinets, working as a telephone operator, or fighting over food at a restaurant. In that last vein, David is the creator of Absurdist Productions’ first game, Churrascaria: A Cutthroat Game of Gluttony and has been co-author on both solo RPGs Transformation and Seven Murders til Midnight.

For Winter Rabbit, David focused primarily on playtesting, streamlining mechanics, and balance as the game developed, as well as encouraging Will to inject as much Cherokee culture into the game as possible. The end result he hopes is a game that is authentic, engaging, and widely accessible.

You can check out the Kickstarter for Winter Rabbit here:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/941694206/winter-rabbit

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Elias Giannopoulos, is co-founder and co-owner of meeplekeepers and lead product designer. 

After spending many years in the 3D printing industry as an engineer and 3D designer, Elias started designing inserts and board game accessories. 

Meeple Keepers first crowdfunding campaign was for Gameframe, a collection of 3d files you can use to transform your standard table to an epic gaming table.

Their second big crowdfunding project: Gamelax, is a completely new collection of files that helps you transform your bookcase to a unique and modular games library.

You can check out the Gamelax campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/meeplekeepers/gamelax

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Alex Young and Morgan Parker are both co-creators of Pretty Princess Pomelo: A Magical Girl Combat Card Game. They are both Graphic Designers but also have additional complementary skill sets. Morgan creates character and layout designs for the game along with authoring the Pretty Princess Pomelo Manga series. He also has featured artwork in Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed the video game. Alex is focuses on game design along with leading the business side of the team.

Last year they successfully funded Pretty Princess Pomelo, and now are back with additional add-ons, artwork and complementary elements to the game.

Check out Pretty Princess Pomelo on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/teampomelogames/pretty-princess-pomelo-card-game-encore

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Tristam Rossin is an artist, illustrator, board game designer and the founder and owner of Bright Light Games. He has two titles signed with Skybound board games and has worked on over a dozen successfully funded kickstarter projects and published games. Tristan's next self-published title is a Wayfarer's Tale. Check out a Wayfarer's Tale on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wayfarerstale/a-wayfarers-tale-0

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Henry Audubon is a full-time game designer with published titles to his credit such as PARKS, Trails, Space Park, and Kingswood. Chris Kingsnorth is the Developer of Cosmoctopus, the premier title of UK-based Paper Fort Games. Paper Fort Games’ mission is to create accessible games that promote storytelling, co-operative play and friendly competition.

Cosmoctopus is in its final week on Kickstarter. Check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paperfortgames/cosmoctopus-the-board-game

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TJ SWING is the Lead-Designer for Zykotic Games. His love for hiking the Appalachian Mountain region and heavily-themed board games spawned the idea for Hike It! which has been in development for over four years. RON HALLIDAY is the Co-Designer of Hike it! He is a professional cartographer with nearly twenty-five years of experience making maps for clients all over the world. He began designing board games in 2015, and Hike It! is the second game for which he has created a map (the first being Seven Bridges). 

Check out the Hike it! campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hikeit/hike-it-the-backpacking-board-game

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Heather Newton is the Lead Organizer for Protospiel Online. Since April of 2020, she’s been using her background as a web developer and UI/UX designer to create online experiences that foster safe, inclusive, and supportive community for tabletop designers around the world. She lives in Colorado with her husband + their 2 cats and will almost certainly accept any invite to a 2 player turn-based game of Targi, Castles of Burgundy, or Wingspan on BGA. (username ohmysteries)

Check out Protospiel online here: https://protospiel.online/

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John de Campos is the founder/owner of Terrible Games LLC, A scrappy and visionary publishing house based out of Baltimore Maryland. In addition to being the lead developer, designer, and artist on all of Terrible Games releases thus far, John is also a working freelance artist, musician, and stay-at-home dad. His newest campaign, Black Mold, an immersive, co-op till it's not, survival horror escape game is currently on Kickstarter. 

Check out his campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tokenterrors/black-mold

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Sean Guinan & Matt Marsters are the team behind 3301 Games, an indie company on a mission to craft games they can be proud of. Together, they have over 35 years of combined experience making successful games online and in print that have won some serious awards and nominations. Their debut title, Salvage: Deep Space is in its final days on Kickstarter.

Check out their campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/3301games/salvage-deep-space

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