A while back I had the opportunity to speak with Joel Colombo, who has backed 180 different Kickstarter campaigns (he has since broken the 200 mark). I wanted to talk with Joel to gain insight from a backer perspective. What makes him click the pledge button? Or maybe more importantly, what scares him away? As always, you can listen to the podcast …

In today’s podcast, I get to talk with Chern Ann, co-founder of CoolMiniOrNot. We discuss all things Kickstarter, and what it takes to manufacture a game with plastic miniatures. We also discuss the humble origins of the CoolMiniOrNot website, how long CMON takes to plan one of their mega Kickstarters, why Chern Ann is active on Facebook board game…

In today’s podcast Randy Hoyt, of Foxtrot Games, goes into a lot of detail regarding all of the costs associated with running a Kickstarter campaign. We also talk about what it was like when Lanterns won the Mensa Select award, and we learn that Randy doesn’t like getting wet. RICHARD: Hello, this is Richard Miles with boardgameauthority.com and to…

RICHARD: Hello, Richard Miles here for BoardGameAuthority.com. We have a pretty good show for you today. Our guest for this episode is Gil Hova and I’d like to start introducing our guests a little bit like this: [awesome Gil Hova intro] but we’ll see if that sticks. For now, I’ll probably just stick to letting the guests introduce themselves. Toda…

Recently, I got to talk with Emerson Matsuuchi of Nazca Games. I’ve met Emerson twice now, once at Origins and once at Gen Con. For those that haven’t had the pleasure of meeting Emerson, let me attest that he is the nicest person in the board game industry. And he makes great games. In the podcast, we talk about what it is like having Plaid Hat Ga…

While at Origins Game Fair, I was able to talk with Colby Dauch of Plaid Hat Games. We mainly chatted about Ashes: Rise of the Phoenixborn and Specter Ops. I asked Colby how they decided how thier miniatures should look, specifically, how should a werewolf look for a Plaid Hat game? At their level, does the company image go into the thought process…

While at Origins Game Fair this year, I tracked down Andrew Federspiel of Knapsack Games. We talked about their current Kickstarter, Apotheca, which has already reached its funding goal (congrats Knapsack team). I got Andrew to talk about the inspiration behind the games he designs and publishes, and there’s even a teaser for Knapsack Games’ next r…

I got to talk to Jamey Stegmaier about the Stonemaier Games upcoming release, Scythe. The transcription of the interview is below and you can always subscribe to iTunes and listen to the podcast there. In addition to talking about Scythe and the hype engine that surrounds the game, I also ask Jamey a few unusual questions, which serve as the beginn…

A few days ago I was able to corner Jamey Stegmaier into doing a podcast with me. The transcription of the interview is below and you can always subscribe to iTunes and listen to the podcast there. In this awesome episode, Jamie and I talk about Between Two Cities, which should launch on Kickstarter on February 25th. We also talk about Viticulture …