Tasty Minstrel Games (tmg) Podcast

Seppy Yoon gave up his lucrative career in software advertising to chase his dreams of being a boardgame creater, designer, and publisher. He also group up in northern Mid West like me and lived through the cold war and irrational hatred for D&D. He is also one of the kindest most true people I have ever met.

Me and Paul are looking forward to playing Key Forge. Are you?

Paul tells us about his favorite horror movies now that it is getting close to celebrate Halloween!

A few years back, Paul Grogan decided to give up on his day job to start creating boardgame media full time. He talks about that choice with me and also where his accent comes from, and one of his favorite Stefan Feld games, Luna!    

Seth has been playing quite a bit of games online lately at Board Game Arena and he tells us about them!

It's October, and that means Halloween! Seth tells me about his experience with scary movies!

Seth Jaffee is a big proponent of game developers and what they do. He takes a break from taking care of his young son to talk to me about the development he has done on several games and also why he himself doesn't use a game developer!

In this bonus episode, Jay and Sen talk about some recent games they have played and review them!

Jay and Sen (designers of Belfort - check out the Kickstarter!) take a moment to tell me what games they wish they had created!

Jay Cormier and Sen-Foong Lim are two of the nicest gents I have ever had the honor of calling my friends, and they also find the time to design some really good boardgames. We talk about the development of Belfort, how it came to be, and also all the brand new expansion content that will be available for the first time ever in the upcoming 10th Anniversary Kickstarter.

Daniel loves abstract strategy games, and he loves the game Element. In this mini bonus episode, he shares with us the reasons why!

A quick hot take and bonus episode where you find out, if money and time and resources were not a factor, what game would Daniel Hadlock have TMG publish just so he would own a copy!

Daniel Hadlock is the president of TMG and he joins me to talk about his recent trips to local game stores, how TMG is looking to support them, and also - the upcoming Belfort Kickstarter!

Special bonus episode! We pick the winners and I take moon shot guesses at the results for Hell in a Cell 2018!

Aaron Walth is the TMG manager of production, logistics, and manufacturing. He just recently returned from a trip to Indonesia with his wife and he gets me up to date on his travel, and also what is in the pipeline for TMG.

Michael Fox is the designer of the highly anticipated game Holding On and is also my go to guy when it comes to the world of professional wrestling. I took (what I thought) were the top 5 controversial topics in the world of the fake sport that I love and asked him for his thoughts.

Philip duBarry has long been one of my favorite designers and I am lucky enough to call him a friend. He is a teacher, a minister, a game designer, and a dedicated family man, and also one heck of a nice guy. TMG published his fantastic game Battlecruisers set in the Eminent Domain universe, and will soon publish another of his designs, Embark. This is our conversation we had recently about his life in the gaming world, and how he somehow finds the time to create new games with all of his other responsibilities.

My friend Rich Early has own and run a local game store for 25 years, and he doesn't think that any game store ever is owed anything by anyone. Listen in and hear what he has to say about distributors, big box stores, Kickstarter, and a whole lot more.

It is the biggest event of the summer - if you are a wrestling fan. Summer Slam 2018 predictions, theories, jokes, and groans, with my fellow "smark" - Michael Fox

I surprise Anthony Racano with another hot 5 takes about the gaming industry and ask him for his off the cuff opinions on all of them!