By day, Victoria is a producer at Wizards of the Coast where she leads a team of game designers in the Magic R&D department. By night, she is an award-winning indie game designer and co-founder of Cat Quartet Games, a boutique publishing company that focuses on bringing fun, fast, and accessible games to the world. Victoria's first board game, Gladius, successfully raised over $96,000 on Kickstarter in March 2020.

Our accelerated release schedule continues with another cracking interview - this time, with AnnaMaria Jackson-Phelps, Editor-in-Chief of Girls Game Shelf. In addition to creating media for the table top game industry, she also designs board games and is on the quest for the perfect taco.

Ross (aka More Games Please) is a freelance tabletop photographer and community manager for Alley Cat Games, and has been working in the industry since 2018. His photography has appeared in publications such as Tabletop Gaming magazine and Senet, as well as on countless websites, online stores, and Amazon. He has photographed board games raising over one million dollars on Kickstarter, but big or small he shows all titles the same love and attention. He can be found playing board games on his twice-weekly Twitch live streams, exploring the solo games in his collection, and has a passion for board game art interviewing over 50 artists and graphic designers in the tabletop industry on his website.

Zach runs SoulMuppet Publishing, an indie RPG company. He is the writer behind Best Left Buried and A Doom To Speak, and the publisher of books such as Esoteric Enterprises, Rakehell and Stygian Library. He lives in Nottingham, loves kitbashing wargaming miniatures and really likes megadungeons.

This episode’s a special one, because this time it’s Sophie’s turn to be interviewed! It’s a bit of a mammoth chat, clocking in at about an hour and a half, and goes into loads of very honest detail about how she ended up doing what she does for a living. I really enjoyed this one, and I hope you do as we

This month Sophie’s talking to Danielle Reynolds, a Chicagoland designer that co-hosts design meetups, organizes gaming fundraisers and pitches at conventions. She has spent the past 2 years diving into the industry and all that it offers.

John Mizon runs South West Megagames, a full-time endeavour that aims to bring megagaming to the South-West of the UK (and sometimes beyond). Megagames are still a surprisingly niche hobby, which have started to see more mainstream appeal in the last few years after a Shut Up & Sit Down video brought many new eyes to the genre. These games are massive day-long experiences that blend roleplaying, board game-style mechanics, social gameplay and model-UN style simulation to a venue filled with anywhere from 30 to 300 players. Though the themes of games can range from sci-fi colony planets all the way to medieval courts, the unifying feature is simulating a massive, confusing crisis or conflict, and seeing how the existing structures and factions deal with the challenges of information and communication that the situation brings.

Rob Burman is the social media and online sales manager for Mantic Games, a publisher of board game and miniature games based in Nottingham. He is responsible for marketing a wide variety of tabletop games, from licensed properties such as Hellboy and The Walking Dead, to more niche hobby products, like Kings of War and Deadzone. He also runs Mantic’s Kickstarter projects. After starting as local newspaper reporter, he went on to work in a variety of specialist hobby industries, including videogames, Japanese culture, collectable toys and tabletop games.

As a game designer for River Horse and independently as Cæsar ink, Jack spends much of his time thinking about fun ways to randomly generate numbers, the life cycles of monsters, and why a wizard decided to make a talking sword in the first place.

He can be found designing cool new dungeons on twitch every Monday at 8.00 GMT.

Nathan’s been in the industry for almost a decade, starting out on licensed Warhammer 40,000 games like Black Crusade and Only War before working with the Modiphius on the third edition of Mutant Chronicles. He’s been full-time with Modiphius for a while now as Lead Developer for their 2d20 System, where his work has included the award-winning Star Trek Adventures.