The Game Crafter is encouraging all designers that use their service to find a Protospiel event near them and get their game tested by other designers. When you do, you can earn an accolade via the Game Crafter with this nifty badge.
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Seth Jaffee of Tasty Minstrel Games
Seth Jaffee is a published game designer and developer, but is probably best known for his affiliation with Michael Mindes and Tasty Minstrel Games. Seth was a behind the scenes supporter of TMG from the beginning and is now an official member of the TMG team, discovering games, developing them, and helping to usher them through the production process.
Seth's first published title was Terra Prime, a somewhat obscure but solid euro style game. His best known title is Eminent Domain, the first big kickstarter success, and the first game to use the deckbuilding mechanism in a game that's not just about deck building. The first expansion to Eminent Domain (Eminent Domain: Escalation) just came out a couple of months ago, and a second one is in the works.
Seth has also done extensive development work on many TMG titles including Belfort, Ground Floor, Kings of Air and Steam, and Captains of Industry, as well as Belfort: The Expansion Expansion, and the upcoming World Fair expansion to Kings of Air and Steam.
In addition to his work on game design, development, and publishing with TMG, Seth is also the president of the Southern Arizona Gamers Association (SAGA), the organization that puts on Rincon, a game convention in Tucson, AZ in October.
You can follow Seth on twitter (@sedjtroll), and you can read his occasional, rambling game design thoughts on his game design blog.
Rob's alter ego from Nothing Personal.
Rob Daviau is a prolific and award winning game designer with a small army of titles to his name. Some of his best known games include Betrayal at House on the Hill, Risk Legacy and Risk 2210. Bring your favorite to be signed by Rob, or buy a fresh copy from Game Kastle.
How cool would it be to have your copy of Risk Legacy signed by Rob?
We are please to have Rob join us for the industry Q and A panel.
Find a full list of Rob's games here.
Check out Rob's clean and classy website here:
Grant with Peaches, the Hyperbole mascot.
Grant Rodiek is the designer of one of my favorite card games: Farmageddon. Bring your copy for him to sign or pick one up at Game Kastle.
He is the curator of the always useful Hyperbole game design blog. It is well worth your valuable time to check it out:
http://hyperbolegames.com/blog/
You may have heard Grant's infectious energy and enthusiasm on several different board game podcasts or come across his prolific twitter feed.
https://twitter.com/HerrohGrant
http://www.pinterest.com/HyperboleGames/
Grant will be sharing his insights in the industry Q and A panel at Protospiel San Jose. He was one of the first to jump in to support Protospiel San Jose and we appreciate that support.
We are honored to have Ted and Toni Alspach of Bezier game attend protospiel. I would show you a picture, but since they live in a secret fortress we will have to make do with a cartoon from Ted's Board 2 Pieces series.
Ted and Toni will be participating in the industry Q and A sessions. Bezier has five successful Kickstarter projects to their credit and has backed more than 100 other Kickstarter projects.
Ted will be signing copies of his games as part of Protospiel San Jose. Bring your favorite game or pick one up at Game Kastle. Tie Breaker and Start Player in particular are loads of fun and inexpensive.
Ted's BGG profile can be found here:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgamedesigner/6046/ted-alspach
For a list of his games, click here.
Find out more about Bezier games here:
http://beziergames.com
