Facebook Group, Panel Videos, More to Come

Grant Rodiek, Chris Castagnetto, Jeremy Commandeur, Teale Fristoe and Brian Henk on the Everything but Kickstarter Panel. Photo by Joe Aizawa

Greetings,

Chris Castagnetto maintains a Facebook group related to the event.  You can use it to stay in touch, tell folks when games go on sale, share feedback and share resources.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/boardgamebuilders/ 

My thanks to Chris for managing and maintaining the group.

Brian Henk was kind enough to film the two panels of the event and put them online.  

Kickstarter Panel Blog Post with Both Audio and Video: http://theforbiddenlimb.com/2015/05/07/kickstarter-panel-2015-san-jose-protospiel/ 

Video: https://youtu.be/dpU-2wycnWA 

Audio: http://traffic.libsyn.com/theforbiddenlimb/output_ks.mp3

Everything but Kickstarter Panel Blog Post with Both Audio and Video: http://theforbiddenlimb.com/2015/04/30/tabletop-game-publishing-and-design-panel-2015-san-jose-protospiel/ 

Video: https://youtu.be/d6bZMB3Z6MY 

Audio: http://traffic.libsyn.com/theforbiddenlimb/audio_inc_intro.mp3

There are a few more updates coming in the near future:

1. Final budget and attendance numbers.

2. Top 5 things that worked well and Top 5 things that can be better next time.

3. A downloadable spreadsheet with all the contact info shared in the previous update. If anybody wants to take the time to build the spreadsheet and send it to me, I will be eternally grateful . . .

EDIT: Corrected Kickstarter video link.

How can players and designers contact you?

Game Design Contest teams hard at work on Sunday.

Greetings,

I've received several requests from players and designers asking:

"How can I contact the guy that had the [name] game? I want to be on his mailing list."

"How can I contact so and so? I though of more feedback for his game."

"How can I contact the designer of [game] so I could be a remote tester for that game?"

I'm going to ask all the designers to drop a comment below or email me with the following information so that I can make a public directory on BoardGameBuilders.com and as a Kickstarter update. This is optional, and opt in, you are not obligated to participate.

Information needed: 

• Designer Name
• Games tested at Protospiel SJ 2015
• Preferred Contact Method

I will use myself as an example below.

Name: 

Jeremy Commandeur

Games tested at Protospiel San Jose 2015: 

• Booze Barons 
• Bandit Brag 
• Globetrotters 
• Insider Trading 
• Secret Society

Contact via:

www.boardgamebuilders.com OR boardgamebuilders at gmail dot com 

Parking Update

The Earthquake’s new stadium is just down the street from Game Kastle.  In the recent weeks when a game has happened, some parking overflowed into the parking lots of local businesses.  Because of that, some of the local businesses are very sensitive about parking.  

The best advice I have received on where to park is to use the street parking on Brokaw road.  Not all of the street is zoned for parking, but there is plenty of street parking.  Read the signs and you should be fine.  Thank you!

Schedule and additional prototype previews.

Keep in mind we may need to slip the event times a bit if the need arises on site.

Prototype previews.

Industry Guest: Steve Jones of Blue Panther LLC

Steve Jones, founder of Blue Panther LLC (now celebrating its 10th year in the board game business) has been involved with games for a long time. Starting back when disco was giving way to punk and electronica  Steve was playing D&D (yes, he does have the original rules, no, it is not for sale) and most of Avalon Hill, SPI and SJGames (too bad Steve Jackson got that cool company name first) titles. Soon after, he founded Blue Panther Enterprises, which ran play-by-mail games where a new turn was guaranteed super fast every week - games like The Final Campaign, Empires For Rent and The Boys of Summer.

Many years later, Steve mixed business (lean manufacturing) with boardgames, which resulted in the formation of the first Print-On-Demand boardgame company. Everything is made in USA (except dice). Blue Panther is a game publisher AND manufacturer specializing in small print runs. The first games he designed Central Pacific, Courtyard and Nepal were all wood-games followed soon by other games from many designers (who later on went to great things in the game industry). Blue Panther makes games, dice towers and trays, and custom components. They also do alot of work for other game companies and crowd-funded games. New games include Meeples To The Mothership and Cock & Bull, with an upcoming zombie co-op Dead Things and an election game: Bull Moose: The 1912 Campaign.

Our thanks to Blue Panther for donating the spiffy custom flat dice for the game design contest on Sunday.