Interview with René Uittenbogaard design competition WINNER!
A few months back, like six or more, I sponsored a design competition on past guest JT Smith’s The Game Crafter. The competition was to design a lunchtime game. It had to be playable in a lunch hour and appropriate for work. ...
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Interview with René Uittenbogaard design competition WINNER!
A few months back, like six or more, I sponsored a design competition on past guest JT Smith’s The Game Crafter. The competition was to design a lunchtime game. It had to be playable in a lunch hour and appropriate …
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About the Host
Adam F. Collins
Host, Editor, Producer
Adam has been playing games all his life. He started out with the classic Parker Brothers and Milton Bradley games of Clue, Monopoly, Operation, Risk, and Axis & Allies. His extended family was avid card game players. Euchre and rummy were big. Then, along came The Settlers of Catan and it all changed. Since that fateful day, Adam has consumed all this board gaming. He and his business partner started a board game publishing company. Adam started this podcast.