Guests for 2025

Daryl Andrews: Game Designer

Daryl is a game designer and a member of the Game Artisans of Canada (GAC). Daryl often codesigns game with other talented designers including: Stephen Sauer, Adrian Adamescu, Erica Boyouris, Sylvain Plante, Morgan Dontaville, Philip duBarry, Bobby West, and more to come.

Scott Brady: Game Designer

Scott is a multiple award-winning board game designer with notable titles such as Hues and Cues and the boop. series. The recently released Caution Signs, If Then, and Better Letters have all been met with as much excitement as his previous titles. Among his recognitions are Dice Tower – Party Game of the Year (Hues and Cues), Mensa Select Award (boop.), Origins Awards – Retailer Game of the Year (boop.), People of Play – 2023 Inventor of the Year, American Tabletop Awards – Early Gamers (winner for boop, recommended for Hues and Cues), Gaming Trend – Best of Gen Con (BOOoop!, Caution Signs), among others. He is also a founder of game publisher, Play to Z, and design studio, A Game Studio, LLC. A former manufacturing executive, Scott now balances his family life with game design and industry mentorship.

Chris Chung: Game Designer

Chris is a game designer from Toronto, Canada, and known for designing and developing such games as Mensa Award-winning Lanterns: The Harvest Festival and My Little Pony: Adventures in Equestria: Deck-Building Game (Trixie is best pony.) When he's not thinking about games, he's probably perfecting his flawed chess game, working out against his will, or watching his beloved Maple Leafs fumble the bag again. His favorite designer is Reiner Knizia, his favorite game is Twilight Imperium 4, and he prefers to play as red or purple. Look out for My Little Pony: Festival of Lanterns (exactly what it sounds like) from Renegade Game Studios in 2025!

Ed Greenwood: Author | Game Designer

Ed is a Canadian fantasy writer and the creator of the Forgotten Realms game world. He began writing articles about the Forgotten Realms for Dragon magazine beginning in 1979, and subsequently sold the rights to the setting to TSR, the creators of the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, in 1986. He has written many Forgotten Realms novels, as well as numerous articles and D&D game supplement books.

Sen-Foong Lim: Game Designer | Podcaster

Sen is constantly dreaming, even when he’s awake. He is passionate about helping people lose track of time in meaningful ways. An award-winning designer and writer, Sen co-designed many board games, including Belfort, Junk Art, Akrotiri, The Legend of Korra: Pro Bending Arena, Kingdom Rush: Rift in Time / Elemental Uprising, Scooby-Doo: Escape from the Haunted Manor, Mind MGMT: The Psychic Espionage “Game”, and Corps of Discovery. Sen co-authored the TTRPGs Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall, An Exquisite Crime, The Revenant Society, and the forthcoming Tian Deng. He’s worked on many of the biggest roleplaying campaigns in Kickstarter’s history including the Gloomhaven RPG, Legends of Avantris: Crooked Moon, Avatar: Legends, and the record-breaking Cosmere RPG system. When he’s not gaming, Sen teaches psychology and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu - though not at the same time! Sen is a founding member of the Tabletop Game Designers Association and serves as the organization's secretary. He also co-hosts the Ludology podcast and the Meeple Syrup Show.

Discover more at https://senfoonglim.carrd.co.

Grant Lyon: Comedian | Game Designer

Grant Lyon is a comedian from things like Comedy Central, Dry Bar, SyFy, Comics Unleashed, Just For Laughs, and more. His debut album Scheduled Fun Time hit #1 on the comedy charts. During the pandemic, he started making videos about the board games he loves, and now he has hundreds of thousands of followers across his Grant’s Game Recs platforms, putting out short and fun videos daily. Grant also has an hour stand up comedy show all about board games that he takes to conventions and board game stores across the world. In addition, Grant writes funny content for a lot of games sitting on the shelves of stores like Target and Walmart such as Would You Rather, That’s What She Said, Ghosted and more. In 2023, he won a TAGIE award for his creative content for board games. His debut game Curmudgeon was published by 25th Century Games, and he has more games releasing soon.

Our Family Plays Games : Content Creators

Our Family Plays Games [pic. Grant, Mik, and Starla] is an African American family-owned business whose mission is to promote growth and awareness of the modern board game hobby. From day one, their goal has been to bring more BIPOC’s and families into the board game hobby. They launched on social media in 2018 which helped them establish themselves in the board game hobby. In January 2020, they started posting videos on YouTube and by June 2020 were contacted by and featured on Good Morning America. Since then, they have been featured on several programs and in publications, such as - NBC News Online, Senet Magazine (UK), Ligadas.com (Brazil), a variety of YouTube programs, podcasts, and on local television in Omaha, NE. In January 2022, they launched a second program on their channel, called OFPG Voices to highlight other underrepresented voices in the hobby. In addition, they make special appearances at board game conventions all around the country. 

Link to Socials: Our Family Plays Games