Geoff Engelstein is an award-winning game designer, educator, and author. Game credits include Super Skill Pinball, Space Cadets, and The Expanse. He is the co-founder of the influential Ludology podcast, and co-author of Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design, Achievement Relocked, and other books on game design.

Marcus Ross (he/him – Lawful Good Enough) is a designer of quirky, family friendly games from Omaha, Nebraska. He is a frequent contributor to OFPG Voices where he shares tips on prototyping and playtesting with the community. Marcus is the librarian at Spielbound, Inc which hosts arguably the largest publicly accessible board game collection at over 3300 unique titles. He believes games should be easy to play, fun to lose, colorful, accessible, diverse and just a little bizarre. You can find him nose deep in a rulebook at a convention near you.

Stephen Buonocore is the retired founder, owner and President of Stronghold Games, formed in 2009 to publish quality hobby board and card games. Stronghold Games and Indie Boards & Cards merged in 2018 to form Indie Game Studios, where Buonocore continued in his role as President. Buonocore provided vision and guidance for hundreds of game titles, both developed within the company and in partnership with global publishers.

Timm Metivier has been an avid gamer his whole life. He is actively involved in the gaming industry in many aspects. He opened the first board game cafe, Meepleville, in the state of Nevada in 2016. He also started Meeplecon, now Dice Tower West, in 2015. He worked for Iello as their demo team coordinator for over 8 years. He loves all types of games, with a particular passion for the heavy euro games and trick-taking games.