Contributors

Editor in Chief/Publisher

Serge Pierro has playtested numerous games for several companies, including Wizards of the Coast and AEG.  He has also written for Duelist, Inquest and Gamer print magazines.  His award winning photography has appeared in both newspapers and magazines. He has self published a game, and has several other designs ready for release, but currently finds his free time devoted to doing Game Nite.







Editor

Eric Devlin has been the North East Regional Representative for Wizards of the Coast, the brand manager of Legends of the Five Rings, as well as working with Sabretooth and Third World Games.  He has an extensive background in playtesting for top companies.  He has also written for Games Quarterly, Duelist, Inquest and others. 




Writer


Dan Fokine has sculpted miniatures for “Wreck Age”, published by Hyacinth Games, as well as miniatures for the “Brushfire” and “Endless” product lines, published by “On The Lamb” games.








Writer


Bill Braun has been a contributing writer for PSNation and High- Def Digest, an Editor and Publisher Relations Director for 30PlusGamer, and the co-creator and podcast host of A Band of Gamers.









Writer

John Anthony Gulla graduated with an M.A. in Humanities, wherein he focused his study on games, the history of gaming, and game design as it relates to the Humanities. He is an avid board gamer and game collector, with over 200 games in his current collection.  You can reach him on BGG.com under the username JohnAG68







Writer

Alex Harkey is an accountant by day, an MBA candidate by night and a game design enthusiast on the weekends. He enjoys aid- ing local game designers with their latest projects. Alex writes for the blog Games Precipice at www.gamesprecipice.











Writer

Matt Pavlovich has a Ph.D. in chemical engineering and works in an analytical chemistry lab by day but analyzes game design by night. He is particularly interested in exploring novel mechanics in strategy game and roleplaying game design. Matt writes for the blog Games Precipice at www.gamesprecipice.







Writer

John “jaQ” Andrews is a Marketing & Technology Specialist at Zco Corporation. When not getting trounced at board games, he rants about science fiction, technology, culture, and music at www. jaqandrews.com.









Writer


David Niecikowski is a published game designer and recognized expert on using traditional games with families and students. Since 2000, over two dozen of his board games, role-playing supplements, books, and articles have been published. He has also worked as a freelance marketing and event consultant with scores of industry companies such as Alliance Game Distributors, Gen Con, Wizards of the Coast, Upper Deck, Mayfair, Rio Grande, AEG, and Out of the Box.





Artist/Writer


Kevin Lauryssen has a Master in Audiovisual Arts and majored in Animation.  He works as a Freelance Draftsman for multiple companies in Belgium.  He’s an avid gamer who has created a web-comic about boardgaming.  His work can be found at www.game-night.be 






Writer



Jeff Rhind is a single father raising a 17 year-old son and a 6 year-old daughter, and slowly coaxing them into the world of tabletop gaming. He has been gaming for many years and shares his love and appreciation for the hobby by reviewing and talking about games on his web site: completelyboard.com as well as his You Tube channel at youtube.com/completelyboard. You can also follow him on twitter @jeffrhind




Writer


   Kevin Cox is a published game designer, graphic designer and co-owner of KnA Games. His first tabletop release is a sci-fi co-op called Space Movers, which he created with his wife, April. Kevin has been gaming for over 30 years and has an extensive collection, which features many vintage games. In addition to gaming, Kevin enjoys being a husband and all around geek.





Writer


Tom M Franklin lives in North Carolina where he and his wife are staff to their five cats.  His writing has appeared in his agent’s Inbox and the occasional hand-written letter to friends. He grew up playing Abstract Strategy Games (back when they were simply called games) and still regards dice of all kinds with suspicion.  His Board Gaming Claim to Fame is having taught over 300 kids how to play Chess.  Considering he’s been playing board games for over 50 years he really should be much better at them than he is.