Today’s featured designer is Jeff Johnston, designer of Flashlights and Fireflies, MoonQuake Escape, and Toasted or Roasted. Jeff is retired from the US Air Force and is a game design hobbyist with a day job as a defense contractor.  A family man, he is recently recovering from three children in college during the same year.  He enjoys creating family friendly games, strong in theme that bring everyone to the table for playful interaction.  Available at stores near you, try Toasted or Roasted and Flashlights & Fireflies at your next family game night.  MoonQuake Escape, his latest project, should be available later this summer.  He’ll also be attending our Summit in May.

Today’s featured board game media personality is Anthony Racano, representing the Cardboard Jungle Podcast. He will be joining us at G2S2016, all the way from New York, where he resides. He knows that the fun is worth the drive, which clearly speaks to his heightened intelligence. He is known as a gamer, podcaster, father, husband, fake uncle, and Twitter personality.

Today’s featured designer is Chip Beauvais, designer of the games Smoke and Mirrors and ChromaCubes. He also runs a game on Twitter, A Little Alliteration, which can be found @LitAlliteration. He plays the saxophone, is a father, and encourages supporting creators with Creator Appreciation Day via social media. He’ll also be joining us at Granite Game Summit in May.

Today’s featured Board Game media (and future Granite Game Summit attendee) is Ray Hutchins over at Tales of Cardboard. He creates fictional board game stories, and images that make us laugh every time we see them. Bringing a little extra humor to our board game Twitter feed, daily.

Today’s featured designer is David Miller, of the Mint Tin series of games, a lot of game in a little mint tin.  He is also the owner of Subquark, the company which publishes the Mint Tin series. David is a future attendee at Granite Game Summit. He resides in beautiful Portsmouth, NH, and enjoys spending time with an adorable pug named Artemus.

Today’s featured board game media is Dan Cristelli over at Board Everyday. You can catch up on board game news, and what he is up to--such as his Uwe Week, and kickstarter news--over on the blog. Then download the latest episode of his podcast for everything from reviews, what he has played, and events he is attending. One of those events, of course, is Granite Game Summit. It should also be noted that he loves corgis, because really, who doesn’t?

Today’s feature designer is Ben Swainbank who created Villains and Vigilantes the card game.

Today’s featured Board Game media are Cardboard Republic creators, Erin Ryan and Ryan LaFlamme. Cardboard Republic is your one stop shop for all things board game related. They have a great blog with everything from reviews, previews, and current board game happenings. Their podcast Vox Republica is where they talk about games they have played, interviews with designers, and discuss board game news items. They even create some fun, short, videos where Erin goes over their current game hauls, and my personal favorite, the To Be Played segments where she covers what they managed to get to the table the previous month and what they hope to get played in the coming month.

Today’s feature designer is Kevin Crane, who also happens to be one of our Granite Game Summit organizers. Kevin is a Husband, and a father to two boys, who loves to create, no matter the medium. He is an amateur game designer who is in the process of publishing his first game, Robit Riddle, but does not currently have any games on the market.