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Robin Ekberg

Robin Ekberg.

Robin Ekberg is a Tabletop producer and performer, known as the GM of the Award winning Starfinder show The Atomless, and Frequencies, as well as appearing on Unprepared Casters, Demiplane, Paizo, One Shot and credited in TTRPGs such as Ragnarock, All the Witches and Daggerheart.

Dora Rogers

Dora Rogers.

Dora Rogers (she/her) is a writer and game designer in Montreal, QC. Her work is interested in domesticity, intimacy, flirtation, femininity, and being gay as hell. She designed Sapphic Slumber Party and Drink My Sweat, and co-designed the Indie Groundbreaker-nominated Alchemistresses with Allison Cole. She has also written about queerness in Magic: The Gathering at Hipsters of the Coast.

Elliot Davis

Elliot Davis.

/*-->*/ /*-->*/ Elliot Davis, aka "moreblueberries", is a Brooklyn-based game designer, podcaster, and artist who loves all things weird and wonderful about the TTRPG industry. He is known for such releases as Project ECCO, Rom Com Drama Bomb, and the upcoming The Time We Have.

Pascal Godbout

Pascal Godbout.

Pascal is the main designer for @SpotlessDiceGames and has published multiple supplements for Fate of Cthulhu. He returns to BreakoutCon with Ringmaster, his new Descended from the Queen TTRPG.

Julien Legault

Julien Legault

/*-->*/ /*-->*/ Julien is a designer focusing on roleplaying games. Their work is shaped by a passion for clear, evocative design, a background in fine arts and music, a love of nature, and a fascination with the psychology of play. They publish games under Starlight Grove, a label founded in 2022 with fellow Toronto designer Ryan Khan.

Mikey Hamm

Mikey Hamm.

Mikey lives in Edmonton, Alberta with his wife Stephanie and their two children, Butterspoon and Agent Roundhouse. He feels privileged to spend his early mornings doing something as wonderfully unimportant as making games. His titles include Two-Hand Path and the award-winning TTRPG, Slugblaster.

Ric Heise

Ric Heise.

/*-->*/ /*-->*/ Ric Heise is Mythworks' Chief People Person! Ric is the first point of contact for people interested in Mythworks. For Mythworks, Ric handles the Supporter Experience, Retail and Related Relationships, Connecting a Network of Creativity, and Your Curiosity. Ric is a contributing writer and designer for The Wildsea in addition to being Head of Playtesting. Ric is a Lyric Game Creator and Curator of Ephemeral Joys.

Ava Islam

Ava Islam.

Ava Islam is a fool, a wretch, a rogue, and a rapscallion. You can read the ravings of her brain worms on her blog (permacrandam.blogspot.com) or check out her game, Errant.

Cassandra MacDonald

Cassandra MacDonald.

/*-->*/ /*-->*/ Cassandra is a perpetual storyteller with a love for indie RPGs weird and unique. They were inducted into the cult of D&D at an age most would consider "too young", and are best known for their breakout DM's Guild title Skullport: Shadow of Waterdeep, as well as their work on ENWorld's Level Up and MCDM's Flee Mortals and upcoming Draw Steel. They've been tinkering and homebrewing for over a decade now, and Must Be Stopped™.

Yeonsoo Kim

Yeonsoo Kim.

/*-->*/ /*-->*/ Yeonsoo Julian Kim is a game designer and writer who works primarily in tabletop roleplaying games and interactive fiction. Their game Women Are Werewolves, co-designed by C.A.S. Taylor and published by 9th Level Games, won Best RPG in Dicebreaker’s 2023 Tabletop Awards and was a winner in the inaugural Nonbinary Tabletop Awards in 2024. Other games include Home, co-designed with Doug, and the two time ENnie-winning Avatar Legends RPG.