Industry Guest

Keith Dozois

Keith Dozois.

Keith Dozois is a creative that has a deep adoration for board games, RPGs, and escape rooms. He is the owner of USB Escape, a take-home horror escape room game that has been played across the world. When Keith is not designing escape room games, he can be found sipping coffee and tinkering with small electronic circuits (poorly).

Jess Levine

Jess Levine.

/*-->*/ /*-->*/ Jess Levine is an author, TTRPG designer, kindergarten teacher, and communist organizer. Her diverse creative interests are united by one theme: lesbians. She resides in Pittsburgh, on the occupied land of the Shawandasse Tula, Osage, and Monongahela peoples. Her fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, while her non-fiction has been featured in the magazines Blood Knife and Seize the Press.

Skylar Swift

Skylar Swift.

/*-->*/ /*-->*/ Skylar K. Swift (@transmisc) is an illustrator, fine artist, and TTRPG designer from Southern California. They've published small, queer, artsy, self-illustrated titles such as Godling, Cabinet of Curiosities and // electric sheep //.

Jonathan Lavallee

Jonathan Lavallee.

/*-->*/ /*-->*/ Jonathan has been working in and around games for the past twenty years. He began with line license for CyberGeneration and eventually published his own games. He’s published a few things for other people, but mostly focuses on his own content. He has just released the updated version of his latest game We Used To Be Friends (a collaborative teenage detective drama game), Behind You!

Agatha Cheng

Agatha Cheng.

/*-->*/ /*-->*/ Agatha Cheng is a co-host for the ENnie Award-winning Asians Represent! podcast which celebrates, challenges, and redefines Asian representation in games media and beyond. She is a game designer & writer as well as a cultural consultant for topics of Chinese diaspora and Chinese mythology. Her latest works appear in Deathmatch Island as well as Tomb Raider: Shadows of Truth.

Jay Gellerman

Jay Gellerman.

/*-->*/ /*-->*/ Jay Gellerman/ @Neofett3 (on most socials) is an American Professional GM, content creator and Twitch Streamer. He’s most notable for his Shadowport Adventures series with the Star Wars RPG Edge of the Empire created by Fantasy Flight Games. He is the owner of the Emporium of the Wayward Gamer LLC and Twitch Channel.

Jessie Lo

Jessie Lo.

Jessie "Aki" Lo is a a queer mixed Asian-Canadian, ENNIE Winning TTRPG Content Creator. From artist to writer, to performer and GM, Aki wears many hats including being a producer for the award-winning Pathfinder 2e podcast Goblets and Gays. The self proclaimed Barbie of TTRPGs is here to create passionate stories that uplift voices of colour and showcase chaotically raw energy.

Chris George

Chris George.

/*-->*/ /*-->*/ Chris George loves Breakout and is happy to be on the list of guests! Finally his mother will be proud of him! Chris runs the YouTube channel Room and Board, which is a channel dedicated to helping you find your next favourite game, where he promises to give you one SINGLE chuckle along the way, and no more!

Sen-Foong Lim

Sen-Foong Lim.

/*-->*/ /*-->*/ 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.

Viditya Voleti

Viditya Voleti.

Viditya Voleti is an award winning game writer, designer, and educator; creator of Bloodbeam Badlands, Space Goblins!, and LONGSWORD. His diverse body of work explores all aspects of play and interaction. He's worked on a diversity of projects and clients across the spectrum of the TTRPG industry from Paizo and Evil Hat to World Champ Games Co and Possum Creek. You can find his games at vidityavoleti.itch.io and everywhere @vidityavoleti