The Blog
The Tabletop Games Blog is about all things board, card, dexterity and other modern games. Every week there are two new written articles, a review and a topic discussion piece, all of which are also released in audio format on the podcast.
Additionally, there is the Let me illustrate podcast series where board game artists answer a catalogue of 17 questions about themselves.
Writers for the Blog
Apart from me (see further down), there have been a number of other people who wrote guest posts on this blog. Of course, the opinions expressed in those articles are those of the authors and do not purport to reflect the opinions or views of Tabletop Games Blog:
Dina Said So
Dina Said So is a marketing company founded by Dina Ramse that offers consultation, social media management, and crowdfunding marketing. Together with her colleagues Alexandra Yaverbaum (aka Sasha) and Caylie Sadin, they regularly post on LinkedIn and have kindly shared some of their articles here.
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Michael Fox
Michael Fox is the former producer and presenter of The Little Metal Dog Show, designer of Keep Running!, Holding On: The Troubled Life of Billy Kerr, MegaCity: Oceania among others and now releases games as Wayfinder Games.
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Gavin Jones
Gavin Jones has been writing reviews, alongside his wife Sarah-Jane, on their blog Keep Up With The Jones Family for many years now. You may also have seen him demo games at one of the big board game exhibitions.
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Ellen Klein
Ellen Klein is an editor who brings a unique perspective to her work. She believes in the power of planning for life’s unknowns, bringing her extensive experience to bear on business, family and relationship advice.
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Filip Redelius
Filip Redelius is the designer of Fog of Adventures, a game created using AI with the goal of creating something new and interesting.
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Lewis Shaw
Lewis Shaw is one of the founders of Braincrack Games, alongside Emily, and their journey into board games began when a friend introduced them to Takenoko, Betrayal at House on the Hill, Coup and more.
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Joe Slack
Joe Slack has been designing board games since 2014 and helped over 4,000 game designers through his books and teaching, including The Board Game Design Course.
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Hope Thompson
Hope Thompson is a brand new board game reviewer and the daughter of David Thompson, the co-designer of the Undaunted series of games, designer of Pavlov’s House and many others.
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Laurie Trueblood
Laurie Trueblood founded Adventures of Authenticity in 2021 after facing a personal crisis as a way to share what she learned and to help others who were equally feeling lost in life.
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Dennis Wesley
Dennis Wesley is an independent researcher who is passionate about science and art, which he talks about in his blog Science and Arts Education.
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Sam Webb
Sam Webb is an experienced news reporter and copywriter based in Oxfordshire who has written for a number of different publications including the MailOnline, Daily Mirror and The Sun.
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Oliver Kinne (Me)
My name is Oliver Kinne. I live by the sunny south coast of the United Kingdom and have been playing modern tabletop games for over 15 years. I have also enjoyed writing fiction since I was in my teens. So in May 2018, I started the Tabletop Games Blog, combining my two hobbies.
Since then, I have also started translating board games from English to German and German to English under my Make My Game Travel brand. It is my attempt to commercialize my language skills and experience in the industry.
Additionally:
- I am a member of the Brainwaves board game news podcast team.
- My reviews featured on a number of crowdfunding campaigns, including:
- Mischief from Dan Cassar, designer of Arboretum
- Sakana Stack from Huff No More
- Hidden Agendas from Big Boom Games
- Bad Trevor from Fist Bump Games
- Puppy Pile from Thing 12 Games
- Crumbs! The Sandwich Filler Game and Swatch from Minerva Tabletop
- float downstream from Blood Moon Games
- Whimsical creatures, frantic gameplay, and root vegetables from Stuff by Bez
- One Card Wonder from Ape Games
- Six Greetings Card Games and Uranus! from The Dark Imp
- Library Labyrinth from Dissent Games
- Pilfering Pandas and Sensor Ghosts from Wren Games
- Small Railroad Empires + mini expansion + playmat from Archona Games
- Curators from Worldshapers
- The Blessed Dark by Nathan Meunier
- One of my articles was published in the UK Games Expo 2021 programme.
- I have been demoing for Asmodee UK at UK Games Expo 2023 and 2024.
- I demoed Fog of Love at Essen Spiel 2019.
- I was a judge and coach for the Board Game Workshop Design Contest 2019 and 2020.
- I playtested a number of commercially released tabletop games, including Empires of the Void II by Red Raven Games (see page 35 of the rulebook), Chai by Steeped Games (see box lid) and Coral Islands by Alleycat Games (see page 16 of the rulebook).
- I was a contributing author to The Tabletop Spirit digital magazine (issue #10, pages 39-49 and issue #9, pages 22-23).
- I appeared on a number of other podcasts as a guest, where you can find out a bit more about me personally:
- Der Brettspielpodcast, den die Welt nicht braucht episode 247 (German): https://derbrettspielepodcastdendieweltnichtbraucht.
home. blog/ 2024/ 06/ 30/ folge-274-possession/ https:/ / derbrettspielepodcastdendieweltnichtbraucht. home. blog/ 2024/ 06/ 30/ folge-274-possession/ - Die Spielträumer episode 54 (German): https://www.
spieltraeumer. de/ podcast/ the-spieltraeumers-54-deckbuilding-deathmatch/ - Die Brettagogen episode 144 (German): https://brettagoge.
de/ 144-von-voegeln-und-hudern-teamteaching/ - We’re Not Wizards: https://www.
werenotwizards. com/ e/ episode-320-oliver-kinne-tabletop-games-blog/
- Der Brettspielpodcast, den die Welt nicht braucht episode 247 (German): https://derbrettspielepodcastdendieweltnichtbraucht.
- I even appeared in one of Semi Co-Op‘s comics: https://www.
semicoop. com/ comic/ new-years-resolutions/
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