Designer of several games and expansions, including Nova Roma, Endless Winter, Lockup: Roll Player Tale, Rurik: Dawn of Kiev and its expansion Stone and Blade, Dice Hospital, Old West Empresario, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria and more. "I’ve founded Half-a-Kingdom Games studio in 2015 with a goal of designing original, high quality modern board games. In the years since I’ve designed several published board games and worked on numerous development projects with companies all over the world. Whether designing a brand new game, developing a game or assisting my fellow designers, I bring my passion and experience to each and every project."

Kane Klenko is a game designer living in the Madison, WI area with his wife and two sons. He specializes in light to medium weight family games, with a focus on unique real-time and dice mechanics.

He has also directed art on projects and is the designer of over a dozen hit games including: Nunatak, FUSE, Flip Ships, Dead Men Tell No Tales, Covert and many more.

Ryan and Bethany are a husband and wife duo who love board games. They play them, review them, and design them. Their goal is to have viewers play games, live healthy, and create moments! They love talking about new hot board games, and older classic games too. They even bring their superhero daughter on board to talk about kid’s games!

Jeremy Howard started covering games under his Jambalaya Plays Games handle in 2016, with videos on his YouTube channel dating to May 2018. In mid-2019, Jeremy joined the board game coverage team at Man vs Meeple. He can't stop sharing his love of solo games with everyone. For Jeremy there is something about the puzzle of a big euro, pulling out a card game on a table in an airport or chucking 10 dice at once and hitting it big......all by himself.

Ben Cone, or better known as Conesy, started out gaming with Dungeons and Dragons when he was 12. After a dabble with Magic the Gathering, he broke into miniature gaming. When the local True Value Hardware store decided to stock the Games-Workshop product line he dived into Warhammer. Forever, that decision would dominate his destiny. Now with an extensive miniature collection that includes Warhammer Fantasy, Warhammer 40k, Blood Bowl, Battlefleet Gothic, Mordhiem, Flames of War, Bolt Action, Batman Miniature Game, Marvel: Crisis Protocol, Malifaux, and many others there may be no end to his miniature collecting madness!

Keith is the creative lead at Thunderworks Games and handles design, development, art direction, customer service, and manufacturing. Before founding the company, Keith worked in the video game industry for 15 years in both development and publishing. His primary roles included managing teams of artists, programmers, animators and sound engineers. He has a bachelor’s degree in music recording and has had a lifelong passion for playing and exploring music. He enjoys time with his wife Claire, and son Isaac.

Stephen Kerr is a board game designer and graphic designer who has been working in the boardgame industry since 2019. As in-house graphic designer for Thunderworks Games, his credits include Cape May, Dawn of Ulos, Goblin Vaults, Emerald Skulls, and Citizens of the Spark. He has also done graphic design for Pencil First Games, Kosmos, and Half a Kingdom Games. Metrorunner, from Thunderworks Games, was first published game design. In addition to game design and graphic design, Stephen is a screen writer and member of the Writer’s Guild of America West.

He has designed the popular games Scoville and Embarcadero. He maintains Boards & Barley, Ed's blog for all the things he does related to board gaming and beer. He is a game designer. He is a home brewer. He likes to drink beer when he plays board games. These two things go hand in hand for Ed.

Glenn Drover is a game designer and publisher who founded Eagle Games, Tropical Games and Forbidden Games. Glenn is the designer of Mosaic: A Story of Civilization, Raccoon Tycoon, Age of Empires III, Railways of the World, and many, many other board games.