Our lead developers have over 60 years of combined gaming experience and have played many hundreds of games in all genres. They are also active in the indie design community, hosting conventions and meetups, and they have several published titles of their own.

Eric Jome

Eric is a veteran designer with published titles The Manhattan Project: Second Stage and Sun, Moon, & Stars. He does design and development for Minion Games and hosts the Midwest Tabletop Game Design Guild. He is also responsible for  Protospiel - Milwaukee indie design convention, which has been held for six years running. Eric has 30+ years of devoted gaming hobby in all forms, card and board, RPG and digital. His first expansion was Ocean Tiles for King of the Tabletop in 1983, and he’s been avidly involved in bringing games to market since 2010. Eric has bachelor's degrees in computer science (theory of computing) and mathematics.
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Dustin Oakley

An avid gamer since the mid-80s, Dusty has been a serious hobbyist designer for several years. During that time he has run successful Kickstarters for and self-published his game Zoodlums and its expansion, orchestrated the creation of monthly designer meetups in Madison, Wisconsin, and won prizes for the games After the Fall and Han Characters in two competitive design challenges hosted by The Game Crafter. At that site he also serves as a professional  Sanity Tester, having critiqued well over 100 rulebooks in the last few years. He has a master's degree in special education and a great love of words and languages in addition to games.