In 2015, Danni began growing the BMG community and helping designers. Their passion for helping others and desire to bolster diversity in the board game industry are driving factors for the company's direction.

Joseph's passion for playing and designing games started at a young age and has only grown stronger since. He has been on the Break My Game board since 2020 and supports the team with his background in web design, graphic design, and event organizing. He's been self-publishing under Ludamus Games LLC since 2022. Outside of the board game space, Joseph loves being a dad, gardening, photography, woodworking, 3D printing, and taking on too many DIY home projects.

​shoggot (sometimes known as Dan Schutzner) is not a cephalopod, and enjoys developing TTRPG's and card games in his spare time, of which he seems to have plenty.
He has found a home in the BMG community, and can be found frequently in one of the several voice channels when he's awake.

Kyt is a longtime avid boardgame player, and recently caught the board game design bug. He's been the host of GOTCHA, One of South Jersey's longest running board game playing groups, for over a decade. Product Manager by day, and game designer by <insert whenever he can find time>, he's got a passion for heavy euro games, cooperative games that most people dub 'too hard' and has an unhealthy obsession with making zero player games interactive and fun.  Oh yeah, and Nandeck. He uses Nandeck. This isn't a shameless plug for Nandeck, he promises.

Scott is a board game designer and board game content creator. His life long goal is to get his dogs in a board game. When not playing or designing games, Scott loves to keep up with the latest movies and attend trivia nights where his board game knowledge is mostly useless!

Chris is a longtime gamer, but a recent designer who spends his days trying to minimize his IT consulting work to accommodate more design time. When he's not spending time on games or work you'll find him with his wife, their 3 kids, his wife's work dog, Heiser, and probably some other extended family and friends.

He loves dad jokes, the New England Patriots, and rooting for his kid's (and wife's) activities.

As a father of three young boys, Liam somehow finds the time to develop games and hold in-person BMG events in Waterbury Vermont. Over the past couple years testing with BMG, he has become passionate about helping others in their development journeys by swapping tests, feedback and brainstorms. Liam is ever-inspired by his family & friends, being outside, and the endless enthusiasm and creativity of the community he is helping BMG create.

Lorenzi is a young and ambitious game designer, joining the tabletop scene in 2021. Though new to BMG, she’s been an active member, frequently running and participating in various playtests. She creates her own art, writes tv episode scripts, has talent in voice acting, and is the proud wielder of a big spoon.

Jonathan is a board game designer in the Seattle area. He's worked at Funko Games and Tempest Workshop on several games such as Star Wars Rivals and FNAF Fightline. He recently sold his first self published game, Mast Year, at the 2025 PAX West Indie Market. When not designing or playing games, you can find him running or doodling around on the guitar.

Chris is an indie game designer who started making games and attending BMG events in 2018. As a mod on the BMG Discord, he helps keep the BMG community welcoming and engaging. Outside of the hobby, Chris enjoys life as a dad and engineer.

Matt is an operations manager and in-person event host living in Frederick, MD, with his wife, two cats, and dozens of board games, all of which he wishes he could play more often. He joined BMG as an event host after falling in love with helping designers figure out what does and doesn't work and fostering a greater sense of community in his city. In his free time, Matt is either running a tabletop RPG session, writing a tabletop RPG campaign, or endlessly tinkering with his tabletop RPG system.

Jeff has been designing games his whole life, but he only recently started taking it seriously after realizing that regular people can indeed get their board games published. The BMG community has been essential for that journey, and he wants to help others make that same leap. Jeff lives with his wife, kids and cats near Chicago.

Edward (Ned) Damon’s analog game journey started with making a tabletop RPG system in high school (it was terrible) and continues through today. BMG has been an amazing environment to help hone all parts of the board game design journey, and he hopes to give back to this amazing, supportive community. He’s been involved with the BMG community for several years, and helps to host the Portland, OR Break My Game in-person event. Outside of board games, Ned enjoys hiking, gardening, and volunteering with the Scouts and PTA.

Brett is a musician, writer, and game designer who derives way too much joy from making spreadsheets. His early fascination for strategy games - starting a Lines of Action strategy blog and designing maps for an online Risk knock-off - led him to board game design and this community of designers, artists, and publishers helping each other fulfill their visions. Brett hopes to apply his experience as a Director of Marketing to bolster Break My Game’s public profile and continue growing the community.

Matthew is a game designer and publisher that holds a love for silly stocking caps and hanging with his sleepy greyhound. Having experienced the journey of bringing a game from concept to reality, Matthew deeply respects what BMG does for the tabletop community and wants to continue and encourage its work toward fostering inclusive and empowering playtesting communities.

Xoe is an eccentric game designer and boardgame tech support. It joined Break My Game to guide others towards accessible playtesting platforms, help host playtest events, and screech obnoxiously about the oppression of metrics.

​Kyle is a game designer and educator who has been part of Break My Game since 2022, with game design slowly taking more of their brain space. They want to give back to the design community and continue building a welcoming, collaborative space to grow alongside.

​Fueled by coffee and a lifelong love of tabletop games, Amber joined BMG as an in-person event host in 2025. She’s an elementary school teacher by day and a board game designer by night (and whenever she can grab a few free hours). She recently launched a board game design club at her school and loves sharing her passion for game design with her students. Her favorite game is Agricola, and if given the choice, she’ll always play purple.

​Eric is a game designer and middle school teacher in Queens, NY. He believes deeply in the transformative power of play and puts this belief into practice in his games, his classroom, and on his kitchen table during game night. He sold his first game, Adulting, at the Indie Games Night Market at PAX Unplugged 2025.

​David is a game designer, graphic designer, and community manager currently living in Philadelphia. He was a recipient of the 2022 Cardboard Edison Award and his graphic design work has been seen in Matilda Simonsson’s games Turncoats and Pax Penning. In addition to Break My Game, you can find David fostering and moderating game design communities with Protospiel Online and Unpub. He believes we can build a better and more equitable tabletop games industry through accountable and compassionate communities.

Andy is a farmer, game developer, and writer living in Charlottesville, VA with his cat and many, many sheep. He loves connecting with passionate people, especially when it gives him a chance to collaborate with other creatives! You can often find Andy puttering around the house, sleeping at his desk, or agonizing over what kinds of plastic are or aren't recyclable.

Zach has been designing board ganes since 2013. His hobbies include making board games, playing board games, MTG, video games, and watching anime. He loves helping designers and chatting about games

Josh is a game designer from the Philadelphia area. When he was young, he made simple board games out of leftover cardboard. Now, he makes slightly less simple board games out of leftover cardboard. (And sometimes virtual cardboard!) He's been hosting online events with BMG since 2022, and he enjoys the opportunity to collaborate with other designers and grow alongside the rest of the community.

Eric is a graphic designer and board game designer and collector residing in Philadelphia, PA with his wife, cat, and ball python. He’s been playing board games his whole life, and started creating them as teen. He also loves red pandas. A lot. Eric is currently in grad school for cybersecurity in hopes of making more money so he can buy more games.

Joe lives with their partner, baby, and cat in Minnesota and is currently busy pondering some small or major change to one of their many unpublished games. As a moderator, they are here to help you! Joe has a M.S. in mathematics and could be convinced to help calculate the probability of something.

Jake is a game designer, artist, and educator who thinks the only thing more fun than playing games is making them! 
BMG helped him get his first game signed and, as a live event host in Philadelphia, he wants to help others realize their game design goals! With all his work Jake wants to make things that help people have fun, think, and grow.

Vicki is a game designer, an enthusiast of learning how things work, and a software developer. Vicki takes pleasure in just about anything at the intersection of logic and creativity. This is likely why they also enjoy designing games to make the world a more equitable and better place. Vicki is excited to share their love of design, accessibility, and inclusion with the BMG community as a host in the Richmond, Virginia area.

Graham is a 2-player card game enjoyer and is always down to learn new games! Party games, war games, 12 hour long 4x games, anything! He's been an avid designer of games for 15 years and always finds playtesting new games to be a thrilling experience!