Patrick Leder is the co-designer and developer of the board game Vast: The Crystal Caverns, which features a highly asymmetrical design. He has enjoyed great success on Kickstarter and is very involved with the community surrounding making Vast: The Crystal Caverns.

Owner and Designer, Leder Games

Chris Hajny is a co-founder of Light Grey Art Lab, where he helps create large-scale creative projects such as the playable card game, Rolemodels: Battle for Vyk’Tornaahl, and a 27 level sidescrolling platformer, Dream Arcade, as well as producing a steady stream of audio and visual content for the Light Grey Art Lab podcast, blog, workshops, and residencies. Chris is also senior product designer at Paper Bicycle and has created thousands of products, books, designs, and illustrations for clients such as Target, Starbucks, 3M, and the History Channel.

Co-Owner & Media Producer, Light Grey Art Lab

Andrew studied computer science at the University of Minnesota and now works at Fantasy Flight Games, where he has been for the last 5 years. In that time, he has worked as lead designer  and developer on tabletop roleplaying games and board games—creating rules systems, balancing game mechanics, and coordinating development staff at every step of the game development process. Andrew’s work spans many licensed properties including the Warhammer and Star Wars universes.

Game Designer, Fantasy Flight Games