
Joe Kell
Joe Kell is a Minnesota-based board game designer (Color Jam, Sneaky Squirrels) and data analyst at Berger Consulting Group, recurring guest on the Building the Game podcast.
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Sep 29, 2026
Cardboard Time Episode 145 - Color Jam and an interview with Gene Koo, Joe Kell, and Matthew Hocker
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Joe KellGUEST
So the game crafter is like a print on demand company based in Madison, Wisconsin, and they host game design contests every so often.

Joe KellGUEST
And the one that came up was a coloring book contest basically where they wanted to put together a full book of coloring games.

Joe KellGUEST
And so I thought to myself, well, I can't really draw anything, so I'll, I'm not going to do this one.

Joe KellGUEST
And then I saw there was like a thread in break my game for this contest and Jean and a couple other people were talking about it.
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Episode 733: Fighting Unchecked Corruption Keeps Institutions Compassionately Equitable
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Joe KellGUEST
I think that this design is pretty much just as replayable as anything else that i've made um it it is different every time um and you could be a different character the characters are fully asymmetric um so they have their own player deck they have their own you know they'll have their own identity their own things that fire them up and fill their cup um so you'll be focusing on different things uh throughout the game um So there's definitely that like variety in there and then seeing the variety of the community events.

Joe KellGUEST
But for the most part, like, yeah, I guess I expect most people, well, like any game, I'd expect most people to play it once or twice.
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makes a ton of sense to not include that so it's And there's another

