

We’re gonna keep talking all night long.īrandon Rollins: All right. ChaptersĠ:00 How Kenny Goodman Makes Money Digitizing Board GamesĠ:52 What is Overboard Games and who is Kenny Goodman?ġ:51 What is Tabletop Simulator and how do board game publishers use it?ģ:32 Where people find digital versions of board gamesĥ:42 How do you make digital versions of board games on Tabletop Simulator?ħ:47 Why Kenny’s business is working so wellġ0:22 How some parts of board games can even be automatedġ2:42 Kenny is smart about outsourcing highly technical workġ3:46 Tabletop Simulator helps board game publishers refine their games as productsġ4:50 The difficulty of getting board game publishers to adopt a new way of doing thingsġ6:36 The rise and fall of online board gaming conventionsġ8:36 How Kenny got into making digital versions of board games for moneyĢ0:25 How Kenny was eventually able to start creating digital board games as a full-time jobĢ1:49 A hard, but reliable way to get noticed for the first timeĢ4:14 Kenny’s favorite project: Merchant’s CoveĢ6:04 How to know Tabletop Simulator mods are actually worth itĢ6:56 Advice Kenny would give to someone just starting a businessĢ9:43 The importance of finding a really specific nicheģ0:36 What’s next for Kenny and Overboard Games?Įnjoying the podcast? There's more where that came from. If you want to follow Weird Marketing Tales on social media, go to on Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn. You can learn more about Overboard Games by going to their website, on Twitter, and OverboardGames on YouTube.Ĭheck out the Weird Marketing Tales website if you haven’t already.

Learn more about Tabletop Simulator and Tabletopia here. In this episode, we talk about how Kenny takes a physical product and makes it digital, why the business works so well, and how he got started in the first place!

What if I told you that you don’t have to be in the same room with someone to play board games? It’s true – and that’s how Kenny Goodman, owner of Overboard Games, was able to build a business out of digitizing board games on Tabletop Simulator. Enjoying the podcast? There's more where that came from.
