Joey Eaton

Joey Eaton is a long time gaming nerd turned wargamer with a deep passion for lore, art and community driven gameplay. From player to Vanguard and finally Para-Bellum Western US Retail Relationship Manager, her passion is aimed at community growth, events and flavorful gameplay.

Matt Hyra

Matt Hyra has been working as a game designer for over 20 years. He has nearly 100 game design credits and has designed more unique deck-building game engines than anyone. After working at Wizards of the Coast for 7 years, he moved back to his native California to work at Upper Deck Entertainment for another 7 years. After that, Cryptozoic Entertainment for 9 years. But since the start of 2020, he has been the Senior Game Designer at Renegade Game Studios.

Some highlights of his game design career include:

• DC Deck-Building Game and dozens of expansions
• Lord of the Rings and Hobbit Deck-Building Games
• Multiple Walking Dead Games
• Multiple Rick & Morty Games
• World of Warcraft Trading Card Game and WoW Miniatures Game
• Dozens of games based on Movies, TV Shows, Comic Books, and Video Games

Since he started at Renegade, he has been working on a lot of Hasbro brands such as: Transformers, GI Joe, Power Rangers, Robo Rally, and Axis & Allies. This weekend, Matt will be hosting a few sessions of his latest and greatest creation: Axis & Allies: North Africa, which was released just a few weeks ago! This is the first new WWII game in the series since 2007, and the first time anyone other than the original designer (Larry Harris) has designed an A&A game.

John Wick

Since getting his start in 1995, John has published dozens of games and won over a dozen awards. His games include Legend of the Five Rings RPG, 7th Sea, Orkworld, Houses of the Blooded and Cat: A Little Game about Little Heroes, and even a wrestling game. John was raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason, is a Discordian Double Agent, sings (but not well), still has the first dollar bill he made telling stories, uses Qabalic rituals on his birthday to help his friends walk up the Tree of Life, was a memetic assassin (it was a corgi), maintains a clutch of Monsters, saw a man cut in half while working as a breakman on the railroad, beat the Devil in a game of riddles, fell asleep in a goth club, plays drums (but not well), was healed by Harlan Ellison, met and talked to characters he created, and wrote this bio. And it’s all true.