The word “meeple” is is a melding of the words “my” and “people” and usually refers to a board game game piece that represents each unique player. The term was invented in 2000 by Alison Hansel when describing the pieces from the game Carcassonne.

Meeple Mountain Contributors

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The Meeple Mountain roster of contributors includes three published authors and experience in video, music, data science, and software engineering. This incredibly diverse skill set means that we can produce interesting and compelling content across a wide spectrum of the tabletop gaming industry.

Meeple Mountain prides itself on unique content not found anywhere else in board game media. Interviews with well known designers like Alexander Pfister and Phil Walker-Harding, editorial content which ponders if legacy games are the future board gaming, narrative articles like our story review of Daxu or Holmes: Sherlock & Mycroft, scientific articles using Kickstarter data to make predictive analysis about future campaigns, and even tongue in cheek pieces which ask “If Board Games Were Rock Bands“.

Staff

Andy Matthews – Editor in Chief, Founder

Founder of Meeple Mountain, editor of MeepleMountain.com, software engineer, and published author. Father of 4, husband to 1, lover of games, books, and movies, and all around nice guy. I run Nashville Game Night, and Nashville Tabletop Day. You can reach me on twitter @commadelimited, or by email andy@meeplemountain.com

Associate Editors

Ashley Gariepy

Ashley Gariepy is a French elementary school teacher who loves board games. She considers herself a euro-gamer at heart, but has been known to enjoy the occasional Ameri-style game. Follow @redmeeplesmash on Instagram and Twitter to stay current with the games she’s playing.

David McMillan

IT support specialist by day, Minecrafter by night; I always find time for board gaming. When it comes to games, I prefer the heavier euro-game fare. Uwe Rosenburg is my personal hero with Stefan Feld coming in as a close second. You can reach me on twitter, @FeldFreak or by email ahorseisahorse@yahoo.com

Ian Howard

I am a stay-at-home dad with a background in academic libraries. Gaming and writing are two of my major passions, but I also enjoy watching hockey, hiking and traveling. I currently live in the Nashville area.

Kathleen Hartin

Kathleen is an environmental engineer by day, and a board game playing fiend by night (well, also by day). In her spare time she enjoys swing dancing and creating new vegan treats.

Kurt Refling

Kurt Refling is the former curator of Ottawa board game café Monopolatte. When not playing an egregious amount of board games, Kurt spends his time swing dancing, cooking, and pretending there are more hours in the day than there really are.

Than Gibson

Than Gibson is a writer, artist, and lifelong Dungeon Master. He loves all things RPG-related and is the creator of Chronicle, a fantasy RPG setting and webcomic.

Contributors

Andrew Holmes

Andrew Holmes is a husband, father, scientist, poet and, of course, gamer who lives in Wales, works in England and owns a Scottish rugby shirt. He has never passed up a challenge to play Carcassonne.

Brody Sheard

Jonathan Elder

Jonathan has spent over 15 years in the ministry serving families with youth and children. During this time he found and developed a love for gaming. He enjoys all sorts of board games and RPG games. The social aspect is his favorite part of gaming. Jonathan really enjoys teaching games and introducing people to new games and the hobby in general. He’s trying his best to raise his two young daughters in the love of gaming, too.

Logan Giannini

Logan Giannini plays games as often as he can and, since that isn’t very often, spends the intervening weeks writing about games instead. He’s also an experienced puzzle designer, having spent years in the escape room industry and as co-founder of The Enigma Emporium.

Marcus Cathey

4 Kid Stay at Home Dad club member, licensed attorney, unlicensed rules lawyer, board gamer, video gamer, card gamer, computer techie, amateur carpenter, and all around modern Tennessean. Plays Risk to satisfy urges of world domination, plays everything else for fun and fellowship.

Rachel LeCompte – Graphic Design

Librarian, beekeeper, and dog mom. My “free” time is filled with board games (mostly deck builders), reading, and the
great outdoors, all of which are fueled by lots of coffee. Follow @tabletoplibrarian on instagram to see what I’ve been
playing.