37: Publishing and Pitching with Zev Shlasinger
02/25/25 • 76 min
Zev Shlasinger has been in the hobby game industry for almost 30 years. He founded Z-Man Games in 1999, sold it in 2011, then worked for the new owners until mid-January 2016. At the end of January, he took the position of Director of Board Games with Wizkids. Some of the titles you might be familiar with are: Pandemic, Fantasy Realms, Agricola, Sidereal Confluence, Clash of Cultures, Merchants & Marauders, Tales of the Arabian Nights, Shadow Hunters, Arboretum, Tragedy Looper, Grave Robbers from Outer Space, Tournament at Camelot, Super Skill Pinball, and a host of others.
Check out Zev's new publishing company Play to Z here!
Links to my games:
99 Ninja
Rise of Babel on Kickstarter coming in 2024
Zev Shlasinger has been in the hobby game industry for almost 30 years. He founded Z-Man Games in 1999, sold it in 2011, then worked for the new owners until mid-January 2016. At the end of January, he took the position of Director of Board Games with Wizkids. Some of the titles you might be familiar with are: Pandemic, Fantasy Realms, Agricola, Sidereal Confluence, Clash of Cultures, Merchants & Marauders, Tales of the Arabian Nights, Shadow Hunters, Arboretum, Tragedy Looper, Grave Robbers from Outer Space, Tournament at Camelot, Super Skill Pinball, and a host of others.
Check out Zev's new publishing company Play to Z here!
Links to my games:
99 Ninja
Rise of Babel on Kickstarter coming in 2024
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Player Lair Podcast - 37: Publishing and Pitching with Zev Shlasinger
Transcript
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Speaker 1
So when I tell people that you have tell me is a huge output. And for me, I find it hard to restrain myself to that much because when I was man, I was doing 25 to 30 games a year in the last few years, and I think we even top 35 one year. And then with with kids, we were frequently at 20 to 25.
00;00;24;20 - 00;00;41;21
Speaker 1
So for me, when I say, okay, yeah, I'm dropping down and I'm doing 8 to 10, everyone goes, Holy cow, that's still a
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