Board Game Authority

A while back I had the opportunity to speak with Joel Colombo, who has backed 180 different Kickstarter campaigns (he has since broken the 200 mark).  I wanted to talk with Joel to gain insight from a backer perspective.  What makes him click the pledge button?  Or maybe more importantly, what scares him away?  As always, you can listen to the podcast on iTunes, or via the embeded player right here on our site, and the excerpt can be found below. RICHARD MILES: Hi! This is Richard Miles of Board Game authority and today I’m with… JOEL COLOMBO: Joel Colombo. RICHARD MILES: Hi, Joel. Thank you for taking the time to speak with me today. We are in quite a few Facebook groups together. Facebook groups about board-gaming in general, some on the design aspect but a lot of groups focusing on Kickstarter, and from those groups I have learned that you are, for lack of a better word, a ‘Power Backer’. I don’t know what to call it. JOEL COLOMBO: It sounds weird. But yeah… RICHARD MILES: Yeah. You back a lot of Kick