Paverson Games is an indie game development studio owned and operated by Dave Beck, in Wisconsin (United States). Dave Beck is the creator, designer, and developer for Distilled. While Distilled will be Paverson Games’ first official board game release, they have also created numerous video games and interactive historical experiences, including the award-winning Tombeaux, downloadable via Steam and itch.io. As Distilled grows, so does its team of talented people. Read on to learn about each of them, below.
When Dave Beck is not making interactive experiences, he is a Professor of Game Design and the Director and Associate Dean of the University of Wisconsin-Stout School of Art & Design, the largest higher education art and design program in the upper midwest. He is also the founding Director of the Game Design Bachelor of Fine Arts Program, which is ranked as one of the top game design programs in the country by the Princeton Review.
Erik Evensen is the official artist and graphic designer for Distilled. Erik was the artist and graphic designer for Marrying Mr. Darcy, a strategy card game based on Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice. Mostly known for his comics work, Erik’s projects have been featured online at AV Club, Nerdist.com, Twitch, and Geek & Sundry, and in print in Graphic Design USA and the Washington Post.
Richard Woods is the Developer for Distilled. Richard is based in Lancashire in the UK and enjoys playing and designing board games in his spare time. Richard fell in love with Distilled after joining a play test in summer 2020, and has been helping Dave to refine and balance the game ever since.
David Digby is the solo designer for Distilled. David is a designer, developer, and rulebook editor based in Colchester in the UK. David has also designed solo modes for Chocolate Factory, Eternal Palace, Swatch, Fantastic Quests, Undaunted: Reinforcements (with David Turczi) and Tinners Trail (which he also redeveloped for the new edition).
Seth Berrier is the scripter behind Distilled’s digital presence on Tabletop Simulator. Seth is a seasoned programmer and software engineer. He has worked on projects in the commercial sector, for Benjamin Moore & Co. and ThermaSolutions Inc., and was a recipient of the Google Summer of Code grant project working on the Crystal Space 3D game engine. He teaches game development and web programming courses at the University of Wisconsin Stout and has guided dozens of games in the Junior and Senior level project courses for the game design program.
Cody Reimer is the copy editor for Distilled. He is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, where he teaches in the Professional Communication and Emerging Media program and the Master’s program in Technical and Professional Communication. An avid gamer, his research focuses on the intersection of games and rhetoric. His academic writing has been published in Communication Design Quarterly and the Journal of Basic Writing as well as several edited collections, and he frequently appears as a guest on the podcast Game Studies Review.
Teng Whay is the community liaison for Distilled. He is a college student majoring in Chemistry. Hailing from the little red dot of Singapore, Teng Whay is an avid gamer who loves board games and video games alike and hopes to one day be able to design, develop and publish his own board game. His favorite categories of board games are medium to heavy-weight strategy games and is always up for a challenge.
Blake Tucker, aka Dr Inkwell, is Distilled’s spirits consultant. Blake is the founder of Boozephreaks, bringing people in the San Francisco Bay Area together to learn about their libations, meet their local distillers, and share the international culture of spirits, since 2009. Blake has been the featured speaker at the Exploratorium’s Science of Cocktails, was the host of the “In The Know” spirits segment on local TV program CHN Now, and currently serves as Beverage Director for WBENC-certified Taste Catering. His moniker is his mission: he doesn’t want you to drink more, but to drink well.
George Georgeadis is Distilled’s Kickstarter video creator. George is a filmmaker, animator and the founder of Oniro, a creative agency that crafts immersive visuals and cinematic experiences for board games. Working with some of the industry’s top publishers and game designers he specializes in video, 3D visualization, GIFs, and photography. He loves movies, stargazing and currently has a collection of over 800 board games which he tells people is for “research”. See his work at www.onirocreative.com