Honors

• Special Guest at Tantrum Con in Feb 2026!

• Special Guest at CuseCon in Sep 2025!

• Spoke on panel with Chief Scientist and head ichthyologist on World Ocean Day at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in June 2025!

• Guest of Honor at the All aBOARD EXPO in the Philippines in May 2025!
   

• Finspan won the 2025 Astra Star Play Award Geek Game of the Year!

• Nominated for the Play Creators 2025 Game Designer of the Year for IP-driven product for Monkey Palace!

• Monkey Palace won the 2025 Guldtärningen 2025: Årets Familjespel (Golden Dice Family Game of the Year)

• Monkey Palace won the 2024 Belgian Games Federation Strategy Game Of The Year!

• Monkey Palace earned 2025 Mensa Recommended award!

• Monkey Palace nominated for the 2024 BGG Golden Geek Award for Innovative Game Of The Year!

• Monkey Palace nominated for the 2025 American Tabletop Awards!

• Monkey Palace Finalist 2024 Games & Puzzles Gift of the Year UK!

• Monkey Palace won 2024 Top Christmas Must-Have Big Kids category!

• Monkey Palace nominated for the 2024 Danish Golden Pawn Award for Family Game of the Year!

• Monkey Palace nominated for Best Visuals in the Board Game Revolution Community Awards of 2024 here.

• Monkey Palace ranked #6 game of the year of 2024 by Adam Wales here.

• MOJO 100 2025! Check out page 76 here.

• Floristry selected as Barnes & Noble Game of the Month for May, 2025!

Panels

• PAX Unplugged 2025 (Growing An Evergreen) with Jean-François Gagné, Helaina Cappel & Gavan Brown
• Metatopia 2025 (Pitch Perfect) with Geoff Engelstein
• Gen Con 2025 (Span Span Span!) with Elizabeth Hargrave & Michael O’Connell
• All aBOARD EXPO Philippines 2025 Workshop with Yohan Goh & TAM
• Unpub 2025 (Span Span Span!) with Elizabeth Hargrave, Connie Vogelmann, & Michael O’Connell
• Unpub 2025 (topic: industry legal issues) with Eric Perrott
• Unpub 2025 Pro-Am Game Jam as a Pro
• GAMA Expo 2025 (topic: pitching) with Kelli Schmitz, Alex Yeager, & TAM
• Metatopia 2024 (topic: pitching) with Geoffrey Engelstein, Carla Kopp, Curt Covert, & TAM
• GAMA Expo 2024 (topic: pitching to publishers) with Molly Zeff & TAM
• Metatopia 2023 (topic: design goals) with Sydney Engelstein & Zintis May-Krunins
• Unpub 2023 (topic: co-designing) with Chris Chan & TAM
• Nonepub 2023 (topic: co-designing) with Jonathan Gilmour & TAM