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STRONG TOWER GAMING CONVENTION 2025 Special Guests



A HUGE THANK YOU TO OUR 2024
STRONG TOWER GAMING CONVENTION SPECIAL GUESTS!



ANDREW LOWEN





Andrew Lowen is the designer of Deliverance--the highest-grossing Christian crowdfunded board game of all time. He set out to make something that would be everything he wanted in a board game without compromise. Andrew is also the CEO of Lowen Games and founder and CEO of Next Level Web, a digital marketing agency



KANE KLENKO





Kane Klenko is a game designer living in the Madison, WI area with his wife and two sons. He specializes in light to medium weight family games, with a focus on unique real-time and dice mechanics.


He has also directed art on projects and is the designer of over a dozen hit games including: Nunatak, FUSE, Flip Ships, Dead Men Tell No Tales, Covert and many more.



Ryan and Bethany
Board Game Reviews





Ryan and Bethany are a husband and wife duo who love board games. They play them, review them, and design them. Their goal is to have viewers play games, live healthy, and create moments! They love talking about new hot board games, and older classic games too. They even bring their superhero daughter on board to talk about kid’s games!



We Game Together





Randy and Ellen Kirby have been married for 18 blissful years and are parents to 4 totally wild boys. They love the board game industry and have been a part of the Dice Tower for almost 3 years, contributing short segments to Board Game Breakfast and game previews. They also have a YouTube and Instagram account under the handle We Game Together that are filled with live plays, posts on what they're currently playing, unboxings and other shenanigans.



Ben “Conesy” anD SUZANNE Cone





Ben Cone, or better known as Conesy, started out gaming with Dungeons and Dragons when he was 12. After a dabble with Magic the Gathering, he broke into miniature gaming. When the local True Value Hardware store decided to stock the Games-Workshop product line he dived into Warhammer. Forever, that decision would dominate his destiny. Now with an extensive miniature collection that includes Warhammer Fantasy, Warhammer 40k, Blood Bowl, Battlefleet Gothic, Mordhiem, Flames of War, Bolt Action, Batman Miniature Game, Marvel: Crisis Protocol, Malifaux, and many others there may be no end to his miniature collecting madness!



Keith Matejka





Keith is the creative lead at Thunderworks Games and handles design, development, art direction, customer service, and manufacturing. Before founding the company, Keith worked in the video game industry for 15 years in both development and publishing. His primary roles included managing teams of artists, programmers, animators and sound engineers. He has a bachelor’s degree in music recording and has had a lifelong passion for playing and exploring music. He enjoys time with his wife Claire, and son Isaac.



ed marriott





He has designed the popular games Scoville and Embarcadero. He maintains Boards & Barley, Ed's blog for all the things he does related to board gaming and beer. He is a game designer. He is a home brewer. He likes to drink beer when he plays board games. These two things go hand in hand for Ed.



JEREMY HOWARD





Jeremy Howard started covering games under his Jambalaya Plays Games handle in 2016, with videos on his YouTube channel dating to May 2018. In mid-2019, Jeremy joined the board game coverage team at Man vs Meeple. He can't stop sharing his love of solo games with everyone. For Jeremy there is something about the puzzle of a big euro, pulling out a card game on a table in an airport or chucking 10 dice at once and hitting it big......all by himself.



Glenn Drover





Glenn Drover is a game designer and publisher who founded Eagle Games, Tropical Games and Forbidden Games. Glenn is the designer of Mosaic: A Story of Civilization, Raccoon Tycoon, Age of Empires III, Railways of the World, and many, many other board games.





Strong Tower Gaming Convention 2025

#thoushaltplaygames #gamewithpurpose #fortheloveofgames


Returning September 5 - 7, 2025

Milwaukee Marriott West

Waukesha, WI


"The name of the Lord is a strong tower the righteous run to it and are safe"

- Proverbs 18:10