Posted on 18th December 2024
By Billy Langsworthy

With 2024 coming to a close, we’re taking a look back at our most read interviews of the year.
Below you can find our top 10. Have a brilliant festive break, a great New Year and we’ll see you in 2025!
1. Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal and Exploding Kittens on how intrusive thoughts led him to design Horrible Therapist.
2. What should you put in a sell sheet and a sizzle? Hasbro’s Angus Walker shares his thoughts
3. Tristam Rossin, James Emmerson and Adam Hocherman launch new studio, Wayfarer Games
4. Fantasy Flight Games’ Danny Schaefer on taking a ‘feelings-first’ approach to designing Star Wars: Unlimited
5. Polly Pocket co-creator Chris Taylor reveals why he entered the toy industry
6. Ben Butcher on the values and vision for his new collectibles company, Kaleidos Creative
7. Jazwares’ Magdalena Eichhorn on what she thinks about when reviewing an item for the first time
8. Veronica Kushnareva – AKA LadyShalirin – on using music as inspiration when illustrating for Disney Lorcana
9. LEGO’s Jaume Fabregat on why the time is right for LEGO to return to board games
10. Prolific game designer Eric Lang takes us inside Hasbro’s Life in Reterra
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