Hey there, my name is Jonathan, and I am a board game lover residing in the California Bay Area. After playing my first Settlers of Catan game in early 2008, I quickly fell down the rabbit hole of modern board games. In early 2014, I started "JonGetsGames" on a whim. I had no idea at the time that this fateful decision would ultimately change the course of my professional life.
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JonGetsGames became a part-time job at the start of 2017, and as of 2020, it is now my full-time career. In early 2025, the channel was renamed "Getting Games" to encapsulate better how my videos focus on helping the viewer understand not only the "how" but also the "why" while playing.

I am fortunate to work out of a small studio we built in the spare bedroom of our home, and I work on creating videos and doing board game development there most days of the week.
 
I started out making review videos for board games, and over time, this has changed and expanded into a wide variety of video types. I no longer create review videos, instead the main focus of the channel is the production of tutorial-style plathroughs where I teach the game while it is being played. I try to get viewers into the game as quickly as possible and make them feel like they are actually playing the game as it's being explained.