Ambie, Cassadi, and Crystal discuss Dungeon Petz, The Downfall of Popmeii, and Majesty: For the Realm. We then talk about 2017 in board gaming with the 2017 Blitzies and our top 10 games of 2017, in this double length episode!
Announcements: 0:50
Recent Games: 4:09
2017 Blitzies: 16:07
Top 10 2017 Games: 37:59
Outro: 1:04:53
Bloopers: 1:05:57
Categories:
Biggest Disappointment: 22:58
Biggest Surprise: 26:50
Looking Forward to in 2018: 30:06
New to Us: 33:26
Artyom Nichipurov (Arty for short), designer of Guards of Atlantis: Tabletop MOBA, discusses Tabletopia and gives lots of tips and tricks on how to get your prototype up and running on the system.
Tabletopia can be an extremely useful resource for playtesting, demoing, and pitching your game.
If you need some help with the software, Arty has offered to give you a hand. You can reach him at nichipurov (at) gmail (dot) com.
Also, Arty’s game, Warpgate, just launched on Kickstarter. If you like Euro games and/or space games, check it out HERE.
Matt and Paul regroup for a post-festive ramble through the wilderness of sentient cardboard. Paul shares some thoughts on Legacy of Dragonholt and Celestia - which Matt is comedically unable to recall too clearly. Meanwhile, Matt has been toying with the free co-op app for Imperial Assault - and compares his experiences with this to the recently-reviewedGloomhaven, for your pleasure / horror.
We then talk a little about the shocking phenomenon of fake board games, as covered by Paul in this week's news, and finally cap off the first pod of the year by addressing the hard-hitting issue of S.N.A.C.K.S. Basically, Paul is mildly interrogated about cookies.
Who - in truth - is the real cookie monster? Only the cold hands of time will decide. Thanks for listening!
Hey now eveyrone and welcome to episode 151 of The Secret Cabal! Today we talk about fullfilling all our Kickstarter Goodies, Chris reviews a movie about a game that makes people insane murders, we discuss out big Beer Mongers New Years game day and all the games we've been playing. Then we review The Expanse from Wizkids. After Tony gives you the skinny on all the important gaming news, we discuss randomness in gaming!
Mark and Walker engage in rampant hearsay, or at least that's what someone told me. They perform a dissection of Alien Artifacts, only to discover that it was a shoddy rubber suit all along. They then discuss their thoughts on Kickstarter's influence on the hobby--is it making games cute but stupid? Also, a friendly reminder that Star Control II is the greatest video game ever made.
Games Played Last Week: 1:00 -Secret Hitler (Mike Boxleiter, Tommy Maranges & Max Temkin, Self-published, 2016) 2:39 -Sheriff of Nottingham (Sérgio Halaban & André Zatz, Arcane Wonders, 2014) 5:11 -Keyflower (Sebastien Bleasdale & Richard Breese, R&D Games, 2012) 7:57 -Neuroshima Hex (Michał Oracz, Portal, 2006) 11:08 -Empires of the Void II (Ryan Laukat, Red Raven, 2018) 15:45 -Unlock! Mystery Adventures (Cyril Demaegd, Arnaud Ladagnous, Fabrice Mazza, Sébastien Pauchon & Billy Stevenson, Space Cowboys, 2017) 19:25 -Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition (Dane Beltrami, Corey Konieczka, & Christian T. Petersen, Fantasy Flight, 2017) 20:31 -Cockroach Poker (Jacques Zeimet, Drei Magier, 2004)
News (and why it doesn’t matter): 23:04 Immortal 8, a new drafting game, but is it Fairy Tale? 23:36 Chinese New Year has been mainstreamed in BG community 25:13 Clash of Cultures reprint on hold
In this show, we take a look at Unlock and Exit, You Betcha, Keyper, Azul, Hardback, and Ponzi Scheme. We also hear a tale of horror (anger?), listen to Geoff's wise words, and finish the show with our top ten games from ten years ago - 2008!
After a quick correction about misreading some rules regarding last week's episode, Shelley and I get 2 games from Emanuele Ornella to the table for this week:
Don Eskridge, designer of The Resistance, discusses all the ins and outs of creating a social deduction game.
The Resistance is one of the most popular games ever made that lets you lie directly to your friends’ faces, and Don has designed several more of these types of games, so he definitely knows what he’s talking about.
And click HERE to check out Don’s latest social deduction game which is on Kickstarter right now.
In episode 11 we talk about our decision to switch from Fate Core to World of Darkness and a little but about the new Genesys system. Then we take a topic from a listener about how long should RPG campaigns take to complete. Then finally we talk about our current Dark Earth 1899 campaign.
In episode ten of our comedy board gaming quiz show we are joined by Blue Peg Pink Peg's Patrick Kelly and by comedian, singer and actor Ilka Luza (who also happens to be married to our very own Dave Luza). In this episode we play:
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You can see more from Dave Luza on his board gaming YouTube channel - The Happy Luza. He also talks about tabletop games every week on the Dice Tower's Board Game Breakfast doing his Playing the News segment.
The Brother's Murph also have there own gaming Youtube channel The Brother's Murph. You can find them on the Dice Tower's board Game Breakfast show too talking about Thrift Store Throwbacks. Dan Hughes and Matthew Jude also have segments on Board Game Breakfast on the Dice Tower. Dan reviews children's Tabletop games alongside his daughter on "Dan and Cora". And Mathew talks about board and card games on "Dead Last". Despite the cast's close ties to the Dice Tower This Game is Broken is not affiliated to the Dice Tower Network. Or to the Shut Up Sit Down Network, the Rhado Runs Through it Network, or the Watch it Played Network. Mostly because those networks don't even exist.
Mark and Walker discuss many things Stonemaier games, and ask the rhetorical question: why does everything gotta have a campaign? They then try to answer that question, because they don't know what rhetorical means.
Games Played Last Week: 1:35 -Monikers (Alex Hague & Justin Vickers, Palm Court, 2015) 2:16 -One Night Ultimate Werewolf (Ted Alspach & Akihisa Okui, Bezier Games, 2014) 4:10 -Pandemic Legacy Season 2 (Rob Daviau & Matt Leacock, Z-Man, 2017) 5:40 -Charterstone (Jamey Stegmaier, Stonemaier Games, 2017) 9:04 -Sakura Arms (Baka Fire, AEG, 2017) 11:47 -Alien Artifacts (Marcin Senior Ropka & Viola Kijowska, Portal, 2017) 13:56 -El Grande (Wolfgang Kramer & Richard Ulrich, Hans im Gluck, 1995) 16:26 -Antiquity (Joroen Doumen & Joris Wiersinga, Splotter, 2004)
News (and why it doesn’t matter): 21:13 Next and possibly final expansion for Scythe announced 25:20 Seal Team Flix coming from WizKids 26:27 Carnival Zombie 2nd Edition coming to Kickstarter 27:24 Don Eskidge’s next game will be Black Hole Council 28:49 Mantic Games will release Hellboy: The Board Game
In this episode, we take a look at Magic Maze, Bali, Smile, Brides and Bribes, Deckscape, Harry Potter expansion, and more! We also take a look at an escape room book, a few apps, and talk about what will be hot and cold (we think!) in 2018.
Shelley and I have a good time grinning through our first lighter game, but then cannot recommend our second, middle-weight game – at least for 2 players.
Smile by Michael Schacht from Z-Man Games
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Nusfjord by Uwe Rosenberg from Mayfair/Lookout Games
Dustin Schwartz, professional rulebook writer, discusses what makes a great rulebook and lots of tips and tricks on how to put together a ruleset that’s easy to teach and easy to learn.
Dustin wrote 40 rulebooks in 2017 and is looking to write 100 in 2018, so he’s got a TON of experience on what makes a rulebook great.
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