In this episode, we talk about Lords of Hellas, The Sanctuary, Shaky Manor, FEAR, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Catan VR! Geoff joins us for some GameTek, Tom gives our convention schedule for 2018, and we answer some questions! Finally, we end the show with our favorite games from fifteen years ago - 2003!
Today, it’s just me on the podcast, and I’m discussing creativity, time management, and the future of the BGDL.
I’ve learned a lot of really great stuff about the creative process, and I want to share with you some of the things that have been helping me with my game designs.
And then I want to tell you about the fun and exciting things ahead for the BGDL podcast and community.
In this special series from the Lords of the dungeon, Bender and Jamie will discuss their process for running role playing game campaigns.In the first episode we discuss the clean slate - where do you get started creating a campaign for your RPG group?
Mark and Walker address so many questions this week. How many ways can Walker pronounce "coyote?" Why is all of Oceania laughing at CMON? What is the best social and economic system? How condescending can Mark get? Listen up, as all will be explained herein.
Games Played Last Week: -First Martians: Adventures on the Red Planet 1m59s (Ignacy Trzewiczek, Portal Games, 2017) -Mombasa 3m17s (Alexander Pfister, eggertspiele, 2015) -Blood Rage 5m54s (Eric Lang, CMON Limited, 2015) -Empires of the Void II 7m47s (Ryan Laukat, Red Raven, 2018) -Coyote 11m23s (Spartaco Albertarelli, New Games Order, 2015) -Sakura Arms 14m21s (BakaFire, AEG, 2017)
News (and why it doesn't matter): -Wiki Kiwi Kotahi Rising Sun Fail 15m10s -Menara 18m41s -Progress on Myth? 19m45s -Starship Samurai 20m43s
Feature Game: A Feast for Odin 21m29s (Uwe Rosenberg, Feuerland Spiele, 2016)
Topic: Apps in Board Games 41m02s -Companion Apps 41m48s -"Overlord" Apps 48m58s -App-Driven Games 54m42s
Shelley and I get all Tetris-y again with the second nature-themed tile-laying game from Uwe Rosenberg, then plan out our estates in preparation for the King's visit.
Indian Summer by Uwe Rosenberg from Stronghold Games, Edition Spielwiese, and Pegasus
and
King's Will by Hans-Peter Stoll from ADC Blackfire and with development by Spielworxx
A couple weeks ago, Crystal decided to recap her first ever play of Twilight Imperium live on Twitch! This is the podcast version (you can see the video version on YouTube).
Start of Stream: 0:34
Mental Check in: 2:42
Twilight Imperium: 7:17
Crystal's Audio Clips:
#1 - After Round 1: 12:56
#2 - Mid-Game: 23:52
#3 - Interview with Scott: 32:53
Dice Tower Kickstarter Plug: 41:10
Question - non-space 4x?: 45:19
Sneak Peak of 2017 Blitzies episode (Jan. 18): 48:05
Blitz Con Excitement: 1:02:23
Outro: 1:08:36
Alan Emrich, founder of Victory Point Games, discusses how a publisher approaches the development process when taking a game from prototype to store shelf.
Alan has been in the gaming industry for four decades and brings a great deal of experience and insight into this conversation. Both designers and publishers will benefit from what he has to say here.
Today Chris and Jamie talk about euro games, what they are, what we like about them, the kinds that we like and what it's all about. Then we each list 3 games we love and 2 games we'd love to play that we havent played before.
In episode eleven of our comedy board gaming quiz show we play:
Haters gonna hate
Theme chase
Hulla-kazoo
Roll up, roll up
The price is probably extortionate
We also are joined by the fantastic Becky Rolfe from the Board Games in Bed podcast. You can listen to more of her here: http://www.boardgamesinbed.com/
If you enjoy the show please tell your friends! And don't forget to check out our YouTube channel
This Game is Broken is released every two weeks and is hosted by Dan Hughes and features Matthew Jude, Dave Luza, Nick Murphy and Mike Murphy.
The show is devised and produced by Dan Hughes and edited by Matthew Jude. If you would like Matthew to help you edit your podcast then contact him at:mathewjudcooper@gmail.com
Art by our secretive sixth member Gary. If you would like to commission Gary then email him at: Graphics@deadcatdreaming.co.uk
Additional production support from Mike Poole, Simon Brass, Max Davie, and Gary Pope.
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 engage the ALL CAPS in a very HARDCORE WAY. Or something. All in all, they're very civil, even while disagreeing about Sidereal Confluence and being mystified by people's strong reactions to HATE. Rage gets all the love, but HATE gets all the confusion.
Games Played Last Week: 0:54 -Sakura Arms (BakaFire, AEG, 2017) 2:31 -Blood Rage (Eric Lang, CMON Games, 2015) 4:15 -Assault on Doomrock (Tom Stasiak, Beautiful Disaster Games, 2014) 7:31 -Star Wars: Imperial Assault (Justin Kemppainen, Corey Konieczka, & Jonathan Ying, FFG, 2014) 8:52 -Charterstone (Jamey Stegmaier, Stonemaier Games, 2017) 10:28 -Great Western Trail (Alexander Pfister, eggertspiele, 2016)
News (and why it doesn’t matter): 10:57 Reiner Knizia returns to Tigris & Euphrates with Yellow & Yangtze 14:56 BGG suffered a DDoS attack from bots this week 16:09 New expansion for Great Western Trail coming 16:52 Nemesis on Kickstarter, but does the publisher have the track record?
In this episode, we talk about Legacy of Dragonholt, Dream On!, Heaven and Ale, Blend Coffee Lab, Tybor de Baumeister, and Bunny Kingdom. We also answer a few questions, take a look at some older games, and more!
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!