In today's Dungeon Master's Ludus Bender and Jamie talk about the Prime Directive of starting a new role playing game and now to make the first adventure of your new campaign amazing.
Ancestree is a tile drafting game where each player cultivates a family tree. You'll build dynasties, marriages, and wealth to score points. The game is wonderfully simple to learn but the scoring system makes each decision matter and each decision fun.
Rising Sun! Everyone's talking about it, and so must we. It's our feature topic this week, but first, a brief look at what else we've been playing: Spirit Island, Hardback and Decrypto. We close the show with a look ahead to what we're hoping to play.
Games discussed:
00:58 - Spirit Island 07:51 - Hardback 15:45 - Decrypto 20:20 - Rising Sun
Jason Mowery and Chase Williams, designers of The Big Score, discuss the process of co-designing a game.
We talk scheduling, conflict management, and more. Also, you can check out their new game on Kickstarter HERE. (It’s basically Ocean’s 11, the board game.)
Today Steve and Jamie are joined by Honorary Founder, Dan King, The Game Boy Geek to talk about his current Kickstarter fundraiser, being a full time media creator and casual and family games and some recommendations of games you might want to play with your friends and family!
Walker acts on his firm conviction that sympathy is for the weak, and the internet seems to endorse this position. Fueled by Mark's misery, the pair utter a great deal of words on the topic of Rising Sun, which has had a firm grip on their gaming time of late. They then decide to move on to matters of history and politics, which are always safe topics. Nothing could possibly go wrong.
Games Played Last Week: -Arcane Academy 3m49s (Eric Lang & Kevin Wilson, IDW Games, 2016) -Dogs of War 5m26s (Paolo Mori, CMON, 2014)
News (and why it doesn't matter): -Deep in deep trouble 11m04s -Star Trek Ascendancies yet further 16m19s
Feature Game: Rising Sun 18m12s (Eric Lang, CMON, 2018)
In this show, we talk about Get Off My Land!, Star Wars Clue, Awkward Guests, Noria, Tiki Island, and Vampires of the Night. We answer questions like why our voices are so slow, games as luxury items, and obnoxious players. We hear a tale of horror, and then end the show talking about our favorite food-themed games.
In this week's episode I talk to renaissance man, Isaac Shalev. We talk about his history as a designer, the joys of working in a partnership and how his faith influences him and his work. But which games did he choose?
You also get to hear the team collapse in on themselves like a dying star when exposed to the madness of the Best Expansion category. Just what is an expansion for?!
Huge thanks to forum user clg9000 for organising such a fun event.
We talk about what we've been playing (1830, Archipelago and Gaia Project), we dive deep into math trading for board games, and close out with what we're looking forward to in the weeks ahead.
Games and topics discussed:
01:10 - 1830 07:39 - Archipelago 14:04 - Gaia Project 20:34 - Math Trading 42:09 - Guards of Atlantis
Petter Olsen, designer of Kill the King, discusses the king of the hill mechanism. (We also might go into propane and propane accessories…)
Petter’s new game hinges on this particular mechanism, so he knows a lot about what makes it work well. You can check out his new game on Kickstarter HERE.
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