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Episode 173: Auztralia, Aristeia and a Short Topic Extravaganza

19. Dezember 2018 um 06:55
Happy Holidays Cabalists, It's our Christmas Extravaganza! Today the gang celebrates the holidays by reviewing Martin Wallace's newest game Auztralia from Stronghold Games and looking back at the arena combat sports game from Corvus Belli, Aristeia. Tony T spins up the news feeds to out together the best damn news segment in all of tabletop gaming. Then the Founders give you another short topic extravaganza with topics including Stretch Goals, liking games you guy vs ones you didn't buy, starter miniatures games and our favorite comic book series. And sprinkled throughout the episode we give you a ton of holiday songs written by the Cabalists and sung by the Founders.Games Played 00:15:17, Games of Yesteryear 00:43:30, Playin Games While Sittin On The Can 01:02:00, Auztralia Overview 01:03:55, Auztralia Review 01:08:40, Aristeia Look Back 01:40:20, The Founder's 12 Days of, Christmas 01:46:35, Founder's Update 01:50:18, News with Tony T 01:52:05, Analysis Paralysis Christmas 02:39:55, Short Topic Extravaganza 02:40:40, Secret Santa 03:20:55

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#50: Year in Review 2018

Von: Pickaxe
18. Dezember 2018 um 18:41
Another round about the sun is complete, at least for those who acknowledge that sort of thing. I'm certain there must be a strand of Flat Eartherism that bows to the reality of the Earth's orbit--I could find out, but boardgaming already more than satisfies my desire for obscure minutia. We look back at the releases of the year, agreeing on many things but rather sharply disagreeing on others. There will be lists! And categories! Oh, the pageantry!

Games Played Last Week:
-Space Hulk: Second Edition 1m30s (Dean Bass, Andy Chambers, Chris Colston, Richard Halliwell, Jervis Johnson, Andy Jones, & Paul Murphy, Games Workshop, 1996)
-Senji 2m58s (Bruno Cathala & Serge Laget, Asmodee, 2008)
-Terraforming Mars 6m19s (Jacob Fryxelius, Stronghold, 2016)
-Dinosaur Island 6m58s (Jonathan Gilmour & Brian Lewis, Pandasaurus, 2017)
-Cryptid 12m14s (Hal Duncan & Ruth Veevers, Osprey Games, 2018)
-Mega Civilization 13m26s (Flo de Haan, John Rodriguez, & Francis Tresham, Pegasus, 2015)
-Welcome To... 20m12s (Benoit Turpin, Blue Cocker Games, 2018)
-Reef 21m20s (Emerson Matsuuchi, Next Move Games, 2018)
-Menara 22m18s (Oliver Richtberg, ZOCH, 2018)
-Diamonds 23m00s (Mike Fitzgrald, Stronghold, 2016)

2018 Year in Review

Personal Top 10s 23m59s
SVWAG Game of the Year 45m06s
Other Categories 48m30s

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Rory O'Connor

17. Dezember 2018 um 12:00
In this week's show Ben talks to the inventor of Rory's Story Cubes and head of Hub Games, Rory O'Connor. They discuss his life in puppetry, bring warring peoples together and being number one on Amazon...but which games did he choose?   Monsterpocalypse 1.Ed:https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/32674/monsterpocalypse   Pokemon TCG: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2165/pokemon-trading-card-game   Shadowrun Crossfire: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/135382/shadowrun-crossfire   Mage Knight: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/96848/mage-knight-board-game   Untold: Adventures Await: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/226588/untold-adventures-await   Support the show at: http://patreon.com/5g4d     

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Boardgames To Go 188 - Essen 2018 (with Chris Marling)

Openers: • Orbital • Pikoko

Chris Marling (hairyarsenal)

Game designer, blogger, and real-life journalist Chris Marling joins me once again to talk about Essen. As he did two years ago, he had a new game launching at Spiel, so we get to hear about that. But he's also an enthusiastic game hobbyist like the rest of us, and he also talks about the event itself from that point of view. Chris loves the game fair, and has been going for quite a number of years. From that perspective, he's able to notice some shifts & changes in the hobby that affect the world's largest boardgame event itself. We talk about those, too. Chris was there, in part, to help launch his new game, Witless Wizards. If you were there, perhaps you saw him, played a demo with him, or got your copy signed. He came home with a lot of new games, as always, and by now he's had a chance to play most of them. (Remember, Essen itself is more of a game buying event than one with lots of opportunities for actually playing your purchases.) Chris gathered up ten titles he wanted to talk about for one reason or another. Sometimes because they're great games, sometimes for other reasons. Besides the two games mentioned in our Openers (above), Chris discusses Underwater Cities, Trapwords, Narabi, Orbis, Fool, Discover: Lands Unknown, Crown of Emara, Showtime, Gnomopolis, and The Color Monster.

Closers: • Downsizing a collection...mission accomplished! • How does journalism tackle the current game saturation situation? -Mark

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64: Ranking Our Games Reviewed in 2018 (All 20 Discussed)

16. Dezember 2018 um 18:11
This week Peter and Mike discuss the best games we reviewed in 2018. What game(s) will make our top game of the year. We also get contributions from our MVPs (fans) and find out what your top CoOp of 2018 is. Check YouTube for playthroughs and reviews - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrOtGhui_jdLdoQNI7PU4Pg Join our Slack - Slack - http://bit.ly/onestopslack Follow us at Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/onestopcoopshop Donate to the channel - https://www.paypal.me/ColinDegnan Contact us - mvpboardgames@gmail.com

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#46: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2018: 50-41

13. Dezember 2018 um 13:12

We're counting down to our 50th episode, and what better way than to give our definitive lists of our 50 favourite games of all time?! You've been asking for it, so we've only gone and done it. Brace yourselves, we're just getting started.

01:11 - Mark #50 - Dungeon Fighter 02:51 - Neilan #50 - Werewords 04:36 - Kalen #50 - Agricola 06:28 - Mark #49 - Chronicles of Crime 08:07 - Neilan #49 - Biblios 09:28 - Kalen #49 - Concept 10:55 - Mark #48 - Pictomania 13:02 - Neilan #48 - Mage Knight Board Game 14:54 - Kalen #48 - Hanamikoji 16:27 - Mark #47 - Kanban 17:28 - Neilan #47 - Splendor 19:26 - Kalen #47 - Ingenious 20:40 - Mark #46 - Samurai 22:55 - Neilan #46 - Clank! 25:09 - Kalen #46 - Evolution 27:54 - Mark #45 - ZhanGuo 29:23 - Neilan #45 - Innovation 31:39 - Kalen #45 - Mysterium 33:02 - Mark #44 - Ra 34:21 - Neilan #44 - Puerto Rico 36:48 - Kalen #44 - New Angeles 38:58 - Mark #43 - Wyatt Earp 41:29 - Neilan #43 - The Oracle of Delphi 42:18 - Kalen #43 - The Game 46:23 - Mark #42 - Blood Rage 50:04 - Neilan #42 - Anomia 52:00 - Kalen #42 - Lifeboat 53:51 - Mark #41 - Tzolk'in 55:39 - Neilan #41 - Panic on Wall Street! 57:56 - Kalen #41 - Diamant/Incan Gold

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Creating an Online Playtesting Group with Daniel & Connie Kazmaier

12. Dezember 2018 um 14:05

Daniel and Connie Kazmaier discuss how they put together a rather large online playtesting group for their game, Chai.

They have nearly 800 playtesters in their group and go into how they’ve nurtured and developed it.

The post Creating an Online Playtesting Group with Daniel & Connie Kazmaier appeared first on Board Game Design Lab.

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Lords of the Dungeon 22: Shadowrun Special Edition

12. Dezember 2018 um 06:55
In episode 22 of Lords of the Dungeon Bender, Jess and Jamie give you a special edition spotlight on Shadowrun, the classic cyberpunk and fantasy mashup role playing game published by Catalyst Game Lab. We begin by talking about the setting and lore of the Sixth World and move into the depth and complexities of the game mechanisms.

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Boardgames To Go 187 - Post-BGGcon 2018 (with Ryan Wheeler and Greg Pettit)

No Openers or Closers this time, as we have so many games from the event to discuss!

Games discussed: Spring Meadow, Bärenpark, Gingerbread House, Trade on the Tigris, Age of Civilization, PitchCar, Weird Things Humans Search For, The Brady Bunch Party Game, Onitama, Sakura, Indigo, Blue Lagoon, The Arabian Pots, LYNGK, Yellow & Yangtze, Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra, Treasure Island, Northern Pacific, Micropolis, Voodoo Prince, Ticket to Ride: New York, Pantone: The Game, Tower of Madness, Dune, KeyForge, Poker, Exxtra, Passing Through Petra, Carpe Diem, Streaming, The Quacks of Quedlinburg, Trendy, The Mind, First Contact, Star Trek Panic, 1st & Roll

Geeklist: Post-BGGcon 2018

(Gregarius) Ryan Wheeler (Ryan Wheeler)

Just about every year, my friend & frequent podcast guest Greg Pettit joins me to talk about BGGcon. In recent years I've enjoyed the event with him, but I missed 2018. However, another friend, Ryan Wheeler, does that job this year. Greg, Ryan, and I met around 15 years ago when we all lived nearby and played regularly in our little group, the Santa Clarita Boardgamers. Of those three, I'm the only one still in Santa Clarita, California. Greg's in Texas, and Ryan's in South Dakota. While it's too bad I couldn't join them this year, I'm so happy that BGGcon is around to draw old gamer friends together like a magnet. Greg & Ryan gave me their combined list of games played at BGGcon, and then gave each game a 1-5 star rating. That's sort of like half of a BGG rating, but really it's a measure of the eagerness for playing the games again, as well as a reflection of the experience at the time. Know what I mean? It's enthusiasm, as much as it's a measure of artistic/entertainment merit according to some "standardized" scale. Think of it this way--it's easier to enthusiastically give a game 5 stars and be excited to play again, even if you're not yet sure the game is a "10." Whatever the stars are, the real value in the podcast is listening to these guys describe the games and their experiences with them. They played most of them together, though you'll also hear when they split up & tried different things. Along the way you'll also hear about some happenings at BGGcon that aren't strictly boardgaming--stuff like the puzzle hunt, virtual flea market, and bazaar. (No BBQ commentary this time, but I trust they enjoyed Texas' contribution to fine dining. I know I would've.) -Mark

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Episode 34: Pun Very Much Included

Von: Pickaxe
12. Dezember 2018 um 01:30

In episode thirty four of our comedy board gaming quiz show we play:

  • Pun Very Much Included 
  • Stronghold
  • Letter Writing 
  • Theme Chase 
  • Higher or Low

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#49: Crusaders and Thematic Disconnects

Von: Pickaxe
11. Dezember 2018 um 16:23
Players aren't the only people who make choices, of course. Designers and publishers make decisions about the setting and the theme of their games. Insofar as games can communicate a message--whether purely aesthetic or more ideological--it is beneficial to have a clear vision. Things can get exceptionally problematic when you start playing fast and loose with things of great cultural and historical import. Incidentally, I will note that while our topic and our feature game often have no connection between them, sometimes they do. I don't know why I'm mentioning that this week.

Games Played Last Week:
-Hyperborea: Light and Shadow 1m37s (Andrea Chiarvesio, Maurizio Vergendo, & Pierluca Zizzi, Asterion Press, 2016)
-Between Two Cities 3m15s (Matthew O'Malley, Morten Monrad Pedersen, & Ben Rosset, Stonemaier, 2015)
-Factory Funner 5m03s (Corné van Moorsel, Cwali, 2016)
-Photosynthesis 8m06s (Hjalmar Hach, Blue Orange, 2017)
-Stephenson's Rocket: Eastern USA & China 9m13s (Reiner Knizia, Grail Games, 2018)
-Petrichor 12m12s (David Chircop & Dávid Turczi, APE Games, 2018)
-The Voyages of Marco Polo 12m57s (Simone Luciani & Daniele Tascini, Hans im Gluck, 2015)
-Teotihuacan: City of Gods 14m59s (Daniele Tascini, NSKN Games, 2018)
-Dominant Species 15m37s (Chad Jensen, GMT, 2010)
-Res Publica 18m03s (Reiner Knizia, Queen, 1991)


News (and why it doesn't matter)
-Descent into new digital depths 22m05s
-Fards of Inshinity digital 22m20s
-Failed Carnival of Monsters rises again 23m02s
-Die Macher won't die 24m15s


Feature Game: Crusaders: Thy Will Be Done 25m10s (Seth Jaffee, Tasty Minstrel, 2018)


Topic: Thematic Disconnects 48m15s

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TDT # 584 - Best Adventure Games

11. Dezember 2018 um 13:42

In this episode, Tom and Eric take a look at The Pretender, Ya Blew It, Nemesis, The Reckoners, Ceylon, and Solenia. We also hear Geoff test out the Pop-O-Matic, and answer a pile of questions. Finally, we end the show talking about our favorite adventure games. Also, did I mention we were in the same room?

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