Hey Now Gang and welcome back to another wild and crazy episode of The Secret Cabal! Today the gang flies into action talking about a bunch of great games they've been playing including The Goonies: Never Say Die, Paranormal Detectives, Crimes in History: H.H. Holmes Murder Castle, Juicy Fruits, Azul and Zoinx! Then For the first time in 235 episodes, Jamie IS NOT included in the review segment, and we get Don and Steve taking a look at Mind MGMT: The Psychic Espionage Game by Jay Cormier and Sen-Foong Lim. The, because Tony T is galivanting across the United States on a month-long road trip, Steve takes control of the news desk and gives us every bit of great tabletop gaming news he can. Then the gang talks about board games that really nail their theme! Mind MGMT Overview 00:57:17, Mind MGMT Review 01:00:36, News with Steve S 01:26:40, Nailing a Board Game Theme 02:14:38
With Mark out of town, we peek behind the curtain here at SVWAG, offering you insights from the seldom-heard support staff that make this show possible. Walker seems liberated from his overbearing colleague, while others are coping with loss in their own way.
Games Played Last Week: 00:40 -Shards of Infinity (Gary Arant & Justin Gary, Stone Blade Entertainment, 2018) 01:11 -Spire's End (Greg Favro, Self-Published, 2019) 02:39 -Lords of Hellas (Awam Kwapinski, Awaken Realms, 2018) 04:04 -Carnegie (Xavier Georges, Quined Games, 2021)
News (and why it doesn't matter): 05:07 SVWAG HQ after Mark's disappearance 06:24 Dune Imperium expands 06:48 Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition launch issues 08:13 On Mars expands 08:42 Machi Koro 2 09:17 Artisans of Splendent Vale
In this episode we discuss Dream Crush, Wok and Roll, Four Gardens, Lost Cities Roll and Write, Adventure Mart, and Super Mega Lucky Box! And today's Game Pie is full of Team Games (mostly.)
Hello cheese fans! Hope you brought your cheese along cause it's about to get stinky! Join us in this heatwave for another episode of the NPI Podcast where we'll indulge you in some board game talk.
On today's episode we discuss:
Summoner Wars ( 05:33 )
Khora: Rise of an Empire ( 22:17 )
Kemet: Blood and Sand ( 48:05 )
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In this exceedingly 147th episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down podcast, Ava and Tom are talking about two games that couldn’t be more different! We’re getting trapped in a ‘bullet hell’ in Level 99 Games’ Bullet♥, and Ava trapped a bunch of her friends in a kind of ‘Pork Hell’ in TEETH: Night of the Hogmen!
Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they've played recently, including Escape from the Science Lab of Shifting Rules, Escape from the Two Base Stations, Escape from Lockdown: The Demon Fortress, Webscapade Season 0: Welcome to Argenia, and Nidavellir. We then list off our top 5 favorite polyomino board games!
If you thought the Euro 2020 final was tense, wait until you listen to this episode. The next match in the world's most anticipated series is now here, as we continue down the BoardGameGeek top games list, drafting a collection of five games. Whose do you think is best? Vote to stand a chance to win a $50 gift card! Before we make like snakes, we talk about Chinatown, Curious Cargo, and Mercado de Lisboa.
02:14 - Chinatown 10:00 - Curious Cargo 16:44 - Mercado de Lisboa 24:45 - Drafting BGG's #101-200 28:32 - Hansa Teutonica 30:34 - Inis 31:56 - Cosmic Encounter 32:30 - Splendor 34:41 - Pandemic 37:20 - Kemet 39:37 - Ra 41:36 - Age of Steam 44:59 - Chaos in the Old World 46:15 - Dominion 47:24 - Res Arcana 50:01 - Yokohama 51:12 - Deception: Murder in Hong Kong 53:44 - Vinhos Deluxe Edition 57:02 - The Resistance: Avalon
Dave Beck, designer of Distilled, talks about improving games through experiential graphic design.
Dave did a TON of research for his latest game, hired experts, and dove as deeply into the theme as he could. So, he’s got a lot of advice for anyone wanting to make a super thematic game.
And be sure to check out Dave’s game, Distilled, on Kickstarter HERE.
In episode 52, the gang starts out be discussing what they're going to do during the summer months with vacations and other travel interferes with the gaming schedule. Then the Lords take a couple of questions from listeners including running games with little knowledge of the setting and what RPGs would NOT like to run or play in. Then the group rounds out the episode by talking about high vs low complexity role playing game systems.
It's episode 99 and Mike has the steering wheel in both hands, his foot on the gas and his eyes closed as he takes us through a cavalcade of board game panel show type stuff.
This Game is Broken is a comedy board game panel show with Matthew Jude, Dave Luza, Paula Deming, Nick Murphy and Mike Murphy. We play a lot of nonsense games full of role playing and trivia as well as other fun stuff which can be found at the links below.
This Game is Broken is eternally thankful to our Sponsors Restoration Games Find them at https://restorationgames.com/
Mark has not yet finished his Cain-like eternal wanderings throughout Canada (though he didn't even murder any siblings), but we nonetheless conspired in advance to make this episode possible. Sporadic though our output may be until such time as SVWAG West gets established, we will take care of you as best we can.
Games Played Last Week: 02:03 -Regicide (Paul Abrahams, Luke Badger, & Andy Richdale, Badgers from Mars, 2020) 05:41 -Pax Viking (Jon Mankr, Ion Game Design, 2021) 09:46 -Dinosaur Tea Party (Rob Daviau, JR Honeycutt, & Justin D. Jacobson, Restoration Games, 2018) 10:41 -Million Dollar Script (Daniel Stamm, Portal Games, 2021) 15:45 -Scape Goat (Jon Perry, Indie Boards & Cards, 2020) 16:56 -Sonic the Hedgehog: Crash Course (Sean Dallas McDonald, IDW Games, 2018) 20:07 -Babylonia (Reiner Knizia, Ludonova, 2019) 22:17 -In the Shadow of the Emperor (Ralf Burkert, Rio Grande Games, 2004) 25:51 -Imperium: The Contention (Gary Dworetsky, Contention Games, 2021)
News (and why it doesn't matter): 27:31 Board Game Arena onslaught of new games 28:05 Lost Ruins of Arnak expansion 28:28 Blue Moon license reverts to Knizia, reprint delayed