In this rapidly 151st episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down podcast, Ava and Quinns are climbing mountains and swinging from trees to tell you about some board games about climbing mountains and swinging from trees.
Quinns introduces us to Trek 12, a game of mapping out mountains, roping numbers together and some clever envelopes. Then Ava wants to be a bit over-familiar with Fast Sloths, a game of hitch-hiking sloth racing.
Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they've played recently, including Murder at the Motel, MicroMacro: Crime City, and Gartic Phone. We then list our top five favorite games that we're bad at but still like.
Announcements: 0:44
Recent Games: 2:04
Top 5 Games We're Bad At: 9:55
Outro: 32:47
Bloopers: 34:00
We all have types of games that, for whatever reason, we steer clear of. Often all that we've been missing is a more suitable introduction to the genre, or a game that's just enough of an outlier. This week, we try to tempt you toward genres that you might have written off, with the games that may just sway you. Before we change your minds, we talk about Pocket Galapagos, Cascadia, and Bites.
01:36 - Pocket Galapagos 08:57 - Cascadia 12:53 - Bites 18:34 - Games that'll turn you around 20:19 - Battle for Rokugan 23:54 - The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine 26:54 - Smartphone Inc. 30:53 - Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends 33:23 - Santorini 35:13 - Snakesss 38:49 - Eternal: Chronicles of the Throne
Rachel Bruner, designer of Harsh Shadows, talks about how to create print-n-play games and the many reasons why you might want to.
Rachel is super active in the PnP community, and we discuss her thoughts on best practices, tools of the trade, getting a PnP game published, and more.
And here are all the links and whatnot that were discussed on the show:
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This is part two of Jason's interview with Andrew Navaro and Andrew Fisher of Earthborne Games. In this episode, we get into some Good Trouble, only this time Andrew Navaro aims to help people think twice about how we produce our games. For the sake of the environment and for the sake of inspiring local employment and entrepreneurship, we would benefit greatly from local production and distribution. Andrew gets into the weeds of the current state of sustainable production, vision for the future, and much more.
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In episode 53, The Lords begin by talking about their recent cinematic Alien Role Playing Game session and discuss the system and boxed adventure structure. Then the gang takes a question from a listener asking which we like better, pure Cyberpunk like Cyberpunk Red or Shadowrun with magic and fantasy races in the mix. Finally, Jamie, Bender, Jess and Jesko discuss the tone of a campaign and how that can affect the mood and enjoyment of the players.
Hey, we have a quick announcement about taking 2 shows off during August but we well be back on September 8th. Thank you everyone!
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/
The crushing burden of Masterpiece Theatre is having a toll. I had an attitude problem, but then I took a timeout, and I thought about what I did. The success of the Fast and/or Furious movies is undeniable--business-wise, this all seems like appropriate business--but at what cost? I went to the stock market today. I did a business. SVWAG is most emphatically not children stacked together wearing a trenchcoat. Would you like a alcohol?
Games Played Last Week: 03:53 -Sunset Over Water (Eduardo Baraf, Steve Finn, & Keith Matejka, Delight, 2018) 06:44 -Isle of Skye: From Chieftain to King (Andreas Pelikan & Alexander Pfister, Lookout Games, 2015) 09:27 -Mysterium Park (Oleksandr Nevskiy & Oleg Sidorenko, Libellud, 2020) 11:33 -Imperium: The Contention (Gary Dworetsky, Contention Games, 2021) 14:32 -Crash Octopus (Naotaka Shimamoto, itten, 2021) 15:02 -Dice Miner (Joshua DeBonis & Nikola Risteski, Atlas Games, 2021) 16:40 -Regicide (Paul Abrahams, Luke Badger, & Andy Richdale, Badgers from Mars, 2020) 17:25 -Caravan (Joe Huber, Rio Grande Games, 2019) 18:58 -The Quest for El Dorado (Reiner Knizia, Ravensburger, 2017) 21:16 -The Quacks of Quedlinburg: The Alchemists (Wolfgang Warsch, Schmidt Spiele, 2020) 23:36 -Inis (Christian Martinez, Matagot, 2016) 26:50 -Mafiozoo (Rüdiger Dorn, Super Meeple, 2017)
News (and why it doesn't matter): 30:05 KS creators: own your choices, stop guilting backers 32:15 Why's everything gotta have a campaign? (reprise) 34:04 Earthborne Rangers' desire for sustainability 36:17 More crap in dice: dragon eyes 36:39 Excavation Earth expansion: It Belongs in a Museum 37:13 Bix box retail, licensed games are impressive: Ravensburger's Alien: Fate of the Nostromo and Disney Gargoyles: Awakening 38:21 Avatar RPG 38:53 Tasty Minstrel Games suspends operations, refunds Kickstarter 39:48 Pfister becomes post-colonialist? Boonlake
41:21 Topic: Trenchcoat Games
1:08:27 SVWAG Presents: Masterpiece Theatre: The Fate of the Furious
In this episode, Tom and Eric discuss Islands in the Mist, Aggretsuko: Work/Rage Balance, Crack the Code, Great Wall, Chronicles of Drunagor, and Ankh: Gods of Egypt. Geoff previews an Interview about the current international shipping woes, and we answer questions from the mailbag. Then, we finish the show with our Top Ten City Building Games.
Reviews of Monasterium, Riftforce and Dreamscape. Featured review: Terraforming Mars: Ares Expidition by Stronghold Games; Reroll Glen More II: Chronicles by Funtails. Board game discussion starts at 57:35. https://bluepegpinkpeg.com/ep201.Thank you to our sponsors: Queen Games, Grand Gamers Guild, and AEG.
Timestamps:
57:35- Monasterium; 1:05:20 - Blume; 1:15:03- Dreamscape; 1:22:00-Riftforce; 2:06:57-Terraforming Mars-Ares Expedition
The African Board Gaming Convention is a pan-African event that brings many people together from all over Africa and beyond to play games, celebrate games, and spread the word about a growing, local gaming scene. Oluwafemi Olusanya (or Femi) joins the show to share his boundless enthusiasm for sharing games and spreading the word about this fifth installment of AB Con. At the time of recording, they were working on a stretch goal to get Eric Lang to make an appearance and help out local designers. If we are truly into the work of diversity and inclusion in our games, this is it! Femi's doing the work, so I am happy to support and lift his voice for everyone listening and watching.
African Board Gaming Convention Project page, ending 8/10/21 - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cowriegames/ab-con-the-african-boardgame-convention?ref=discovery&term=AB%20con
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In this wobbly 150th episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down podcast, a freshly-jabbed Tom and perfectly off-kilter Matt are ready to tell YOU about SOME GAMES!
Matt regales us with the story of him crushing my space station in Star Scrappers:Orbital! We pretend to know all about wargames with Freedom! Tom rambles about his UKGE adventures in a smushed up-special!
And before you listen to this most excellent podcast, dear listener; a fun tidbit. We were going to do a big chunky roundup of all the exciting things Tom saw at UKGE, but so much of it was sufficiently interesting or strange that we’re going to save it for future, more in-depth coverage. Stay tuned for some opinions, and some hot, hot games!