In this juicy 159th episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down podcast, Ava, Tom and Quinns are living it up at AwSHUX 2021! Enjoy an appetiser of the Exit Advent Calendar, followed by a mouth-watering main of Unfathomable, before finally settling down to the biggest pile of desserts your relenting stomach can muster. That’s right, we’re going to be rambling about the six previews that we’re most excited for at this year’s AwSHUX: Winter Edition. Stick around to hear brief snippets of Picture Perfect, Steam Up: A Feast of Dim Sum, Brick & Mortar, Beast, Mythic Mischief and Super Team.
Episode 149: Special Guest: Sam MacDonald. Plus Hadrian's Wall, Chronicles of Crime: 2400, Search for Planet X, Francis Drake
On this episode Steve, Conor and Dan are joined by game designer Sam MacDonald. Fresh from the KickStarter launch of his new game Circadians: Chaos Order, Sam tells us about how he approaches game design, and his thoughts on designing engaging and challenging games. Sam has an unique way of looking at game design and he gives a masterclass for anyone looking at designing a game of their own. This is one interview you don't want to miss!
In our Sizzling Games segment Conor has been mastering the combo-tastic Hadrian's Wall, Dan has been traveling to the future in Chronicles of Crime: 2400, Sam has been on a Search for Planet X, and Steve has been reliving the voyages of Francis Drake.
In the Bracket Battle 2.0 we check in on the current battle: Viscounts of the West Kingdom vs Quacks of Quedlinburg. To make sure your favourite goes through to the next round make sure you place your vote on our socials.
Finally, in Swear An Oath both Steve and Conor played Fantastic Factories and can confirm that it is fantastic (and it has factories!), and Dan sheds some light on the Nightfall Expansion to PARKS. New oaths are also sworn: Destinies (Conor), Star Scrappers (Steve), Escape Plan (Dan), and Sleeping Gods (Sam).
Sizzling Games: Hadrian's Wall (53:18), Chronicles of Crime: 2400 (1:01:10), Search for Planet X (1:08:45), Francis Drake (1:14:47)
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Unfortunately due to the current COVD-19 restrictions in NSW and VIC we have had to postpone the Game Days in both states. We are currently looking at new dates and we will communicate that to you ASAP.
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Ambie, Crystal, and special guest Pam discuss a couple games they've played recently, including Steam Up: A Feast of Dim Sum and Cubitos. We then talk about luck in board games and why we like or dislike it.
We love all of the emails we get from you, our lovely listeners, but without a regular mail segment, we can't often give them the attention they deserve. Well that ends right now, as we delve into the long neglected pile of mail, and answer some choice questions that have been waiting patiently for answers. Before we rustle in the mailbag, we talk about Crusaders: Thy Will Be Done, and World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King.
01:42 - Crusaders: Thy Will Be Done 12:44 - World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King 22:48 - Ghost Turkey 2021 23:45 - Boards Alive Podcast 26:15 - Thoughts on some Gen Con Games? 26:34 - Furnace 28:23 - The Loop 29:14 - Witchstone 30:05 - Oltréé 30:39 - Origins: First Builders 31:55 - Overhyped games? 32:26 - Terraforming Mars 33:45 - Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition 34:15 - Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective 35:05 - Lorenzo il Magnifico 36:54 - Great Western Trail 38:25 - Race for the Galaxy 40:41 - Convention plans? 41:01 - AwSHUX: BGB & Shut Up & Sit Down draft! 45:47 - Mark's Vegas gaming? 46:30 - Marvel Champions: The Card Game 51:44 - Squid Game?
It's Halloween and the Founders are back to scare your pants off! First the gang talks about their recent trip to Columbus Ohio for Origins Game Fair. Then they get into some games they've been playing including Return to Dark Tower, DC Deck Building Game, Lost Ones, Bitoku, Seasons and Voidfall. Then Chris, Don and Jamie jump into a feature review the Battlestar Galactica retheme, Unfathomable from Fantasy Flight Games. Then Tony T throws runs down all the tabletop gaming news that matters to you, the Cabalist. And finally, to honor our feature review, we pitch some horror movie board game rethemes that we'd love to see made. Oh, and throughout the entire episode the gang is visited by the Gatekeeper from the old Nightmare board game to give us some Halloween pop quizzes. Unfathomable Overview 01:08:55, Unfathomable Review 01:13:28, News with Tony T 01:40:49, Spooky Rethemes 02:28:13
Mike takes us through a bunch of rounds where we forget the rules completely.
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/
We are dangerously approaching peak culture here on SVWAG. In addition to Masterpiece Theatre, we have the return of the pie ranking system, plus now music tie-ins for Arkhipov Day. Could a wine section be far behind? Well, actually, Mark labels most of Walker's in-game comments the wine section. You see?! Yet more culture!
Games Played Last Week: 01:53 -Tidal Blades: Heroes of the Reef (Tim Eisner & Ben Eisner, Druid City Games, 2020) 02:41 -ALIEN: Fate of the Nostromo (Scott Rogers, Ravensburger, 2021) 04:38 -For Science! (R. Eric Reuss, Grey Fox Games, 2021) 08:40 -Project: ELITE (Konstantinos Kokkinis, Marco Portugal, & Sotirios Tsantilas, CMON, 2020) 09:57 -Ankh: Gods of Egypt (Eric M. Lang, CMON, 2021) 15:31 -Brass: Birmingham (Gavan Brown, Matt Tolman, & Martin Wallace, Roxley, 2018) 17:33 -Paint the Roses (Ben Goldman, North Star Games, 2022) 22:17 -Keep the Heroes Out (Luís Brüeh, Self-published, 2022) 23:49 -A Feast for Odin (Uwe Rosenberg, Feuerland Spiele, 2016) 28:45 -After the Empire (Evan Halbert & Ryan Mauk, Grey Fox Games, 2021) 30:00 -Mercado de Lisboa (Vital Lacerda & Julián Pombo, Eagle-Gryphon Games, 2021) 32:00 -Skull (Hervé Marly, Asmodee, 2011) 33:25 -Sine Tempore (Luca Bernardini & Andrea Colletti, Ludus Magnus Studio, 2018) 35:24 -Root (Cole Wehrle, Leder Games, 2018) 38:03 -Anno 1800 (Martin Wallace, KOSMOS, 2020)
News (and why it doesn't matter): 39:50 Expansion for The Red Cathedral 40:02 Cowboy Bebop RPG 41:13 Secrets of the Vibrant Isle: Solo RPG 42:22 Gaia Project and Ultimate Railroads on Board Game Arena 43:00 Arkhipov Day: October 27, 1962: 59th anniversary of Vasily Arkhipov saving the world. Theme song "Two Atomic Heroes" by Lemon Knife! Arkhipov Day Patreon sale!
44:15 Feature Game: Khôra: Rise of an Empire (Head Quarter Simulation Game Club, IELLO, 2021)
1:12:13 SVWAG Presents: Masterpiece Theatre: Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 3
In this episode, Tom and Eric discuss The Hunger, The Loop, Paint the Roses, 7 Wonders Architects, Bitoku, and Llamaland. Geoff remembers Sid Sackson, we answer questions from the mailbag, and we revisit our Top Ten Party Games.
TIme Segment 00:33 Intro 00:34 Music Stuff 10:05 World Series of Board Games 16:09 Strike Tournament 2022 17:22 Mountain Dew Taste Test 26:00 RDTN Discord Discussion 27:50 Secret Squirrel 29:40 […]
My guest this week is the man behind the reviewing juggernaut that is Space Biff, Dan Thurot. We talk about Mormonism, volunteering and board games as art...but which games did he choose? A Study in Emerald Oath Space Alert Omen: A Reign of War Fire in the Lake
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