Much art is discussed this week, from French Romantics, to pirate stuff, to conspiracist vision boards, to whatever Walker is doing when he uses clothespins on felt. Mark wonders whether he can justify leaving in dead air and calling it "bold use of negative space," but the deeper worry is that too many people would prefer the silence.
Games Played Last Week: 01:14 -Ark Nova (Mathias Wigge, Feuerland Spiele, 2021) 05:46 -Agricola (Revised Edition) (Uwe Rosenberg, Lookout Games, 2016) 10:09 -Witchstone (Martino Chiacchiera & Reiner Knizia, R&R Games, 2021) 10:50 -Republic of Virtue (Amabel Holland, Hollandspiele, 2021) 15:08 -Pulsar 2849 (Vladimír Suchý, CGE, 2017) 22:58 -Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest (Paolo Mori, Stonemaier Games, 2022) 31:16 -Pictures: Orange (Daniela Stöhr & Christian Stöhr, PD-Verlag, 2021) 34:50 -Reichbusters: Project Vril (Jake Thornton, Mythic Games, 2020) 38:11 -Table Battles (Amabel Holland, Hollandspiele, 2017) 43:19 -Ascension Tactics: Miniatures Deckbuilding Game (Justin Gary & Ryan Sutherland, Stone Blade Entertainment, 2021)
News (and why it doesn't matter): 47:22 Arcs: Collapse and Conflict in the Void by Cole Wehrle and Leder Games 48:06 Zheng He solo game by Geoff Engelstein and David Thompson 49:07 Avatar: The Last Airbender Fire Nation Rising 50:01 Dead by Daylight board game by Brad Talton of Level 99 Games 51:53 No singing in The Wizard of Oz Adventure Book Game
53:09 Feature Game: Riftforce (Carlo Bortolini, 1 More Time Games, 2021)
On this episode Adrian and Sarah continue Oceania Month with two Australian designers: Kenny Michael-Otton and Leigh Perrott. Surprisingly the pair have similar backgrounds in playing board games as kids, and also being heavily involved in competitive gaming which set them on the path of the designing games. Kenny and Leigh share the inspiration behind their games, as well as their approach to creating a specific gaming experience for players.
Next the gang kick off the 2021 Board Game BBQ Awards and discus the first three categories: Best Solo Game, Best Family Game and Best Party Game. You can find the link to the nomination form on all of our socials including Discord, Twitter, Instagram and on our Discord Community. Nominations are open to anyone in the community for three weeks. Facebook, Discord, Instagram, Twitter. Nominate in all 9 categories, or just a few. Once nominations close on Sunday 27th then we take the most-nominated game in each category and they become the official nominees for the BBQ Awards. Then we hand it over to our esteemed panel of judges; our Patreons; to vote. And this will all culminate in the BGBBQ Awards Night which once again will be filmed for YouTube, and we hope to have some surprises on the show as well.
In the Board Game Bracket we settle the last match-up, Viticulture vs Quacks of Quedlinburg, before we cue up the next battle: Twilight Imperium 4th Ed vs Targi. To make sure your favourite goes through to the next round make sure you vote on our socials.
Finally, in Swear An Oath Adrian painted the White Lion and also played the prologue in Kingdom Death Monster, while Sarah taught Adrian how to play Eclipse, and also played Arkwright: The Card Game solo. New oaths include Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring (Adrian), Mind MGMT (Sarah), The Others (Kenny), and to have the next physical version of Grimwald ready for the Sydney Game Day in April (Leigh).
Thanks to 2D6 for sponsoring our Sizzling Games segment. Check out their website at (2D6games.com.au) to see their massive range of games and don't forget they offer free delivery all around Australia. So why not order your next Sizzling Game from them today!!
Our Swear An Oath segment is proudly sponsored by Advent Games . Advent Games (http://www.adventgames.com.au/) are an Australian online board game store based in Sydney, NSW. Their core values are integrity, customer satisfaction, and providing a wide range of products including those hard-to-find board games
**PATREON**
Yes, that's right. We have a Patreon. By becoming a Patreon member you will receive exclusive content, have access to a members only section of our discord where you can contribute to the content of the show, and much more. Your Patreon support will also allow us to expand the podcast and deliver some exciting upcoming projects that we have planned for 2022.
Our team at the Board Game BBQ Podcast love what we do and will continue to deliver the same shenanigans that you have come to expect from us, and we are already incredibly grateful and humbled by all of your support. Being a member of the Patreon is by no means an obligation and please do not support the Patreon if it will it cause you financial hardship in any way. But if you would like to support us from as little as USD$5 a month please click the link and head to the Patreon page.
Thanks again for all of your continued support. We work hard to create a welcoming and inclusive community and you are all awesome. See you at the BBQ!! Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/BoardGameBBQ
Reviews of Old London Bridge, The Crew: Mission Deep Sea and a Harper's Bazaar! Featured review: Lizard Wizard by Forbidden Games; Reroll Hallertau by Lookout Games. Board game discussion starts at 34:05 https://bluepegpinkpeg.com/ep215.Thank you to our sponsors: Queen Games, Grand Gamers Guild, and AEG.
Timestamps:34:05-Moon Adventure; 40:42-The Crew: Mission Deep Sea; 48:26-Harper's Bazaar; 59:36-Old London Bridge.
This week's guest is RPG legend, Monte Cook. We talk about his time in TSR, designing D&D and being your own boss...but which games did he choose? Support the show here A Deck of Cards Chess Dungeons and Dragons The Cypher System Invisible Sun
Pocket Paragons is a what-beats-what card dueling game. Select a card; play it’s ability and try to anticipate your opponent’s next move. Duel one on one or in teams of three characters. Seven cards separate you from glory or defeat.
Ben and Steve get sand in their flip-flops when they tackle the classic comabat game, Kemet. Listen to the full show and hundreds of hours of bonus content by supporting the show
In this spiritual episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Matt and Tom are talking about just one game - a game that has sat alone on Tom’s ‘To-Play’ shelf like a bottle of brown sauce in a wetherspoons sauce caddy. That’s right, it’s Bitoku, a game about splodging sauce all over a beautiful forest until various bears, otters and raccoons come to lick of all the liquid from the branches and leaves: yum yum yum.
We're on the way to Dice Tower West, so we're keeping this one easy breezy with just a hot question. How many games on your shelf do you think you could teach without looking at the rulebook? Before we turn up the heat, we talk about Yokohama, Final Girl, and Mystic Paths.
Danni Loe from Pandasaurus Games and James Hudson from Druid City Games rejoin the show to talk about the benefits and increasing drawbacks of producing games through Kickstarter. KS provides upfront cash and immediate feedback from fans, which is great. It also has huge issue with lack of moderation, the move to blockchain, and overall unresponsiveness to the very creators it says it wants to highlight. James and Danni break all of that down for you.
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Carla Kopp, from Weird Giraffe Games, discusses how to multiply your time and get more done.
Carla runs multiple companies while also designing games and creating solo modes for other designers’ games, so she’s had to figure out how to create more hours in the day. We talk about time management, scheduling, and all sorts of other things.
Opener: 7 Wonders: Architects, France's Game of the Year winner (the As D'Or) Do you have a Top 100 list? How about just a Top Ten, and do you update it every year? I have a sort of list, but it's the same one I've had for over twenty years. In fact, I ran through it very quickly on the first episode of this podcast back in 2005! (No need to dig up that old fossil, but my show had to start somewhere. ) I've been thinking about a new top ten of more recent games, but I'm not ready with that. Perhaps that will be in a future show, because there ARE plenty of modern titles that I really enjoy. It would be fun to talk about them, in part to contrast them against the "hotness" on BGG and Kickstarter that I often can't connect with. Again...that's a future show. In THIS episode I thought my original top ten was worth discussing all over. In some cases they are games I love just as much as ever. Others are more sentimental favorites, not really making it to the table any longer. In a few cases I think the games represented of a type of game that I still enjoy, and there are newer examples. Closer: Fragility in boardgame mechanics -Mark
We're always on the lookout for new potential taglines here at SVWAG, as our earlier efforts "that one where the guy talks to that dude" and "we shout into a can so you don't have to" have been deemed insufficient. "We like it hard" was put forth by Walker, but the editorial staff are afraid it is apt to be misconstrued. "We weaponize children" was rejected for the opposite reason, namely that it might be correctly interpreted. Specificity tends to get us into trouble, which is why we have kept "a boardgaming podcast about boardgames" for as long as we have.
Games Played Last Week: 02:33 -Crusaders: Thy Will Be Done (Seth Jaffee, Tasty Minstrel, 2018) 04:54 -Beyond the Sun (Dennis K. Chan, Rio Grande Games, 2020) 08:48 -Gutenberg (Katarzyna Cioch & Wojciech Wiśniewski, Granna, 2021) 11:24 -Reign (Uncredited, PlayMonster, 2020) 16:55 -Gizmos (Phil Walker-Harding, CMON Global Limited, 2018) 18:30 -Combat Commander: Mediterranean (Chad Jensen, GMT Games, 2007) 23:15 -Jekyll vs. Hyde (Geonil, Mandoo Games, 2021) 27:08 -Ankh: Gods of Egypt (Eric M. Lang, CMON, 2021) 30:52 -Merchants Cove (Jonny Pac, Carl Van Ostrand, & Drake Villareal, Final Frontier Games, 2021) 33:33 -Caverna: The Cave Farmers (Uwe Rosenberg, Lookout Games, 2013)
News (and why it doesn't matter): 37:16 Co-op Carcassonne: Nebel über Carcassonne, "Fog over Carcassonne" 38:00 Frostpunk and Dying Light Adaptations 39:00 Undaunted Normandy on PC, Mac, and iPad by Bookmark Games 40:04 51st State Master Set Ultimate Edition on Gamefound
Time Segment 00:00 Introduction 03:20 Hole in the Head 11:50 They Didn’t Dissolve 14:43 Only Murders in Building 17:03 More on Giveaways 20:13 Unforgiven: The Lincoln Assassination Trial 24:40 Board […]
On this special episode Mitch, Mike, Dan and Conor kick off Oceania Month with the designer of the much-loved Hadrian's Wall: Bobby Hill. Bobby shares with us what games helped inspire Hadrian's Wall, lets us into the clandestine goings-on of his gaming group, laments as he slowly evolves into his father, and lets us in on his next project!
In the Board Game Bracket we settle the last match-up, Wingspan vs Lords of Waterdeep, before we tee up the next battle: Viticulture vs Quacks of Quedlinburg. To make sure your favourite goes through to the next round make sure you vote on our socials.
Finally, in Swear An Oath Dan played Targi for the first time and loved it, but is still gearing up to the Under Falling Skies campaign. Mike got Clank in Space to the table and is now seriously wondering if he bothers keeping the original Clank! Conor played Imperial Settlers with Adrian, and also played Oath to mixed feelings from the group. Meanwhile Mitch is still mentally preparing to play Cerebria. New oaths include to beat a personal best in Hadrian's Wall (Dan), Railroad Ink (Mike), Zapotech (Conor), to take a break and smell the roses (Bobby), and After The Virus (Mitch).
Thanks to 2D6 for sponsoring our Sizzling Games segment. Check out their website at (2D6games.com.au) to see their massive range of games and don't forget they offer free delivery all around Australia. So why not order your next Sizzling Game from them today!!
Our Swear An Oath segment is proudly sponsored by Advent Games . Advent Games (http://www.adventgames.com.au/) are an Australian online board game store based in Sydney, NSW. Their core values are integrity, customer satisfaction, and providing a wide range of products including those hard-to-find board games.
**PATREON**
Yes, that's right. We have a Patreon. By becoming a Patreon member you will receive exclusive content, have access to a members only section of our discord where you can contribute to the content of the show, and much more. Your Patreon support will also allow us to expand the podcast and deliver some exciting upcoming projects that we have planned for 2022.
Our team at the Board Game BBQ Podcast love what we do and will continue to deliver the same shenanigans that you have come to expect from us, and we are already incredibly grateful and humbled by all of your support. Being a member of the Patreon is by no means an obligation and please do not support the Patreon if it will it cause you financial hardship in any way. But if you would like to support us from as little as USD$5 a month please click the link and head to the Patreon page.
Thanks again for all of your continued support. We work hard to create a welcoming and inclusive community and you are all awesome. See you at the BBQ!! Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/BoardGameBBQ
In this UNMATCHED episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down podcast, Tom and Quinns have decided to pursue the strange little feature that Quinns has been dwelling on for a while - seeking to ask and answer the question: ‘how good is all this Unmatched… really?’.
Through three ferocious bouts of slippery copyright law, our heroes put their heroes to the test in a battle of wits, strategy, and pointing out how ridiculous it is that Bloody Mary just dropkicked Bigfoot.