In this extra special episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom, Ava, and Quinns are getting to the bottom of a complicated question; ‘Who Can Pitch Their Previews The Best In a 50 Minute Podcast Segment?’. We’re talking about a whole host of interesting upcoming or recently released games in this bumper podzone.
Folks, this one was great fun to record, with a lovely lovely audience at SHUX 2022. Enjoy!
What good would going to a convention be if we didn't play a lot of games? We're back from our trip, and it was filled to the brim of fine games played with fine people, and we're here to tell you about all of them, the good, the bad, and perfunctory. Before we return to Vancouver, we talk about Village Rails, The Guild of Merchant Explorers, and Puzzle Strike 2.
01:51 - Village Rails 12:43 - The Guild of Merchant Explorers 20:59 - Puzzle Strike 2 34:14 - Ghost Turkey! 34:41 - Games we played at SHUX 34:58 - Master Word 40:05 - Sidereal Confluence: Trading and Negotiation in the Elysian Quadrant 42:12 - Leaf 43:32 - Fit to Print 45:11 - Bumúntú 48:38 - Nitro Glyxerol 51:14 - Bridge City Poker 54:16 - Cubitos 57:54 - Blood Rage 1:01:27 - Photograph 1:02:20 - Arboretum
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/
Shhhhhh don't tell anyone but we've crawled through the archives up to Episode 6 and created our first volume of a short series of episodes called "Can I Get a Rewind" containing all of our NSFW cock-ups, mistakes and deleted bits from the show.
THE PLAYERS: JP, Kerley, Rob, Becky, Davey, Adrian, Ian & Kris
OVERVIEW In this Expansion Pack episode we've collated our first round of bloopers, deleted bits and definite NSFW cock-ups for your listening pleasure. A couple of disclaimers:
1) The language gets quite salty 2) There is a jump on audio quality because we've clipped our older episodes which suffered from "well" JP's microphone balls up
In this episode you'll learn...nothing really but you can laugh at our expense
We apologize for the poor quality of Mark's half of the audio this week. We offer two possible explanations. One is that Walker, motivated as he is by spite and malice, engaged in an elaborate act of sabotage so as to undermine Mark in public. The other is that Mark (the editor, mind you) messed up the audio settings. I agree that the latter is too improbable, too conspiratorial, to take seriously--but we include it for the sake of comprehensiveness.
Games Played Last Week: 01:32 -Twilight Inscription (James Kniffen, FFG, 2022) 05:15 -Heaven & Ale (Michael Kiesling & Andreas Schmidt, eggertspiele, 2017) 07:59 -Blood Rage (Eric Lang, CMON, 2015) 09:07 -Fun Facts (Kasper Lapp, Repos Production, 2022) 12:17 -Albedo: Space Pirates! (Kai Herbertz, Herbertz Entertainment UG, 2018) 13:44 -51st State: Master Set (Ignacy Trzewiczek, Portal, 2016) 14:31 -Renegade (Richard Wilkins, Victory Point Games, 2018) 17:31 -Flamecraft (Manny Vega, Cardboard Alchemy, 2022) 19:42 -Massive Darkness 2: Heavenfall (Alex Olteanu & Marco Portugal, CMON, 2021) 22:12 -Oneironauts (Oleksandr Nevskiy, IGAMES, 2022) 26:12 -Now Boarding (Tim Fowers, Fowers Games, 2018) 29:25 -Return to Dark Tower (Tim Burrell-Saward, Isaac Childres, Noah Cohen, Rob Daviau, Justin D. Jacobson, & Brian Neff, Restoration Games, 2022)
News (and why it doesn't matter): 33:40 Cthulhu: Death May Die Season 3 coming to KS 35:41 Persona 5 co-op card game by Atlus and Pandasaurus in October '23 36:12 Spiel in Essen! For example, Cyclades 2 37:03 SHUX '22 is a wrap! Thank you, everyone! Live show with Quinns incoming 37:39 Roundtable discussion with BGB released on Patreon, note about review copies 38:39 Video review of Space Station Phoenix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibG5qf1Rwm0 39:14 Daybreak by Matt Leacock on Backerkit 40:18 Arkhipov Day! In recognition of Vasily Arkhipiv saving the entire world on October 27, 1962, we celebrate Arkhipov Day on October 27th.
40:49 Feature Game: Heroscape (Stephen Baker, Rob Daviau, & Craig Van Ness, Hasbro, 2004)
In this week's episode Dan, Adrian and Jules recap the Board Game BBQ's first time teaching games at PAX Australia. A special thanks to everyone who came out to meet us, or sat down to learn a new game, and a big warm welcome to all of the new members to our community.
We also recap last week's Question of the Pod: What is your favourite Hidden Gem game? Thanks to everyone who contributed and shared their photos with us on Discord and the Facebook Community.
Question of the Pod: What upcoming indie board games are you following?
Designer Interviews: Drift (27:19), Trigahex (29:41), Curses & Covens (33:13) Blood on the Clocktower (50:40)
Our podcast 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.
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Reviews of Cascadia, Spirit Island, Ready Set Bet and so many more. Featured review: Brazil: Imperial made available in the US by Portal Games; Reroll Ankh: Gods of Egypt by CMON. Board game discussion starts at 33:16. https://bluepegpinkpeg.com/ep226.Thank you to our sponsors: Queen Games and Grand Gamers Guild.
Disney Mad Tea Party is a nerve wracking cup stacking game atop a very precarious table. Be the first to play all your cards or stack every last cup to win. Tension tuned by skill, strategy and a touch of luck drives each decision you make.
Meeplefest is BACK! After two years away, Shelley and I once again convene the roundtable discussion. In part 1 we discuss the effects of COVID on our gaming and begin a discussion of game design and publishing as well. Joining us on this episode and next week's are
Matt Leacock - Pandemic, Pandemic Legacy, Daybreak, Era: Medieval Age, Forbidden Island, Roll Through The Ages, Thunderbirds
Joe Huber - Blue Skies, Caravan, Scream Machine, Starship Merchants, Burger Joint
Simon Hunt - Pick & Pack, Take Stock
Scott Caputo - Whistle Stop, Whistle Mountain, Sorcerer City, The One Hundred Torii, Kachina, Voluspa
Kris Hunt
Greg Zamira
and others
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Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Pocket Book Adventures, The Mysterious Case of Dancing Mania, Connected Clues, and Gutenberg. We then talk about what "gateway games" are and some games we like using to show people what's out there in the board gaming hobby! And finally, Crystal goes over the etymology of the word 'Clue.'
This episode was sponsored by Grey Fox Games. Use the code 'GFGBLITZ2022' for 20% off non-exclusive items from their site: http://www.greyfoxgames.com/
We're at SHUX! Well, we were, and while we were there, we tricked Tom Brewster of Shut Up & Sit Down to take time away from his busy schedule to join us on stage. This episode was recorded live, and we talk about games that are in some ways, a little bit weird. Before things get odd, we talk about Dungeons, Dice & Danger, Fun Facts, Turncoats, and Flick Fleck.
03:52 - Dungeons, Dice & Danger 09:07 - Fun Facts 15:03 - Turncoats 20:58 - Flick Fleck 27:39 - Weird games 28:36 - Mord im Arosa 31:03 - Nyctophobia 31:26 - Tajuto 34:21 - The Field of the Cloth of Gold 36:01 - Cosmic Frog 36:58 - Turing Machine 40:45 - Chaosmos 42:50 - XCOM: The Board Game 43:52 - Now Boarding 44:39 - Flowerfall 45:30 - Who Soiled the Toilet?