In this buoyant episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Quinns are sailing the seas with Ahoy, stealin’ safes in 3000 Scoundrels, and doing another alliterative activity in Dead Reckoning! It’s the Clear Card Pirate Special, where each game is thematically linked to the others in a conga line of cardboard.
Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Venn, Disney Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: Merry Madness, and Ready Set Bet. We then talk about games that take less than 15 minutes to play!
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/
The topic of theme has come up intermittently over the course of the podcast, but how important is it? Is it something that makes or breaks a game? Or would we be mostly okay if games were mostly non-thematic? Before we burst at the theme, we talk about Mamma Mia!, Football Highlights 2052, Kanban, and Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood.
01:46 - Mamma Mia! 08:20 - Football Highlights 2052 18:50 - Kanban 20:59 - Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood 34:25 - The importance of theme 34:50 - Tigris & Euphrates 38:08 - Catherine: The Cities of the Tsarina 38:42 - Point Salad 40:04 - Abandon All Artichokes 43:29 - Glüx 47:25 - Décorum 49:08 - Deal with the Devil
Happy Halloween Cabalists! It's that time of year when the Founders are visited by Wolfman Steve and The Gatekeeper for some spooky fun and games! First the gang talks about their very own cryptid that lives in the forests near their home. Then the gaming ghoulies jump into some games they've been playing including Finding Sasquatch, Cult of the Deep, Bloody Inn, Feed the Kraken, Campy Creatures, and our feature review, Night of the Living Dead A Zombicide Game. Then Tony T gives us the creepiest, most hair-raising haunted new segments in all of Halloween Town. Then finally the Founders give board games a break and talk about the TV shows and movies we're watching this October! Night of the Living Dead Review 00:54:27, News with Tony T 01:13:00, What To Watch This Halloween 02:19:22
Some people love teaching board games, some people don't and Becky falls into the latter. In this episode we chat all about the teach, how important it is, and some of the perspectives of the teachers and the players.
FIRST PLAYER: Becky OTHER PLAYERS: JP, Adrian & Ian
OVERVIEW In this week's episode, we discuss the part of the game, which is some people's favourite part of gaming, and some people's nightmares; "The Teach". In this episode you'll learn:
- What do you get when you combine the classic game Snake with a Euro? - Becky's excitement in getting her hands on Zuuli - Ian is on strike two for appearing on a board gaming podcast, having not played a game in quite a while. - Whether the responsibility of learning a game is on the teacher or the student. - Some of our experiences in teaching and being taught - That GRIDCON 2022 is approaching and is literally on our doorstep.
EPISODE CHAPTERS 0:00 - TURN 1 - Player Count 1:21 - TURN 2 - Let's Talk About Hex 1:32 - JP - Istanbul 6:26 - Adrian - Carnegie 13:24 - Becky - Zuuli 16:53 - Ian - Still hasn't played anything - Strike 2!! 20:47 - TURN 3 - Teaching the Teach 22:47 - Is the responsibility on the learner or the teacher? 29:02 - The player types influence the teach 34:07 - The teach isn't just the first few minutes 37:49 - What about playing learning games or learning rounds 41:30 - It's the hosts responsibility to support new players 44:27 - What resources do we use to support learning games? 47:32 - How can we get new players to accept the first play is a learning game? 48:47 - As a teacher don't quarterback new players 51:51 - Be mindful that it's daunting for new players when they are the only one that doesn't know the game 53:15 - What do you find annoying when teaching games? 57:34 - Some helpful resources to help you improve your teach 58:30 - TURN 4 - Question Time: Is box art important & aesthetics vs gameplay 1:05:20 - TURN 5 - The Penultimate Turn: What's Coming Up? 1:05:32 - Becky - GRIDCON 2022 1:08:41 - Ian - Netrunner & Ark Nova 1:09:44 - JP - We need to talk about Riffle 1:12:09 - Adrian - Viticulture Tuscany Expansion 1:13:59 - TURN 6 - The Final Turn
Live at SHUX 2022, we are joined with extra-special guest Quinns from Shut Up and Sit Down! He was clearly thrilled to be with us, as evinced by the following exchange:
Games Played Last Week: 05:11 -The Siege of Runedar (Reiner Knizia, Ludonova, 2021) 09:00 -Marrakesh (Stefan Feld, Queen Games, 2022) 14:18 -Endless Winter: Paleoamericans (Stan Kordonskiy, Fantasia Games, 2022) 20:24 -Sidereal Confluence 10m22s (TauCeti Deichmann, Wizkids, 2017) 25:49 -Regicide (Paul Abrahams, Luke Badger, & Andy Richdale, Badgers from Mars, 2020) 26:10 -Caverna: The Cave Farmers (Uwe Rosenberg, Lookout Games, 2013) 28:31 -Master Word (Gérald Cattiaux, Le Scorpion Masqué, 2020)
News (and why it doesn't matter): 32:42 Terraforming Mars: Dice Game 32:57 Reprint of Yellow & Yangtze: Huang by PHALANX 35:07 Temple of Horrors: Dungeon crawling with shuffleboard combat 36:55 October 27th is Akhipov Day
In this episode Conor, Mitch and Mike serve up the second half of our PAX Australia recap which includes interviews with Thinker Themer, Nerds of the West, Luella Moore, and The Dicemen Cometh. A special thanks to everyone who came out to meet us, or sat down to learnt 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 upcoming indie board games are you following? Thanks to everyone who contributed and shared their photos with us on Discord and the Facebook Community.
Question of the Pod: Who have you met through boardgames?
Interviews: Nerds of the West (29:32), Luella Moore (37:22), The Dicemen Cometh (48:12)
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This week's guest is owner and president of Dice Hate Me Games, Chris Kirkman. We talk about working in newspapers, the challenges of running an independent company and ending relationships...but which games did he choose?
Continuing our discussion of games and design that began last week, this time design is more of the focus as the wine continues to flow. Guests include
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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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/
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