Things get very confusing as Mike takes us through some very important trivia...
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.
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No cats were harmed during the recording of this episode. Official SVWAG cat Chandler (aka Potato aka Chan-Chan aka The Chan-Man) had his dignity challenged when Mark laughed at his strange partially-shaved body, but we don't think that counts. Official SVWAG dog Bruno (aka The Dog) resents human non-walk activities, but again, that probably doesn't count. The editorial gibbons and the HR gibbons colluded to classify Mark and Walker as "sub-animal automated speakboxes" and then took Labour Day off.
Games Played Last Week:
01:10 -Marshmallow Test (Reiner Knizia, Gamewright, 2020)
I was originally going to riff on Ginsberg's Howl, but I confess I had completely forgotten what a monster of a piece it is--redolent in imagery and references that are very much of a time since past. I considered then moving on to Nelson's On the Road Again, and faced the opposite problem--man, that song has some simple lyrics. I guess Shelley and Shakespeare are the sweet spot.
01:24 AYURIS: Praga Caput Regni (Vladimír Suchý, Delicious Games, 2020)
Games Played Last Week:
03:56 -Shadowrift (Jeremy Anderson, Game Salute, 2012)
Gen Con Recap Glitch Gear T-Shirts Pirate Tails & Kiss the Goblin Ad Sky Team Imperial Miners Miniature Market CDSK Top 3 Deck Building Games GameToppers Ad Disney Lorcana Portal […]
Nike has things he needs to say and a legion of Deboras.
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/
As a certain talk-show huckster was wont to say, we train people how to treat us. Without absolving other people of their own responsibility, we can nonetheless take a certain amount of responsibility for entirely predictable reactions to our own decisions. "Don't feed the troll," goes the internet wisdom, and wise it is--Mark routinely fails to heed that good advice in the face of taunting by Walker. That said, Walker cannot claim to be long-suffering about Mark's mythological digressions while simultaneously goading him with mythologically-themed games.
Games Played Last Week:
01:41 -Demon Ship (Malev Da Shinobi, Black Site Studios, 2023)
David Hume argued that all ideas are either simple or complex, and that in turn all complex ideas are merely composed of simple ideas. He wasn't a huge fan of some of those complex ideas; he used the example of a chimera, where you take a lion, a snake, and a goat (three simple ideas, but we can quibble with that later if you like) and smush them all together to get a complex idea. Hume was sceptical about complex ideas, to say the least.
We can agree or disagree with Hume on many fronts, and indeed this is a podcast fundamentally aligned with German Idealism; but we would happily ally ourselves with the Humeans to declare with one unified voice that "phygital" is an abomination that must be purged.
01:37 AYURIS: Ultimate Railroads (Helmut Ohley & Leonhard "Lenny" Orgler, Hans im Glück, 2021)
Intro Day 1 at Gen Con 2023 Good Games Publishing Asmodee Event Lucky Duck Get Together Wiz Kids Booth More Asmodee This didn’t happen Hatchette Event Day 1 Done Miniature […]
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.
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There was A Time Before. Historians no doubt will soon abandon the antiquated notions of BCE and CE, and will instead resort to the infinitely more practical Pre-SVWAG and Post-SVWAG eras. In the dim and distant past of Pre-SVWAG, people had the audacity to release games before we could weigh in on them officially. Whether this was borne of opportunism, undue haste, or some other impulse we will not speculate.
03:40 AYURIS: Khôra: Rise of an Empire (Head Quarter Simulation Game Club, IELLO, 2021)
Games Played Last Week:
05:02 -The Defence of Procyon III (Dávid Turczi, PSC Games, 2021)
08:34 -Catacombs: Red Box (Aron West, Elzra, 2022)
45:54 In response to GenCon hauls, ask what was purchased
46:50 EVE Online gets (another) tabletop adaptation by Titan Forge Games
47:36 Pirates of Maracaibo, pseudo-sequel to Maracaibo
48:13 Guilty Gear: The Board Game by Level 99, in point of fact Exceed Season 7
50:08 Colosseum 3rd edition by Fantasia
51:14 Foundations of Rome minimalistic version called Foundations: Metropolis
51:56 GenCon can't express concern over anti-LGBTQ laws and then re-up with Indiana until 2030
53:34 Topic: Games from the Crypt
Successors 3rd. ed, La révolution française, Sword of Rome, Here I Stand, Loopin' Louie, Die Kutschfahrt zur Teufelsburg, Gunslinger, Battlestar Galactica, Dark Moon, Colosseum, Princes of Florence, Android, Android: Netrunner, New Angeles, Descent, Imperial Assault, Star Wars: Rebellion, Axis and Allies: WWI 1914, Warhammer 40,000, Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Diplomacy, Formula Dé, Inkognito
Perhaps the greatest lingering question is how and why the Ethnos fantasy races were translated into academic professions for Archeos Society's re-theme. Apparently dwarves (Ethnos) are analogous to photographers (Archeos Society), and orcs (orc board!) are akin to curators. Odd. Halflings into students seems appropriately condescending.
As much as the comparison stings, though, I can't teally object into making trolls professors. I've met some that truly fit the description.
Games Played Last Week:
03:07 -Race to the Raft (Frank West, The City of Games, 2023)
08:08 -Dorfromantik: The Board Game (Michael Palm and Lukas Zach, Pegasus Spiele, 2022)
14:30 -Too Many Bones: Dart (Adam Carlson & Josh J. Carlson, Chip Theory Games, 2020)
18:10 -Lords of Ragnarok (Adam Kwapiński, Awaken Realms, 2023)
26:58 -Blood Rage: Promos Box (Eric M. Lang, CMON, 2019)
Intro Talk about Clover Games Workshop Easy Button MM Affiliate Link – Thank You Ready for Gen Con Box Office Surprises Flying Sucks Taste Buds Portal Games Stranger Things: Upside […]
Matthew is the King of the Podcast and this week rules with his signiture might and justice.
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/
Some randomness is accepted nearly uncritically by many gamers. Conventional deckbuilders have exceptionally high variance as a rule, but no one bats an eye. We accept that anything martial might have mixed results, even after repeated attempts--in fact, many protest when the wound-making is too deterministic. Tiles from a bag? Sure. The instant that locomotion is involved, though, your typical gamer gets all shirty.
Intro CEO Gaming Event Pocket Paragons Thunder Road: Vendetta Lawn Care Sucks Sometime The Princes of Florence Oh My Brain & Scout Miniature Market Taste Buds Gametoppers LLC Dawn of […]
We offer to you a sampler, a little smorgasbord, a variety platter of content from our Patreon. We hope this will placate you in light of our absence last week. If you'd like more, you can of course support us on Patreon. Only if you want to, though. We'll still be wrong either way.
03:46 Pledge of Indifference 2023-07-06 Audio (we also publish a video version)
03:56 Shipwrights of the North Sea
07:17 Tanares Adventures Ultimate Edition
11:41 Cyclades Legendary Edition
18:14 Buttons & Bugs
20:23 Other pledges: Planet Unknown Supermoon, Stroganov expansion
(Note: Mark did not end up backing Projekt Riese, but Walker did back Cyclades Legendary Edition)
21:23 BLOAT #18
21:44 World Beyond SVWAG--Returnal's storytelling, emergent vs. narrative storytelling, have difficulty with emergent storytelling in video games, but prefer it in board games, Nikki Valens
34:45 Meta Media--ethical standards of US Supreme Court, Thurgood and Cecilia Marshall, "dicta," rules textualism, For Sale, Tower of Babel: Reiner Knizia vs. Hans im Glück
Chess is the same thing over and over again. There are no expansions or variable setup. So it must not be very replayable. Au contraire! We look at the reasons […]
While we pride ourselves on editorial standards here at SVWAG, we have no shame when it comes to pandering. We thus present to you the episode of SVWAG with the most cat discussion yet. The good news is that Chandler (aka Chan-Chan aka Potato aka SVWAG Cat) is doing extremely well. Could a co-host stint be far behind? Perhaps a guest appearance by Bruno (aka SVWAG Dog)? Whatever we think the market wants.
Games Played Last Week:
02:20 -The Siege of Runedar (Reiner Knizia, Ludonova, 2021)
Intro Various Cons Clash of Cultures – Again Carson City Movie Update and Special News Miniature Market SiliconVania Wandering Towers Portal Games Top Worker Placement Games MTG: LOTR Commander Deck […]
Two crowdfunding campaigns stand before you. One only tells lies, the other only tells the truth. Both claim to be innovative and to be able to deliver on time. How do you decide which one to back? Or wait, a crowdfunding campaign launches but during the funding period every individual component is replaced by a new one; is it the same campaign? Or wait, there are five crowdfunding campaigns on one side of a track and one campaign on the other, and this trolley...
02:25 AYURIS: Imperium: The Contention (Gary Dworetsky, Contention Games, 2021)
Games Played Last Week:
03:56 -Tapple (Uncredited, The Op Games, 2021)
06:43 -Undaunted: Battle of Britain (Trevor Benjamin and David Thompson, Osprey Games, 2023)
08:14 -Oh No, Volcano! (Phil Walker-Harding, Buffalo Games, 2023)
10:58 -The Siege of Runedar (Reiner Knizia, Ludonova, 2021)