Shelley and I work together to build Orleans' cathedral in the cooperative family game
The Cathedral of Orleans by Wolfgang Dirscherl, Markus Müller, and Reiner Stockhausen from dlp games and Matagot
then we compete to capture the most genies while collecting resources in
Djinn by Benjamin Schwer from Hall Games and Pegasus Spiele
On this extra-terrestrial episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down podcast, Tom and Emily are venturing into SPACE in MLEM: Space Agency, and digging deep down into the mines in Kutna Hora: The City of Silver. Two very different games, on this one, but both absolutely worth checking out.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
02:30 - MLEM: Space Agency
19:00 - Kutna Hora: The City of Silver
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Ambie and Crystal discuss a jubensha game they played together at Dice Tower West - Conspiracy to Commit! We have a discussion including Amy, the host of the game, and Dan, Crystal's partner, right after playing the game, and then we share our thoughts a week later. Check out White Rabbit Jubensha for more information on the Jubensha we played!
Check out the People Makes Games video about Jubensha
0:00-Intro
0:36-Jubensha Intro
4:48-Initial Recap
23:21-Next Week Thoughts
31:17-Outro
32:13-Bloopers
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We made it all the way to Dice Tower West in Las Vegas (and some of us made it out), and we're ready to talk about all of the amazing games we played over there, between outings for pinball and sushi. If you were there, thanks for hanging out with us! Stick around for talk about Faraway, MLEM: Space Agency, ito, Cascadero, and more!
01:08 - Faraway 12:20 - Medici 19:33 - MLEM: Space Agency 26:48 - ito 35:24 - Cascadero 44:09 - Mino Dice 49:54 - Unboxed 54:36 - Beowulf 55:55 - Of What's Left 59:53 - Hold Your Horses
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"Welcome back to Whose Turn Is It Anyway, where we explore the latest trends and innovations in the world of board gaming. In today's episode, we dive deep into the intersection of artificial intelligence and board games. From AI opponents to game design, we'll explore how technology is reshaping the way we play and strategize"
In the spirit of the episode the above description was written by ChaptGPT (OpenAI) and welcome back Davey for another run of episodes.
FIRST PLAYER: Davey
OTHER PLAYERS: Rob & Adrian
OVERVIEW
In this episode you'll learn:
- how Adrian got on with the not even released Galactic Cruise by Kinson Games
- Rob's engine building skills in Furnace by Arcane Wonders
- about Davey's compares Beast by Zatu Games to other hidden movement games
- about the groups debate on AI within the board game hobby space and the pitfalls and promise that it can offer
- that we've replace Would You Rather for this episode to a new segment "O-REAL-E" so can you tell the difference between AI written reviews versus human written ones.
LINKS REFERENCED IN THE SHOW
Our live UK Games Expo 2024 event - Plan your calendars and join in with us on a live recording of the show. https://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/events/1415-whose-turn-is-it-anyway-live-podcast/
EPISODE CHAPTERS
0:00 - TURN 1 - Player Count
1:01 - TURN 2 - Let's Talk About Hex
1:13 - Adrian - Galactic Cruise
8:44 - Rob - Furnace
14:01 - Davey - Beast
21:43 - TURN 3 - Main Event: i-Game
23:58 - Recent news & events happening in the board game industry about AI
28:31 - Deep dive into AI in the board game industry
45:48 - What's the best outcome of AI in the industry
57:21 - TURN 4 - O-REAL-E - AI Reviews vs Human Reviews
1:09:14 - TURN 5 - Penultimate Turn: What's Coming Up
1:09:34 - Rob - Watching Dune Part Two & Burncycle
1:15:09 - Adrian - Baycon (hopefully), completing Venom Goblin in Marvel Champions & Moon
1:18:45 - Davey - Great Western Trail 2nd Edition & Imperium: Horizons
1:24:12 - TURN 6 - The Final Turn
You can check out JP's new podcast called Just Play right here https://www.justplaypod.co.uk we'd love to have you and also on the new YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@JustPlayPodcast
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This time, we are LIVE at Dice Tower West 2024 in Las Vegas in front of a convention audience to discuss our Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops, pit three games in a Vegas-themed Showdown, share a Tale of Boardgaming Horror, and take questions from the audience.
01:04 - News for Dice Tower West 2025
03:17 - Games Tom Taught
04:26 - Eric Plays Wyrmspan
05:52 - What's Julie Been Doing?
07:33 - Way Too Many Cats
11:38 - Shipwrights of the North Sea: Redux
13:45 - Paris: La Cité de la Lumière
17:27 - Mr. Jack
19:54 - Challengers: Beach Cup
22:47 - Video Game Champion
29:36 - Showdown Intro
30:27 - Vegas Showdown
31:19 - Lords of Vegas
33:52 - Vabanque
36:22 - Tale of Boardgaming Horror
41:12 - What is our favorite Stonemaier Game?
41:58 - Where does Tom keep his hats?
42:39 - What are our favorite Auction Games?
44:23 - What was our favorite non-gaming Vegas experience?
47:41 - What game surprised us after having low expectations?
50:24 - Do we implement house rules/post-release fixes?
54:54 - What is a good travel-sized deck-building game?
57:28 - What are our spouses' favorite games?
We present to you a specially chemically-enhanced episode. Walker has been doping specifically in preparation, eschewing any sustenance other than military-grade lozenges. Mark will be performing his hosting duties while fully immersed in a tank of benzocaine oral painkiller. It is a good thing that the International Olympic Committee has no sway here in SVWAG studios, or we would likely get disqualified for the podcast luge event.
Games Played Last Week:
01:30 -Raising Robots (Brett Sobol & Seth Van Orden, Nauvoo Games, 2023)
08:26 -Omen: Banks of the Styx (John Clowdus, Small Box Games, 2024)
11:40 -Set a Watch (Mike Gnade and Todd Walsh, Rock Manor Games, 2019)
13:47 -Cryo (Tom Jolly & Luke Laurie, Z-Man Games, 2021)
17:33 -Formula D (Laurent Lavaur & Eric Randall, Asmodee, 2008)
18:39 -Riftforce (Carlo Bortolini, 1 More Time Games, 2021)
22:36 -Piazza Rabazza (Guido Hoffman and Jens-Peter Schliemann, Zoch Verlag, 2022)
News (and why it doesn't matter):
25:37 RoboRally Transformers: can Autobots get drunk?
27:12 An expansion to Unfathomable, the Battlestar Galactica re-theme
27:52 Burned was too pure for this crowdfunded world
28:19 Etherstone from ThunderGryph Games by Virginio Gigli and Simone Luciani on Kickstarter
29:11 Avatar: The Last Airbender co-op deckbuilder
29:43 Feature Game: Kutná Hora: The City of Silver (Ondřej Bystroň, Petr Čáslava, and Pavel Jarosch, Czech Games Edition, 2023)
51:24 SVWAG Presents Masterpiece Theatre: Avatar: The Last Airbender (2024)
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Last year I ran my first "March Madness" style, 64-game, single-elimination vote, with a contest to submit predictions for the entire bracket. If you've got a pool for the famous college basketball tournament in your office, or with your friends, then you know what this is. Actually, these days many other copycat tournament prediction contests exists--there's a big one on BoardGameGeek, my favorite movie podcast (Filmspotting) does one for films, and so on. My version is similar, but it lists a bunch of games to be voted on against each other. Listeners suggested I call it Mark Madness, and that's what we did. Last year I picked all 64 games that we voted on, pulling from recent award winners in different categories. Listener Patrick Pence ended up the winner of the contest, and for that reason he's my co-host this month for the 2024 Mark Madness. Not only that, more listeners on our Discord channel suggested that the contest be more specific to me, asking me to populate the bracket with games that mean something to me. I did about half of those, and asked Patrick to do the same. Then I combined our lists, added a few "people's choice" titles to round it out, and then set up the bracket. Play along! I hope we get a good number of folks who submit their own official predictions at challonge.com, which is free. Some have already done it. You've until March 12 to submit your brackets, so you need to move quickly. Then the voting rounds will start via Geeklist polling. As you can see from the chart above, the successive rounds of this voting will start happening every three days: On March 15 we'll have the results of the first round, when 64 teams are winnowed down to 32 survivors. Then it proceeds to the Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final 4, and Championship. Who will be the winner? We expect to do "micro-episode" podcasts throughout the month to talk about each round. They'll show up in your regular feed, and I can link them here, too. -Mark
On this week's episode Conor, Joe and Dan sit down with one of our favourite returning guests, Bobby Hill. We discuss the reception he received from 2021's Hadrian's Wall before diving into his upcoming 2025 release: The Anarchy. Bobby shares the story of this tumultuous time in history and how he was able to use it as inspiration for his next Euro-and-write game.
In Sizzling Games, Joe reveals that he is a real fungi, Dan is matching wits with his nemesis, Bobby is composing a winning symphony, and Conor is visiting space and feline fine.
There's also the Question of the Pod, Swear an Oath, and all of the usual shenanigans you've come to expect from the Board Game BBQ Podcast.
New Question of the Pod: What historical setting would you like to see made into a board game?
Follow Bobby's journey here: https://www.motherlodegames.rocks/
Sizzling Games:
Morels (45:40)
SideQuest : Nemesis (52:41)
Lacrimosa (58:17)
MLEM (1:03:16)
Question of the Pod Recap: (1:11:40)
Swear An Oath: (1:26:02)
PlayCon is coming in 2024. Make sure you sign-up at https://play-con.com/ so you don't miss out!
Check out our Eventbrite page for all of our upcoming Game Days: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/o/board-game-bbq-32833304483
Has this episode left you with a thirst for more? Here are all of the games that we discussed:
Hadrian's Wall (2021), The Anarchy (2025), Morels (2012), SideQuest: Nemesis (2023), Lacrimosa (2022), MLEM: Space Agency (2024), Pandemic: Season 2 (2017), 7th Citadel (2024), Ticket To Ride: Legends of the West (2023), Barcelona (2023), Too Many Bones: Unbreakable (2023), ISS Vanguard (2023), John Company 2nd Ed (2022)
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Micro-episode for the next round of voting.
Shelley and I add the Marine Worlds Expansion to
Ark Nova by Mathias Wigge from Feuerland Spiele and Capstone Games
and then roll dice to build canals and ship goods in
Heart of Venice by Yuko Y from JrnyCat
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