Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including River of Gold and Draft & Write Records. Then, we talk about the opposite of our pet peeves in gaming - our gaming delights!
It's awards season, which means that Germany's back to tell us what games are popping off over there. And that also means we're back to tell you what we think about what they think. More than that - we're looking through the annals of Spiel des Jahres history to drafting the winningest games of all the winners! Which means you too can be a winner of $100! Just vote! Before everyone's a winner, we talk about Chess, Vabanque, The Mandalorian: Adventures, and Path of Civilization.
04:06 - Chess 10:27 - Vabanque 14:06 - The Mandalorian: Adventures 20:14 - Path of Civilization 31:00 - Spiel des Jahres 2024 Review 36:19 - Spiel des Jahres Fantasy Draft 38:43 - El Grande 39:33 - Codenames 41:12 - Azul 42:29 - Dominion 43:02 - Wingspan 44:36 - The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine 45:22 - The Quacks of Quedlinburg 45:46 - Hanabi 46:21 - Cascadia 47:26 - Just One 49:52 - Camel Up 50:49 - Isle of Skye: From Chieftain to King 51:58 - Sky Team 53:04 - Dixit 53:33 - Challengers!
Hey Now, Cabalists! In 301 episode, Chris opens with his anthropological trip to Anthrocon. Then the gang dives into the games they've been playing including A Message from the Stars, Lacrimosa, Automobile, and Kingsburg. Chris and Jamie feature Forges of Ravenshire from Sam Stockton and B.A. Games. Then, Tony T. delivers his world-renowned tabletop gaming news segment, followed by a deep dive into "The Derivation of Joy" in gaming. Forges of Ravenshire 00:57:58, News with Tony T 01:34:40, The Derivation of Fun 02:41:06.
Our guest episodes continue to "dive deeper" into more board game designers and why they do what they do. We "dredge" up the latest news from Judson Cowan from Tettix Games about one of the hottest new games to hit crowdfunding which is of course Deep Regrets
GUEST PLAYER: Judson Cowan OTHER PLAYERS: Davey & Adrian
OVERVIEW In this episode you'll learn: - what favourite games Judson is playing right now - how Judson started Tettix Games and operates it all by himself - what inspired Deep Regrets and also inspiration for the fantastic art style - what answers to some of our Niche Number 1's Judson has
EPISODE CHAPTERS 0:00 - TURN 1 - Player Count 0:46 - TURN 2 - Introducing Judson Cowan 6:13 - Learning more about Tettix Games 8:43 - The unique art style of Deep Regrets 10:40 - The inspiration for the horrific fish in the game 13:00 - "Diving" deeper into Deep Regrets 21:49 - The player interactions in Deep Regrets 24:29 - An aside on Hideous Abomination which is available as an add-on 29:05 - Was it a hard deadline to get prototypes for the UK Games Expo? 31:52 - Some favourite games from Judson 35:59 - Some future design concepts including Fright House 37:41 - TURN 3 - Judson's Niche Number 1's 43:30 - TURN 4 - The Final Turn
Tom, Julie, and Eric look back at Dice Tower East, and look forward to Gen Con, including which events they'll be at, and what games they're looking forward to. And, pressed for time, they share a Rose, Thorn, or Hula Hoop that will be available at Gen Con.
00:49 - Who Is Julia Hern?
02:13 - Dice Tower East Recap - Events
10:35 - Dioce Tower East - Library Games
23:19 - Gen Con - Where We'll Be
37:47 - Gen Con - Games to See and/or Buy
38:25 - Rock Hard 1977
40:13 - Horrified: World of Monsters
40:50 - Fromage
41:53 - Cascadia Rolling Hills and Nocturne (Because Foxes)
Our guest host this week is the estimable Mark Besada of the Golden Geek Award-winning podcast, Board Game Barrage! Known as the Green Tank because he is more swole than the Hulk (rumours persist that Lou Ferrigno learned all he knew about bodybuilding from Mark), he nonetheless exudes generosity and hospitality.
Unless you throw down in Ghost Blitz, that is. Then it's Go Time.
07:39 -Lords of Scotland (Richard James, Z-Man Games, 2010)
11:27 -Slay the Spire: The Board Game (Gary Dworetsky, Anthony Giovannetti, and Casey Yano, Contention Games, 2024) [EDIT: The "Ironclad" character was erroneously referred to as the Ironborn. We apologize for the error and look forward to your many, many correction emails]
Join us in Episode 303 as Joe hosts for the first time, with Dana and Adrian co-hosting. Fresh off the exhilarating first-ever Play Con board game convention, we share our thoughts and experiences from the long weekend.
Dana dives into her playthrough of Faiyum, while Adrian hilariously recounts his embarrassing moments with Dice Fishing: Roll and Catch. Meanwhile, Joe shares his surprise encounter with the auction area control game, Skyrise. Don't miss this lively and entertaining catch-up session on all things Play Con! We also discuss the QOTP from episode 301 and bring a QOTP for this episode.
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.
More Than Meeples (https://morethanmeeples.com.au/) is your friendly local in-store & online tabletop gaming and pop culture collectible store – specialising in board games, card games, collectibles, graphic novels and more.
Board and Dice (https://boardanddice.com/) Board&Dice designs, develops, and publishes expert and escape room board games.
We aim to make interesting, deep and diverse products, each being a unique experience, and each sporting its own flavour and an engaging theme.
**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 Evenfall, TRICKTAKERS, Words of a Feather, and Wandering Towers. Featured review: Inventions: Evolution of Ideas by Eagle-Gryphon Games. Board game discussion starts at 38:38. Thank you to our sponsors: Queen Games, and Grand Gamers Guild.
This week Shelley and I play to beautiful games, one of which is a Kennerspiel nominee!
The first has us collecting umbrellas and decorating our cities in
Agueda: City of Umbrellas by Dustin Dobson and Milan Zivkovic from 25th Century Games
Then we attempt to work together to halt climate change in
Daybreak (also known a e-Mission) by Matt Leacock and Matteo Menapace from CMYK and Schmidt Spiele
Thanks as always to Bezier Games for their sponsorship of the podcast.
You can support us directly at www.patreon.com/garrettsgames OR check out our extensive list of games for sale that no longer fit on our shelves, but belong on your table:
Hey Now Cabalists! In episode 97 of The Secret Cabal Express Don, Chris, and Jamie put together all of the games that they're frothing at the mouth and jumping outta their pants to get at from Gen Con 2024 coming up next month. Head over to TheSecretCabal.com and click on the link to this episode to get links to all the games we discussed on the show today. Enjoy!
Live from an abandoned garage Mike has a series of board game panel show style rounds that he was contractually obligated to create.
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
An important topic for Becky in that we sometimes under appreciate language independent games so this episode is all about that topic. We discuss games that we feel are language independent, what classifies then and the pros and cons around them.
FIRST PLAYER: Becky OTHER PLAYERS: JP, Rob
In this episode you'll learn:
- about JP's latest Lacerda which has hit the table in Inventions: Evolution of Ideas by Eagle-Gryphon Games - that Rob has managed to play some of his UK Games Expo haul in Gloom of Kilforth by Hall or Nothing - all about the BGA version of Terraforming Mars as Becky tries to level up her plays - about our views on language independent games and their place in the hobby
LINKS REFERENCED IN THE SHOW N/A
EPISODE CHAPTERS 0:00 - TURN 1 - Player Count 3:13 - TURN 2 - Let's Talk About Hex 3:22 - JP - Inventions: Evolution of Ideas 9:17 - Rob - Gloom of Kilforth 14:16 - Becky - Terraforming Mars (BGA) 16:28 - TURN 3 - Main Event: Lost in translation 24:29 - How UX Design is important for language independent games 28:00 - We don't know why Splendor makes Becky angry but Bridgeton definitely doesn't 31:37 - Returning to how procedural structured games helps with language independent games 34:18 - What are some of the drawbacks of language independent games? 39:17 - The benefits to publishers for language independent games 43:42 - Roll / flip and writes lean themselves into this as well 45:14 - TURN 4 - Would you rather...always be able to buy the game syou want second hand and not be able to sell, or always sell at the price but never buy them at the price you want 51:54 - TURN 5 - Penultimate Turn: What's Coming Up 1:02:17 - TURN 6 - The Final Turn
Our next guest host during Michael Walker's recovery is Efka Bladukas, half of No Pun Included! Efka is an internationally-renowned board game critic and dog enthusiast, known for his detestation of whimsy and tireless tolerance of Mark's yammerings. He once split a mountain in twain with his bare hands while simultaneously inventing cold fusion, but he's so humble he'll probably deny it--which is proof positive that it's all true.
Games Played Last Week:
01:37 -Captain Flip (Remo Conzadori and Paolo Mori, PlayPunk, 2024)
08:30 -In the Footsteps of Darwin (Grégory Grard and Matthieu Verdier, Sorry We Are French, 2023)
13:31 -It’s a Wonderful World: Corruption & Ascension (Frédéric Guérard, La Boîte de Jeu, 2020)
There are many games about manipulating a stock market or trying to be a Tycoon of an industry. So, when we heard about Star Tycoon, we wondered what was different from all the other games in this category. For me, two things jumped out when playing. First, the market is not the dominating factor in this game, there is a nice balance between that and your other objectives. Second, the market wasn’t the only thing contributing to how you got your resources. Like the balance this game brought into the crowded stock market games.
Cities was a quick game to play with the need to concentrate on a few objectives and not many. And when teaching the game, it might need to be pointed out. This game will promote some sort of hate drafting to keep others from amassing large number of points and while this is solitary in play, little interaction, you need to pay attention to what others are doing.
Thanks for listening and hope you are having a wonderful summer so far.
Welcome to Episode 302 of the Board Game BBQ Podcast! This episode is packed with exciting board game discussions and due to a time dilation feels like an epic adventure akin to Avengers: Endgame.
Adrian is back from Japan and has been diving deep into the world of Japanese board games.
He couldn't resist sharing his experience with his sizzling game "Deep Sea Adventure."
Adrian hints at continuing his exploration of more Japanese games in upcoming episodes.
Dana had the opportunity to play her first prototype game from Paverson Games, titled "Luthier."
While she teases more information about Luthier for later, her sizzling game of the week is "Gizmo." Tune in to hear Dana's thoughts on this intriguing game and what makes it stand out.
Jules has been immersed in the game "La Famiglia." He shares his love for the theme, area control mechanics, and the engaging 2 vs 2 gameplay. Listen as Jules delves into why "La Famiglia" has captivated his interest and how it plays out on the table.
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.
More Than Meeples (https://morethanmeeples.com.au/) is your friendly local in-store & online tabletop gaming and pop culture collectible store – specialising in board games, card games, collectibles, graphic novels and more.
Board and Dice (https://boardanddice.com/) Board&Dice designs, develops, and publishes expert and escape room board games.
We aim to make interesting, deep and diverse products, each being a unique experience, and each sporting its own flavour and an engaging theme.
**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
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