Time for our thoughts on the upcoming games that are coming out at Gen Con based on the ones we were lucky enough to play. Got to admit, some solid games and for all age of gamers. We have the light entry with In the Footsteps of Marie Curie to the heavy hitter in Evenfall or Rock Hard 1977. But looking for middle of the road, check out River of Gold. Need a little coop in your life, then try Mandalorian Adventures. And if the old grey matter needs some work, Kronologic might be something you are looking for.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg at Gen Con as we head out this week and will report back some of our other favorites when we are there.
Thanks for listening and if at Gen Con, please say Hey if you see us.
In this episode Ben and Steve attend the SdJ ceremony in Berlin and interview the nominees and winners. To address the intro of the show join the Five Games for Doomsday discord.
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.
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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.
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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!
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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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