Yes, it's Meeplefest time once again, and the roundtable of luminaries is topped off with three designers:
Matt Leacock, fresh from his KedJ win for Daybreak/eMission where he went up against HIMSELF with Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West and known for such titles as Pandemic and Forbidden Island
Tom Lehmann, known for the classic Race for the Galaxy, and with new titles such as Winter Court and Chu Han
and Joe Huber, lover of trick takers and designer of such titles as Caravan, Blue Skies, and Burger Joint.
We spend some time talking about Matt's win, as well as design choices & the creative spark.
And here's that Auden quote which Tom sent to me after the podcast:
In his preface to The Collected Poetry of W. H. Auden (1945) he wrote: In the eyes of every author, I fancy, his past work falls into four classes. First, the pure rubbish which he regrets ever having conceived; second–for him the most painful– the good ideas which his incompetence or impatience prevented from coming to much (The Orators seems to me such a case of the fair notion fatally injured); third, the pieces he had nothing against except their lack of importance; these must inevitably form the bulk of any collection since, were he to limit it to the fourth class alone, to those poems for which he is honestly grateful, his volume would be too depressingly slim.
Opener: Wayfarers of the South Tigris
David Arnott
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Mike Mayer
@Mike Mayer
If you're like me, you've been supplementing your in-person boardgaming with the ability to play online. I've been doing that for over 20 years, way before the covid pandemic struck. However, that worldwide event opened up the joys of online boardgaming to many more gamers, especially as they worked to keep connections going with friends they couldn't see across the table for many months. Add in the explosion of titles and popularity of BoardgameArena, coupled with the widespread use of Discord, Zoom, or other voice/video communication tools, and gamers today have more ability to stay in touch than ever before. My two guests have taken that, stuck with it, and done more than I've ever managed to do with all of my online play: make a regular game group out of it. Three years on, no longer with the pandemic as the reason, Dave and Mike continue to get together almost every week to play games together. One's in California, the other in Virginia, but they meet more regularly than most in-person game groups. Sometimes they widen the circle to include some other friends like me, but primarily this is a 2-person game group, another interesting aspect.
Like me, these guys have been around a long time, have favorites going back decades, yet in this online group they're really espousing the Cult of the New. Why is that? Why are they always learning new games, why do they enjoy online roll & writes so much, and what the heck is Tulpenfieber?! Listen and find out.
Closer: The sort of old school games I don't like -Mark
On this gritty episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Emily are chatting about a whole dune’s worth of sandy, sandy games! Well, two of them are sandy. The other two are just games. In fact one of the two sandy games is mostly water. Listen, it’s Friday afternoon and I’m ready to stop working and start playing Deadlock, which I am hopelessly addicted to. Truth be told, the new fortnightly podcast schedule only exists to fuel my addiction to losing roughly four games in a row every evening until the end of time. I will die ignorant, and I will die angry. You can’t stop me! YOU CAN’T STOP ME!!
This episode, we’re talking about Sand, Surf’s Up, Sumo, and Tokkuri Taking! Enjoy!
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
01:41 - Sand
15:26 - Surf’s Up
27:46 - Sumo
33:24 - Tokkuri Taking
Thanks to our amazing community podcast transcripts are available here https://bit.ly/SUSDPodTranscripts and are usually completed within a few weeks of the podcast's release.
Something is very off this episode... Dave hosts and it's a little bit French
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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In Chris' second episode of his run he wants to know why we suck at board games, well when we say we we mean us specifically as we can't comment on general gamers. Do we abandon games we suck at? Do we stick with it in the vain hope we'll become better? Listen to our latest episode to find out.
FIRST PLAYER: Chris
OTHER PLAYERS: Adrian, Rob & Dan
In this episode you'll learn:
- what the hell desk cycling means and why Chris has been doing a lot of it? no it's not a board game
- about Rob's experience of managing stealthy robots in Burncycle by Chip Theory Games
- how Dan has gone back to the 90's in the retro-like point and click adventure of Cantaloop by Lookout Games
- that White Castle by Devir Games keeps getting mentioned and a lot of love from Adrian
- which games the gang ultimately suck at and why
LINKS REFERENCED IN THE SHOW
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EPISODE CHAPTERS
0:00 - TURN 1 - Player Count
1:05 - TURN 2 - Let's Talk About Hex
1:17 - Chris P - No games just desk cycling...what the hell is desk cycling?
2:54 - Rob - Burncycle
3:45 - Dan - Cantaloop
6:33 - Adrian - The White Castle
16:41 - TURN 3 - Main Event: It's not you...it's me
17:20 - Magicians, Dinosaurs, Red Planets & Trading in the Med
25:51 - Adrian can't lie and he can't barter
35:07 - Worker placement makes an evil return for Chris
43:04 - Do you purposely avoid playing these games or would you still be willing to give it a shot
52:09 - What is the turning point which stops you from playing a game full stop
1:06:14 - TURN 4 - Would you rather...be amazing at a game everyone else hates, or rubbish at a game everyone loves
1:09:35 - TURN 5 - Penultimate Turn: What's Coming Up
1:17:11 - 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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Some important editorial notes!
-the game walker mentioned is Völuspá, and no we don't know what work those accents are doing;
-SVWAG does not engage in the eating of seal meat (no one's thought to offer, really);
-we hope that Undaunted 2200: Callisto will follow in Battle of Britain's excellent example of having a badass Sikh pilot.
Games Played Last Week:
01:02 -Nocturne (David Iezzi, Flatout Games, 2024)
03:24 -Cosmic Encounter (Bill Eberle, Jack Kittredge, Bill Norton, Peter Olotka, and Kevin Wilson, Fantasy Flight, 2008)
12:20 -Spectral (Ryan Courtney, Bitewing Games, 2024)
15:13 -The Edge: Dawnfall (Michał Oracz, Krzysztof Piskorski, and Marcin Świerkot, Awaken Realms, 2018)
22:20 -Darwin’s Journey (Simone Luciani and Nestore Mangone, ThunderGryph Games, 2023)
24:50 -Life in Reterra (Ken Gruhl and Eric M. Lang, Hasbro, 2024)
28:06 -Undaunted: Battle of Britain (Trevor Benjamin and David Thompson, Osprey Games, 2023)
News (and why it doesn't matter):
34:55 English Sakura Arms now owned by Japanime Games; third time's the charm?
37:03 Res Arcana Duo expandalone
37:48 Natera: New Beginning: cute and only somewhat anthropomorphic
38:53 Lords of Heaven from PHALANX: Crusades revisionism or culturally sensitive?
40:55 Feature Game: Deep Rock Galactic (Ole Steiness, MOOD Publishing, 2022)
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00:00:00 Intro
00:00:30 Day One
00:02:56 Fast Food Ordering
00:04:56 You are hacked
00:08:28 Day in Court
00:10:07 Hacking Again
00:11:05 UniVersus: Attack on Titan
00:16:57 Favorites from 2000
00:20:00 Miniature Market
00:21:08 Stalk Exchange
00:27:30 Jekyll & Hyde vs Scotland Yard
00:32:30 Tower Up
00:38:05 Rebel Princess
00:42:40 Game Toppers LLC
00:44:18 Flash 10
00:48:02 Biomos
00:51:32 Lure
00:55:50 Magic Maze Tower
01:01:08 Gap
01:05:27 Portal Games
01:06:46 Star Wars Unlimited Report
01:10:25 To The Table
01:12:16 Guild Wars 2 Expansion
01:15:48 NCAA 2025
How do we share some of the games we got at Gen Con without making you listen to us for hour upon hour. We put the 5 Minute Initiative constraint on ourselves. So instead of me breaking down in writing all the games we covered and wasting your time this way, give a listen to those that interest you. The beauty of timestamps.
Thanks for taking the time and hope one of these games might be of interest to you.
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In this week's episode, Joe, Jules and Lauren share what has been hitting their tables. Jules is back after a break and is still riding the high from Gen Con (in more ways than one). Joe has been playing a game with a grandma featuring a bazooka from the one and only Dr. Lauren has been frantically drawing things terribly.
There's also the Question of the Pod and a brand new segment which includes exonerating hosts from some unfulfilled oaths, and instead pumping each other up with what has them fired up!
New Question of the Pod: What's got you fired up?
Timestamps:
Pictomania [29:05]
Escalation! [35:40]
Things in Rings [39:45]
Question of the Pod Recap: [0:52:45]
What has us fired up? [0:58:15]
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Has this episode left you with a thirst for more? Here are all of the games that we discussed:
Rock Hard: 1977 - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/402679/rock-hard-1977
Oceans - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/232414/oceans
Sherlock Holmes: The Baker Street Irregulars - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/296345/sherlock-holmes-consulting-detective-the-baker-str
Beyond the Sun - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/317985/beyond-the-sun
Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/390092/ticket-to-ride-legacy-legends-of-the-west
Things in Rings - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/408547/things-in-rings
Pictomania - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/98229/pictomania
Doodle Dash - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/334379/doodle-dash
Escalation! - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/26884/escalation
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On this episode of On Board Games, Erik and Don are joind by Marc Specter of the Grand Gamers Guild to talk about games (and other things) they've played including:
You can get a discount on Zencastr.com using this link.
Check out the Tir na nOg reprint on Kickstarter now!
(16:58) Next, they talk about Marc's experiences at this year's GenCon and what happens when your games keep selling out.
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Reviews of Gnome Hollow, Lure, Prehistories, and Agemonia. Featured review: Slay the Spire the Board Game by Contention Games. Board game discussion starts at {00:41:07}.
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This week Shelley and I enlist companions in the dicefest
Glow by Cedrick Chaboussit from Bombyx (a 2021 release)
and then check out one of the KedJ Recommended titles
Botanicus by Samuele Tabellini Ferrari and Vieri Masseini from Hans im Gluck
Thanks as always to our sponsor Bezier Games and their latest GenCon releases: Seers Catalog and Rebel Princess Deluxe Edition
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or check our our extensive list of games that no longer fit on OUR shelves, but belong on your table:
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On this solitary episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom ALONE is checking out a whole cluster of games he played in one big week of boards! Enter… if you dare…
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Timestamps:
02:28 - Life in Reterra
06:44 - Belratti
11:49 - 23 Knives
16:35 - Festival
20:56 - Joyride: Survival of the Fastest
30:16 - Arcs
33:52 - Pampero
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