This week I speak to games teacher and designer of the upcoming Dirty Dragons from Kolossal Games, Kathleen Mercury. We talk about the challenges in teaching game design to gifted children and the rewards in organising a gaming con. But which games did she choose?
Bigger & better than a couple years ago, a bunch of my BGGcon buddies joined me around the microphone at an outdoor brewery table. We'd been to the Hard 8 bbq place frequented by gamers, then headed over to the Grapevine Craft Brewery. There we relaxed with a few beers and recorded some thoughts about games we'd been playing. (We even played a few games of Insider.) You'll hear Zak, Brian, Steve #1, Steve #2, Marcin, DaveO, Eryn, Travis, Greg, Rick, Ryan, and me talk about Magic Maze, Civilization: A New Dawn, Heaven & Ale, Majesty:For The Realm, TransAtlantic, Santa Maria, Calimala, Nusfjord, Merlin, Istanbul Dice Game, Mountains of Madness, and Azul. -Mark
Everybody, please remain in your seats with your seatbelts securely fastened. We're expecting some turbulence.
Some turbulent discussions of board games, that is!
In this one and only 74th episode of the SU&SD podcast, Matt and Quinns discuss their weird wooden mates in the Journeyman expansion for Isle of Skye. They chat about stabbing nightmares with pencils in Stuffed Fables, which might be best described as "Toy Story directed by Tim Burton". There's a discussion of the grand game of War of the Ring (second edition), and the real-life backache it gave Quinns. Finally, the two offer their smokin' hot first impressions of Rising Sun, a beautiful game about Japan (but not) where you fight wars (but you don't) and negotiate alliances (but not really).
How many board games do you need? If you're Mark, you need them all. Before we get there though, we also talk about what we've been playing, namely, John Company, Coffee Roaster, Adrenaline and Innovation.
Topics discussed:
01:03 - John Company 08:40 - Coffee Roaster 09:42 - Adrenaline 14:30 - Innovation 22:10 - Collection Size
Vincent Vergonjeanne, founder of Lucky Duck Games, discusses games that use digital components in their design.
Vincent runs his own video game company and has been quite successful in both the digital space and the board game industry, so he really knows a lot about this topic.
Alrighty Cabalists! In today's episode we announce a bunch of the Kickstarter rewards coming up in next month's campaign. Then we give a feature review of Empires of hte Void II and a look back of Colosseum. Then Tony T goes bananas giving us a rundown of all the awesome news from around the board gaming world plus some cool looking new things announced at the New York Toy Fair. Then finally we host another short topic extravaganzain in which we discuss thinking about games when you're not playing games and can a game be overproduced?
In episode fourteen of our comedy board gaming quiz show we play:
Our Expanding Universe
Letter Swop
Name that Barcode
TV Tie In
Heavier or Lighter
Pop Culture Ate my Dog
We are also running a mini contest - email us in your guess at Troy's riddle (thisgameisbroken@gmail.com) and be in with a chance of winning a Huddersfield Timeline promo!
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You can see more from Dave Luza on his board gaming YouTube channel - The Happy Luza. He also talks about tabletop games every week on the Dice Tower's Board Game Breakfast doing his Playing the News segment.
The Brother's Murph also have there own gaming Youtube channel The Brother's Murph. You can find them on the Dice Tower's board Game Breakfast show too talking about Thrift Store Throwbacks. Dan Hughes and Matthew Jude also have segments on Board Game Breakfast on the Dice Tower. Dan reviews children's Tabletop games alongside his daughter on "Dan and Cora". And Mathew talks about board and card games on "Dead Last". Despite the cast's close ties to the Dice Tower This Game is Broken is not affiliated to the Dice Tower Network. Or to the Shut Up Sit Down Network, the Rhado Runs Through it Network, or the Watch it Played Network. Mostly because those networks don't even exist.
In this show, we talk about London, Space Base, Dungeon Draft, Import/Export, Kepler 3042, Edge of Darkness, and Sakura. We also discuss lending our games to others, have a visit from Eric, and more!
Why can't we all just get along? This week Mark and Walker agree that anyone causing pain should be tortured to death. Wait, that doesn't work. Okay, can we agree that people who cause pain wrongly are wrong? Hm. That seems problematic. What about we should shun those that aren't friendly? Crap. Let's just say that everyone should be nice to me, how's that?
Games Played Last Week: -Clans of Caledonia 2m45s (Juma Al-Joujou, Karma Games, 2017) -Gaia Project 5m15s (Jens Drögemüller & Helge Ostertag, Feuerland Spiele, 2017) -Path of Light and Shadow 6m08s (Jonathan Gilmour, Travis Chance, & Nick Little, Indie Boards and Cards, 2017) -World of SMOG: Rise of Moloch 11m19s (Fel Barros, Christophe Madura, Alexandru Olteanu, David Rakoto & Michael Shinall, CMON, 2018) -Deception: Murder in Hong Kong 15m50s (Tobey Ho, Jolly Thinkers, 2014)
News (and why it doesn't matter) -Luma Games and historical linguistics 16m34s -Palladium finally puts Robotech backers out of their misery 17m24s -Terraforming Mars needs to be longer 20m53s -Fireball Island: this time with choices? 21m14s -Batman. Lots of Batman. 23m14s
We are actually doing something that was asked for by the listeners of RDTN, we are looking at some older games in our 5 Minute Initiative Segment. The first one […]
In today's Dungeon Master's Ludus Bender and Jamie talk about the Prime Directive of starting a new role playing game and now to make the first adventure of your new campaign amazing.
Ancestree is a tile drafting game where each player cultivates a family tree. You'll build dynasties, marriages, and wealth to score points. The game is wonderfully simple to learn but the scoring system makes each decision matter and each decision fun.
Rising Sun! Everyone's talking about it, and so must we. It's our feature topic this week, but first, a brief look at what else we've been playing: Spirit Island, Hardback and Decrypto. We close the show with a look ahead to what we're hoping to play.
Games discussed:
00:58 - Spirit Island 07:51 - Hardback 15:45 - Decrypto 20:20 - Rising Sun
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