For this episode, I’m doing basically a design diary for my latest game, Hunted. I talk about inspiration, playtesting, and development, and I interview the graphic designer and the artist to discuss their creative processes.
Hunted has been a blast to design, and in this episode, I go through all the ins and outs of how it came to be.
In episode 53 of the Secret Cabal Express, Steve, Jamie and Chris talk about H.P. Lovecraft and The Cthulhu Mythos! We discuss the hiustory of Lovecraft and the creation of the Mythos and then talk all about our favorite the stories, games, movies, TV shows and comics inspired by Lovecraft's work.
00:00 - Banter
05:48 - Richie's Recent Play – Tapestry & Kemet: Ta-Seti
15:58 – Chad’s Recent Play - Imperial Settlers: Empires of the North
20:39 - Clef’s Recent Play – Wildcatters
27:39 - Chad’s Recent Play – Teotihuacan: Late Preclassic Period
30:12 – Mailbag
40:29 – Kickstarter Corner
46:42 - Barrage Review
01:21:37 BGG 110-119
The Game Shoppe Bellevue and Omaha will be hosting events on November 2nd, the National Play day for Extra Life. Even if you can't come, consider donating to a great cause! https://www.extra-life.org/team/47348
Music by HookSounds
Time Segment00:41 Intro06:20 Dizzle09:57 Conspiracy – I tell you14:04 McRibs are back17:03 Run to the Border19:50 Gates of Delirium27:15 Last Bastion33:18 The Broken Token35:15 Bloom Town40:45 Clarification41:15 Tapestry1:14:56 […]
SHUX has passed, but the memories have not. Your hosts give a final rundown of some of the goings-on during the august October event. Mark asserts that no one is less competitive than he, no one by a long shot, he is much less competitive than you and if you disagree he will fight you. Unless you are a child or infirm, in which case he will still fight you out of a grudging sense of duty and respect, but he will pull his punches. Some of them. Editorial note: the hosts neglected to repeat that Air, Land & Sea was a review copy received from the author. They apologize for the oversight.
Added SHUX dig: The Quacks of Quedlinburg 2m18s (Wolfgang Warsch, Scmidt Spiele, 2018)
AYURIS: Yellow & Yangtze 5m38s (Reiner Knizia, Grail Games, 2018) and Tigris & Euphrates (Reiner Knizia, Hans im Gluck, 1997)
Games Played Last Week: -Durance 8m05s (Jason Morningstar, Bully Pulpit Games, 2012) -Aftermath 10m33s (Jerry Hawthorne, Plaid Hat Games, 2019) -Mysthea 13m09s (Martino Chiacchiera & Marta Ciaccasassi, Tabula Games, 2019) -Guards of Atlantis II: Tabletop MOBA 15m57s (Artyom Nichipurov, Wolff Designa, 2020?) -Blood on the Clocktower 19m19s (Steven Medway, The Pandemonium Institute, 2019) -Sine Tempore 27m43s (Luca Bernardini & Andrea Colletti, Ludus Magnus Studio, 2018) -Air, Land & Sea 33m27s (Jon Perry, Arcane Wonders, 2018) -Mr. Lister's Quiz Shootout 35m24s (Uncredited, Big Potato, 2015) -SiegeStorm: Siege Mode 38m34s (Kamil 'Sanex' Cieśla & Marcin Świerkot, Awaken Realms Lite, 2019)
News (and why it doesn't matter): -Barrage Expansion 40m50s -Erica Bouyouris' Scott Pilgrim and Steven Universe Offerings 42m16s -Calico Cuteness 44m13s -Arkhipov Day on October 27th 44m29s
Reviews of Hako Onna, Vast: The Mysterious Manor, Tiny Epic Zombies, the upcoming Gloomhaven expansion, and Terrors of London. Featured review: Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein by Plaid Hat Games. Board game discussion starts at 35:55. www.bluepegpinkpeg.com/ep157
All four hosts are in this show, as we take a look at the list of Essen games (by Eric Martin on www.boardgamegeek.com) and talk about our opinions and hopes for them. We also discuss our plans at the show this year.
Shelley and I spend a few minutes discussing and reviewing
Bloom Town by Asger Harding Granerud and Daniel Skjold Pedersen from Sidekick Games which is releasing at Essen and (I just found out) will be a WalMart exclusive title here in the US (here's the pre-order link if you're interested in getting it that way: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sidekick-Games-Bloomtown-Board-Game/929325378
Then we delve into the Essen Preview from L-Z (you'll find A-K in last week's episode). Here's a list of the games mentioned:
Category 1: Pre-Ordered
Post Scriptum:
Florenza The Dice Game
Ostia Spiele:
Vilnius
Te oder Cafe
Quined Games:
Terramara
Taiwan Board Games:
Electropolis
Formosa Tea
UBike Tours Taiwan
Category 2: Check out & Possibly Buy
Laurapelit.fl 3-J115
Amul: Another one by the Manitoba designer
Lookout Games 1-F135
Newdale: Pfister
Foothills: Boydell
Mandala: 2-player
Looping Games 5-J114
1942 USS Yorktown: 1-4 players
1987 Channel Tunnel: 2-player only
Ludonova 5-D112
Babylonia: Knizia
Yukon Airways: Interesting theme
Lumberjack's Studio 4-D119
-The Isle of Pan: Only available in English at Spiel/looks beautiful
Matagot 3-E102
Paris New Eden: Could be interesting/Dice Drafting/Beautiful
MEBO Games 5-E120
Carrossel: Cool mechanism that was used in a different way in Arraial
Porto: City center building and tile laying
Next Move Games
Azul Summer Pavilion
NSV
The Mind Extreme
Pandasaurus Games 4-J114
Wayfinders: Cool tile movement and planes
PD-Verlag 2-F110
Concordia Expansion (2 different versions)
Quined Games 3-M117
La Stanza: Paulo & Nuno (Kickstarted)
City of Big Shoulders: Kickstarted
Schmidt Spiele 3-H102
Die Inseln in Nebel: Islands, landscapes, and hot air balloons
Sidekick Games 5-F106
Bloom Town: Tile Laying and City Building
Spielefaible 1-B126
Vejen: Looks like a classic German game
Spielworxx 2-B112
Throne of Allegoria: Spielworxx's Essen releases tend to be exactly what we like.
Stronghold Games 3-O107
Aftershock San Francisco & Venice: Alan Moon & earthquakes
Fast Sloths: 2F
Terraforming Mars Turmoil Expansion
Sunrise Tornado Games Studio 5-C122C123
Promenade (suggestion to get)
Surprised Stare Games 4-F121
Alubari – Reworking & developing of many of the Snowdonia mechanisms
Lux Aeterna: 1-player game with amazing graphics
Tasty Minstrel Games 4-F106
Dawn of Mankind: Designer of Manitoba & Historia
Thunderworks Games 5-G108
Cartographers: A Role Player Game: Looks like another cool addition to the draw & write genre.
XVgames 5-F105
Chartae: Yet another Knizia game about cartographers
Zoch 3-J108
Menara expansion
Voll verasselt
Category 3: Curiosities to Peruse
La Boite de Jeu 3-O106
It's A Wonderful World (Could be a big game from Blackrock
Neta Tanka
Lost Games Entertainment 5-H116
Medieval Realms: Big & beautiful
LudiCreations 1-D129
On The Underground + Expansion
Massif Games 5-D130
Mountaineers: 3-D Mountain to climb in the game
Medieval Lords 5-L126
Volleyball High: Sports game of a different sort/players are a high school team
PYTHAGORAS 4-108
6 Castles: Tile-laying by Rola (Jose)
Garum: Players make fish sauce with spices!
Queen
Rune Stones: Rudiger Dorn
Ravensburger
Big Money: Quick Dice Game
Renegade Game Studios
First Light: Looks like a cool Sci-Fi game
Paladins of the West Kingdom: Follow up of Architects…
We're joined by the Blue Tank for a quick look back at SHUX, before we dive into a discussion on games that are better than their mechanics suggest. These are games that we might describe as not very good, but somehow still give us incredible experiences that we find distinct and unique. But that makes them good, right? Before we lose all credibility, we talk about Kingdomino Duel, Panic on Wall Street!, and Blood on the Clocktower. 02:22 - SHUX 06:27 - Kingdomino Duel 11:29 - Panic on Wall Street! 18:52 - Blood on the Clocktower 23:48 - The Resistance: Avalon 36:57 - Experiences that transcend mechanics 38:02 - Fuji Flush 38:58 - Happy Salmon 39:40 - True Colors 39:40 - A Question of Scruples 40:32 - Zombicide: Black Plague 41:26 - Hundreds of Horses 49:30 - Loopin' Louie
Congratulations all, you’ve made it! It’s the very 100th Shut Up and Sit Down podcast! Gosh, the podcast hill is so high up here that I’m pretty sure I can see episode 43, fumbling around in that bush with a sandwich.
Matt and Quinns are briefly joined by Pip for an sleep-deprived natter about some interesting games. Obscurio (16:14) sounds like Wizard-Dixit with traitors, and incredibly summoned a cheer from the crowd simply for use of the word “acetate”. Tumblin’ Dice (21:05) got a little love, but probably deserves more than anyone can give it, before Matt then went on to talk about playing the award-winning RPG Mothership (24:50) - a sci-fi horror system that conveys the relatable experience of waking up after a very long time and immediately being attacked by stress.
We were thrilled to find that many of those who’d managed to check it out at SHUX finally understood the hype from our review of Blood on the Clocktower (35:13) - a beautiful beast that is more than the sum of its frankly dastardly parts.
Delving into Vast: the Mysterious Manor (39:58) - an asymmetrical game in which you can literally play as the mysterious manor - left us with mixed feelings about pacing but strong feelings towards skeletons, before we finally talked about food and/or animals with Yum Yum Island (45:36) and Nickelodeon Splat Attack! (50:06).
Apologies for the quality of the audio in this episode - we had some issues with the room that we weren’t able to resolve. If you’d like to listen to this episode with “moving pictures”, you can also watch it here, on Youtube!
100 episodes is truly "big potatoes" - thank you so much for listening!
It's Halloween and Kiki is trying here best not to be sparkly at all!
Nicks Pumpkin Spice Name Generator
Deadly Stronghold
Theme Chase
Higher or Lower Halloween
This game is broken is a comedy hobby board game panel show and we play a lot of nonsense games, with role playing and trivia and other fun stuff which can be found at the links below.
In episode 193, The Founders celebrate Halloween talking about Halloween Games and more! Today we jump into a deep dive review of Abomination The Heir of Frankenstein from Plaid Hat Games and look back at Eschaton from Archon Games one year later. Tony T wakes up to host another amazing tabletop gaming news segment. And then the gang ends with a spine chilling Halloween themed Short Topic Extravaganza! Abomination Overview 01:10:55, Abomination Review 01:15:38, Eschaton Look Back 01:44:17, News with Tony T 01:54:43, Spooky Short Topic Extravaganza 02:29:47
In this show, we are joined by Becca Scott from Geek & Sundry as we delve into a pile of questions and talk about recording game plays on video! We also review the new Choose Your Own Adventure: War with the Evil Power Master, Awkward Guests, and Ecos First Continent. Finally, we end the show with our top ten games that start with the letter "I". Huzzah!
We are live (on tape)! With special guest Quintin Smith aka Quinns from Shut Up & Sit Down. Also featuring guest appearances from French Canadian snack cakes, passive aggression, wonderful prizes (none for you, sorry, all gone), and the man who saved your life, Vasili Arkhipov! Also some feedback and noise from the megagame next door. Oh, well.
Games Played Last Week: -Irish Gauge 8m34s (Tom Russell, Capstone Games, 2014) -Mandala 10m39s (Trevor Benjamin & Brett J. Gilbert, Lookout Games, 2019) -Warband: Against the Darkness 15m20s (Micah Fuller, Dyskami Publishing Company, 2015) -Ragusa 18m29s (Fabio Lopiano, Capstone Games, 2019) -Flash Duel 22m43s (David Sirlin, Sirlin Games, 2010) -Cowboy Bebop: Boardgame Boogie 27m17s (Josh Derksen, Thomas M. Gofton, & Aron Murch, Jasco Games, 2019) -Glory to Rome 29m37s (Carl Chudyk, Cambridge Games Factory, 2005) -Labyrinthos 31m07s (Lindsey Rose, Dog Might Games, 2020) -Quacks of Quedlinburg 36m03s (Wolfgang Warsch, Schmidt Spiele, 2018) -Ancient Civilizations of the Inner Sea 42m22s (Mark McLaughlin & Chris Vorder Bruegge, GMT Games, 2019)
News (and why it doesn't matter): -Boardgame anime! 48m24s -Kemet 1.5 in English 50m38s -Cooper Island 51m17s -Arkhipov Day on October 27th 51m36s
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