In this decadently 140th episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Boardgame: The Podcast, we’re talking about a couple of hot-button-games that we’ve come over all tepid about. We’ll first guide you into the asymmetrical port of Merchants Cove, before serving up a delicious mug of mathematical coffee in… Coffee Traders!
Have a lovely weekend, everybody!
In this episode, Tom Vasel and Joe Steadman listen together to their very first episode, originally recorded in 2005. We talk about our favorite games and more in the episode - and we talk about where those games land now. Back to the very beginning!
We talk about so many good games on this podcast, that it might seem like there aren't enough bad games to balance it out. There's a good reason we don't often play or talk about them, but maybe every so often we ought to. Before we break bad, we talk about Scape Goat, Bunny Kingdom, Bullet♥, and Four Gardens.
02:12 - Scape Goat 08:29 - Bunny Kingdom 11:13 - Bullet♥ 13:53 - Four Gardens 20:49 - Bad games 22:01 - Trivial Pursuit 29:00 - Spicy 29:50 - Cards Against Humanity 30:55 - True Colors 32:37 - Betrayal at House on the Hill 35:11 - Money Bags 37:11 - Pucket 37:54 - Connect 4 Launchers 38:27 - Mord im Arosa 39:00 - Magical Athlete 40:34 - Panic Station 41:21 - Mascarade 41:41 - Bunker, Battlefield, or Blown Away! 42:36 - The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine 43:46 - Solo 44:06 - Renegade 44:42 - Horrified Check out our new wiki at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/wiki
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Episode 103 - Cubitos, Parks, Hanabi
Sizzling Games (02:02)
Topic of the Pod: Gateway Games (35:07)
The Roast (1:02:19)
Swear an Oath (1:20:20)
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Join us for the first Board game BBQ Day to be held in Melbourne! The event will be held on Saturday, June 19th from 10am-midnight
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**SPONSORS**
We have new sponsors! Game Toppers LLC Have joined the BBQ, and are providing us with one of their Game Toppers for our Game Days! Check out their Kickstarter now! These Game Toppers are amazing, and can transform any old table into an A1 quality Game Table!
Thanks to 2d6 Games for sponsoring the Sizzling Segment. This month, they are giving away a Marvel Champions Bundle, including the Base Game, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, and the Wrecking Crew Scenario Pack. Steve is also throwing in his extra copies of Hawkeye and Spiderwoman. To enter, head to our Facebook page and comment with what super hero names you would give Dave & Dan from 2d6. Check out their website to see their avatars - www.2d6games.com.au
Another big thanks to Advent Games, who this month are supporting the Board game BBQ Bracket. 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.
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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 over the next 12 months.
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. The Patreon is simply a way for you to continue to support the Board Game BBQ Podcast and help us cover the ongoing costs that come with producing two 90min episodes a week. 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.
We can't wait to show you what we have in store for 2021. Thanks again for all of your continued support. We are so lucky to have such a welcoming and inclusive community and you are all awesome. See you at the BBQ!!
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Joe Klipfel, designer of Griphold Tower, discusses what it’s like to take a large, published game and turn it into a microgame. Joe has done this with Set a Watch and Gloomhaven and offers lots of insight on how to break a game down to its essence.
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Marco Pecota, designer of Legions of Steel, discusses the ways he’s engaging with the fans of his game. We talk about building a community, releasing bonus content, reaching out to your fans for feedback, and more.
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In this week's episode, we discuss Biblios Parchment and Quill, Hippocrates, Hadrian's Wall, Hashi, Paris, and Summoner Wars 2nd Edition. And today's Game Pie is full of gam es for younger kids.
Support for The Dice Tower comes from The Op at TheOp.games, and from GameNerdz.com.
Episode 102 - Oath, MicroMacro Crime City, Clank! Legacy
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Join us for the first Board game BBQ Day to be held in SYDNEY! The event will be held on Saturday, May 15th from 11am-11pm.
Waitlist open now at https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/board-game-bbq-sydney-game-day-1-tickets-146343510379
Join us for the second Board game BBQ Day to be held in Brisbane! The event will be held on Saturday, May 29th from 10am-late
Tickets available now at https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/board-game-bbq-brisbane-game-day-2-tickets-148123781217
Join us for the first Board game BBQ Day to be held in Melbourne! The event will be held on Saturday, June 19th from 10am-midnight
Tickets available now at https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/board-game-bbq-melbourne-game-day-1-tickets-149101108429
**SPONSORS**
We have new sponsors! Game Toppers LLC Have joined the BBQ, and are providing us with one of their Game Toppers for our Game Days! Check out their Kickstarter now! These Game Toppers are amazing, and can transform any old table into an A1 quality Game Table!
Thanks to 2d6 Games for sponsoring the Sizzling Segment. This month, they are giving away a Marvel Champions Bundle, including the Base Game, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, and the Wrecking Crew Scenario Pack. Steve is also throwing in his extra copies of Hawkeye and Spiderwoman. To enter, head to our Facebook page and comment with what super hero names you would give Dave & Dan from 2d6. Check out their website to see their avatars - www.2d6games.com.au
Another big thanks to Advent Games, who this month are supporting the Board game BBQ Bracket. 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.
**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 over the next 12 months.
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. The Patreon is simply a way for you to continue to support the Board Game BBQ Podcast and help us cover the ongoing costs that come with producing two 90min episodes a week. 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.
We can't wait to show you what we have in store for 2021. Thanks again for all of your continued support. We are so lucky to have such a welcoming and inclusive community and you are all awesome. See you at the BBQ!!
Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/BoardGameBBQ
**BOARDGAMEBBQ.COM**
Head on over to the Board Game BBQ website for links to previous episodes, more information on all of the games mentioned, and upcoming events.
**JOIN OUR DISCORD!**
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Want to join the community and chat with the team and other listeners about your favourite hobby?
Like to get updates when our podcasts are released, and get exclusive content?
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Why not join The Board Game BBQ Community page on Facebook. It's a place where everyone can post about their games, write reviews, engage with the community, and support each other. Regardless of if you are a casual gamer, a designer, an artist, a content creator - everyone is welcome!
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Shelley and I search for clues into the existence of cryptozoological creatures in
Evidence by Orestis Liontaritis from Pegasus Spiele and Edition Spielwiese
then we head back in time to Emperor Hadrian's rule and work to build his famous wall in Britain to keep the Picts at bay in
Hadrian's Wall by Bobby Hill from Garphill Games and Renegade Game Design
About a month ago, I spent several hours doing a self-assessment of my life. I wasn’t sleeping well, which was a huge problem since I already wasn’t sleeping much. Usually, I can overcome a lack in quantity by an increase in quality, but when both of those things are bad, I find myself in a really tough spot.
It felt like I had thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis much to do and thiiiiiiiiis much time to do it. Something had to give. Experiencing that for a few days is one thing (the week leading up to a Kickstarter launch for example), but I had been in that situation for months. It wasn’t good for my family, my mind, or my health.
But as I assessed everything, what I realized is that it wasn’t actually a time problem. The time was there. It was an energy and attention problem.
My time wasn’t being well spent. It was like my watch had a hole in it.
The great algorithm gods in the sky must have known my struggle as YouTube started recommending lots of videos related to this issue. Writers, biologists, psychologists, professors, and former Facebook employees were all posting content with a central premise: The current state of social media is a problem.
Platforms that originally functioned to keep people connected have become much better at tearing us apart. Algorithms that used to show us what we cared about most were altered to show us what would keep our attention the longest.
Companies have spent billions of dollars figuring out how to get us to spend as much time scrolling through their news feeds as possible. The more time we spend scrolling, the more money they make, and the less time we spend on things of actual value.
As I took a good, hard look at my time, I realized I was spending a ridiculous amount of it scrolling. I’d sit down for a meal and scroll. I’d push my son on the swing-set and scroll. I’d wait on my wife to get ready for a date and scroll. I’d edit a podcast and scroll. I’d take a “two-minute” break from working on something worthwhile and thirty minutes later realize I had been scrolling the whole time. I’d sit on the toilet and scroll until my legs fell asleep.
This had to stop.
It’s not like scrolling was improving my life in any way, and a strong case could easily be made that it was making things worse.
And even though I wasn’t wasting my time getting caught up on useless political debates or hopping on board the latest outrage train, I was watching them unfold. And I think that’s a lot of us. Several studies have shown that the vast majority of posts on social media platforms come from a very small minority of users. It’s like a car crash on the side of the highway. Most of us have enough sense to drive around it, but we sure spend a lot of time staring at the carnage as we pass by.
And just like rubber-necking slows us down to a crawl on the highway, scrolling through a news feed slows down our productivity to a near standstill.
Upon realizing how much of my attention was being gobbled up in scrolling, I unlocked my phone and started to delete the social media apps from my phone. But as I started the process and watched as the app icons danced around the screen, I hesitated.
I wasn’t sure if I could do it. What were the consequences of deleting these things from my life? Did I actually want to? If I removed the scapegoat of what was wasting my time, was I prepared to place the blame on myself going forward?
I deleted the Twitter app first. It wasn’t a particularly hard decision because I hate Twitter, and I didn’t spend much time on it anyway. But as my finger hovered over Facebook, I paused for a while.
I thought about all the good things about Facebook and specifically about the BGDL Facebook community. It’s basically the only place I post and comment, and it’s full of nearly 9,000 people all trying to accomplish the same thing I am – to design great games people love.
I closed my phone. I needed a plan.
I didn’t need to delete Facebook from my life. I needed to control it and make it work for me.
I jotted down some notes:
-Delete the Facebook app from my phone.
-See what’s happening in the BGDL group 2-3 times a day, but only using my laptop.
-Avoid scrolling the news feed at all costs.
And about a month ago, that’s what I started doing, and life has definitely not gotten worse.
Instead of scrolling, I now spend more time talking to the people I care about most. My productivity has gone way up, and I’m getting more done in less time. My kids don’t have to pull on my shirt to get me to look up from my phone to pay attention to them. I’m more active in the BGDL group because my time is more focused and purposeful. I’m reading more. I’m writing more. I’m getting better sleep.
Will doing something similar work for you? Maybe. I’m not here proclaiming some “right” way to live, and your mileage may vary. But it’s definitely worked for me.
A little over a year ago, I started brainstorming and thinking through what it would look like to create a website where the BGDL community could live. The Facebook group was going strong, but even way back then I was very aware of the limitations and downsides of the platform.
I wanted a site with all the best parts of a Facebook community while getting rid of the worst.
I wanted a place for game designers to hang out that was made for us and by us.
I wanted a platform that was focused on helping designers create great games people love.
I wanted training courses to help people grow as designers.
I wanted forums to ask questions.
I wanted a calendar to organize Kickstarter launches, conventions, and playtest events.
I wanted a job board for freelancers to find opportunities and for publishers to find amazing people to work with.
I wanted a blog where people could post articles and design diaries.
I wanted a way for people to create groups and sub-groups around activities and their designs.
I wanted a way to track game design time.
I wanted a random game idea generator.
I wanted monthly design challenges.
I wanted an incredible mobile experience.
And I wanted a news feed that worked for us, not against us.
No algorithms. No data harvesting and selling it to the highest bidder. No drunk uncles.
And after a year of a tremendous amount of work, BGDL+ is almost here.
Is it the perfect solution? No. But I hope you’ll join me in the search for a platform that provides a better way.
Even with all those features, this is just the ground floor, and I’m super excited for what’s ahead.
Thanks for being an amazing community, and I can’t wait to share BGDL+ with you soon!
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In this butt-clenchingly 139th episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down podcast, we’re talking all about manuals! Do not try to escape, you have been warned! Thrills abound as Matt and Ava jungle-gym their way through a forest of Adobe products, kerning, and intriguing observations - all centered around RATS: High Tea at Sea - the roll and write that we think is quite good! No need to ask for any other opinions, we are the professionals, after all.
Have a lovely weekend, everybody!
Ambie and Crystal discuss Winning Streak (a book), The Meaples (a song album), and Musical Chairs (this one's a board game). We then talk about unique themes in board games.
Recent Games: 0:43
Unique Themes: 11:00
Outro: 26:50
Bloopers: 27:45
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After last week's love-fest made us all uncomfortable, we had to get back to what do best, spirited in-fighting. To that end, we've devised three debates around the same core: is that often criticized mechanic a design problem, or a player problem? Before we pit designers against players, we talk about Red Rising, Via Magica, and Alma Mater.
00:48 - Golden Geek Awards 04:36 - Red Rising 14:21 - Rise of Augustus 14:53 - Via Magica 20:17 - Alma Mater 29:36 - Board Game Barrage Wiki! 32:26 - Design problem or player problem? 33:11 - Player elimination 36:47 - Skull 37:55 - Secret Hitler 38:29 - Food Chain Magnate 40:33 - Diplomacy 43:40 - Alpha gamers 46:34 - Spirit Island 47:00 - Pandemic 51:31 - Kingmaking 55:50 - Rising Sun 57:04 - Cthulhu Wars 57:42 - Inis Check out our new wiki at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/wiki
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Episode 101 - Special Guests, Lincoln and Nikki from Gamenight!
Topic: Lincoln & Nikki - Right off the top!
Sizzling Games: 1:08:59 super Skill Pinball 4Cade, Sleeping Gods, Letters of Whitechapel, Marvel United, A Feast for Odin
Bracket: 1:47:57
Oath: 1:51:44
**BOARD GAME BBQ GAME DAY**
Join us for the first Board game BBQ Day to be held in SYDNEY! The event will be held on Saturday, May 15th from 11am-11pm.
Waitlist open now at https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/board-game-bbq-sydney-game-day-1-tickets-146343510379
Join us for the second Board game BBQ Day to be held in Brisbane! The event will be held on Saturday, May 29th from 10am-late
Tickets available now at https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/board-game-bbq-brisbane-game-day-2-tickets-148123781217
Join us for the first Board game BBQ Day to be held in Melbourne! The event will be held on Saturday, June 19th from 10am-midnight
Tickets available now at https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/board-game-bbq-melbourne-game-day-1-tickets-149101108429
**SPONSORS**
Thanks to 2d6 Games for sponsoring the Sizzling Segment. This month, they are giving away a Marvel Champions Bundle, including the Base Game, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, and the Wrecking Crew Scenario Pack. Steve is also throwing in his extra copies of Hawkeye and Spiderwoman. To enter, head to our Facebook page and comment with what super hero names you would give Dave & Dan from 2d6. Check out their website to see their avatars - www.2d6games.com.au
Another big thanks to Advent Games, who this month are supporting the Board game BBQ Bracket. 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.
**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 over the next 12 months.
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. The Patreon is simply a way for you to continue to support the Board Game BBQ Podcast and help us cover the ongoing costs that come with producing two 90min episodes a week. 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.
We can't wait to show you what we have in store for 2021. Thanks again for all of your continued support. We are so lucky to have such a welcoming and inclusive community and you are all awesome. See you at the BBQ!!
Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/BoardGameBBQ
**BOARDGAMEBBQ.COM**
Head on over to the Board Game BBQ website for links to previous episodes, more information on all of the games mentioned, and upcoming events.
**JOIN OUR DISCORD!**
The BGBBQ now has a Discord Channel.
Want to join the community and chat with the team and other listeners about your favourite hobby?
Like to get updates when our podcasts are released, and get exclusive content?
Need a place you can chat with other players while you're playing your own online games, overlooking for some like-minded gamers to play online with?
Well, here's your invite: https://discord.gg/wgswSutRAz
**FACEBOOK COMMUNITY**
https://www.facebook.com/groups/995437657579603/
Why not join The Board Game BBQ Community page on Facebook. It's a place where everyone can post about their games, write reviews, engage with the community, and support each other. Regardless of if you are a casual gamer, a designer, an artist, a content creator - everyone is welcome!
**INSTAGRAM**
https://www.instagram.com/boardgamebbq/
Follow us on Instagram to be notified when a new episode drops, or when our Discord events are happening. And don't forget to use #oathfulfilled when you finally get a game off your shelf of shame.
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