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Episode 6: GAMA Expo, TokenCon, CCGs and Silliness
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It has been a minute! The Board Members catch up on recent Conventions, fantastic new game finds, and Drew's descent into CCG madness.
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Introduction and Setup
00:00:19
Speaker
Welcome back to the Corner Game Table, a podcast about board games and the amazing experiences you can have with other people around the game table. This show is being broadcast tonight from Hook and Ladder Number 8 in New York City, home of the Ghostbusters. I am one of your co-hosts, Josh, and I am joined around this hard aluminum table covered in spectrometer parts, books about spirits, and old takeout by the other members of the board, Andrew, Heather, and Drew.
00:00:43
Speaker
How are you all tonight? Holy crap. Hello. I had no idea I was here. I will say that when you said hook and ladder, I mean, like that firehouse, but then it was followed by goes, but I was like, oh, never mind. Well, I mean, it is a firehouse. Well, yeah. I was thinking food. Oh, food. It's the firehouse, technically. Yeah. Well, that's all good. That's all good. Is this in in in relation to the new movie or?
00:01:09
Speaker
Well, of course it is. The new movie hit March 22nd. I haven't got to see it yet because wife's been too busy. Is this a permanent place or are we just renting it for this episode?
Recording Location: Temporary or Permanent?
00:01:21
Speaker
I'm really confused right now about this. It's like an Airbnb situation.
00:01:24
Speaker
Exactly. So prior to our recording, I go in Airbnb, a location for this this corner game table episode. And you guys don't realize it, but you just get whisked away from your respective locations. Oh, when the white van pulls up and puts the hood over my head, I do realize it. Right. Well.
00:01:43
Speaker
We can't afford the we can't afford the beaming just yet. So right now we just have somebody clunky over the head and drive you there. We just don't ask questions. As long as they yell corner game table when they're, you know, getting me right. Right. That's all that matters.
Gaming Events and Retreats
00:01:57
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Well, Josh, after the show, you need to talk to me and we will definitely talk about my ranch that I'm using for my cult. I mean, oh, OK. We can we can talk about that. Well, I did. I imagine there are a lot of there are a lot of board game tables in your cult ranch.
00:02:12
Speaker
Yeah. Group ranch. Let's come on now. I think this weekend there is a gamer ranch get together thing. I saw a couple of content creators posting about that. And I was jealous again.
00:02:25
Speaker
What are you gonna do? That place in Missouri, is that what you're talking about? Whatever it is, yeah. I don't know. Yeah, that looks pretty cool. I would like to do that one of these days. It's hosted by what, Inside Up, Eagle Griffin, right? I think there's a couple different groups that do it. Queen is the one that I know about, but is it all of them at the same time? Yeah, it's all of them at the same time. Yeah, Inside Up Games. And I think Eagle Griffin is, I think, the company. Yeah, and then Queen. It does look so fun.
00:02:55
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And I had seen not that long ago, I don't know if it's already happened or if maybe it's in the future, but there was like a women in gaming that was being that one is actually in the future. So I did learn about that at Gamma Expo from Travis, who is with Queen Games. Yeah, he's they're they're heading up one that is especially for women designers to bring women designers together. So similar retreat, but for women designers. So I think that's a really great idea. So we were definitely spreading the word about it to anybody we knew.
00:03:26
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Just not the three of us, apparently. We're guys. Sorry. We're not invited. We're not invited. But it is specifically only women designers. So I couldn't go. I don't design games yet. But maybe one day. Maybe one day.
00:03:41
Speaker
For the longest, uh, little bit, I thought y'all were talking about the actual like secret, like get together that happens for like nine days. I've heard about this and I don't know. Are you talking about the gathering? Yeah. Oh, the gathering of friends. I, I was, uh, I might be getting invited to the gathering. Yeah. And you have to be what, like invited by somebody who's gone.
00:04:07
Speaker
But I think they've been invited and they have to have been going for like three years or something like that before they can invite someone. Like it's a whole thing. So I don't know. That'd be a pretty sweet invite. Well, you see, I had never heard about it until somebody told me like,
00:04:25
Speaker
Like it was like three people in a row had mentioned it. And I was like, what is this? Is this like a convention or something nine day long convention? And they're like, no, no, no, no. It's, it's just a bunch of friends getting together, play board games. They're like, that sounds cool. What did it, what? Sounds fun. We need to do our own.
00:04:44
Speaker
Yeah, so it's Western New York. It was actually started by Alan R. Moon of Ticket to Ride fame back when he was hosting board game conventions. And it started really small, and it just grew and grew and grew and grew. Now it's kind of become this. It's still very much like an insider board game industry kind of an event thing. But yeah, it's definitely become something really cool. I think it's in or around Rochester, because I think last year they went to the Strong.
00:05:14
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Um,
Museum and Convention Highlights
00:05:15
Speaker
which is, uh, it used to be called the strong museum of play, which is in Rochester, New York, which anybody should go to. Like it's just an incredible museum in general. I highly, if you're ever in Western New York, you should look up the strong. Um, but I guess they got like back room access and they got to see like some of Sid Saxon's original notes and stuff that they have like in their archives and all sorts of crazy stuff. Like really, really cool stuff. Yeah.
00:05:39
Speaker
I was just going to say it was super cool to like hear about that and know about that, because the way that the last person described it to me was they said, yeah, the way that you know that you made it in the industry is by getting invited to the gathering of friends or getting a booth at Gen Con. And I was like, OK, what two opposite ends of the spectrum? But cool. Yeah. Well, because it's like one of them is about spending money and being on the Gen Con wait list. And the other one, it's like just purely about person to person relationships.
00:06:09
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Yeah, which speaking of Matt Ryan in V-Born Games just got his booth at Gen Con. Did you see that? I did. I just saw that post. I texted him while I was eating dinner. I was like, I was like, hey, congrats, brother, man, that's awesome, because he's like winning the lottery. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was he was sending a big long message of man, it makes me feel like that this publishing thing is going well. And I go, well, I guess so. Yeah, you pay like
00:06:38
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Like he went to so many conventions last year. Like I couldn't go to a single convention last year in the US without seeing him there. So I'm like, I'm hoping it pays off if you're going to put in that many miles on your truck and that many like, man, I just, I thought that was.
00:06:55
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thought that was really cool to know. And there's a lot of other people that I know that got a booth for the very first time at
Board Game Spotlights: Fire Tower and Dice Throne
00:07:00
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Gen Con. So very excited for everybody. We're not calling out just one individual. We're just close friends with Matt. No, that was just the one I saw today that I was like, Oh, that's cool. Oh yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. I, uh, I saw today, um, not to get ahead of ourselves on the show, we're going to be talking about some conventions a little bit later, but, um, I was at PAX East over the weekend and for like the fourth or fifth consecutive, uh, PAX,
00:07:25
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Fire Tower from Runaway Parade was in like the top five games checked out. You want to talk about some people that I see at every ever loving convention, Gwen and Sam, and now Mike and Grace.
00:07:40
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are at every convention I see them at. And Sam and my 13-year-old son, Asher, have a special friendship, which is a whole other thing that I can tell you about some other time. But Runaway Parade is a special place in my heart, so congrats to them for
00:07:58
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Again, because all the PAXes have this tabletop library, and you can check out games. But they keep metrics on what games get checked out and what gets checked out the most, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And Fire Tower from Runaway Parade has been in the top five games checked out, or top three or something like that, five PAXes in a row. And that's a ridiculous stat. That's really amazing.
00:08:20
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That is the game with the beautiful gems, right? Yeah. Everybody owns a fire tower in the corner of the board. And there's the eternal flame in the middle. And so you're trying to like, you have to change the wind, and then you can blow flames towards the other towers and stuff like that. Yeah. It's super fun. Yeah, it's very beautiful looking. And you're right, I do see them at every convention. Every convention. And seriously, just walk up and be like, who are Gwen and Sam? I heard you guys are awesome.
00:08:50
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And they are they're incredible like they're so they're just wonderful people
00:09:06
Speaker
So the last several months, several of us have been traveling all over doing some different things. So why don't we kind of catch up on where everybody's been and what we've seen? Well, only one of us has actually moved. Oh, that's true.
00:09:21
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Yes, I have moved states. I used to be in Florida, but now we have moved to Wisconsin. Wisconsin. Wisconsin. And we have enjoyed all the cheese curds we can fill our bellies with. I'm so jealous that you're in the home of the cheese curds. Cheese curds are so good.
00:09:38
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They're so good. Every restaurant here has cheese curds and pretzels as appetizers, and it's amazing. Now, while that sounds delicious, Heather, I also see you wearing a cardigan type of thing as we're recording. That's true. I would rather stay down here where it's warm. I'm sorry.
00:09:58
Speaker
Well, the other thing too is that I am in the basement of our new home. Every home here has a basement. I love basements. I am learning the basements are cold all the time. Yes, that is true. I'm living that basement life right now. I also am in a basement also wearing a sweatshirt.
00:10:15
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Yeah. Yeah. But we have moved. We moved because of my husband's job. He got a new job at ETC, which is very exciting. Electronic theater controls. They are the ones that make the lighting instruments that theaters and concert venues and stadiums and any kind of place that needs a lighting instrument. They are the people that make those instruments. And both of us coming from a theater background, it was very exciting that he got hired there. And so it's worked out really well. We
00:10:45
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I love the area that we're living in. I have three game stores around me, which is a huge upgrade from Books a Million in the Florida area I was.
00:11:00
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And then we also have a board game cafe, which is also nice, completely different and exciting. So lots of board game opportunities. Also Thunderworks games is literally like my neighbor. Oh, stop it. And I got to go over there last week and meet I got to meet Keith and Jess and they showed me the warehouse and I got to learn stone spire architects. That game is so good.
00:11:24
Speaker
It's really good. Yeah, I really, really enjoy it. And so it was it was nice to make that connection. And they have game gaming every Tuesday. So at their warehouse, I'm going to start trying to go to that as often as I can. That's incredible. So, yeah, there's tons of gaming around here. And plus, I'm more local now to a lot of conventions, which is also exciting. So I don't have to fly everywhere. Like I can do some driving as well. That rules.
00:11:49
Speaker
I'm now jealous of you. Awesome. We do have a guest room. So anyone is welcome to come visit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No lie. Yeah. So the only convention that I've been to so far this year has been gamma. I drove up to Louisville. We at what's games had our very first booth at gamma and I got to set all of that up and do the preparations. And it was, it was very nice. There were some things I took note of because
00:12:17
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I've never put together a booth. So that was an experience. And well, let me, let me take that back. I have put together a booth, but it wasn't to the extent of what was expected. I guess, uh, the table was longer than BGG con at BGG con. It was just like, you know, Hey, we're going to lay everything out here on the table. We're at, uh, gamma. I felt like we needed a calyx to kind of show off the games and everything that we had made and all the,
00:12:47
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Components and everything like that. So I thought it was a super cool Experience to be at gamma and experience in that got to meet a lot of cool people got to hang out got to see Andrew got to see Heather I got to see so many so many friends and ketchup since packs unplugged and so as Con season gets underway. I thought it was I thought it was a great experience the only other place that I got to travel was I got to go tour the wets games factory and
00:13:16
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in China back in January. I mean, that's a lot of miles. So by miles, you might win. Just just maybe the the flight, the flight itself was was like the travel there was horrendous on the way back was not that bad. I had a 24 hour layover in in Japan. So I was like, yeah, we're going to take my time in Japan. I'm going to walk around, have a good time and everything. But
00:13:44
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But the traveling there, it was like from Jacksonville to New York, to London, to Berlin, and then to Shanghai. So that was 20, it was 28 hours of flying, or 28 hours, yeah, and flying, and then that didn't even, like,
00:14:10
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Put into play the the. The layover time. Yeah, yeah, that didn't even that didn't even include the layover time. So because I left on Sunday morning and I technically didn't get there here in the US, it would have been Monday night.
00:14:27
Speaker
So yeah, so it was a lot. It was a lot. It was a lot. But it said that it would get me there the quickest and I was like, OK, sure. I was like, no, that was not quick. They lied. Whoever told me that. But no, it was a really cool experience. I won't talk too long on it. But there was I got to I got to tour the factory and I got to watch a game be made from the beginning to the end. We watched one particular game and I legally cannot say
00:14:57
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what it was, but it was a pretty big game, a pretty big game. And I got to watch, I got to watch it be made all the way to the, where it is, it is the lids put on and it's Saran wrapped. So that was a very cool experience to get to see, you know, how the sausage gets made basically.
00:15:16
Speaker
That was that was it. I had a great time, great experience with that. And so that was that was my experience. Yeah, it must have been really cool to meet the bosses and get to your coat. You got to meet other coworkers, too. Yeah, yeah, together. Yeah, I got to meet the the coworkers, the bosses, because everybody was there. And it was at the time where they were doing the they were doing their Chinese New Year celebration or Lunar New Year, whichever.
00:15:45
Speaker
part of the world you were in, but that's what they were celebrating at that time. So it was kind of an end of the year celebration in the middle of January. So I was like, this is still, this is super cool. This is super cool. They had a massive celebration after us touring the factory for a few days. And yeah, it was, it was just a really good experience. So I had a really good time and
00:16:13
Speaker
Uh, they said they want to make it a yearly thing. So I'll be going back next year. All right. Well, good to know now. I know. That's what I said. Oh man. That visa process was something, but that, that's another story for another day, but I've talked too long. So yeah. Y'all go ahead, please. Just tell them they better have noodles ready for you next time. That's funny. Um, yeah. I mean, for me, you know, also gamma expo.
00:16:40
Speaker
Expo Expo. Got to remember to call it Gamma Expo. Yeah, Gamma Expo. No, I will say. So have any of you ever been to a previous expo? Yes. OK, so you've been to you've done an expo at Reno. Yeah, I did the Reno one. Yeah, Louisville is so much better in my at least for from my perspective. I I felt like yes and no. Oh, yeah. So it was it was definitely bigger. It was definitely a lot. Oh, it was way bigger. Did you stay at the Galt?
00:17:10
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I didn't because that's not where they put the hosted media people. OK, yes. So were you in Hampton Inn? Yes. Yeah, so was I. So the Hampton was perfect. It was great. Free breakfast. Oh, yeah. I wish I knew you were there. We would have played games in the lobby or something. But I thought it was way more like, I don't know, man, I didn't like the pepper mill. It was OK, I guess. But walking through a smoke field casino was not really my jam.
00:17:38
Speaker
that's the one thing i think about the pepper mill that was like the downside especially the game nights uh just because they were right directly above the casino area that yeah it was like smoke in the air and it was awful so i do feel like the game nights especially this one were much easier and better to do to handle because yeah you didn't have to worry about that
00:17:57
Speaker
I also liked that walkway between yeah, I forget what I like the Not the conservatory. It was something like that. I don't remember the name of it was but yeah Talk about like the bar that was like yeah, it was like a walkway between the two buildings of the Galt Yeah, it was great. It was a really really good good show
00:18:18
Speaker
Is this where I talk about compile? Can I talk about compile now? Yeah, talk about compile. Rub it in. Rub it in. No, dude, you should just buy the game. It won't be that expensive. It's just a deck of cards. So this is a game from Flat River. It was not announced on their last kind of press announcement list that this game was coming out.
00:18:43
Speaker
Danny Lowe, who is the marketing manager over at Flat River, said, hey, come see me at Gamma Expo, and I've got this new game to show you. And it was this game called Compile. This game has serious voltage slash Hanamakoji vibes for me. I don't know if you've played either one of those games. Hanamakoji is this game where you're basically competing to, there's a bunch of geishas, and you're trying to earn their favor.
00:19:09
Speaker
And whichever geisha's favor you earn, you get them as points. And that's kind of like the back and forth duel of Hanamakoji. Voltage is similar in the way that it works with this kind of like lane kind of dueling thing. And compile is, again, similar to that. So it also had some very vague like smash up vibes to me.
00:19:32
Speaker
Um, so in in compile there's I don't know six different decks. Um, there are things like life and death and light and dark And decay It feels like decay would be one of them and you know life or something like that like it's stuff like that um, and so you draft some of these decks and then you shuffle them all together and then
00:19:55
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You have kind of a representative card for each one of the types of decks that that you've drafted and you put them out and you're playing your cards into the lanes for whatever these decks are and you're trying to get to I think the scoring threshold is like 10 or 13 or something like that.
00:20:11
Speaker
You're trying to get to a level where you can, air quote, compile that deck. And it's this really tactical back and forth two-player game that's super fast to play. Again, it's just a deck of cards. It comes in literally a deck box, right? And all the cards we played with were sleeved, so the deck box is going to be big enough to hold sleeved cards. This is the kind of game that I could see playing enough that it's worth it for me to actually sleeve it. I'm not one of these like super-sleever people.
00:20:40
Speaker
Um, but it's really fun. It's really fun. It's coming from flat river. It's actually coming from greater than games is the actual, okay. That's publishing it. Uh, I think it is their gen con release. I think that's the official, um, you know, street date bad boy.
00:20:56
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, it is. It's really cool. It's a very, very interesting game. It's not something it also gave me kind of the same vibes as Airland and Sea. Yeah, you have your your your areas that it's like area or majority, you know, kind of in that way. And there's I mean, there's so much replayability because you have you're choosing three different decks, you know, yeah, of the like eight or nine that there are to choose from.
00:21:23
Speaker
Right. And one of the things I really liked about it was that because the the different I mean, you could call them suits, you could call them really whatever, like they're they're kind of abstract concepts. So it's not like like in a game of Smash Up, for example, like you would draft the robots. Right. And you're like, we are robots and we are trying to do robot things to kill you. Right. You're drafting these like abstract concepts like like life or growth or decay or things like that. And it's just like it kind of changes the vibe of the game because it's
00:21:53
Speaker
You're kind of, it feels, how do I say this? It feels like the game is taking place over a longer period of time because like the things that are happening are not like, it's not a battle between two things. You know what I mean? It's like, like the overgrowth of the forest kind of thing or whatever. Like it just, I don't know. It just, I really liked the vibe that the game was giving off. And of course it's complimented by the art and some of the flavor text on the cards and stuff like that.
00:22:19
Speaker
And they even have like the decks that you choose from, like when you initially choose which ones you're going to play with, which three you're going to play with. They have little text on the bottom that tells you like what that deck specifically does more of like card manipulation or or drawing or discarding or, you know, so you kind of get an idea like, OK, well, maybe I want to do more of this, like how you want to play your game determines how you would build your deck up, which ones you would choose.
00:22:43
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Yeah, so let's compile greater than games keep an eye out for that It's I don't think it's it's gonna be like $15 maybe 20 bucks tops, right? It's gonna be inexpensive. I definitely think it's one that's worth talking into the collection And it'll be one that I'm sure they're gonna bring out even more for Oh Danny even said that there's many different happen. Yeah for sure. Yeah. Yeah, so that's that's compile. That's a good one Right you drew. Did you see any fun games at gamma Expo Expo Expo?
00:23:14
Speaker
I saw I saw some very interesting ones combined with the meetings that I had to. There were there were a few of them. The name of the game slips my mind. But like they had the they had the art and kind of the idea of what they wanted. It was I do believe the publisher was B filled games. I thought that was kind of a cool concept where all it's it's like this battle area strategy type of game where
00:23:44
Speaker
Uh, it comes with miniatures and you're doing what you can to battle up against your opponent as you move them spot to spot or things of that sort. I thought it was just a super cool looking little game to have. Well, it wasn't little, let me just put it like that. It was huge. It was pretty massive. But I thought that was one, that was one that really stuck out to me. Cause I was like that, that would be something definitely that I would be very, uh,
00:24:08
Speaker
interested with, let's see, just a few others, uh, was lamp games with fluffy dragons. That was another one that I got to see. And I think that would have been awesome to, uh, awesome to get to play, which I've played it a few times as I've helped, uh, Alejandro really help, uh, help him with feedback on, on his game and everything of that sort. Fambam came out with a recently new game.
00:24:36
Speaker
called, is it spy out? Is that the name? I think that's spy, spy outs, spy outs. Yeah. Yeah. But I thought that was, I thought that was a really good game. There was a lot of, um, there were a lot of good games. I wish I could have hadn't made time to see more of it, but there, there's a lot of them that I did enjoy a barrel age games. They're coming out with a plant topia. It's very soon. And that's a very cute card game.
00:25:04
Speaker
Very cute. If I understand it correctly, it is a game that's, that was published in, um, uh, it was, it was an Asian country. I think that's what it was. I think it was Taiwan. I think that's what he said. And, uh, they're bringing it over to publish Heather. That was actually the first night I was there. Heather and I got to play as.
00:25:28
Speaker
as I was nibbling on some Jimmy John's. I remember that. There's a handful of games. Nothing truly stuck out. I wish I could have got to have seen more games.
00:25:45
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A lot of people, a lot of meetings had to meet. And so and again, also at the time of this recording, it's been four weeks, so I haven't slept much since then, so. Did you see the Halo game? Halo games. Mm hmm. Yeah. Based on the video game. Yep. Oh, I did see Mantic games.
00:26:11
Speaker
I did see the heroes of my magic three game. Oh, I wish I saw that, which looks awesome. That video game is like I love that legendary game. It's so like it's I was like, I was just walking down trying to like go do something else. And then I saw that and I was like, well, now my plans have been diverse. Yeah. Look at this game. I'm so sad I missed that. Bummer.
00:26:37
Speaker
Yeah, no, that one surprised me. I don't think I must have missed that because I think it went to Kickstarter or something. I must have completely. It did. Yeah. I mean, I knew it was I knew it was coming out. I just I didn't realize it was at the show. I would have loved it because I'm currently playing like I'm playing Heroes of Might Magic 6 right now on my Twitch stream because that's one of my go tos. And then my heroes are playing my magic six Mandate of Heaven.
00:27:01
Speaker
But then I also like to play Heroes of My Magic 3. And it just it looks like it's basically the feel of the video game, but the tabletop form. I mean, you're building your like little you're like a little area with your gut, you're building the buildings, you're creating and upgrading them and upgrading your people and everything. It looks really cool.
00:27:19
Speaker
Mm hmm. That was one of those when I saw it on Kickstarter, I had to ask the question like, I really like that video game, but is that something I want to play as a board game or do I just like it because it's the video game that I like, you know? Yeah, I mean, it looks meaty to me like it looks like a game that would be kind of heavy, but I'm like, that's that is the game that might get me into that kind of a thing like that theme right there.
00:27:43
Speaker
Heather, don't you mean crunchy? Yeah, crunchy. Oh yeah, that's true. It looks like a crunchy game. Heather and I have this inside joke for everyone listening as well, Andrew and Josh. We hate the term crunchy in the board gaming sphere. It is such a weird word to describe. Dumb word. It just, gah.
00:28:05
Speaker
Just say it has a lot of math, that's it, that's all you gotta say. It's a heavy game. It's heavy. We interviewed someone on our show that described a lot of games as tasty. I thought that was interesting. Tasty. Honestly, I would rather have that than crunchy. Okay, where does moist fall on your spectrum? Absolutely not.
00:28:29
Speaker
So I think, so I did go to Game Expo, Expo Expo as well. I went to Tantrum Con before that, and that was my first time at Tantrum Con, which was very cool. I actually helped all play. I worked their booth part time to teach games, and that's a much smaller con, but it was really fun. I got to play lots of different games, especially like the River Valley Glassworks that's coming out.
00:28:57
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by All Play right now, Rings and Things, which is one of their new games. So got to try lots of fun prototypes. But at Gamma Expo, the game nights were really where I got to try out some of the games that I'd been wanting to play. Like, for instance, Grandpa Beck came out with Another Man's Treasure.
00:29:20
Speaker
And I am a huge Phase 10 fan, like huge Phase 10 fan. Like we always bring Phase 10 whenever we go to family functions. If I forget it, I buy a new one. I probably got like seven copies at this point. And so like my sister and I like we always that's our go to game. You know, we'll we'll grab our Phase 10. We'll get snacks and drinks and we'll just sit and play Phase 10 forever.
00:29:42
Speaker
And that is grand pub X. Another man's treasure is grand pub X like answer to that like Rummy style phase 10 vibe, but they basically make it a shorter game, and then give you a more rewarding outcome if you don't make your phase.
00:29:59
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but they call it like patterns in the game. So essentially you're trying to make sets or runs of certain numbers and they call them suited runs or the cards being a certain color. And then you have five rounds. So it's only played over five rounds. And essentially you get your cards and then you look at your cards and then you decide based on your cards, which of the five different things like you could go for two sets of four, you could go for a suited run of eight.
00:30:29
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So there's like five different things you could go for and you decide which one you're gonna go for. So like it doesn't dictate which one you have to do by phases and the way that phase 10 does. So I do like that. Like you're able to kind of like work at the cards the way you want them. And then also when someone does make their phase, I keep wanting a phase because I'm used to it. When someone does make their pattern basically and they lay it on the table, if they go out, because it is essentially a card shedding game at that point,
00:30:58
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If they go out of cards, and then you're left with these cards in your hand, you still have the opportunity to see what you can make with the cards in your hand. So they have alternative phases that you can make or patterns. So if you don't have your complete two sets of four, but you got one set of four, you can lay down your one set of four, and then you can still play on other people's patterns to get rid of your cards. And then you're left over with whatever's in your hand.
00:31:24
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You know, whereas I can face 10, you'd be left with like 10 cards in your hand. You know, they all score points against you. Right. And this one, it gives you kind of a chance to, you know, be able to get less points. So that one was really fun. I was honestly really looking forward to playing that one. And I got to play with grandpa back and he's like a super nice dude. So it was really, really cool. Super. That was probably one of my highlights. I got that one in the mail the other day, so I'm excited to do content for that one.
00:31:54
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And then have y'all played Panda Royale? Did y'all get to play that by last night games? I have not. I so I really enjoy the look of a lot of last night games like that company, a lot of their games, they have the one with the fish where you're doing like the scales on the fish or the alien one. But Panda Royale just got
00:32:18
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I think it just got released to their Kickstarter backers. And so it's gonna be available soon, but it's a dice rolling game, like a dice checking game, which with all these different colored die, and you start out with just one die, which is a yellow die, and that determines, so it's played over, I think like 10 rounds, and you just roll your yellow die, and whoever has the higher number is the first player. Like the yellow die always determines the first player.
00:32:46
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And then you add more dye each round. So you're like constantly, like once you write down your score for your first round, like if I got a five and someone got a three, I'd be the first player. So then we would draw out, I want to say it's like one dye per player plus like one or two extra from the dye bag. And there's all kinds of different colors. And then because I'm first player, I would get to draft a dye from that pool first and then someone else would go and then there'd be leftover that you would just throw back in the bag.
00:33:17
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And then you add that to your pool, and then you roll again, and then you just start totally out numbers. So each round, you're like totally die number and results. And I think it's really, really cool and interesting. And it kind of changes. There's abilities that let you steal die. And it kind of reminds me of the same vibe as like Black Hole Rainbows. You know, like when we played Black Hole Rainbows and Origins drew, like how fun that was.
00:33:42
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Yeah, it's going to get the same like it got me excited the same way. I was like, I really, really like this game. I like how it plays. I think it's like just a fun, good gateway game to for anybody who's just looking for something to bring to the table that's not hard to learn. It's easy to teach plays pretty quickly. So I'm really excited for that one. And it's called Panda Royale. So those are the kind of the two of the highlights that I got to play game night that I thought were really fun.
00:34:10
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I think game night wise, the one game that, I played a bunch of stuff that was really cool and fun and whatever. I got to watch a bunch of Gnome Hollow from Ammon. So good. Which was pretty cool. I know, it is really good. But the game that I played that I was not on my radar at all was Kirii the Duel from Lucky Duck.
00:34:28
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this is it's like a seven card like samurai battle game where you're you're just like literally all you can do is slash you play cards to either slash high slash low change your position so you're either standing up or like you're low so you can you know because if you're standing and you try to slash low you can't you have to be like kneeling it's not kneeling but whatever
00:34:53
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Um, or advance or retreat. And it's just this kind of like fast Lord of deduction game, right? It's a simultaneous reveal of a card per person. And so like, you might charge ahead and then slash and the other person, um, like does something so that when you charge ahead, like there's nobody there and you're like, Oh, well I've,
00:35:12
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Clearly I've, you know, mis-deduced what I think is going to happen here. It's just this really quick little game. Again, it's like, it's like, I don't know, 10, 15 cards in the whole, the whole thing. It comes in this little like cloth wallet, like Japanese wallet thing is really cool.
00:35:29
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I love the art style on it. It's just this really kind of open, lots of white space, really stylized art, really, really like it. So I'm super excited to get a copy of that. And I work with Devin on that. Devin is the bomb. I love him. Nice. That's my one big takeaway. I mentioned in art, we've got a little chat room. I mentioned Panic at Gotham City. Have any of you seen this?
00:35:57
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Yeah, I actually got to see it at Gen Con. Oh, that's so cool. And they sent me a copy not long after. Did they really send you a copy? Obsessed. They did. I love them so much. Yeah. I have a funny story about them, but you go first. So here's what I'm going to tell people. I'm going to tell people this because they can do this. On your Android or iOS device, there is an app called JokerVision.
00:36:19
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download the JokerVision app, get a $1 bill, and you can run the JokerVision app and you can see what this game is all about. It's as simple as that. And you're gonna see this and you're gonna be like, yup, I need to go buy this game now. It's really that simple. The piece of content I'm gonna make about this is going to be me recording my boys doing JokerVision.
00:36:42
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because they are going to freak out. Oh, that's good. It's such a cool experience. It's Sony. It's all augmented reality. Yeah. The thing that blew my mind about this is I went to like a kind of a it was kind of a crafted demo, like fine, whatever. But the thing that really like I've seen augmented reality stuff before. It's been cool. Whatever. There's this one bit in it where
00:37:06
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You go into your office or you're searching someplace or whatever and you find a gear and it says, OK, cool. Now go go like open this envelope that's in the box and you pull out like a cardboard gear and you're like, OK, I have a gear. And then you go through the game or whatever and then you go into a room and like this bank has been robbed and you go in to look at the bank safe and there's a gear missing.
00:37:29
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in the bank safe, like in this augmented reality system. So then, you're looking through your phone at this environment with this 3D safe in it, and you actually have to get the cardboard piece, hold it up in front, and it recognizes it, and now the cardboard that was in your hand is in the digital game, and you have to put the cardboard gear in place inside the safe in order to get the safe to work.
00:37:53
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So it's not just, oh, there's some augmented reality. It's you're going back and forth between something you're physically holding and something that's in the digital game. And I just think that is that's so clever. The people that are behind this are like I don't know if they were officially Imagineers, but they are some of the people that plan Disney rides like in Disney theme parks.
00:38:16
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So they know what they're doing. They've got and some of them are magicians. And yeah, and like people that worked in the film and TV industry. Yeah. Yeah. So really, really clever stuff. They've got a new game coming out this summer, which is slightly smaller scale. Really, really smart, though, really. Yeah. It's like Alice in Wonderland kind of vibe. Wonderland themed centers around.
00:38:39
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Uh, their rabbit character, um, who I can't remember his name right now. It's like the seventh wonder or something like that. I don't remember. Um, but yeah, the rabbit character centers around him and he's like exploring kind of a wonderland themed era. He uses that same augmented reality. It does. Yeah. And the Arkham Asylum files, Panic and Gotham City, um,
00:39:02
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Plays over hours. It's like hours of gameplay. I've only made it halfway through, to be honest, like I mean, it's it takes a bit to go through. But there's tons of puzzles and tons of story and they did all brand new art animations for it. One of the guys at the company, Dave, is the voice of the Joker in the game, which is really cool. And they even got the person who did I'm a huge Arkham Asylum video game fan.
00:39:32
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And just Batman in general, I love the Batman lore. I think the Batman villains are the most interesting thing ever because they're all so diverse and interesting. But the the guy who did the music for the Arkham Asylum games did the music for the that game. So like the music that you hear in the game, it's the same guy. But they're just really good people. Yeah. And they're very passionate about it, which got me really excited. I was excited to see that Gencom and I saw it.
00:40:02
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And I got super, super excited about it. And we kind of like instantly connected, like me and the guys that work there. And when I saw them at Gamma Expo, Michael, who's one of the guys who works there, I don't know if he's the one that showed you the game or you got to talk to, but he was like, I have something for you. I have something to give you. And I was like, what? And so I went over to the booth when I had a moment and he was like, I'm so excited to give this to you.
00:40:29
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But in our Arkham panicking Gotham City Arkham files. There is a game in there where you have Joker playing cards that you're playing with, and there's only like maybe 12 or 13 in the game like it's not a full deck of cards.
00:40:45
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But they made the full deck of cards like they do have the full deck of cards they actually completed it with like a bunch of different cold Joker art and the Joker's in the deck of card in the deck of cards are Harley's so the true Joker's in the deck are Harley Quinn's nice and he gave me one of those decks he was like
00:41:07
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Right now, only the the staff and the designers of the game and the people involved have this. Like, this is a very exclusive thing. And it was just really exciting. Like, they've just been super sweet and super supportive. And I really love that game. So I'm glad you got to see it. And you really liked it because I mean, it's very cool. And I wish I know the price point is high, but I honestly think it's worth it. And it does go on sale from time to time, too.
00:41:36
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I agree with that. The Alice one is called Seven Impossible Things, by the way. Yeah. So that's what it's called. And it does have the rabbit. And it's a very stylized rabbit. If you were thinking of something from an Alice that you've seen before, it's probably not quite that. No, it's like their logo, the rabbit from their logo. It's excellent. And Josh, just to make you super
00:41:59
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super jealous, because I think you're already jealous enough. Because that hasn't happened already. Right. So in Panic in Gotham City, you are actually playing as Harley Quinn trying to go straight. Oh, OK. So she and the Joker have had a falling out, and she is trying to be Harley and Quinzel again. Yeah, she's back at Arkham. Yeah.
00:42:19
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Like not as a patient, right? Yeah, but it's cool. The way you open it, it's so interesting in the lid and it's a bunch of files. You get to like, yeah, yeah, the boxes style like it's her exactly her portfolio kind of thing. Yeah, it's cool. It's really neat. That was the thing that caught my attention when I saw it on Kickstarter.
00:42:38
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And, you know, it does have a high price point, but it's one of those games that I mean, you could tell not that you could see the whole thing on the Kickstarter. Right. But you could tell that the physical element of it was a big thing, that the bits of the game and the props. I'm struggling for a better word than that. Right. But the props of the game are are what makes it interesting and what leads you into it. And I can see where, you know, if you're willing to spend a little extra, you get this experience that
00:43:06
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is more memorable because of the components. Right. Well, I give them mad props. So you don't. As far as I know, I mean, I'm halfway through and I haven't torn anything up in the game. There are things you put together like you do build like a physical Gotham City in front of you.
00:43:24
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and then use the AR to make it come alive, which is cool. But I mean, you could totally reset it as long as I'm not tearing anything else up. I mean, I could completely reset it and then give it to somebody like, you know, who is somebody else who wanted to play it like it could be done that way, too.
00:43:38
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Yeah, and I can't say enough, like this is a hard thing to watch a video on the internet and understand. Yeah. And that's why I think the more captivating thing for me to capture is going to be not necessarily what the boys are seeing, but the boys reaction to what they're seeing.
00:43:56
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Mm hmm. Because I have a nine and a 13 year old boy. Like this is so like I and I asked them like content wise, if it would be fine. And they said, yes, it's fine, because sometimes it gets, you know, some of these games can get a little bit on the darker side of the back. Yeah, sure. But they said this was totally fine. This is something that would totally be in a Disney park, like maybe on the darker side or something that would be in a Disney park, but it would be in a Disney park. So I have no concerns about them, but
00:44:22
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Yeah, I think any content that I make around this whatsoever is really going to focus on the reactions of a nine and a 13 year old boy playing this game because that's that's the fun stuff. Right. Like that's where you because like on a Kickstarter, like, OK, are these people is this all staged? Right. Like these are two boys in their living room. Like I'm I'm very, very excited for this. But I can't. But again, Joker Vision is the name of the app. Just go download it. Pull out a dollar bill.
00:44:50
Speaker
And you can experience it for yourself. And you can do it. Yeah, I think that's the best marketing right there. Totally agree. It gives you the experience. Yep. I'm going to have to watch that when you put it out because I also get excited like a nine and 13 year old. Well, very cool. Well, I did not get to go to Gamma Expo Expo Expo Expo Expo.
00:45:11
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So OK, I do need to explain that. OK, so so Nicole Brady is the kind of the media person like the media rep on the board. And there was a like an email that went out that said, like, please don't just call it gamma. Gamma is the organization. The event is the gamma expo and.
00:45:35
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Yeah. So it became like a joke with with Nicole and I like I'd walk by her and I'd whisper. I'd be like, as I walk by, you know, it was reiterated a lot that weekend. So. So. And it's funny, I a couple of episodes ago on our show, I compiled all of my interviews from Gamma Expo. And you can tell like, like four interviews in, all of a sudden I start saying Gamma Expo instead of just gamma. And you're like, oh, that's when he got reminded.
00:46:05
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but no, it was a great show and Gamma does a great job. Like the hosted media thing, like, you know, I think Heather, you said you were hosted media, I was hosted media. This is Gamma basically, it's something that you have to apply for, but it's Gamma making it possible for content creators who maybe don't have the force of a whole company behind them to attend an event like this, make it possible for us to attend, which is fantastic. And then the media,
00:46:31
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got an opportunity on one of the days to talk to all the Horizon Fellows. You mentioned Fluffy Dragon. They were one of the Horizon Fellows. But these are a group of designers who
00:46:48
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Um, maybe they are coming from like, uh, like a poor region or maybe female designers, or there's some, some, um, reason underrepresented designers in the space. And, uh, so we got about an hour. The media, the, uh, I guess it was all of the media, not just the host of media, but, um, to go into talk to them specifically, which was really cool. It was a really great opportunity to make sure that we got some, you know, really good FaceTime with them.
00:47:18
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as well. I know a lot of people say a lot of things about Gamma, but they really are trying to support out-of-band content, not the legacy stuff that they've been doing for decades. Whether they're doing a great job or not, I do think they deserve to be lauded for their attempts.
00:47:43
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Yeah, I do think if you're in the industry, it's one of the ones I would recommend to anybody who's in the industry to figure out how you can go because it is the one convention I know last year, especially
00:47:59
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I'd only been to a couple before that that I felt like I really made the most connections with people and I networked so I mean like it felt like how I met your mother where everyone was just walking up to each other like you'd be in a circle and some new person walk in they'd be like hey have you met this person you know and she was like constantly introducing everyone to each other like the whole time passing out cards and you're just meeting so many people and making so many connections and networking and
00:48:26
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It's so beneficial, I think, if you're in the industry to go to it. 100%. Very cool. Josh, you went to a convention.
00:48:34
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I did, I didn't get to go to Gamma Expo, but I did get to go to a regional convention called TokenCon. TokenCon is, I think it's in its, I think this was its fourth year. And it has been steadily growing as a, you know, it started as a small local convention that is kind of growing and becoming more of a regional thing.
00:48:57
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We were actually drawing people from Arkansas and Kansas and all over Texas. It was really nice to be able to see that it had that kind of draw that we were starting to get an actual real big crowd. But we had a nice area that we had set up for small independent game designers and publishers. We just had tables and tables of people who are showing off what they're working on
00:49:28
Speaker
and running demos. Our special guest host was Rob Davio this year, which was pretty exciting. Awesome. I didn't get a chance to talk to him very long. You got to stick with your booth when you're running your own thing. And so I got to see him from afar as he actually sat down and played some demos of some of their games that they have in process at his company. And it was interesting to walk by and kind
00:49:58
Speaker
try to suss out what it was that they were playing, because I didn't get a chance to linger long enough to see that. But had a really good time there. A couple of things that really resonated with me while I was there, showing off the stuff that we have in the pipeline for Salamander Games. My booth neighbor next to me was a
00:50:20
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young gentleman by the name of Jake Bynum. And he had started his own imprint JB Games. And he actually had his first ever published game, which I have here with me because I had to buy a copy of it. It's called Galactic Battlemasters. And it's got some really cool.
00:50:42
Speaker
And it's got some really fun art. It's basically, if you've ever played dice throne, it kind of hits some of those same vibes. You have a character that has a bunch of different combat abilities. And you use dice to not in a Yahtzee mechanic. It's different in that respect. But you use kind of a, I'll tell you what, the dice rolling mechanic kind of reminds me of Machi Koro, right? So you have all these different things that might happen.
00:51:08
Speaker
And you roll the dice and, you know, from that, you get to decide what actually you you are going to do on your combat turn. But you can play the game head to head or you can play in like kind of a battle royale, which actually was kind of the most fun watching that play out where four or five people would, you know, battle each other together. But
00:51:30
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It was a lot of fun getting to talk to somebody who is relatively new in the game space and working on his first design. And this was the first convention he'd ever been to. So just taking your kids to stuff like that, it was kind of fun to kind of see the excitement through his eyes. So that was a lot of fun to make a new friend while I was sitting there and talking to people.
00:51:55
Speaker
We also had a group of people, Strongbox Games, from Dallas, Texas. They were there with their game, Mantle of the Keeper. Oh, a signed edition. Yeah, I had to get mine signed. So whenever I pick up games from people at conventions, if the designer is there, I always hassle them into signing it for me.
00:52:21
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That's a nice little reminder of the friend that you made when you get to talk to somebody. I haven't had a chance to sit down and play that yet. I was watching people demo it at their booth all weekend and it looked like a lot of fun. It's another kind of battle game on a grid where you're moving your character around and using attacks and defenses against the other characters on the...
00:52:41
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on the board, but I really like the artwork in the and the design of it look really slick. So I picked that up to give that a try with with my own sons. But just had a really great time with with TokenCon. It's it's always kind of at the end of March in Oklahoma City. So anybody who happens to be in that part of the world at that time, I highly encourage you to check TokenCon out. It's it's it's just going to keep growing, I think, and it's going to it's going to do great things in the future, I'm hoping.
00:53:10
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That was actually on my list of one to go to in the future. So maybe one day, Josh, maybe. Hey, man, anytime you want to come out, I got an extra room. I'll put you up. All right. You mentioned Rob Davio, of course, restoration games. I didn't even talk about their announcement right at the beginning of gamma of their newest unmatched box set, which has Shakespeare in it. Mm hmm. Oh, so cool.
00:53:38
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I assume that he throws books at you or something. I don't know. I'm not out yet. I don't know, man. He attacks you with a written word with his prose. It's like a dart with the pen. I don't know. Cool though. He attacks with his characters. Romeo. I feel like if velociraptors are attacking Shakespeare, that's going to go one particular direction.
00:54:05
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Well, unmatched has proven time and again that you can have wild and crazy matchups and it's still a fairly balanced game. I freaking love unmatched so much. I've not really seen that game ever feel unbalanced, regardless of what characters you're playing. I mean, something I had to buy, speaking of like matches, I had to buy at tantrum con, I bought the Krampus final girl with Krampus and like Mrs. Claus. I want this. That's super cool.
00:54:32
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I know. Well, we normally have a Krampus ornament on our tree. Nice. I was very excited to see it. I think it was the Game Steward. They had a table there. They're a company that normally backs, they back Kickstarters. If you miss a Kickstarter, they do sell them on their website, the Kickstarter editions of games. Immediately when I saw that one on the table, I was like, I want that. Taking that home.
00:54:58
Speaker
The game steward does the Lord's work. If you missed a Kickstarter, they can probably get it to you after the episode. I bought that one and then I won Artemis project in a giveaway. I haven't played that one yet, but I won that in addition to the metal shield looking coin things that come with that. I'm going to have to get that one to the table because it looks cool. The coins I got with it looks cool. Super cool.
00:55:37
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So, Drew, you do have a six-month-old now? That little- He is six months, yes. That's crazy. We've had one show since he's been born. I know, right? I know. What games is he enjoying these days? He's enjoying eating all of the pieces, no matter what they look like. That's what he enjoys playing.
00:56:05
Speaker
So think fun, roll and play. Pick one up. I might have to. Yeah. A little giant padded six sided die. Yeah. I'm on. Yeah. I'm actually, I'm actually thinking about something similar to that. There's a, um, there is a, there is a game that I was given and oh gosh, I can't remember the name of it. It's always in my videos, like in the corner.
00:56:29
Speaker
but it's this giant game and the game has nothing to do with it. I'll just give him a giant foam die and see what he can do with it. But no, it's really cool. It's been a really good experience. He's borderline crawling. We just found out on Tuesday
00:56:56
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that he, uh, has a tooth coming in. So that's for too. And he is, uh, I just remember, and I told some, I told, I told, and I think I told Andrew, I know I told Heather.
00:57:10
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But I mentioned how when I was in China, I missed the fact that he can now like sit up, like he can sit up, sit up straight and everything like that. He can do that himself. And I was very upset to miss that. And when I left for gamma, he was on the verge of crawling. And I said, I swear to God, if I miss that. I'm never going to one of these conventions ever again.
00:57:40
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You told your wife, if he looks like he's crawling, just kind of push him over a little bit. He, uh, he, he, he still, he still doesn't. Um, I'm not sure. I'm not sure if it's a form of intelligence or a form of laziness either way. I'm happy.
00:57:57
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that he's kind of discovered some sort of form of moving around, but he scoots. So that's his big thing. You ever see that video of the, there's like a video of a baby who's like learning how to crawl, but he's like walking, he's basically walking on his hands and his feet and he looks possessed.
00:58:18
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I have seen that. Yeah. As long as he's not doing that, you're fine. I think all of mine, it took him a minute just to get the knees underneath them. They were army crawling everywhere. Yeah. He is a, well, this is how he does it. He, he, he makes it, uh, it's going to sound super difficult. So now that I say it out loud, uh, he, he gets up on all fours and then
00:58:44
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He just pushes himself forward, lands on his chest and his tummy, and then gets back up and does it again, and that's how he gets across. The inchworm approach. It means he has the strength to crawl, but he doesn't have the coordination to crawl. Yeah. That's a good thing. It'll come. That's the making of a board gamer, so that's good. Right, right.
00:59:07
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Just not good at dexterity games. There's a board game design in there somewhere. So can a baby race board game? As with most things, there's a game idea in there somewhere. So, Gang, what have we been playing as a light? Do we have time for that, Josh? We do.
00:59:27
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Well, so we're recording on a Thursday. I am cheap. And so my wife and I, instead of going out for dinner, we go out for breakfast every Thursday. So this morning was our breakfast date, and we always bring a board game with us, something to play, a little two-player game. And this morning, we played Sherlock Solitaire, which is the latest release from Wise Wizard Games. I think we have somebody else on the show who is familiar with this company.
00:59:57
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It was kind of like shadow dropped at PAX East this past weekend, which is kind of a cool way to do it. And they sold out. This is a one or two player game. You're either playing solo or cooperative and you're just trying to like complete these like set puzzles, basically, I guess is the easiest way to explain it.
01:00:17
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It's really cool. It's a pretty neat game. I think the, well, I don't think, the theme is pretty pasted on. Maybe later on it gets more complex, I'm not sure, and ties to the theme better. But it's like, there was a murder, you need to solve it, create four sets of cards. Like, uh, what? You know what I mean? Like, that part of it's a little bit weird, but I really like the mechanics of this game and the way that it kind of forces you to have to think about where you're placing your cards.
01:00:45
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because you draw four cards and then you have to place two of them at air quote the crime scene and then two of them at air quote the office and there's like kind of placement restrictions on how you can place things in either location and the goal is to create a certain number of sets of whatever in the office but you know depending on what you put in the crime scene there may be penalties from it or something like that and you can take wounds and if you take three wounds you lose the game so
01:01:12
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Pretty simple, pretty, you know, I think you have to sit down with the rules and really read the rules to grok them. But once you kind of understand how to play, it's a very, very straightforward game. Yeah, it's an Amazon exclusive right now. No, Amazon and... Amazon and then at conventions. They will have some at conventions, yeah.
01:01:33
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Heather, how would you know? What's going on? I actually just started working for Life Update. I just started working for Wise Wizard Games as their operations manager. I started that in January. Congratulations. Thank you. Left Drew hanging and moved on to a new company. Well, it's really funny because someone asked me, they said,
01:01:57
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is Heather at wise wizards. And I said, no, no, no, no, you got it wrong. Heather is a wise wizard. That's, that's what it is. That's right. The wisest of wizards. Exactly. Exactly. Uh, I just pulled it up. I just pulled it up. It's $10 on. Oh, nice. Yeah. That's awesome. That's awesome. Heather, what have you been playing lately?
01:02:17
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I have been I was I honestly was trying to rack my brain trying to figure out what I've been playing. So but I actually do have an answer. I have actually my husband, I sat down and we attempted to play Myth Wind for the first time by Open Owl. It's on Kickstarter right now and they're doing this is the second print of it, plus an expansion that's on Kickstarter.
01:02:45
Speaker
I have the first print that was sent to me to create content, and I'm actually going to be streaming a solo version of the game, and I'm going to be playing as the farmer next Saturday. Not this Saturday, but next Saturday. But we went and played a little bit of the game. It's definitely a little bit of a learning curve going into it.
01:03:08
Speaker
Um, but it's like, uh, is it asymmetrical? Is that the term? Like that's a term I'm starting to learn. I think that's the correct term. Y'all correct me if I'm wrong. Um, but each player, basically each player is playing as a character, um, a different character, either like the farmer, the crafter, the, I think it's a ranger. And then, um, I can't imagine.
01:03:31
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Merchant, yeah. And each of the characters has a different way of playing. So like your board that you're playing with with your character is different than the other person next to you. There are some simultaneous things that are happening, like in the town kind of area that you're exploring. It's kind of got like a cozy, cooperative vibe and you're trying to work together to perform kind of your actions for your character.
01:04:00
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while trying to build and benefit your town and grow by clearing land and building buildings and gathering goods and resources, which in turn you'll use to build more buildings for your town. You go out on adventures and you encounter sprites and different things happen that will give you rewards along the way and kind of open up the story that you get to explore.
01:04:23
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It is very much an open-ended game. There's not really like a clear ending. You basically get to determine how much you want to explore and how much you want to play. Each of the characters has like a difficulty setting in like complexity of how they play.
01:04:39
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Um, the farmer is the recommended one to start with. Um, if you're playing with two people, I think they recommend the farmer and the crafter is the next one. Um, but you have one rule book that is like the town charter for everybody that kind of goes over the main things that everybody will do. Um, the rules that apply to everyone, but then you also have these individual little booklets. So for each character you play, you have your own booklet.
01:05:04
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with sets of rules. And when it's everybody's character to action turn, you're all working and doing your stuff simultaneously. So that's kind of nice. Like it really the flow of the game works really well that way. And I'm really excited to see how the solo play of it goes, because we were just doing two players. But I definitely chose the farmer because I just immediately just reading the characters out of the town charter.
01:05:29
Speaker
I think one of the first two words of the farmers was he's a player who you're basically laying down polyomino shapes on your board and I was like, say less. That's mine. Say less. I'm the farmer. No one else can be the farmer. I think it's a really interesting
01:05:50
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concept, I think it's a really interesting idea. If I ever have questions when I play games, I reach out to the publishers to ask those questions like immediately. So I've been in communications with the OpenL like Instagram account, who I've learned is Natalie and she's been very sweet answering my questions. But they definitely like this new one on Kickstarter, they've updated the rules and you know, they've made things a little bit more clearer that maybe weren't so clear in the past.
01:06:21
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to make it more streamlined. So I think that's great. So that's kind of the only thing that I've kind of been diving into because I'm going to prepare for the solo play next weekend. I've been diving into that one too. I'm not going to add anything else because otherwise we could spend a whole podcast episode discussing how to play because like when I looked up, when I went through the rule book and then watched videos on how to play and this one guy was like,
01:06:49
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Yeah. So this is going to be like five different videos. I was like, okay, I know what I'm getting myself into here. So I automatically knew like through that and the rule book. And it's not, it's not that difficult of a game once you get the hang of it. Uh, I do like the aspect of there's not really any winners or losers to the game. It's more of a try your best type of deal, which goes more along the line with that cozy feel to it. And so.
01:07:20
Speaker
Uh, that's what I got from it. And I was just more of a, Hey, try your best, try your best to make the town better. Try your best to be the best farmer, crafter merchant, increase your skills as much as you can. And, you know, and you can keep playing after you finish the four seasons. So I thought that was, I thought that was really cool. So that's just.
01:07:40
Speaker
That's just my personal takeaway from it. I don't know, Heather, if I'm incorrect and I've been misreading the rules. No, no, I definitely, I agree. I think it's beautiful. I think the, there's definitely lore there I haven't even begun to uncover because my husband and I didn't get that far into it. Just the two of us.
01:07:55
Speaker
So I'm definitely interested to see how far the lore goes that they built, the story, how it continues. And it's all organized beautifully in these game trays, too. So there's a very easy way for you to save the game when you do decide to stop. Everything fits very nicely and organized in your own character tray. And then the town board
01:08:21
Speaker
stacks on top of each other and it stacks onto the town game tray in a lid. Oh, that's cool. Like so I mean like put away and set up like is nice and easy next time you get everything out. So I do appreciate that. They explain how to put everything back in the box. And you can play as the same character forever or you can switch up characters, whichever works best for you. So I think that's a I think I think it's just a super cool little thing because you can also
01:08:49
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uh, write everything in your experiences down in little journals specifically for those characters. So the farmer has his own journal, the merchant, the crafter, the ranger, they all have their own journals. So I think someone was saying the other day, it'd be a good one to like, get a group of friends together, like go rent a cabin and just like play, like, just like enjoy the time, like together playing that game, you know, like, and not be full rushed or anything. Like it's definitely one of those, I feel like.
01:09:18
Speaker
Well, you got to come to the cult ranch. That's what it is. We clearly got to go. The Drew Jennings cult ranch. The corner game table ranch.
01:09:29
Speaker
Now, Drew, you know, you can't you can play all the characters, but you can't play the farmer because Heather already called dibs on that, right? That's true. I know. I know. Although the farmer looks a lot like me, so. Josh, what did what did you play? What have you been playing?
01:09:49
Speaker
Well, we've got a couple of fun things to the table. So I I am slowly working on putting together an actual game table with my dad. Actually, it's a project and I are working on and it's been slow going because I can't ever find the time on the weekends to get over there and continue working on it. But in the meantime, my wife and I
01:10:09
Speaker
determined where it was gonna go. And so I set up a sad little card table and the place where this game table is eventually gonna go. And I have been bound and determined to keep games out there on that table so that we're encouraged to play as often as possible. My son and I just here recently got to play. So when he and I went with some friends of mine to BGGCon back in November,
01:10:33
Speaker
And while we were there, I picked up a copy of Survive Escape from Atlantis, which is a fun game where you're you're trying to get your little.
01:10:43
Speaker
meeple people off of the off of the island of Atlantis as it's as pieces of it are falling into the sea. And over the course of the game, all the the little tiles that make up the island are dropping away and there are less of them. And you've got these little boats that you're trying to get them on. And there's all kinds of things in the water like sharks and whales. And so you're trying to navigate the dangers of what's between you and the shoreline and get them to shore.
01:11:06
Speaker
And we enjoyed playing that one at BGGCon. So I happen to be looking at my game shelf and realize that somewhere along the way, I had bought the space version of it and didn't even realize it. So I actually owned Survive Space Attack, I think is what it's called. And so we pulled that out and played it one night just to see, you know, how it compared to the original.
01:11:28
Speaker
And it was actually a slightly better version. It was it was basically the same idea. It's a you're on a you've got a space station that's collapsing. Right. And when the when it gets to the center of the space station, it's the power generator of the space station explodes and there's none of it left. And so you're trying to get your little people out into lifeboats and and out and away from the space station. But they had kind of added some extra elements to it and given it, given you a few more things to have to be concerned with as you escape the space station.
01:11:56
Speaker
Uh, but found that to be a lot of fun. That was a, it was a good little easy to pick up game and, and lasted about an hour. And we enjoyed that one, but both iterations of it were fun, but I think the space one, uh, just, you know, had a few more things to kind of round it out. The other thing we've gotten to the table here recently, so we play a fair amount of dice throne. Um, uh, my two older boys really like dice thrown, particularly when they get to just
01:12:20
Speaker
pound on each other head to head with it. So I pulled out the Christmas one that I got as a Kickstarter, the Santa versus Krampus dice thrown. And we played that one. And that was a lot of fun where you're throwing like broken toys at each other.
01:12:36
Speaker
And the Krampus kind of has a mechanic where he's he's got these little, I don't know, imps, I guess would probably be the right word for him that they go out and do his bidding. And he sends them against sends them against Santa Claus. But it was it was a lot of fun. You need the you need the dice thrown holder from modern Meeple. Yeah, so you need.
01:12:59
Speaker
I mean, I probably do. You do. Yeah. You need to look up modern meeple. Yeah. He makes those. He makes dice thrown holders. He makes them for double. Is it WSPG World Series of board gaming? They're awesome. There's yeah, he makes them specifically. He made them specifically for that. But then he just he has them that you can buy. And they're really not. And there's a space for everything.
01:13:22
Speaker
Um, but then he also has other component holders as well, which are equally as beautiful and a lazy Susan style. Um, but yeah, those dice thrown ones, you would like that then.
01:13:32
Speaker
I'll have to check those out. They already come in a pretty nice, nice kit box. You know, the it's got like an extruded plastic shell case that everything goes in for the one character. And I've been real impressed as they've I mean, obviously, as they've iterated through and added more seasons and whatnot to dice thrown, they've they've kind of upped their game on on presentation and storage. But I've been real impressed with their approach to that. It looks good set up on the table and and packs away nicely. I got the big
01:14:02
Speaker
Marvel won the eight character Marvel box Kickstarter. Yeah, I have. If you haven't noticed already, if you put superheroes on something, I'm going to buy it. So yeah. So the modern people things, they're not it's not a storage solution. It's like a little kind of insert thing that you put your play on and play with it. Oh, OK. Yeah, OK. I could. Yeah, I could see how that would be cool, because that's the one that is kind of the one downside to that is once you dump it all out, it's kind of loose on the table. Yeah. No, it's.
01:14:31
Speaker
It even has a section to roll the die. It's got I mean, there's yeah, where you place your cards. Like, I mean, it's got everything there for you. Mm hmm. You know, I talk to you people and then I end up with a long list of things that I have to go by. It's really not. You guys aren't good for my wallet. Sorry, not sorry. We got to stop going to conventions and seeing new stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I can't do that. It's too much. I know. It's it's too fun.
New Game Introductions: Unboxed and Miller Zoo
01:15:24
Speaker
All right, so looking forward to the next several weeks, what's on everybody's playlist? Oh, my gosh, so many things. I guess the one that I'll talk about, it's kind of a weird game. This is a game called Unboxed from WizKids. I don't know if any of you have played this. So it is it's a series of like 10 or 12 mysteries. The box it's like a like an exit.
01:15:50
Speaker
box size box, okay? And it's a box of like 10 or 12 mysteries, but they are, it's, there's a collection of components. And basically you'll open the book and it'll say like, these are the components for this thing. And like the first one, for example, you take this deck of cards and you just kind of like scatter them on the table. And then you have a couple of tokens. And the premise is you're an archeologist, you have found this board game, you need to like figure out how to play it.
01:16:17
Speaker
Like, what do you do? Like, how does it work? Whatever, right? And it was like, we played the first one at PAX Unplugged last year, and it's just like a total mind job that you can
01:16:31
Speaker
reason out what this game is supposed to be doing. And then you have a game that you could play. And so you answer like four questions about like, what do you do during this game? What's the goal? Like, how do you win? Blah, blah, blah. And then you get scored based on your answer to those questions. So, yeah. So there's like 10 or 11 of these in the box. We've played a couple of them so far. I really want to play some more of them. So that's unboxed from Whizkins. How about you, Drew?
01:17:04
Speaker
Drew has no microphone. So I'll go. So I have a couple of things we're going to play, the one that I'm going to be playing for making some content from. I was sent Miller Zoo from Hachette and I am excited to play that one. I got to see Lindsay there at Gamma Expo.
01:17:31
Speaker
Lindsay used to be with Bezier Castles, you know, as my go-to. And now that she's with Hachette, I'm learning all about Hachette's games. So I'm excited for Miller Zoo. It looks like it's a really fun one. I think it's gonna be great for our son to play with us. I know it's based on an actual zoo. And it's kind of a changing game from what I know. So I'm excited about that aspect of it. Yeah, you definitely should play this with your kids.
01:17:59
Speaker
Yeah, it is. It's kind of a campaign game, but it's definitely like on the simpler side. This is an entry level campaign game. And now that you're in Wisconsin, you can like maybe drive to Miller Zoo. I know, right? Yeah, it's that I'm really excited to play that one. That's when we're definitely getting to the table this weekend and I'm going to be making some content on that one.
01:18:19
Speaker
And then the other one that we're going to get to the table, I actually got at my local game store with my store credit. So it makes me feel better. I'm going to get my little Everdale to the table. I actually played that at Dice Tower East with my son and we had a really fun time learning it and playing it. And it was really approachable for him, which I appreciated. And my husband is actually super interested in Everdale.
01:18:47
Speaker
Um, and I was like, let's start with this and let's get this to the table and then we can think bigger and get Everdale to our collection. I said, we'll start with this one. Cause that's, it's the easier one for my son to play, especially. So, um, so I think those are the two that we're going to try to get to the, the table this weekend, especially. What about you, Josh?
01:19:12
Speaker
Well, so as I mentioned previously, I've got this game from Strongbox Games, Mantle of the Keeper, that I'm excited about. So I'm going to get that out this week and get that to the table. My son got a chance to kind of sit through how to play. So I'm hoping he'll teach me so that I can get around having to read the rule book. Anytime somebody can teach me a game, I'm excited because I'm usually the rules reader.
01:19:37
Speaker
In fact, one year, I think it was for Father's Day, my boys got me a T-shirt that said, I read the rules so you don't have to. And that's usually true. I'm usually the one reading the rule book. The other thing that I'm excited about, I also am going to be trying to play some Everdell, not my little Everdell. I'm playing the My Big Huge Kickstarter Everdell that comes in the box that's big enough to get into. Yes.
01:20:04
Speaker
I've kind of been talking that up and I think I've got my wife interested enough that she's willing to sit down and give it a try. So we're going to play that. And I think that's going to probably be something she's interested in. She kind of likes games like that.
01:20:16
Speaker
And we've been trying to take a page out of Andrew's book and find time to sit down and and, you know, play games with each other more than she's not. Not as I mean, I'm the gamer and and she's not as interested in that, but she she will play games with me if I find the right kind of game. So just listen, dude, you could play anything over pancakes. Right. Doesn't matter. It's just you could do it. You make it happen.
01:20:40
Speaker
So the one that the one that she kind of let slide that she kind of likes mystery games. And obviously we've talked about a lot of those on here because I know that that hits in Heather's wheelhouse. Right. You just let me know what you need. Yeah, I was immediately like, oh, what recommendations? Let's see here. What can I find? I have so many.
01:21:00
Speaker
I went out and ordered a few to get those at the table. We took a crack at Chronicles of Crime from, I think it's Lucky Duck Games. And that was really interesting. The approach of having to scan the cards with my iPad was a little, I don't quite have the handle, the hang of it yet.
01:21:19
Speaker
It's it's kind of as if you had to walk around the whole world actually scanning people's foreheads with your iPad, which is yeah. Yeah. So recommendation on that is if you have a screen, you can airplay to. Oh, it's easier for someone to follow along. I can see that. You can even do the same thing with that Arkham game. Yep. Hmm. Interesting.
01:21:41
Speaker
But when we started that one and got, I think we got through a whole module unit, whatever you want to call it, a mystery, and started the next one. But we need to continue that. We kind of set it down for a little bit.
Recommendations and Excitement for Upcoming Games
01:21:55
Speaker
I have a recommendation for you. Oh, please. Yes, please. Puzzling Pursuits is the company. Black Brim 1876 is the game. OK. That's it's amazing. It's an escape room in a box style. It has an act one and an act two so you can stop in between. And they have multiple versions. There's Black Brim 1876 is the first one.
01:22:21
Speaker
And then they have another one that's, I think it's called Rhaegar's Return. And then there's a one after that. It's a Blackburn series. And then they also have a La Familia series, which is like Mafia style. Their games are fantastic and they have a wonderful hint system. So that's where I would recommend starting.
01:22:40
Speaker
I'm writing these down. Yeah, I've got tons of recommendation. So if anybody ever needs escape room, puzzley, mystery recommendations, hit board, give me mama up on social media. Like I will for sure give you some from some cool recommendations, depending on what you like. Very cool. I put the links in the comments. Full service shop over here. Full service shop. You got to spend more money. You're not spending enough.
01:23:09
Speaker
All right, Drew is going to Drew's going to try to connect and maybe kick us all off. All right. It'll be a third time's a charm. Here we go. Oh, I hear noises. Hello. Hey. It was sometimes it's just so simple to get it fixed. That's what it was. I was so worried that we was going to get kicked out of this whole recording anyways. So how about you, Drew? What are you playing?
01:23:38
Speaker
So what I'm planning on playing is Genotype by Genius Games. Nice. That is a game that I need to be playing right now as well. Yeah, I was very excited to get the opportunity to get a copy of the game and they at first I was like, you know, I'm not I'm not sure if I'll be really interested in these games, but then I opened it up. I'm still like going through the unboxing video
01:24:05
Speaker
right now, like editing it together because there's so much in that game. It was so much. And it, but it's beautiful. It's beautiful. I think it's an absolutely beautiful game, but of course I'd like to go through all the components thing by thing. And I just like, look at this, look at that. That looks cool. You need that. So I think nice, but, um, no, I, I talk about whenever I do the unboxing videos, I talk about what I enjoy. I,
01:24:33
Speaker
Uh, for all I know is, is that it is a worker placement game. I do believe if it's not that it's cellulose, that was it. One of the two were that, but I got genotype. I was like happy with genotype, um, with that as well.
01:24:49
Speaker
Uh, gang, I'm just letting you know in the time that we have, uh, since last recorded, I dived very deep into, uh, trading card games.
Trading Card Games: Challenges and Collecting
01:25:00
Speaker
And I saw that. Like Lorkana, Star Wars, and that stuff. Specifically Lorkana. Oh dude, you got, you got kids, man. No way, man. I'm staying so far away from that stuff.
01:25:13
Speaker
I dove. So the only one that I've really dove like head, head deep into has been the one piece. Oh, the one piece one. I've heard that one's really good. Oh, it's so good. The heart, the heart, tough part is, is like, so they make the game in both Japanese and English and they make more Japanese than they do English. And so it's super easy to find any in Japanese, but did you see it when you were in Japan?
01:25:40
Speaker
No, I didn't really care much for it at that point. It wasn't until gamma I put one, uh, QV, uh, QVO games, one, he taught me how to play and I immediately loved the game as soon as I played it. And I was like, this is my, this is my alley. This is what I want in a trading card game.
01:25:59
Speaker
This is it. So I have been doing my best to collect like trading cards, the trading cards, wherever. But the tough part is, is scalpers are getting them. It's really hard to find some. I'm doing what I can with what boosters and sometimes I just have to swallow my pride and
01:26:17
Speaker
Stand on the street corner. Stand on the street corner for it. No. That's how it starts. That's how it starts. We'll do anything for a one piece card. Right. It's almost gotten to that point, but anyways, no. No, the the local gaming stores near me, they're OK.
01:26:45
Speaker
I'll just put it like that. There are some that are really good and then there are some that are, that are just okay. And the ones that do have it are the ones that are okay. And they're overcharging it, overcharging the MSRP for the one piece games than anything. Whereas I could go to Walmart, Target, any of these other places. As a matter of fact, I even found some in my local Cracker Barrel. Like I was like, let's go anyway.
01:27:14
Speaker
So what you're saying is everyone listening out there, if you find one piece, cards, hit up Welcome to Boredom on social media. That's right. I will give you whatever you need. I'm a desperate, desperate man. No. Because obviously it sounds like you've been stealing cards from kids at Cracker Barrel. Unbelievable. What is wrong with this guy?
01:27:38
Speaker
No. Cracker barrel is carbs, not carbs. Carbs. It's all carbs. I got I got it twisted. The D they look the same anyways. No, I I definitely I definitely have dove into that quite a bit, so I've been doing my best to play more.
01:27:59
Speaker
I very much enjoyed, um, the aspects of the game and as well with the new starter deck that I just received, that's their latest one that came out this month and, uh, in the month of March and the, as well, any of the boosters that I've happened to just come across and find and, or spent way too much money on.
01:28:20
Speaker
Uh, I have definitely, uh, I've definitely enjoyed getting those cars, building my deck, finding a way to play. It's, it is such a good game. I just, I really enjoy it. So it was really funny because when I played it at gamma with, uh, one, he told me. We were playing, he's kind of teaching me how to play and he's going really easy on me. And then I asked him, I was like, one, how are you feeling? Cause he had only like one life point left or no.
01:28:50
Speaker
Um, yeah, he was on his last life point and I was ahead of him by like three or four. And I said, one, how are you feeling? Are you okay that you're about to lose to me with this starter deck? And he goes, no, I knew about three rounds ago that I was going to win. And then just slaps down all the cards and spams me. And he doesn't win that round. I'm like.
01:29:11
Speaker
Yeah, humbled. I did. He was letting you enjoy it. And then he was like, all right, now I'm going to drop the hammer. I was like, that's cruel, but but I did. I did enjoy it a whole lot. So it was really, really good. So if anybody if anybody gets into card games, I will say I do like playing one piece more than I do playing Lorkana. Lorkana is very cute. It's a very fun
01:29:38
Speaker
collective game for me, but it's not something that I personally enjoy playing. I enjoyed the one piece trading card game a lot better, but I'm frustrated because I can never find any of them. So that's where I'm at. I think that's so interesting because I feel like TCG, it might just be got to find the right one.
01:30:02
Speaker
Specifically, because I haven't really found one that I've been super interested in. So I don't know if I just haven't found the right theme, maybe. Like maybe there's a theme that I would be really into, you know. Yeah. I just haven't found the right one, but I've heard different people talk about how they didn't get into it until they found this specific, this specific TCG came out and then they're like, then I'm really interested in this one, you know.
01:30:25
Speaker
Well, that's what a lot of people say, especially depending on who you talk to, because there's some people who've played Magic the Gathering and they're like, that's not my game. And, but then they played Pokemon or they played One Piece just exactly like you said. And then there are some who have never cared for any trading card games, although they've respected like.
01:30:45
Speaker
Magic the Gathering from afar, but then Lorkana came out and they're like obsessed with it. Yeah, super into it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you're right. You're very much right in that. I think it's just so interesting to me. I mean, there's really something out there for everybody, honestly. Really? There is. I learned how to play Lorkana, and then I went and played a game.
01:31:10
Speaker
And I was like, this one, this is, this is okay. I was like, I was more upset that I spent more money on all of it. Maybe I should have played it first. Which is what I did with the one piece card game. I was like, all right, I'm just getting the starter deck. I'm gonna play it. Now I'm trying to catch up and I'm like, I have to find out where I can buy these from. So.
01:31:36
Speaker
Yeah, it's super cool. What I do also appreciate about the game, Lorekana does its own little thing, but the one piece, they have this thing called a double pack. And so what they give you is a box to help you store your cards in whenever you buy booster packs and stuff like that. And it is two booster packs and then one specialty energy. So in the game, you use energy to attack and play cards and
01:32:05
Speaker
things like that. And they give these specialty energy cards that just, there's nothing special about them other than the fact that they're holographic and that they have special images to them. And I'm like, that's just cool collector stuff. So, and so that's what I do. That's another thing I do appreciate. I just hate that I'm spending double the price of what I would be in SRP. And so, yeah.
01:32:35
Speaker
I'm not, I'm not talking ill towards gaming stores, but I just, I understand now why some, some people are like, yeah, there's some that are okay. And some that are really good. The really good ones are out because they didn't overcharge too much MSRP, the okay ones.
01:32:51
Speaker
Yeah, that's been that's why when you when you find a good game store that you got to support them, right? You got to you got to keep them moving forward. And when there's trading card games out, you got to get to them quickly before the scalpers and the people with the with the buyers. So what's up with that for you? Yeah, that's another thing. Yeah, because I they had some at my
01:33:18
Speaker
So, uh, another place that I've bought them is my local Walmart and I'm talking just vultures. I walked in there one day and I was like, Oh man, they got a whole thing. This is fantastic. I'll come back tomorrow and buy another one. And I went back the next day and there was like four left and I'm like vultures, all of you God, I just everywhere. And so they, um, and then, and then what was really funny was as I saw where there were either customers or workers,
01:33:44
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Who had hidden them away? They were hidden like behind other like boxes and stuff like that. And I was like, that's smart, but I'm taking these. So hit them in an empty box of honeycomb cereal so they can come back and get them later. They don't knock the honeycomb. Oh, no, no, no, no. It's a great hiding spot. Anyways, but that's I've talked way too long. I apologize, but that's
01:34:14
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That those are some of the games that I anticipate playing in the near future by the time we record next. Very nice. Well, all right. We better get out of here before the second shift comes on and the Ghostbusters kick us out of here. So before we leave and everybody, we go around the table one last time and everybody let the world know where they can find you on the interwebs.
Wrapping Up: Social Media and Competitions
01:34:41
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Well, you can find me at Bored Gaming Mama on all social media platforms. I stream twice a week on Twitch Wednesdays and Saturday nights at 8 p.m. Central now. Central.
01:34:57
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I'm in the central time zone now. Um, so I'm streaming anything from board games to point and clicks. Um, I'm doing some might magic six right now. And then next Saturday, not this Saturday at 8 PM, I will be doing a solo playthrough of myth wind as the farmer. Um, but other than that, it's the same name across all social media platforms. And, uh, yeah, you can check out the content there. You can find me at any of your favorite social media sites, whether it be on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube,
01:35:27
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and our beloved and late TikTok that's soon to be gone. I'm crying right now. Don't speak that into the universe. I don't, I'm not, I'm not, but it's a very saddening fact because that's such a great audience, great people. But you can find me, welcome to boredom at any of those. Since we've last recorded, I've been able to put out my first YouTube video where I did my top five games of 2023.
01:35:58
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Well, I'm working on other projects as well with the casual game Overview or how to play very much a very often Type of content that I'm creating as a late weird unboxings. I'm just letting you be known Be careful when you come across my unboxing videos. They are weird. They start out weird and
01:36:20
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And but that's how I get your attention and I want you to so I concur and yes, it does get my attention I know i'm always like how is this on my oh, it's true So feel free to give me a follow as well I got some silly skits that I do have coming out too. So feel free to follow me Welcome to boredom. You can find me on any of those social media platforms that I found uh, or you can uh, contact me by uh, carrier pigeon so
01:36:51
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It's always a good way to do it. Nice. All right. Well, you can find the family gamers at the family gamers dot com or on all of the social media at Family Gamers A.A. for Andrew and Anitra. We are getting down to the end of our March Madness brackets. We had 32 games going at it. We are down to the final four right now. Oh, yeah. Of the top four family games. These are voted on by the community. Go to the family gamers dot com.
01:37:17
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and you can vote early and vote often. The remaining four games are we have on the left side of the bracket, point salad versus sushi go. And on the right side of the bracket, we have ticket to ride versus quacks of Kwedlenburg. Oh, nice. So 28 games have been eliminated, four games remain. By the time this comes out, there will only be two.
01:37:39
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Only two. Only two, so you can head to thefamilygamers.com to vote for what's gonna win. I don't know if anybody has put an actual bracket prediction out there, so I don't know how many brackets are busted, but we've got some board games.
01:38:00
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There, like I said, at Family Gamers, a on Twitter threads, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook. I don't know what else is out there. We're probably on it or just the family gamers podcast. And there's always carrier pigeons. There are, in fact, carrier pigeons. Yeah, that's that's a true thing. Yeah. But I'm in my basement, so I don't know if they can find me. Right. Right. They have to have little shovels to be able to dig down into the.
01:38:29
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All right, what about you, Josh? Well, you can find out more information about my publishing company, Salamander Games at salamandergames.com. We are on all the social media as Play Salamander.
01:38:42
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We're actually in the process of updating to what I think is going to be the final version of our new game, Hot Diggity Dog, on Tabletopia and Tabletop Simulator, so those should be done here shortly. I'm excited to get that out there and start getting some feedback from some people who got to play it in an earlier version.
01:39:04
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And you can find the Corner Game Table at it's cornergametable.com or it's Corner Game Table on all the major social media sites. And we would love to hear from you. So with that, we'll wrap it up and we will bid you all adieu. So until next time, my fine friends, enjoy time spent with others and play some games.
01:39:31
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and look out for Ecto-1. Be sure to not read any of your rule books, friends. Don't listen to either one of those people. That's right. Oh, man. What a mess. Take care. Bye. Bye, everyone.
01:40:24
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That's awesome. Well, all right. So hold on a second. Sorry, apparently recording means nothing. We just walk right into my office. I'm actually waiting for my daughter to walk in because she asked me a question. I was like, nope, I don't know the answer. And I left. And I was waiting for her to walk in and be like, dad. She's going to come find that answer. Yeah.
01:40:54
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Okay.