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a short podcast for folks who enjoy playing board games with family and friends
1 NOV 2024 · In this bonus episode, I share an extended cut of my recent interview with Jonathan Chaffer, designer of the Holiday Hijinks series of 18-card escape room games. Jonathan had a lot to say about the design constraints he faced in creating these games, more than I could fit in last episode's review of the series. If you're interested in tabletop game design, I think you'll find this interesting.
Links:Back the https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grandgamersguild/holiday-hijinks-collection.
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25 OCT 2024 · In this episode, we save Christmas and a lot of other holidays from potential catastrophe in Holiday Hijinks!
Holiday Hijinks is a line of 18-card holiday-themed escape room games designed and illustrated by Jonathan Chaffer and published by Grand Gamers Guild. Each one offers the cooperative puzzle solving of an escape room in just 18 cards. There are nine games in the series currently, with names like The Cupid Crisis, The Turkey Trial, and The Groundhog Gambit. The newest Holiday Hijinks games -- The Leprechaun Larceny, The New Year Nightmare, and The Krampus Caper -- are now crowdfunding on Kickstarter, along with a collector's box that stores all 12 games.
This episode features an interview with Holiday Hijinks designer and illustrator Jonathan Chaffer. What does it take to pack this much escape room fun in 18 cards? Will the Holiday Hijinks series run out of holidays? Jonathan pulls back the curtain on this clever game series in his interview.
Links:Back the https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grandgamersguild/holiday-hijinks-collection.
Order the https://grandgamersguild.com/collections/holiday-hijinks.Order a https://www.zazzle.com/first_player_token_coffee_mug-168031687158842941.Visit the https://derekbruff.org/blogs/firstplayertoken/.Join the https://www.facebook.com/groups/4060960623923416.Follow https://bsky.app/profile/firstplayertoken.bsky.social.Join the https://discord.gg/x5GDfGzXeQ.Music:"Open Road," "The Concept," and "Summer in Paradise" by https://www.purple-planet.com/.https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2292265/open_sms
1 OCT 2024 · In this episode, we load up our donkey carts with fruit to deliver around the island in Finca!
In Finca, players take on the role of farmers at harvest time on the Spanish island of Mallorca. Move your farmers around the windmill to generate resources, collect colorful chunky fruit tokens, deliver fruit strategically around the island with your donkey cart... That's Finca in a nutshell. It's easy to teach, has beautiful art and components, and ramps up nicely to a very tense ending.
Finca is one of the older games we've covered here on the podcast, having first been published in 2009 in Germany. It had been out of print for a while, but Pandasaurus Games recently issued a new edition with updated art and streamlined rules. In this episode, I talk with Raina Huang, marketing manager at Pandasaurus games, about the new edition.
Links:
See https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=46259794%40N02&sort=date-taken-desc&text=finca&view_all=1.
Buy https://amzn.to/47Ps155.
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1 SEP 2024 · Today we have a FIRST PLAY review of Sirens, a 2024 game for two players designed by Art Casey with illustrations by Gabi Naftaly and published by Envy Born Games. In Sirens, players take on the role of the sirens of Greek myths, those creatures whose beautiful singing lured Odysseus’ sailors into the sea and to their doom. In the game, players draft cards to create musical symphonies, with the best symphonies enthralling those hapless sailors.
This episode features an interview with Sirens designer Art Casey (from the floor of Gen Con 2024) and some color commentary with my fascinating wife Emily!
Links:
Buy https://amzn.to/4773hEM.
Get https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/854354559/kalahari.
Check out some ancient Greek pottery: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/246/oinochoe-pitcher, https://www.wikiart.org/en/ancient-greek-pottery/exekias-amphora-achilles-and-ajax-engaged-in-a-game--530.
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16 AUG 2024 · Usually when I review and recommend a board game here on the podcast, I’ve played that game at least ten times. That way I know the game well and I know it has some staying power. That means I usually review older games, but I like to play new games, too. So here’s a FIRST PLAY review of a new game that I think you might like!
Today we’ll take a look at Tír na nÓg, a 2024 game for designed by Isaac Shalev and Jason Slingerland and published by Grand Gamers Guild. In Tír na nÓg, we journey into a world of Celtic myths and come back with amazing stories. Coincidentally, I recently journeyed into the world of Gen Con, North America’s biggest board game convention, I have come back with amazing stories, one of
which is an interview with Isaac Shalev, one of the designers of Tír na nÓg.
Links:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grandgamersguild/tir-na-nog-reprint-tir-na-nog-escape.
Order a https://www.zazzle.com/first_player_token_coffee_mug-168031687158842941.Visit the https://derekbruff.org/blogs/firstplayertoken/.Join the https://www.facebook.com/groups/4060960623923416.Follow https://bsky.app/profile/firstplayertoken.bsky.social.Join the https://discord.gg/x5GDfGzXeQ.Music:“Open Road” and “Summer in Paradise” by https://www.purple-planet.com/.
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1 AUG 2024 · In this episode, we build the technologies and societies needed to fight climate change in Daybreak!
1 JUL 2024 · In this episode, we celebrate four years (and 50 episodes) of the podcast by recommending my top five games to start your board collection!
1 JUN 2024 · Here's a FIRST PLAY review of a new game that I think you might like. Color Field is a 2024 game from 25th Century Games designed by Mondo Davis with art by Peach Benitez. The game Color Field puts players in the role of painters creating these moving pieces of nonobjective art.
1 MAY 2024 · In this episode, we put on our funny Viking hats and go plundering in Raiders of the North Sea!
1 APR 2024 · In this episode, we board the Jolly Roger and steal from treasure from a Spanish galleon in Tortuga 1667!
a short podcast for folks who enjoy playing board games with family and friends
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