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Dig in and find a cozy place to listen, this is a nice long episode, but boy is it a fun one!

We get into a TON of great games in our what we have been playing. We also give our thoughts on the Spiel and Kennerspiel des Jahres.

Thanks to Paul Owen and Joel Eddy for joining Dan and Chris for a great episode!

The notes with links will be coming soon…

Thanks for listening!

And hope to see everyone at Origins!

–GeekJock

EDIT: Here are the notes!

5:10 – Sail To India
7:54 – Lost Legacy
8:56 – Chronicle
9:25 – Eggs & Empires

11:54 – Paul’s rant on “Kickstarter Readiness”

18:53 – Eminent Domain
20:00 – Viticulture
22:19 – Belle of the Ball
28:28 – Odin’s Ravens

29:36 – Yardmaster – KS link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/crashgames/yardmaster-r…

30:19 – Nothing Personal expansions – KS link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gamesalute/nothing-pers…

30:54 – Castle Dice: More Castles – KS link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1225737959/more-castles…

31:20 – Thebes – KS link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1016374822/thebes

31:48 – Angels: Michael’s War – KS link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1008631404/angels-micha…

32:42 – The Marble Game – KS link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/popebrothers/the-marble…

37:30 – Baseball Highlights 2045 – KS link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/167427101/baseball-high…

40:18 – Diamonds

41:37 – Copper Country – KS link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cmxgames/copper-country…

43:02 – AEG Big Game Night @ GenCon – link: https://gencon.com/events/54462
46:18 – Planes

49:23 – GenCon 2014 meet up THREAD
51:12 – Spooning Meeples event @ GenCon – link: https://gencon.com/events/61076

54:13 – Russian Railroads
1:01:25 – Puerto Rico
1:06:54 – Marvel Dice Masters
1:18:08 – Hot Tin Roof
1:23:40 – Rolling Freight
1:26:26 – Star Realms
1:28:17 – Ascension
1:33:27 – Vikings
1:36:09 – Valley of the Kings
1:38:22 – The Name Of The Rose
1:45:36 – In The Year Of The Dragon
1:58:55 – TZolk’in:The Mayan Calendar

SdJ nominees/recommendations
2:01:39 – Concept
2:10:25 – Camel Up
2:15:25 – Splendor

2:23:14 – Love Letter
2:23:28 – Potato Man / Sanssoucci / SOS Titanic / Voll Schaf

KdJ nominees
2:34:42 – Istanbul
2:35:00 – Concordia
2:39:39 – Rococo

2:44:31 – Russian Railroads
2:44:45 – Guildhall
2:47:48 – Amerigo

2:54:40 – WoTC vs Hex – link: http://www.quietspeculation.com/2014/05/understanding-the-wi…

3:04:49 – This Or That

Tonight we have what might be the greatest cast of personalities ever assembled.

We continue our series with “So you want to make board game videos” with a star cast of Rodney of Watch it Played, Lance the Undead Viking, Joel from Drive Thru Review, and Chris who does TONS of Kickstarter Videos and also reviews.

Dan moderates the discussion and also we touch on the recent success of [thing=148575][/thing].

Thanks for listening!

Show notes coming soon..

–GeekJock

http://thegeekallstars.libsyn.com/episode-75-so-you-want-to-make-board-game-videos-with-rodneychris-joel-and-lance

EDIT: Here are the show notes Thanks Frahm!!!!

3:52 – Marvel Dice Masters: Avengers vs. X-Men
20:48 – Trade geek list
21:46 – Why get started doing video reviews?

28:34 – “Sparky Malboro”:

32:24 – Do you get a ton of free games?
38:29 – How important is it to differentiate yourself?
48:18 – Feelings about multi person video casts?
52:28 – How conscious are you of your audience’s attention span? – videos vs KS previews
59:50 – Prep time per video?
1:02:58 – How long to make your content?
1:10:17 – What is good equipment to get started with?

Start cheap before overcommitting on tools (start with what you have – guriella)

Studioneat Glyph is a nice smartphone tripod for your phone

Beyond basics:
HD camcorder – this is a near must!
Bluetooth microphone is nice to have
Lighting is important and annoying to deal with
Decent video editing software. Adobe after effects

You may find that the editing time is your biggest cost.

1:17:10 – How do set up your recording area?

Soft box lighting is awesome

1:21:01 – How much data storage do you need? Per recording?

1:25:48 – Where do you host your videos?

1:28:55 – Any difficulty getting videos up to BGG?

1:36:23 – How to respond to criticism?

1:49:16 – How do you grow your viewership?

1:59:50 – This Or That

Tonight we bring on another member of our Dice Hate Me Mafia in the super cool super nice super bearded Jason Kotarski. (designer of such great games like The Great Heartland Hauling Co. and FrogFlip

I don’t know how I never have had him on before but tonight I FIX that terrible oversight.

We also start our “so you want to…” series with “So you want to playtest games”.

It was a super fun show and thanks to Kotarski and Chris for helping me tonight make it the best show it could be!

Thanks, as always for listening.

–GeekJock

Show notes Via Frahm (Thanks buddy) I put in some links and changed the last part to the real name THIS OR THAT!

Episode 74

Congrats to DHMG on the Rabbits campaign!

Special guest: Jason Kotarski creator of The Great Heartland Hauling Co. and FrogFlip

5:26 20 mins of filler podcast

9:15 Custom Game Dice KS (link)

12:25 Pay Dirt KS (link)

14:13 Of Mice and Lemmings KS (link)

16:23 Blind gamers KS (link)

17:27 Stronghold printing Among the Stars – details

20:21 Star Realms online beta is live

Tabletop Day
21:51 “20 Express”
28:28 DC Comics Deck-Building Game: Heroes Unite
29:43 CV
30:39 Hero Brigade
33:08 LoWD iOS

35:15 Questions for Kotarski
39:12 Fidelitas & Green Couch Games!

1. Make sure you actually WANT to playTEST games.
2. Find others in your area that are of the same mindset
3. Get experience and a broad palette
4. See what publishers are wanting to publish
5. Commit to providing feedback
6. Willing to play with tweaked rules, subtle or big tweaks
7. Help refine, don’t redesign
8. Have a group discussion and private feedback as appropriate.
9. ask designer what kind of feedback they are looking for
10. Really learn and understand the rules

1:35:16 Unpub mini @ PAX East

1:37:35 Questions for This or That w/ Kotarski

Sorry I didn’t get this posted. I had the episode release automatically, and then I completely forgot to post this!

Ok everyone the last few rounds are here.

I hope you enjoy this episode and it’s in a handy dandy less then 1 hour time frame (I promise to try and not do such short casts every again )Feel free to discuss the winners just try and wait till the end of the weekend or so before talking about the finals and the winner.

Thanks for listening guys and gals!!

–GeekJock

It’s HERE! Our Second Annual March Craziness Dice Game Style!!

We do a 36 game head to head single elimination tournament.

Our voters are Dan, Chris, AJOB, Matt and Tom G. This first episode will be all of round 1 and later in the week will be the rest of the tourney!

We also talk some news (Kanban announcement!!) and what we have been playing (semi-briefly).

If I get a chance I will try and post a small typed up bracket on here in case you want to try and fill it out yourself. The one I tweeted was a little wonky the way I wrote it up.

Thanks For Listening!

–GeekJock

Tonight is mainly a PrezCon wrapup show with our VERY special guests Stephanie Straw and TC Petty III.

We touch on news from Stronghold Games and Cryptozoic after getting intoa brief what have we been playing (since PrezCon).

With a nice added discussion on the games Euphoria and Coup and a few others….

Thanks for listening!

Please check us out on Facebook and if you have a moment please rate us on itunes!

-GeekJock

PS once Frahm has the show notes done I will update this post!

*** SHOW NOTES ***

Cast – Dan, Chris, Stephanie Straw and TC Petty III

3:50 – The Oscars

6:56 – Suburbia, Agents of SMERSH

10:12 – Fleet: Arctic Bounty

15:42 – Thebes: The Tomb Raiders

17:35 – Stronghold Games releases: Panamax, Space Cadets: Resistance Is Mostly Futile,Space Cadets: Dice Duel – Die Fighter, and Space Cadets: Away Missions

22:44 – VivaJava: The Coffee Game – The Dice Game

27:10 – Cryptozoic releases: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Deck-Building Game,The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Deck-Building Game, DC Comics Deck-Building Game: Crisis Expansion (Pack 1), DC Comics Deck-Building Game: Forever Evil, NHL Powerplay, and Portal

PrezCon Coverage

41:39 – Nations

44:44 – Tigris & Euphrates

47:02 – Russian Railroads

52:09 – Steam Park

1:00:10 – Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia

1:27:41 – Coup

1:41:58 – the PrezCon auction (classic 3M games)

1:51:08 – Würfel Bohnanza

1:53:32 – Concept

1:56:54 – “Don’t Get Eated” and “Xenon Profiter” by TC Petty III

2:04:40 – a radioactive expansion for Compounded

2:11:49 – “Homebrewers” by Ben Rossett

SHOW NOTES!

1:40 The Carolina Snowpocalypse of 2014
7:48 Movies/TV: Lego Movie, Black Hole (1979), Thor: The Dark World, Sherlock (BBC)
11:53 Video Gaming: Solforge, Hearthstone, Broken Age, Warhammer Quest, Marvel Heroes, Marvel Puzzle Quest, Lords of Waterdeep

Board/card games discussed:

27:27 10th Anniversary Edition for Ticket to Ride
31:50 Fleet: Arctic Bounty
41:25 Rampage
46:51 Las Vegas
52:42 Going, Going, GONE!
1:03:28 The Speicherstadt
1:18:33 Myrmes
1:20:47 Tzolk’in: The Mayan Calendar
1:22:42 Macao
1:24:56 Glass Road
1:29:49 Lifeboats and Lifeboat
1:31:45 Last Will: Getting Sacked
1:34:13 Bruges
1:38:40 Trajan

1:43:38 A “Dangent”: Marvel’s Guardian of the Galaxy trailer (linked below)
1:54:07 Ridback upcoming games: Monster Truck Mayhem, Eggs and Empires, Corruption

“This and that” with Matt & Ben; Dan’s requested link to a Funny or Die clip about Kirk Cameron:

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/b6ddedd57e/ccokc-child-cele…

Guardians of the Galaxy Trailer

http://youtu.be/pTZ2Tp9yXyM

Tonight we are extremely excited to bring you an interview with a great designer,a successful publisher and one hell of a nice guy Colby Dauch.

We cover everything from Summoner Wars to Seafall to Dead of Winter.

We want to thank Colby for such a great interview and thank all of you for listening. I hope you check out their great products and the pre order for Dead of Winter

http://www.plaidhatgames.com/store/55

–GeekJock

Tonight we have one of our favorite episodes of the year, the TOP games of 2013.

We also have a nice preview at the beginning of the episode of a FANTASTIC kickstarter going on right now called Eternal Dynasty by designer Nicholas Yu, please check it out.

As always thanks for listening!

Tonights Allstars are Dan, Chris, Tom and the newest Allstar Matt Wolfe.

It might not be on the page for iTunes yet but it’s on the Libsyn site right now and also if you subscribe it’s on the rss already.

Frahminator is working on the show notes as we speak. THANKS!!!

Enjoy!
–GeekJock

And notes from our good buddy Frahm!

*** SHOW NOTES ***

2:04 – Tom is back!

3:49 – Welcome Matt Wolfe to the podcast

4:22 – Matt’s table at UnPub 4

6:17 – Support The Dice Tower Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tomvasel/the-dice-tower…

7:31 Chris’ signings at UnPub 4

* New Bedford http://unpub.net/games/detail/?proto=32&o=46
* Don’t Get Eated http://unpub.net/games/detail/?proto=274&o=39
* Diner http://unpub.net/games/detail/?proto=241&o=20
* Brew Crafters Travel Card game
* Easy Breezy Travel Agency
* The Fittest
* Isle of Trains

17:29 – Eternal Dynasty Kickstarter advanced look – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/yutingxiang/eternal-dyn…

31:55 – Top 25 of 2013 – voting criteria

39:42 – #25 through #14 (will add next week to eliminate spoilers)

1:10:59 – Matt’s Hipster List: Koryŏ,Town Center,Cube Quest

1:22:14 – #13 through #1 (will add next week to eliminate spoilers)

2:05:00 – Eminent Domain

2:05:07 – Lords of Waterdeep

2:06:57 – Next podcast will include interview of Colby Dauch (Plaid Hat Games). Post your questions ** HERE **

2:09:50 Tom’s question for the guild: “How do you become a GREAT playtester?” Post your thoughts ** HERE **

Happy New Year everyone!

Tonight I am joined again by Mrs. GeekJock (Janice) and Adam O. We talk about a metric ton of games we played in the last few weeks, and also give a great overview of the upcoming Gamlyn Games Kickstarter Tiny Epic Kingdoms.

I was hoping the sound wass good b/c I got new software, but from one listener it’s not great. Seems that it’s got us recorded very low and the drop ins and intro/outro are loud as all hell. Speaking of “drop ins” I also used some drop ins, a big huge sorry ahead of time for that one I am hoping they aren’t too annoying.

Also please let me know if drop ins aren’t all that bad if used better then I obviously did. And what quotes or drop ins do you think are used well or would be funny etc. If not I might just stop using them altogether.

Frahm will be along in the next day or two with the full notes so thanks ahead of time buddy!

As always thanks for listening!

–GeekJock

Thanks for Frahm for the show notes, see below! (GREAT JOB!)
4:00 http://www.boardgamelinks.com (hint, hint on voting)

5:30 Next show should be the “Best of 2013” show (games from start of Essen 2012 to start of Essen 2013)

8:07 News: copycats on Kickstarter, “Choose what you pay” campaigns on Kickstarter, Trading vs auctioning on BGG

15:45 Archon: Glory & Machination

20:09 Rialto

23:35 Professor Pugnacious

28:39 Las Vegas

33:50 PitchCar

35:19 Rampage

38:59 Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia

39:49 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Deck-Building Game

41:49 The Pillars of the Earth: Builders Duel

43:37 Star Realms

48:52 Eclipse

54:11 Last Will: Getting Sacked

1:02:20 Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Rise of the Runelords – Base Set

1:06:29 Various video/iOS games: Borderlands 2, Marvel Puzzle Quest, Lords of Waterdeep, Alien Frontiers

1:12:50 Kickstarter Preview: Tiny Epic Kingdoms