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Dan and Chris are joined this episode by Josh Mills and JVMA winner Jerry Reece for a fun filled episode! We talk about the impact of Board Game Apps on sales and how publishers or designers look at them, and at online implementations.

Couple games mentioned and talked about

Justice League: Dawn of Heroes
Bottom of the 9th: Clubhouse Expansion
Great Western Trail
Dragonfire
Sagrada
Gang Rush Breakout
Ginkgopolis

 

 

 

And we let Jerry pick the topic of the latest board game draft as we bring Josh back to defend his title!

 

Draft Results

 

Chris

1 Twilight Imperium 3

2 Arkham Horror

3 Hero Quest

4 Gloomhaven

 

Jerry

1 Mansions of Madness 2ed

2 Robinson Crusoe

3 Mice and Mystics

4 The Adventurers: The Temple of Chac

 

Dan

1 Star Wars: Rebellion

2 Firefly: The Game

3 Flash Point Fire Rescue

4 Letters From Whitechapel

 

Josh

1 The Grizzled

2 Thunder Alley

3 Adrenaline

4 Colt Express

 

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Kickstarter —  

 

Vegas Wits and Wagers

Red Dragon Inn Battle for Gryport Pirates

The Kings Guild

Alexandria: Library in Cinders

Ancient Artifacts

The Heck does THAT say—

 

 

GEN CON 2017

 

Asmodee Digital Announcements

Ticket to Ride: First Journey (Steam, Mac, iOS & Android), Carcassonne (Android & Steam) & Smash Up (Steam, iOS & Android).

2018 Games (From their Press Release)

• Zombicide: The collaborative game in which players take on the roles of survivors and work together to combat the undead.
• Scythe: Stonemaier’s beautifully designed engine-building game.
• Terraforming Mars: The Spiel des Jahres nominee that has players advance human infrastructure across the solar system.​
• Bananagrams: The family-favorite word game.
• Gloom

 

Legendary DXP Released (now on Apple Store) — Runs great now

Bottom of the 9th digital app launched bot9digital.com

 

Also we Talk about all the things we bought at the con, and what we missed. How the con felt with the record attendance this year, what parties or meetups we went to…

And of course GAMES!!!

Including:

Clank! In! Space!

Hero Realms

Tiny Park

King Frog

We Didn’t Playtest This At All: Legacies

Horizons NOW UP ON KICKSTARTER!!

Mountains of Madness

Candy Chasers

Head of Mousehold

Battle Kittens

Templars Journey

Wasteland Express Delivery Service FLEEPLES!

Ex Libris

NHL DeckBuilder

Valletta

Photosynthesis

Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Card Game

The Climbers

 

We will be back real soon with a Draft show next show and a special guest as well!

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Tonight Matt Wolfe Join Chis and Dan for our special yearly Gen Con Preview.

We do our Top 11 To try (demo only games) and top 11 to buy!

We throw in a couple of solid discussions as well.

Come find us at Gen Con and say HI and thanks for listening!

I will try and Link As many As I can sometime soon.

News:
GAS MEETUP!!
Yard House wed night 9pm

Legendary DXP– releasing 8-17 IIRC — much more stable
Bott of 9th App
Yucata– First Class released
Played Horizons and
Lisboa
Ascension: Alliances
Dized throne of Games https://dized.com/
App to teach games

Discussion about
Century: Spice Road (Gollem Edition)

Renegade Games– Trolling or new release?

To Try

Dan

HM Neon Knights 2086 –Board to Death (no booth)

11Fallout: Wasteland Warfare— Modiphius

10 The Shared Dream— Odam Publishing

9 Ancestree — Calliope Games Tile Laying– eric Lang

8 Before the Earth Explodes Green Couch — Adrian Adamescu, Daryl Andrews

7Founders of Gloomhaven Cephalofair

6Alien Artifacts — Portal

5 Big Trouble in Little china The Game— Everything Epic– more for curiosity than anything else

4 Edge Of Darkness (AEG) Mystic Vale guy

3Pandemic Legacy Season 2 (But I won’t demo it)

2 Merlin— FELD! Queen Games (Legend of sleepy hollow!)

1 Thunderstone Quest AEG

Matt

To try (demo only)

1. Riverboat
2. Museum
3. Alien Artifacts
4. Stacked
5. Ancestree
6. Barker’s Row
7. The Big Score
8. Lucky’s Misadventures
9. Black Souls
10. Monster Slaughter
11. Animal Upon Animal: Memory Stacking

Chris
I have no idea I can’t follow it.
Merlin
Pioneers

To Buy!

Dan

TO BUY ($ 603)

TO BUY ($ 603)

11- Sword and Sorcery— Ares 80$

10 Skyward— Passport (rule and make) 25$ (divvy mechanic)

9- The Expanse Board Game— WizKids– Geoff Englestein– Like Twilight Struggle 50$

8 First Martians:Adventures on the Red Planet –Portal 75$

7 Oath of Brotherhood (Worker Placement AEG) $50  

6 Professor Evil and the Citadel of Time— Passport/Fun Forge $40 — Fully co-op Feels like Skyway Robbery but coop and little simpler

5 Bunny Kingdom— 50$ Iello Richard Garfield– Drafting, area control/placement

4 DC DBG Confrontations 43$– Crypto

3Wasteland Express Delivery Service— 80$ IDW FLEEPLES!

2 Dragonfire (Catalyst–60$) –like the Shadowrun crossfire card game,campaign/legacy aspect

1 Valletta-– Z-Man Stephan Dora 50$ Deck Building Euroish

Matt
To buy (for sale at the show)

1. Downforce
2. Ex Libris
3. Battle Kittens
4. Custom Heroes
5. Get Adler!
6. Gold Raiders
7. Head of Mousehold
8. Rick and Morty: Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind Deck-Building Game
9. Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Card Game
10. Sparkle*Kitty
11. Zoo Ball

Chris

To Buy

1. Mountains of Madness $40
2. Wasteland Express Delivery Service
3. Ex Libris 60$
4. Photosynthesis
5. Unearth
6. 3 Secrets
7. Professor Evil and the Citadel of Time— Passport/Fun Forge $40
8. Deadline
9. 13 Minutes: The Cuban Missile Crisis
10. Lovecraft Letter
11. Nemo’s War 75$

Some Extras— Expansions at the Show!
Expansions

6 Valeria Card Kingdoms Flames and Frost— Expansion –$25

5 Nations the Dice Game-Unrest– 50$ EXPANSION!!

4 Cities of Splendor— 40$ 4 Expansions

3 Terraforming Mars: Hellas & Elysium — SHG Expansion 20$

2 Champions of Midgard Expansions

1 Hogwarts Battle Monster box of Monsters— $30 USAopoly

Found these two late so didn’t add them to a list of expansion
Five Tribes
Quadropolis

 

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Comicon was this past weekend so we have to talk about all the AMAZING trailers that came out, from Justice League to Thor to Stranger Things 2, we talk about them all.

We also talk about some games played, and playing with very much non gamers.

Finally we talk about some Viral Marketing of Games which has gone on, and how do react to those campaigns?

KS Stuff:

 

Phil Reed’s new book project: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/102137316/modern-army-action-figures-gi-joe-newspaper-ad-198

Twin Stars solo gaming from Mike Mullins and ButtonShy: 

Action News

Crusaders

Omenass: Hand of Fate

Founders of Gloomhaven

Rolling Empires

Legendary DXP

 

 

Comic Con Trailers Discussed

Ready Player One

Justice League (Lanterns mentioned!) At end SuperMan or Green Lantern?

Thor Ragnarok

Infinity War

Stranger Things 2 (awesome— Thriller GB Dragons lair)

Bright (Will Smith)

Kingsman 2

Pacific Rim

 

Dan

Camel Up Cards

Vegas

Roll for it

Liars Dice

Code Names and Pictures

CaH (Yes Really) 

Family Guy Stewies Sexy Party Game (Yes Really)

 

Chris Games played

Lisboa

Sol: Last Days of a Star

Dice Forge

Parfum

A Dog’s Life

Yamataï

Five Tribes with Artisans expansion

Raxxon 

First Martians

 

 

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Tonight Dan and Chris are all over the map.. talking about summer movies we have seen, the new hotness Monopoly Gamer(?) and also about a ton of games we have played over the last month and a half.

Did We like Century Spice road?

How about Spider Man?

Or What about Captain Sonar?

Listen and see!

Thanks for listening!

So if you are looking just for the board game stuff once we start talking about movies, I believe the BG stuff is about 1:30 in

KS stuff

Action News
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/contender/action-news-t…

Savage Planet (Ended but fun discussion)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/imphouse/savage-planet-…

TripLock– Adam Carleson Chip Theory Games
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chiptheorygames/triploc…

So Some Movies we talk about…

Magnificent 7
10 Cloverfield Lane
Wonder woman
Transformers
Office Christmas Party
Logan
Kong: Skull Island
Spiderman

Origins and Nerdtacular and just at Casa De GeekJock

Roll Player

Lisboa

HIDE–

Sentient

Master of Orion

Raiders of the North Sea

Kingdomino

Honshu

Captain Sonar

Century:Spice Road

Epic PVP

Pocket Mars

Lost Expedition

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Tonight Dan is joined by Ben Pinchback, Josh Mills and Matt Wolfe for a quick (ish) Origins look back, and we introduce a new type of show.
A BOARD GAME DRAFT!

The four of us will do a four round draft of our best Pick up and Deliver games and YOU will determine who wins the draft!

July’s contest will be making sure you Vote (and thumb the thread for the poll) and also sharing on Twitter and social media. Use #GASPaDDRAFT

At the end of july we will draw a random winner again!

The thread for voting is —-> https://boardgamegeek.com/article/26195576#26195576

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Thanks to Lance “Undead Viking” for joining us for a great show full of all things geek and all things gaming!

We meander around the geek sphere for a bit but also talk a ton about some great games like Yokohama, and Ethnos and a bunch of games to be released at this year’s Origins that you won’t want to miss!

Thanks for listening, and be sure to get in on our contest which will end on June 11th!

Games from the show…

Sword and Sorcery (ares)– 80$

Lisboa (Limited copies?) Vital Lacerda

Caverna:Cave vs Cave  $28 Mayfair

Oktoberfest $45 Rio (bc one can not have too many beer games)

Not Alone  $30 SHG

 

 

Quick hits

Witches of the Revolution (Atlas) 40$ — Witches in the revolutionary war deckbuilder

Fields of Green Stronghold $50

Tiny Epic Galaxies beyond the Black Gamelyn 30$

Kingsport Festival the Card Game –Passport 

Spirit Island (Demos)

Dungeon Draft UDE (Demo only)

Rocky Road A La Mode $20 Green Couch

Merchants of Araby $39 with coupon (Daily Magic)

Ethnos $40 (CMON)

Unfair 50 CMON– (Good Games)

Spoils of War

Overlords Of Infamy

 

 

Chris

 Divinity Derby

 Master of Orion  $35 (Crypto)

 Train Heist   45 Crypto

 Century: Spice Road 

 BIOTIX

 

The Tower of Madness (demo only)

Sidereal Confluence

Honshu 

 

 

TMG Releases!

 Joraku 

Orleans Trade and Intrigue

Lemuria

Okey Dokey

Samara

 

Thanks for listening and please check out our contest on the show!

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Our long lost sister, Socially Inept Gamer Tiffany returns to keep us in line and talk about Too Many Bones (by Chip Theory Games), and a bunch of other games (and give us a great outtake!), as well as tackle our main topic of buying habits and how they have changed.

Thanks a ton to Tiffany for Joining us and thanks to you for listening.

Make sure you take part in our MAY CONTEST for a game giveaway as well!

Other Games Mentioned and some KS

Sailing Toward Osiris
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dailymagicgames/sailing…

Game Upgrades by Meeplesource
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/meeplesource/game-upgra…

Path of Light and Shadow
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2012515236/path-of-ligh…

Sentinels of Earth-Prime
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1780208966/sentinels-of…

Simurgh
La Isla
ZhanGuo
The Manhattan Project: Energy Empire

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This episode we are extremely excited to interview Isaac Childres, publisher and creator of Gloomhaven. We have a good time talking about his other games and Gloomhaven as a whole.

Check out the 2nd printing on Kickstarter before it ends, you won’t be sorry you did!

Thanks for listening!

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