Tonight Marty and Tony are here to join Dan and Chris in a geek-tactular episode in which we talk games, kickstarter, movies, TV , some LAW happenings (Oh wow The Geek Law star makes an appearance too!!!) and of course a Draft!

We each draft our very own Bands, it’s one you have to hear to believe but it’s the most sensational, inspirational, celebrational, Geek Allstars ever!

Kickstarters

On Mars— Vital  No help needed as always but looks amazing

Terraforming Mars: Turmoil — Speaking of no help needed.. .but overlays!!  

News/whatever

New Trailer for Ep 9  The Rise of Skywalker  — what did you think and any Predictions  

Other Trailers for non summer movies?

Drunk Parents — Selma and Alec  (We didn’t talk about it but looks hilarious)

The Boys— Amazon  Who watches the wa… no Superheros (Both trailers in the link NSFW)

Indie Game Studios Sues Plan B over Great Western Trail    FEATURING The Geek Law Star   

Space Base Command Station— Needed?  7th player some other cards. Coming 9-6-19  

TV/Streaming watched?

Dan–  Goldbergs –Kids are binging it

Tony – GoT, Whiskey Cavalier  

 

Games Played  

Dan

Teotihuacan

Tiny Towns

Warhammer Fantasy:  Chaosbane closed beta (Diablo Like)  Official Page HERE

Tried to get Shy Pluto to the table (No time :(  )  

Chris

The River

Detective  

Marty

Teotihuacan

JiME

Super friends

Space Base Emergence of Shy Pluto  

Tony

Teotihuacan

Journey in ME

Super friends

Fake News Breaking Games  

 

Fantasy Rock Band Draft!!  

	Tony	Marty	Chris	Dan
Round 1	Paul McCartney	Freddie Mercury	Jimi Hendrix	Dave Grohl (Singer)
Round 2	Buddy Rich	Neil Peart	Mick Jagger	Roger Taylor
Round 3	Joan Jett	Chris Squire	Les Claypool	Angus Young
Round 4	Garth Brooks	Jimmy Page	Animal	Melissa Auf Der Maur

  5th round

1. Tony  — Elton John on KB
2. Marty — Keith Emerson on KB
3. Chris  — Snoop Dogg (medicinal support)
4. Dan   — Bob Dylan Writer

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Tonight John D Clair and Marc Specter join us to talk all sorts of news KS some of their games published and designed and we cap it all off with an 80’s movie DRAFT!!

 

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Kickstarters

Lorenzo il Magnifico DIGITAL!!  Looks like Steam and Mac only not ios.

Oceans— Next game in Evolution series. In the sea… fixes some things people didn’t like and then more of the same gameplay people loved.

Age of Civilization— Civ Card Game   BGG LINK

Endangered — KS Link

Cheapass Games in Black & White

News

Pre-Orders are up for Shikoku

Downfall

 

Portal Games Releases:

March/April

expansion to Detective.  (LA Crimes)

expansion to Robinson Crusoe (Mystery Tales)

May expansion for 51st State.  51st State Allies

 

More coming Soon (Check out Munchkin land few weeks ago I hit on all their 2019 releases/news)

1. Imperial Settlers: Roll & Write
2. Empires of the North (stand alone game in the world of Imperial Settlers)
3.  Pret-a-Porter 2nd ed.

 

TV/Streaming watched?

 

 

Death Love and Robots,supernatural, Orville

 

Movies seen ?

 

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The Green Book

 

 Dead Reconing?

Space Base: Emergence Shy Pluto expansion   

 

Games Played

 

Dan

Deck of Ashes on steam  Early release code from publisher. Slay the spire meets Darkest dungeon… Decent Deck building system a bit different though.

Gonz Shon Clever

Alien Frontiers

 

John

Clash of cultures

Tiny towns

Lots of Dead Reckoning

Lots of Ecos

Lots of family over lately, so trying to find really easy games…

Push

Junk Art

New to me games:

Shards of Infinity

Call to Adventure

Fog of Love

 

Chris

Unpub

Men at Work

TransAtlantic

 

Marc

Endangered

Pocket Ops

The Boldest

 

DRAFT  80’s comedy movies!

 

Serpentine… We might have to make some judgement on if the movie is a “comedy” but we will do that as a collective…

 

Reminder— 4th round is the round to go off the board , sentimental or just stick to the script but we would hope all that are “judging” out there give the panel le-way in the 4th round picks!

 

 

	Chris	Marc	John	Dan
Round 1	Ghostbusters	Back To the Future	Princess Bride	Caddyshack
Round 2	Vacation	Three Amigos	When Harry Met Sally	Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Round 3	Spinal Tap	Pee Wee’s Big Adventure	Big	Fast times at Ridgemont high
Round 4	Blues Brothers	Revenge of the Nerds	Clue	Planes Trains and Automobiles

 

 

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Tonight Dan and Chris talk about how playing different types of social games can help or ruin friendships and groups and how we feel about those different types of games.

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www.unpub.net

Some News!

Unmatched game line from Restoration + Mondo

Castles of Burgundy iOS

Galaxy Trucker on Steam

Tides of Time on iOS

 

Wiz Kids news

Nemo Rising:Robur the Conquerer

Warhammer:Age of Sigmar:Rise and Fall of Anvalor  — BGG LINK

Semi Co-op?

 

Lanterns Dice: Chris Bryan—

2-4 players (Shouldn’t all w/w be solo too?)

30-45 mins $25

Combines two of the hottest things in gaming right now – polyominoes and roll-and-writes

 

Interview on ICV2 with Asmodee NA Steve Horvath

 

Osprey Games– Judge Dredd:Helter Skelter

Martin Wallace –Based on that Wildlands system (Building upon the WL system) but cannot combine the two systems

 

KS Covered

Paladins of the West Kingdom — holy hell almost 400k

Graphic novel adventures season 2!  — Van Ryder

Valeria Card Kingdoms Crimson Seas — Daily Magic

Legends of Novus could use a little love, a cool little fantasy game

We also ask how far is too far with parody (wow much more on this one to come I am sure). With this project —https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thedragonstomb/offensiv…

And talk about The Pillars of the Earth, The Quacks of Quedlinburg, and SOLO Newton!!!

Oh and did I mention the most epic display of Q and A ever?

Thanks for everyone who sent us in questions, and if we did not talk about them we will get to them soon!

Also please give us a nom for the Golden Geeks!

And if you would also help vote for what our theme will be for this year’s March Madness tourney HERE

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Tonight Dan and Chris are joined once again by Matt and Ben for an amazing Game Designer Draft, which you can as always decide who wins by voting in the poll!!    

Red Dragon inn Smorgasbox  

Winterborne— Talon Strikes  Looks like fun, not too long, some deck building and some  euro/ kingdom building

Dungeons of Infinity— Grass roots, what I think KS is all about.  

News/whatever

I can’t stop playing ios especially Match 3’s (Marvel Puzzle Quest, Puzzle hockey, and now Gems of War)

Anyone Else Watching Masked Singer?

More Keyforge! Coming Soon New Starter set and 204 new cards

Evolution now out for iOS and PC and android, and still giving some copies away of table top version  (BGG Link)

Outer Rim Announced by FFG  

Games Played

Architects of the West Kingdom

Gugong

Newton

Beta Colony

Discussion topic

Actual Value vs Perceived Value of games  

 

Game Designer Draft!

This Draft grew out of our idea of a Mt. Rushmore of game designers, but it fit so well into a draft set that we decided to turn it into a Game Designer Draft!  

 

	Dan	Chris	Ben	Matt
Round 1	Richard Garfield	Feld	Vlaada Chivatl	Reiner Knizia
Round 2	Antoine Bauza	Sid Sackson	Alexander Pfister	Uwe Rosenberg
Round 3	Gary Gygax	Sebastian Pauchan	Michael Kiesling	Vital Lacerda
Round 4	Eric Lang	Richard Launius	Rudiger Dorn	Simone Luciani

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Tonight Dan And Chris talk to Eric Rayl the Director of The Game Designers Movie about his upcoming Kickstarter for the upcoming film release.  

  They also give game impressions of Wingspan and The Boldest.

Kickstarters

Yokohama Deluxe   30$ for the game (50 Deluxified) and upgrade pack for regular game (40) or 80 for deluxe yokohama (120 deluxe both)  

Aftershock — Stronghold  Alan Moon (59$)

Chocolatiers  — Daily Magic  29  

Sentinel Comics RPG High Rise— Gil Hova

Pocket box Games of the 80s— Steven Jackson Games

Hyperspace— Sandy Petersen asymetric 4x  (weird pricing and Aug 2020?)

Dead Man’s Cabal — Daniel Newman

Animal Kingdoms – Steven Aramini (Can still pre-order)  

 

Trailers from The big Game!  Affleck out as Bats

Suicide Squad 2 Reportedly Gunn said all new characters??

Justice League Trilogy Cancelled (which we know) but the ideas for the story revealed by Kevin Smith  

Games Played

Beta Colony

Double clever  Coming soon and now on iOS!    

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It’s one of our favorite shows of the year to do, the GAME OF THE YEAR SHOW!

Dan, Kirkman and Wolfe 1st give each of our top 11 lists, and then we give the official GAS GOTY top 11 of 2018, based off of all of our compiled lists as well as other such as the Fleeples, Mosley, Delk, Dan H and The Geek Law Star himself. 

And finally we give your Schmoe’s choice top 11 which is the games voted on by you the listeners as well!

To see our rules as to what is eligible (b/c just 2018 releases is too easy), go to this post or listen to the show I explain it on there as well!!

Dan

 

1 Coimbra
2 Space Base

3 Empires of the Void II
4 Scarabya
5 Reef
6 The big score
7 Keyforge
8 Charterstone
9 Thanos rising
10 Azul
11 Santa’s Workshop

 

Chris

1 Pioneers
2 Fireball Island
3 The Big Score
4 Pulsar 2849
5 Decrypto
6 Cryptid
7 Scarabya
8 Welcome to Centerville
9 Empires of the Void II
10 Azul
11 Coimbra

 

Wolfe

 

1 Azul
2 Coimbra
3 Altiplano
4 Castell
5 Pulsar 2849
6 Herbalism
7 The Mind
8 Harvest
9 Heaven & Ale
10 Rajas of the Ganges
11 Paper Tales

 

Official Compiled GOTY for GAS

 

1 Coimbra

2 Azul

3 Scarabya

4 Heaven and ale

5 Space Base

6 Empires of the Void II

7 Welcome To

8 Pioneers

9 Big Score

10 Pulsar 2849

11 Decrypto

12 Piepmatz

 

Schmoe’s Choice

 

1 Coimbra
2 Azul
3 Endeavor:Age of sail
4 Chimera Station
5 Root
6 Piepmatz
7 Quest for El Dorado
8 Heaven and Ale
9 Pulsar 2849
10 Gaia Project
11 Brass:Birmingham

 

But until then enjoy the show and also enjoy this Spider man trailer! (we talk about this as well on the show)

 

 

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The boys are BACK, with a nice fun filled show.

We talk about a ton of games including reviews of The Big Score by Van Ryder Games and the expansion Colonies to Terraforming Mars by Stronghold Games.

We dip into 2018 in gaming and conventions as well as dip into the twitter Q and A bag. Oh and movies and TV? We got them as well. Spider-Verse, Bumblebee, Troopers, and Deadpool? sure why not!

Notes/Links (Will be edited a bit later-likely sunday)

Coming Soon, Games we are looking forward to in 2019

 

Looking forward to in 2019?

 

Edge of Darkness

Stygian Society

Legends of Sleepy Hollow

Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon

On Mars –Vital

Cloudspire! — Chip Theory

Empyreal: Spells and Steam— Level 99

Railroad Revolution expansion

The Artemis Project

Space Base Expansion  (Scenario based???)

Barrage

Dominant Species:Marine  Followup/Streamline?

Beta Colony

Medium!

Homebrewers

Ganz Shon Clever (2!) Q2?

Saw Some movies

Dan– Into the Spider Verse

Bumblebee

Deadpool 2

Super Troopers 2

Ready Player One

TV

Titans Season 1 in the books and it’s great. Also now available on Netflix!

Bird Box

 

Scorpius Freighter

Terraforming Mars with Mosley and Delk, with Colonies Prelude and Venus Next expansions

Fleet Dice 

Sagrada

Space Base 

Big Score on Christmas

Scarabya 

 

Keyforge on TTS with Mittsy

Fireball Island

Wingspan (more on the next State of Games!)

Soooo much more on SOG – plus our Games of the Year! Plug plug plug

Coming soon to the show, we have tons of games to be played including—> Boldest, Forum Trajanum, Monolith Arena, Treasure Island, Imperial Settlers Amazons  

 

 

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Kickstarters

• Welcome to Dino World
• Awkward Guests – Who Murdered Mr. Walton?
• New Stand alone Sword and Sorcery Core Set!
• The Crusoe Crew — Van Ryder

 

News

RIP Stan Lee

Warhammer Quest: Blackstone Fortress

Mice and Mystics the movie?– Dreamworks has optioned the IP (Guess they finally listened to me when we keep being asked what IP would make a good movie)

More Theft at Essen

Super Dungeon Legends and their 1.3 Million miss handling and someone has gone to their state’s Attorney general

 

Essen– Wolfe How Was it??

Your experience with Pitching at Essen

How it differed for you than Gen Con?

Couple of games you think stood out?

 

Gamers for Cures–

8th year for the event.

Great Sponsors and players.

Thanks to all who have donated over the year and years, and those who helped out with the event this year.

— People come from far and wide (Charlotte, Minny) and many who have been a part for all 8 years.

–Our longtime sponsors Van Ryder, Red Raven, Stronghold,GTG, CGE, TMG, Cape Fear Games, The Gamers Armory

 

Our Gross is just over $15,000 little less net b/c of expenses, but brings our total to about 130,000 over the 8 years.

The Wall, Silent auctions (new and used game bundles), College b-ball tickets, Canes tickets and Day in the Dirt with Caterpillar.

 

Games played at the event!

 

Finca (Chris first time)

Food Chain Magnate

Coimbra

Brew Crafters

the big score

Carpe Diem

Fortune City

Newton

stuffed fables

Walking in Burano

Castle Flutterstone

Pandemic Iberia

4 Pints, Please

Halloween Candy Draft!!!

Go HERE TO VOTE ON WINNER!

Be sure to thumb the post or the thread to enter this months contest after voting.

 

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