Who's got an hour and a half to spare? Well, if you have we've got a bumper post-UKGE episode to help you fill it!

This episode Jay, Kay, Craig and Drew discuss their experiences at UKGE 2024. The ups, the downs, what went well and what could be improved (in our humble opinion, of course!)

Plus we have a special interview with renowned game designer, and all round genuinely nice guy Eric Lang about his new Game 'Life in Reterra', and a little bit of information about the upcoming Mass Effect Board Game.

Huge thanks to UKGE for giving us the opportunity to attend and speak to so many brilliant people!

**Important Information**

Below are the details of some of the people we mentioned in this episode!

The Secret Lair @ The Stone Beck Pub
D&D Sessions mentioned by Jay!

Life in Reterra by Eric Lang

The Offline Gamer

War of the Worlds: One More Day

Geeky Meeples 3D Printing

Schnarf Games (Survive Alive)

Paverson Games (Luthier: The Art of the Instrument & Distilled)

Guntower Games (Pandora Celeste)

Earth Former Games

Take the Throne on Gamefound

Tablescope Games (Light Speed Arena)

It's ALMOST TIME for UK Games Expo 2024!

This episode Jay, Craig, Kay and Jason (making his BLBG debut) are joined by Matt from War of the Worlds: One More Day to discuss what they are most looking forward to at the UK's biggest gaming convention.

If you're heading to UKGE we also share our most valuable tips, what to do if you feel a little overwhelmed and outline the new rules surrounding the Bring and Buy, amongst other things.

Check it out, and be sure to come and say hello if you spot us at the convention!

**Important Information**

Here's all the info relating to what we discussed in the episode.

Cosy Chaos with Dani Standing and Cosy Boardgames
Sunday 10-12 - Piazza Rooms 5-7 - Meeple Theatre

The Offline Gamer Unofficial Annotated Map
The official UKGE Map doesn't have all the stallholders names printed ON the map, but this one from TOG does!

War of the Worlds: One More Day
Hall: 1
Stand: 191

Geeky Meeples 3D Printing
Hall: 2
Stand: 337

Schnarf Games (Survive Alive)
Hall: 2
Stand: 353

Kugo
Hall: 1
Stand: 278

Paverson Games (Luthier: The Art of the Instrument & Distilled)
Hall: 1
Stand: 726

Alley Cat Games
Hall: 1
Stand: 714

Guntower Games (Pandora Celeste)
Hall: 2
Stand: 381
 

In Space... nobody can hear you scream!

But they CAN hear us talk to Mike from Guntower Games about his current project; Pandora Celeste... and so can you!

Pandora Celeste is a love letter to all those Sci-fi Movies and TV Shows many of us grew up with. From Aliens, to Terminator and everything in between, Pandora Celeste sees players work together to override the ships Emergency Protocols before racing to carry out their own agendas, escape the 'Big Nasties' that crawl out from the vents and hopefully grab one of the remaining escape pods.

If you like the sound of Pandora Celeste, you can check it out at UKGE on Stand 2-381, or follow one of the links below!

Guntower Games Website

The website has examples of the artwork, a description of the game, a look at **THAT** box and contact details should you want to speak to Mike about it and arrange a game on TTS.

Pandora Celeste on Gamefound

Be sure to follow Pandora Celeste on Gamefound to be notified as soon as the campaign goes live!

Who doesn't love a good old fashioned unpopular opinion?

Well we've got three (potentially) infuriating hot takes for you in the first of a two-parter!

This was actually recorded in late 2023, so some of the references to 'this year' actually mean last year now, just in case anything didn't quite make sense!

Enjoy, and be sure to let us know if you agree with Luke, Craig and Dan over on our Insta or Facebook pages!

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On me head, son, It's a game of two halves, Park the bus, He was half a yard off, The referee's a... well, you get the idea with that!

This episode we're talking about Sunday League Football, a game by Sunday League Games that is due to launch on Gamefound in just over a week (8th April!)

We are joined by Vicente, one of the developers of this 'beautiful game', and we find out how it plays, the challenges that have gone into creating it and the plans for the future!

Please Note - Just like the previous episode, we thought this episode had been lost to time thanks to a switch-over on recording platforms, but we found it tucked away on an external device! It was the first interview we had done and I think it's fairly obvious we were slightly nervous, but thanks to Vicente for being an absolute professional and carrying us to victory! You may notice the end is quite abrupt, which is also down to us being unable to recover ALL the audio, but thankfully we only lost a couple of minutes.

Now, the important bit!

You can find Sunday League Football on Gamefound here: https://gamefound.com/en/projects/sunday-league-games/sunday-league-football

Follow the project now, and as mentioned in the episode, when you back you'll receive the 'Legends Pack', which is usually 9 euros, completely free!

Back of the net, indeed!

Grab your best board gaming buddy and get ready for some intense 1 on 1 action... that's right, this episode we're talking about the best 2 Player Board Games!

Luke, Drew, Craig and Matt all pick their favourite 2 Player-Only board game, before rounding out a top 5 with one of their honourable mentions.

Please Note - We thought this episode had been lost to time thanks to a switch-over on recording platforms, but we found it tucked away on an external device! As such it was recorded in our 'early days' when we hadn't quite got all our audio kinks ironed out, and we hadn't become the smooth, expert podcasters you hear today.... what are you laughing at?

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Quite the episode title, huh?

Yes, with AireCon Prime under a month away, we're talking about our favourite board gaming convention again! And this time we have the perfect people to shed some light on what this year's AC Prime will have in store; namely Mr. AireCon himself Mark Cooke, and perennial AireCon attendee and board gaming royalty Rodney Smith of Watch It Played.

We find out what's staying the same, what's changing, exactly where Kay will be on the 15th to the 17th of March, and some might say most importantly, whether we'll still be able to get some delicious poutine and hand made pizzas.

It wouldn't be Bucket List episode without there being some technical difficulties though, and this time we have a real cracker as one member of the team gets unceremoniously dumped into the ether just 5 minutes in. Who? You'll have to listen to find out!

If you're interested in attending Airecon Prime 2024, you can find all the details over on the Airecon website, including how to purchase tickets!

With March (not February!) fast approaching we thought it was about time we got ourselves (and hopefully you, our beloved listeners) hyped about Airecon 2024!

That's right, Harrogate once again plays host to the 4 day boardgame extravaganza known here at BLBG as 'Airecon Prime'!  Airecon provides the opportunity to check out what your favourite publishers have in store, the chance to buy more games to pad out that ever increasing Kallax setup, and oodles of space for open gaming!

You can check out the Bring and Buy, borrow top titles from the lending library, or grab some excellent and reasonably priced food from the street food court (Jay recommends the Pizza!)

Laurie from Stop, Drop & Roll Games joins us in this episode to reminisce about Airecon 2023 and discuss Airecon 2024! 

You can find out more about Airecon and pick up tickets here: https://www.airecon.co.uk/

And you can check out Stop, Drop & Roll Games at their website https://www.sdrgames.studio/ as well as find them on stand L13 at Airecon 2024 itself!

Enjoy!

Side Note... Our Christmas episode IS still coming, it's just very... very... very fashionably late!

Back in October three of the Bucket List Board Gamers headed to the brand-spanking new AC West convention in Telford!

How did they find it? What did they play? Is there anything they would change? And most importantly, who won the Table Flipping Championship by sending their meeple the furthest, while also gaining the most table rotations and rolling highest on 2 D20's?

If that's not hooking you in, we honestly don't know what will!

You can find out more about all the Airecon events here: https://www.airecon.co.uk/

And if you're in the market for some beautiful Board gaming merch, or Coffee designed specifically for Board gamers, check out Meeple Design and Meeple Coffee! Plus if you purchase using these links you'll be helping out the podcast too!

It's a win-win!

Enjoy!

It's Spooky Season and here at Bucket List Board Gamers we love a good horror-themed board game! We love them so much, we've decided to pick 2 each and pitch them to our fellow BLBG'ers, then pull together a Top 5 that we recommend to you, our lovely listeners!

So pop out a bowl of sweets for the Trick or Treaters, dim the lights, grab your favourite blanket to hide under and prepare yourself for the Bucket List Board Gamers Halloween Special!

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