Game Store Prophets

We start up the episode talking about Jeff’s experience with the Mouse Guard RPG, followed by me talking about introducing my wife to the interplanetary deck builder that is Eminent Domain. However, the bulk of this episode is us talking about the effect of playing Ludicreations’ 2 player game called “…And Then We Held Hands.”

This is a game that forces you not only to consider the game’s goal, but the place of the other player at all times as you are pursuing it. It is a game played in silence that has the potential to say more about healthy communication than anything else I’ve seen that tries to. This game is available in a free print and play form over on Board Game Geek if you want to try it out. If you do, and you take the time to think through what is happening as you move pieces around the rings, I’m pretty confident you’ll pick up the produced version of the board game.

Also, remember that we have now unveiled our Board Game Geek Guild for the InnRoads Ministries community. Feel free to join up over there for a place to talk about GSP, the MacGuffin Factory, our InnRoads Plays videos, and everything else that we’ve been working on.

If you would like to support the ministry and help us grow into the new year, we appreciate anything you can give. Even a donation as small as $5 a month can make a huge impact on what we are able to do.

For our American listeners – HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Whether you are listening here or from another country – I had a chance to sit down with the guys that designed A Game For Good Christians – a Cards Against Humanity style game with the purpose not just to be terrible people, but to interact with the harder passages of the Bible and wrestle with their place in the greater narrative of Scripture.

Fair warning – there are a couple of times where strong language is used. Because I know that our listeners include families and younger kids – I’ve bleeped them out. The “theology of swearing” that the guys use is actually a big discussion point, so definitely feel free to interact with that, and with them. They shared that they love getting feedback and respond quickly. They’d love to hear from you.

Neither Jeff nor I had a lot of time to bust out new gaming experiences when we recorded this episode – but seeing as our dry-spell happened in conjunction with the 2 year anniversary of InnRoadsMinistries.com going live, we thought we’d talk about that.

We spend some time talking about what we’ve seen over the past 2 years, how we’ve grown, and what we hope to see in the near future.

I also come back at the end to talk about our two year anniversary contest both in honor of that momentous occasion and the creation of our Board Game Geek guild. Followed closely by a discussion about our end of year campaign to support InnRoads into the next year. I’d type more about that here, but you can listen to the end of this episode or watch the video on our youtube channel describing it.

With my moving house and extra life right around the corner, this is going to be a short episode of the podcast. We talk about Jeff’s experience with The Resistance, and I share that I hadn’t played much of anything. This meant that we moved into talking about the hype around Scythe, the hope for a Warhammer adventure card game, and then we brought in Future Mike to talk about how this year’s Extra Life event went.

We also share that you can get the digital version of Kings of Israel over at Funhill Games’ site, and that the folks at Funhill gave Jeff and I a copy of the game to play around with and tell you guys about it. You’ll be hearing about that in the not-to-distant future. Remember, you can help get the game available on Steam if you go and vote them for the steam greenlight.

Have you watched our InnRoads Plays videos? We start out this episode of the podcast discussing our current series of videos featuring Cubicle 7’s Victoriana game. We also talk about playing Dead of Winter & Star Wars Armada, a brief discussion on “one and done” experiences like Pandemic Legacy and T.I.M.E. Stories, and talk about the learning curve that goes from settling into the basics and getting comfortable to moving into the deeper aspects that challenge, strengthen, and amaze us.

If you’d like to help us with our Extra Life team’s efforts to provide a child with a full week of long-term care in our sponsor hospital’s (Children’s Specialty Hospital) facility, Go to our team roster and donate to any of our team members.